So, I had a unique experience with Circle. I was cooking while watching secret levels and I missed the title screen. While it was playing I didn't actually know what I was watching. And yes even with all the insanely obvious clues, even more obvious in hindsight, I had no idea it was Pac-Man. Honestly I didn't even notice the first second puck took on the iconic shape. It was the second or third flash when I realized. Yes, I felt VERY stupid. However.. I loved it. I had seen the new game trailer too. I didn't really know what to make of it. I told my friends that Pac-Man had gotten edge Lord, but honestly edgelord can be a good thing if done the right way. Like, Shadow the hedgehog. I never liked Shadow but it's a good example. I will admit that the tone seems a little bit off in the game trailer. The giant black ooze Pac-Man, thats genuinely imposing in Secret levels, has a cartoonish burp in the game trailer. I remember that ruining the vibe. It's a little weird but not a deal-breaker. Circle might have a tone problem too, but maybe not. I really like the beasts not being real ghosts. That's a cool twist. But it does make everything that Puck said extremely wierd. Again, this could be a good thing. I'm hoping that Puck is genuinely insane. That sounds like a lot of fun. Overall I love the Pac-Man direction. The game trailer and Circle gave me unsure vibes at first but ultimately I've fallen on the side of being excited for this story. It's the good kind of jarring. I'm actually going to get this game if I can.

Damn Pacman meets hyper light drifter, i never thought i'd be hyped for Pacman, at least not since the end Pacman World which is the goat in my opinion!

man eats hippo loses to gorilla

whats the background music at the beginning of the video called?

I like TerminalMontage's "Something about Pac-man" video.

Inspired by pacman and also holds allot of mentions on other games as well! The centipede monster or something might be also a reference to another game as well! 😉

How I interpret the roles; the sphere thing is Pac-Man, and the swordsman is a player. Pac needs to escape, but it needs a player to go through all those mazes for the door to open. Also, I think that using a sword is a shame. An arcade-stick themed mace was perfect for the situation

The word “genius” gets thrown around way too loosely. Creative? Experimental? Sure - genius? No, absolutely not.

You must be hungry. It's a command, not a question.

Didn't bomberman do a similar thing?

I personally loved the episode about Unreal Tournament (I played that game with my dad all the time) but Circle has got to be a close second

Pac man hit the flowey "kill or be killed"

A lot of those are beautiful for a profile picture, 😊 BUT I WANT THEM ALL!! 🥹

Holy crap Dan par reveal

I would have preferred a fantasy version of it.

:30 Fk no. Who the hell would want a regular pac man adaption? Pac Man is lame af. They somehow made it interesting.

it did look like a trailer a bit more than it was animated short

I really enjoy these reviews, quality and underrated

Honestly, I’m glad KZbin recommended me your channel, you got some quality content that matches well with my interests, I will be watching a lot in the future

Lol only watched the 40k one

40k & armored core vs the world!!!!!

Pause it near the end of the episode when you can see clearly see the red glowing symbol on face of the ghost/gorilla like monster. If you look at the red glowing symbol on the red ghost/gorilla like monsters forehead really closely, it looks like the symbol or picture of a swordsman and looks very similar to the swordsman who's exploits we watch throughout this episode, so my theory is that the ghosts/Gorilla like monsters are souls the previous "chosen ones" or A.K.A the previous swordsmen who were lied to by Pac/puck in an attempt for her to escape, and now the Lost souls of the previous swordsmen now manifest themselves as physical beings and devote themselves as ghosts/gorilla like monsters to stop and keep Pac/puck trapped, not to mention that Pac/Puck looks a lot like Gamp, and Gamp is the final boss of Xevious, and the door of the maze has symbols from the game Xevious that when translated refer to Gamp, Not to mention that the maze itself seems to be a fucked up amalgamation of all the old bandai namco games thrown together, I mean if you look closer the swordsmen wears a tattered flag that represents the faction of space forces that you the player control and pilot in both Xevious and Galaga, also when the swordsmen crosses the field, in the background you can see a bunch of defunct and Worn down and broken surface to air cannons just like the ones shooting at you when you play Xevious, and when the swordsmen looks back at the massive forested area where he came from, in the middle of the forest where he originated from is a massive crashed spaceship, and there's nothing else that's metal besides the spaceship so I'm pretty sure that the swordsmen woke up inside of a cryogenic pod within the massive crashed wreckage, also the Swordsmen fights and kills enemies from other bandai namco games, Such as Giant Centipede, and a giant spider which are enemies from the game Centipede. This is so far everything that I have noticed currently, I will be rewatching this episode over and over very carefully to see if I can find any more references to any more Bandai namco games and if you notice anything else that I missed please let me know and keep me posted on anything you find because there's definitely a hidden story here, we all just need to look closer for the context clues...

Saying that this is "damaging to the brand" is comically dumb

i really hope that in shadow labyrinth that you don't get any strong or bulkier it's just pure skill based gameplay to stay true to the idea of pac man and keep with the dialogue in the episode

It’s not genius, it’s absolute rubbish and NOTHING like Pac-Man😢

i got the ice climbers one

I didn't watch secret level but i did really like your video, the voice of puck sounded really cool too

circle was jarring af, but absolutely glorious

How did you get that loading screen

Why isn’t Warhammer 40k your favorite?

I really enjoy your reviews. Very well spoken and very insightful. Very much appreciate how honest and neutral you keep things. Good stuff. I personally played the first DK country game a few months ago and fell in love with the franchise, I didn’t care much for the sequels but never played this game so this release was definitely for me but it’s hard to recommend because of that price. So far it’s a very solid game and the sequel I wanted.

Preordered it digitally, but i will only play it after finishing Emio

It looks hella sleek. I’m here for it! The people complaining that “it’s just another switch” are the same people that buy Call of Duty and Madden every year

I loved it!

I’m happy they did something experimental with the Pac Man episode instead of playing it safe with an overly safe, generic cartoony episode that’s “faithful” to the source material. Let’s be honest, if you don’t go insane out of the box with Pac Man as a concept there’s really not much you can do with him.

I thought it was a fucking awesome episode. I told my friends to specifically watch that episode and I would tell them, "whatever you can possibly imagine a pac man based episode to be like, it's not that."

Has anyone else seen Madness of Mission 6 - a Pac-Man true story by Travis Pitts? Great illustration. Tells the whole story in one picture. Would love to see that as an episode.

All my jokes about a gritty Pac Man reboot have finally paid off. Genuinely looking forward to this, I love weird interpretations of material that still keeps core themes of what they had to start with.

There PacMan idea was genuis any other version would have failed to be so epic

I guessed the QR code would do that😂

There’s strength in repetition

I unironicly loved this level for the expirmentation. It was so trippy and wild.

I liked most of them, but I wish there was a 30 min minimum for all of them. Some of them just felt like an introduction.

I'd never heard of this little press event, cool to learn about.

Those’s are the only Amiibos I need to complete my collection

Interesting learning about the event icons

nice vid

i didn’t expect the pac metroidvania

Seeing the stuff about the line "there is strength in repetition" makes me think this game might be a rouge like but also a Metroidvania

that random guy making sure you arent recording him at 4:53 had me laughiing lmao