Secret Level’s Pac-Man Episode is GENIUS

[@danielbeckworth4935]

biblically accurate pac-man

[@juicy.oranges]

This is my favourite comment ever.

[@MikeDang-pm4co]

Basically 😂

[@Andy-Andeee]

For your comprehensive capability

[@Alldogsgotohellgang]

I got a chuckle 😂

[@sidcomegys4154]

Why isn't a transdimensional eldritch horror? That's how the Bible explained all of its spirits, this is just grimdark, pretty standard 1500s, not biblical.

[@kennyberger5377]

Someone had to have looked at puck, and built a temple to line up with the sun just right. And someone had to make the sword with pucks shape. This implies that puck once had worshipers who admired her or her kind before being isolated in the maze.

[@VeXHarbinger]

Your assumption is that this situation organically evolved. If it's origin is similar to the creation of game, opposed to lore in the game it reads differently. In this context the sword is a product of the creators and symbolizes their intrinsic bond when they they were simultaneously brought into existence. The whole of the situation sounds too symbiotic to be organic, else the puck could release several swordsman at once to attempt. If puck is the one releasing them at all that is.

[@VeXHarbinger]

Actually, I pondered this a bit more; I think you attributing the temple directly with/for Puck is also a bit shaky. I'd view that as more of a que for the viewer unless their sun always is in the same position all year long, VS how ours is seen throughout the year. Also, that would require Puck to bring the swordsman to the temple at a specific time of day for it to be appreciated by the swordsman, who wouldn't recognize the shape outside of his sword.

[@ChimeraLotietheBunny]

Yess

[@Kspice9000]

The temple isnt a shrine if worship. Its a prison gate.

[@alansmithee419]

People always complain that studios don't experiment enough. Then when studios experiment they complain that they did, for any number of reasons from "it ruined the source material" (which is impossible) to simply "I don't like this why did they bother?" (which is counter to the very idea of experimentation).

[@rachelsmith4452]

Answer:Indie glazing

[@carlll7596]

well, theres experimentation while still retaining elements from the source material and directing toward a similar target audience and then theres gore pac-man

[@alansmithee419]

@carlll7596 It's still an experiment, and one that many people did like as much as others have complained. You're just saying you didn't like it. Ok, that's fine, but let's not act like that means it was an objectively bad idea to make this. Dark spins on simple games/ideas are usually very popular, they experimented in doing the same with pacman and for you the way they did it didn't work. Doesn't mean they shouldn't have bothered. You just didn't like it. Oh well, experiment over now we can move on instead of complaining for no reason?

[@lithuaniaball]

You might be able to gaslight yourself into thinking trash sequels don't actively harm what came before it, but I need 9 movies to stop existing if I'm gonna have another movie set in the star wars universe that doesn't suck, so please stop lying to people who don't know any better.

[@alansmithee419]

@@lithuaniaball It's not a lie, we just have a difference of opinion. And while your opinion is valid I don't understand it, so I cannot honestly defend it to others. Explain to me conceptually how a new thing can ruin an old thing. You can still watch the old thing as a standalone experience and appreciate it for its original intent/your original interpretation without it being marred just because something new came out. It's not a lie to say that it is possible to separate two things as indeed being two things in your mind. Note: some of what I'm about to say is directed toward general behaviours I've noted in others who claim new shows have somehow ruined old ones. They are not directed at you unless you happen to also engage in the same behaviours. The idea that a new thing can somehow ruin something that existed before it for decades is to me an absurd idea that does nothing but make people miserable - much much more so than the existence of the newer thing would on its own. What if the sequel trilogy were non-canon, or only a spiritual successor? Would that improve things? If so, why can't you just pretend its non-canon? There's nothing stopping you from ignoring it and enjoying the original films as they are. Everyone would be a lot happier if everyone who didn't like the sequel trilogy just ignored it instead of tearing down everything and everyone that acknowledges or enjoys it. Just leave people to what they enjoy, and you stick to what you enjoy.

[@StarMechV]

Goddamnit it just hit me Puck is the Puck. The Swordsman is the MAN Together they make Pac-Man

[@harryxyz2982]

🖊️🔥

[@isleling5191]

@StarMechV actually Puck-man is the original name for pac-man. However, namco changed it due to fear of vandals changing Puck to Fu.... you get the idea

[@StarMechV]

Proves my point more. They basically took the name and split it into two characters

[@GaelMiraflor]

The hand writing burned down a house one time.

[@JoseMat2953]

Actually genius.

[@jayb8934]

Puck is the Player; using Pac-Man to complete the maze. Starting over with a new Pac-Man when he dies. It literally took control of the Swordsman at the end.

[@witerunguard1737]

I thought puck was a she

[@justareguralcitizen9492]

@@witerunguard1737it’s a circle

[@undeadinside3571]

​@@justareguralcitizen9492 with a female voice actor and female sounding voice, which is weird considering mrs. Pacman exists too

[@MrMofongo-m4j]

@@undeadinside3571 huh? Good point Maybe they gay 🤷🏻

[@undeadinside3571]

@MrMofongo-m4j maybe its just puck in this version

[@leevictoria1386]

Remember this, Shadow labyrinth was in production before this episode was created. The game was in production 4 years ago, yet this episode was first to release.

[@ZachX888]

*Marketing.*

[@mattkeller5913]

Huh hold up what even is that? To the Google

[@willklemp6900]

Oh man, it's almost like making a game takes way longer than making a single episode for a tv show anthology 😂

[@echothesilent4693]

Didn't the guy say that at the start of the video?

[@thedazzlingape2006]

secret level literally could be a series of opening pilot for entire shows. every episode I've seen so far has left me hungering for more!

[@raj_171a]

What I don’t think many realized but you pointed out slightly is how the “monsters” the swordsman eats line up with the ghosts! The first, rhino-like one? It’s pinky! The spider-like one? It’s inky! The lava crawling, worm-like one? It’s Clyde! And the final, red one like you pointed out? It’s, of course, Blinky!! The colors line up, and each is a spherical body with four protruding limbs or teeth - like the shape of the iconic ghosts.

[@AnisterStarlight]

Wait so what was the swamp creature then?

[@microcelltechnicalassistence]

​@@AnisterStarlight parker

[@raj_171a]

@@AnisterStarlight they didn’t actually SHOW the monster though

[@protege6383]

Ok… but what are the “eyes” of the ghosts then because Puck called the floating glowing thing a ghost but it looks like the eye on Blinky?

[@Kspice9000]

They are literally referred to as ghosts....

[@helmetsandhandgrenades5636]

the fact this is based on an actual game is wild to me

[@badreedinebedro]

honestly would like if pack man game was like this an open world rpg

[@TheDragonfriday]

​@@badreedinebedrolook open world won't work with every game... Do you want 80% empty space? Wait enemies to spawn or not spawn etc It would be better a semi open world linear story

[@RegardingBeau]

“Did you ever hear the Tragedy of Darth Pac-Man the Wise?”

[@williamwebb580]

"It's not a story the ghosts will tell you..."

[@bloomins8088]

This one was my favorite of the shorts BECAUSE it took the concept and made it so wild. I love how a simple idea can be turned into a variety of wild things.

[@lehashura490]

My interpretation is that none of them are Pac-man, to be more precise Puck and the swordsman are both halfs of Pac-man. And the fact that Puck is named well... Puck comfirms it for me. For those who don't know Pac-man was supposed to be called Puck-man but it was changed so that people wouldn't call it f*ck-man (plus it sounded similar to Paku Paku, wuch is the equivalent in japanese to the munch sound). So you have Puck and a man, therefore when they fuse they must become a Puck-man... or a Pac-man if you will.

[@OmegaBackwood]

I’m not even gonna say it

[@AkoSiEli]

“scott… youre a goddamn genius”

[@stwbmc98]

I read an interview with the Shadow Labyrinth devs and they said they wanted this game to make people go “what the puck?” So they’re actually invoking the similarity to the word f*ck this time

[@ZachX888]

Yeah I gathered that too, very cool interpretation! :D

[@joelturner5957]

i came up with this idea that puck was locked away by the swordman because her only function is to eat or consume everthing in her path just like the game and that’s not good for the universe 😂 anyways the swordman was her jailer and maze builder hence why hes the only one who can leave the maze with those creatures being his guard dogs but somewhere in the past puck got control of the swordman and made him forgot his purpose so she could use him to escape now everytime a new swordman is let out of a pod she has a new chance to escape unless the swordman can remember why he was sent there but i just like making up random story’s 😂

[@DanteYewToob]

The only thing I felt was missing was the looping maze.. if they just added one scene of him walking or running down a corridor and coming out the other side, that would’ve been sick. They could’ve even used it for the hunting/feeding montage… have him lead an enemy into the corridor and pop up behind it seemingly magically to ambush it, using the looping feature as an advantage like you do in the game.

[@Fitnovativeusa]

Read the CNN article by Katie Hunt from November 29th 2021 about xenobots. Cool stuff.

[@AllThatJazz94]

Honestly, before the episode even came out and there was talk about this interpretation of PAC-MAN was way different, I was actually looking forward ‘cause of how wild it sounded and now I’m even more excited about the idea knowing an actual game is coming out.

[@Mlackakao]

Considering the very end, normally the player dies because a ghost catches them. Considering that the ghosts are immortal and are reformed when given time, making the ghosts as monsters means that there are countless of each species out there (as we saw with the Red ghost/Blinky). So, when the swordsman died, it was when he forcefully removed Puck, symbolizing the effects of the power pellet wearing off. And while that ultimately killed the man, gamewise, the ghosts killed before caught him in the end.

[@MostlyPennyCat]

_But you can never eat their eyes_

[@tekmonster10]

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

[@kingofmonsters14]

makes you wonder why Puck is stuck in that maze.

[@kennyberger5377]

@@kingofmonsters14 Someone built that pac man themed temple/portal. She was sealed away, probably for good reason.

[@aldobanuelos6614]

​@@kennyberger5377 for fun.

[@JacksonPhixesPhones]

We DO NOT speak of such things!

[@plasmabasher]

It's implied by the Swordsman at the end of the episode, right before he dies, that he realizes that the labyrinth is a prison- for Puck, specifically.

[@Virtualblueart]

In all of the chaos at the end you can hear Puck saying something like “We will be free, we will consume all”. At least I think I heard that. If I’m right it being a creature whose goal is to consume everything was plenty reason to lock it in some kind of dimensional prison.

[@andrew_oid]

They gave Pac-Man the Bomberman: Act Zero treatment and I actually love it

[@Heretiking85]

In my opinion, Circle is the best Secret Level episode, and its not even close. All the other episodes are just... showing an actual story from the game. They arent DOING anything. Theyre not telling us new information, theyre not showing us anything interesting or groundbreaking, hell, most of them arent even using new imagery. Circle is such a departure from the original, while keeping the LITERAL aspect of the game (hunger/eating) in tact, that its honestly kind of shocking ive never seen anything like this done before. Circle is the only episode of this series that can ACTUALLY be compared to Love, Death, & Robots. Its the only episode that didnt feel like it was just a cutscene from an already existing game, that gave us something new, that did something innovative with the property. Circle is literally the POINT of these short film experiments.

[@benbenklin]

The alien reminded me a lot of comic book gorr the god butcher

[@thebiggerfish8976]

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.

[@IronVigilante451]

This is amazing! Its not trashing the source, it feels like an actual game, and it keeps the idea of repitition!

[@EKproductionsarg]

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

[@dillonwright13]

If Shadow Labyrinth is a Metroidvania game like people are saying, I’ll be willing to buy it on my Switch, or Switch 2, whatever comes out first.

[@gendygoblin8391]

I personally found this one more interesting than whatever an “accurate” Pac-Man story would be. It was actually the most engaging episode of the first 8 which were how many there were when I started watching. The others just feel like lesser versions of the series they are depicting. I don’t even know what they would do with a normal Pac-Man setting on a story basis that doesn’t feel like a kid show.

[@Kspice9000]

Meh Pac Man christmas is still a classic.

[@daniyelmclovin7751]

personally it was my favourite episode. Pac-Man has always had this weird nebulous mix of constantly changing lore and no lore at all so for them to go in the obvious horror-esc direction is, i think, a very cool move

[@jakenewland-griffin9460]

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

[@ericlindogines8036]

I think that the swordsman is the actual player, that being the reason why Puck isn’t bothered that he died, but that she needs to go through all that again. Kind of how it doesn’t matter if you lose the game, another player (swordsman) will come to take your place and try again.

[@vinny8589]

Ironically Puck refers too A mischievous "golden sprite" in English folklore (what is pac-man in our world a 2-D "Sprite correct?" Pac refers to the Paku-Paku or Gobble Gobble "EAT" sound effect that is prominent throughout the premise, as well as the term Pack or TEAM refernecing the duo teaming up to reach a common goal, "Escape." So roughly put Puck refers too A mischievous "sprite" who forms a "Pack" or TEAM with a Swords "MAN" to Paku Paku Or EAT their way thru the maze too escape. The fact Puck attempts to fuse & become a "Demonic Pac-man" trying to escape the Labyrinth or "PRISON" also further alligns with the "Mischievous Sprite" aspect of Puck. A truly Darker yet Biblically accurate interpretation of "Pac-Man."

[@Kspice9000]

Or because the og title to Pac Man was Puck Man.....

[@Aquabzs]

@@Kspice9000 their can be many different reasons for something being the way it is

[@negentropyagent7337]

thats what i thought when i saw the episode. Pacman is the swordman, Puk is the power pellet and the animals were the yellow dots. I loved this episode, it was fun and unique

[@mrblusky6957]

Dangit, I had this idea of Pacman being some sort of eldritch monster and kids or teenagers dressed up as ghosts find their way through a maze to escape. Sadly Secret Level beat me to the horror pacman concept and I was just a kid with an overactive imagination and no money :|

[@MidnightNautil1]

I’d say still go for it! There can be multiple adaptations of things, and fan projects can be enjoyed just as well! If you love the idea enough and wanna put in the work, you could still do your idea!

[@DJBoogieBeats]

ARE YOU KIDDING?!?! You should totally make that! It sounds like an awesome horror game and its so unique. Besides, its nothing like secret level. You can do it!

[@noob-jy7zd]

yes guys please feel bad for me

[@Kspice9000]

Do something with it or Im stealing it.

[@TornaitSuperBird]

Nothing is truly original. So with that in mind, go for it.

[@3dpprofessor]

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.

[@JoseMat2953]

Having seen this video makes me kinda appreciate that episode more than I thought I would. The fact that Bandai even wanted it to be weird and drastically different from the arcade game to begin with makes it even better too.

[@PerfectYakon2219]

If this series did a darker tone of Pac Man I like to see what they do to Centipede the arcade

[@applekhi3962]

Honestly I didn't like it at first cuz it was so far from the source material of pac man like bomberman act zero, but now that we have the context of shadow labyrinth I do appreciate it a lot more

[@lavenderanthony3094]

I’ve been meaning to watch this show and this video inspired me to watch It immediately

[@ShockwaveFPSStudios]

Like the part where Pac-Man is like “As a child. I Pac for the mines”.

[@VeXHarbinger]

@5:08 you mentioned the sword and the sun but missed this one, if it actually is one. At least for me, the reflected floor is reminiscent of the open mouth and the light on the right an evil eye.

[@Plantsandtea]

I Definitely appreciate the episode now i know its inspired by a different game haha. I was trying my best to understand how tf it connected with OG packman. Thanks for the explainer.

[@retroearthboundian5883]

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...

[@SuperNintendoGameboy]

Even if Shadow Labyrinth doesn't do as well as Namco hopes, they'll probably just make another Namco Museum game or whatever excuse to re-release Pac-Man again to recoup the losses

[@felipesmgomes7334]

Pac man hit the flowey "kill or be killed"

[@Screamer_86]

Pac Man finally going through his edgy phase, good for him.

[@itsdougiie3738]

i took it as the swords man is the player/us and puck is the game its self but together they are truly pac-man.

[@FKNGad]

Puck is an entity stuck in an endless loop prison maze, where the inhabitants live under one rule "eat.or be eaten".In order to break free.of this prison you need to break the key using the swordsman host

[@ArcologyCrab-gq9ub]

Originally I thought Circle was just a really wacky adaptation of PAC-Man, something you would expect when trying to make a AAA film based off an incredibly simple game, so it being based on an upcoming video game was pretty surprising.

[@ZachX888]

0:35 Just like Terminal Montage's Pac Man video. xD Honestly I am 100% his video had some impact on this episode AND the game coming out. That video came out FOUR years ago!!! He is 100% the inspiration for the team to make their own spin on Pac Man, and I am SO glad for it. Personally I would have LOVED a Dead Space style Pac Man like what Jeremey did, but the Metroidvania coming out is an AWESOME approach. :D

[@pcalix17]

So they shoved a bunch of series' into one game, cranked the insanity up, and unleashed it on an unsuspecting audience. Nice work.

[@MatthewLoh-ru1mw]

Yup

[@deadbeatnetwork9792]

Huh… if they mixed PAC-MAN and Xevious together, I wonder what other old Namco games they’ll mix in here?!? Imagine some Galaga or Dig-Dug related stuff in there?? That’d be pretty cool!

[@skiper7795]

My favourite epizode from the series. They really just need to get right people for season 2 to produce more of pac-man, warhammer, sifu and honor of kings quality and less of crossfire and playstation advertisement...

[@rosecity_chris]

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.

[@ArtemisAYO]

8:17 is that the composer for the hit song Black Sun

[@badongpalacio312]

This is Gorr The God Butcher trapped in a loop

[@Astrophel788]

YES FINALLY SOMEONE WHO AGREES THAT THE PACMAN EPISODE IS COOL!! Its my favorite out of all of them. Like DUDE?? Its so amazing. The speculative lore building and theories people have been putting out are amazing.

[@davidbowers4270]

Was my favorite ep. I showed my girlfriends dad the episode after I watched it and it had his jaw on the floor

[@marcoscorpas2752]

I thought Swordsman was supposed to be the power pellet. It wasn't until Puck ate him that they were able to defeat the red ghost.

[@wynnefox]

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

[@Shanethefilmmaker]

Just realized the voice actress that voiced Puck is named "Emily Swallow". Make with that what you will.

[@miniman2061]

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

[@JaqenHghar.]

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."

[@geneawisea2708]

This episode exploded my brain and the climax was Legendary

[@notsocuteslime2297]

I just wanted to see more Namco/arcade monsters and references

[@kennyberger5377]

@@notsocuteslime2297 Dig-Dug, as a horror film.

[@keijijohnson9754]

One thing's for certain about this thing more than you would like to belive. Much like a lot of the episodes in this season, all this ended up being was a glorified promotional trailer for an upcoming game instead of something inspired by an existing game that is an actual favorite of many.

[@coltonk.3086]

I really did enjoy the episode, I love new twists on old favorites like this. I only wish the "Ghosts' were actual ghosts instead of that weird gorilla thing.

[@BradyTheAlien]

THAT was a ghost?!?!

[@coltonk.3086]

@BradyTheAlien I think. But I could be wrong. I just know it had a similar glow to the pink one.

[@CrunchyMew]

What if they're possessing creatures

[@coltonk.3086]

@ That would actually be a great concept.

[@TornaitSuperBird]

I think the point was that when the Swordsman and Puck fused together, it was like Pac-Man eating a Power Pill, and therefore the formerly intangible "ghost" was able to be defeated.

[@Gonin049]

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

[@josro1234]

This is definitely more of a Shadow Labyrinth episode than a straight up Pac Man episode

[@gyrrakavian]

There's a fan film from around a decade ago where Pac-Man is adapted to instead be a digital entity and sapient AI.

[@ezmagno_mp5970]

9:07 the warhammer 40k episode, its why i wached the series

[@thealonestargazer]

In a world starving for new ideas, this was the best outcome for how it was created

[@ThousanWhite]

It reminded me of how the Super Mario Bros movie from 1993 is what the real story was and the video game was just the family friendly interpretation of those events lol

[@sapphanimates]

circle was jarring af, but absolutely glorious

[@ZachX888]

2:12 Dude that song in the BGM hits different since I just recently got Namco Museum on my PS2 emulator. I got it because I thought it was the one where you explored a 3D museum and play all kinds of different games by walking up to the arcade cabinets, but it was just a standard game collection type thing. Is there another Namco Museum I'm missing? Do you know what I'm talking about? EDIT: Nevermind, just found it lol.

[@SadGOOSE3]

This shit was awesome ngl, the fact pacman is trying to escape its prison is fking wild and cool. Somewhat tech cosmic horror

[@VagabondTE]

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.

[@rickrogan2355]

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

[@jonathanrice6338]

This one did not make sense at first but little by little and made more and more sense.

[@SylvesterAshcroft88]

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!

[@mikenice215]

It’s like they showed us Pac-Man’s very purpose🤦🏾‍♂️🔥 I’m here for it🎯💯‼️

[@fancypantsism]

The Sifu one was my favorite! purely because I love the game and enjoyed how they made changes to the story. Granted the o their episodes were also god-tier but I liked the Sifu episode the best! PAC-MAN being a close second

[@huyphan7825]

Would’ve been cool if it also made a take that to the Ms Pac-Man legal issues. Like the Man seeing a pink bow and about to pick it up, but then Puck stops him and says: “Don’t. It will destroy you”

[@ZachX888]

9:20 Bro that outro is SO much scarier in context with the rest of the video! 😫 Anyway, I'm only picking them based on my interests. Mega Man was a must watch, then I watched the Pac Man episode after learning about that. After seeing the HELLDIVERS clips though, I'm definitely not watching all of them. That look like trash tbh... the Helldivers were cool, but every other aspect was cringe. Plus the Helldivers would NEVER see an enemy and not start using every explosive in their arsenal, you know? I am interested in the Armored Core episode after you showed a clip of it though. That's what you show at 0:45 right? I'm assuming as someone who knows nothing about Armored Core. GREAT video btw.

[@matchablescommunitygaming3558]

The man is the player, the player is an endless supply lives for Puck

[@galacticgila219]

The reveal that the swordsman wasn’t PacMan but the power up made me loose it- it’s so cool

[@ragnarok2472]

W video. The pac man episode from Secret Level was my favorite one

[@piercedavis9176]

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

[@TwesomE]

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! 😉

[@poppyfrancis7338]

Until Shadow Labyrinth was finally revealed, I genuinely had to wonder what the idea was making Pac-Man into something dark and strange, but with the context that it was not original for the show I was a lot more interested. While I'm not fond of the idea of a show taking its own entirely new spin, I love it when the devs themselves go into a new direction because I feel they have the best idea of how to go from a base when they need to execute the idea in the same medium, and interpretation from there is just down to what narrative elements need to be brought into anshow

[@Qalbee75]

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

[@bushboonie1920]

Puck and the swordsman… berserk?

[@nunyabidnez9004]

I actually really enjoyed the episode. I thought it was going to be something simple and silly, and was instead left with my jaw dropped.

[@Jamlord2061]

i didn’t expect the pac metroidvania

[@surge123456789]

I am more accepting of this pac-man then the gritty reboot of bomber-man on the old x-box

[@KongExotics]

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

[@Biomass4000]

What did the mega man episode do that you like it the most? Nothing happens and just like 90% of all episodes it teases action just too end with nothing. “Cool he suits up and then it ends” 🤷‍♂️

[@cortexcarvalho9423]

I'll watch it. But thinking about it now. Pac-man reminds me a lot of a hunt and four hunters. And moments when the hunters become the hunted.

[@Taha-e7j4j]

If Pac-Man was this cool and dark Imagine if Kirby was in secret levels

[@ScorbunGame]

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.

[@rjthecosmonaut5306]

I hope and pray that the secret level series does games like “death stranding” and “red dead redemption.” They actually hit the mark with this show.❤

[@bigdoggtheinfamousone9300]

I thought this episode could have been abes odyssey at the start

[@joezar33]

Hell, nah, that eps is disturbing , poor Pac-Man doesn't deserve that , woke up in a hell-ish dante's inferno like place

[@Eou1234]

Pac man? I totally somehow missed that very insane fact