This is the new Pac-Man

[@Gunplus574]

That one Pac-Man TerminalMontage animation is a pretty good reimagining of Pac-Man imo

[@B_D-g3q]

True

[@rachaelneilan6646]

Yeah

[@tuviaday4403]

Definitely

[@Frozzfire_Blackheart]

Indeed

[@lordfox9590]

I stand true to the belief that the Secret Level Pacman chapter won't be better than TerminalMontage's

[@arontolgyes5635]

The Pac-man episode being the bloodiest when other episodes will adapt God of war and WH40k is just hilarious.

[@Henchness]

Wait there is more episodes?

[@elvenbuttress]

You’d think the 40K episode would be the Bloodiest cuz all the Purging.

[@rastyplayzzofficial]

​@@Henchness there will be 15 episodes in the whole show

[@kptmaci4979]

@@Henchness this is a series. Media literacy much?

[@Mr.Anonymous342]

God of war will just be some god that does war from seeing this episode.

[@ASSASSANATIONS2]

It follows the scenario of pacman. A character stuck in a maze, chased by creatures with his only salvation, collecting items to unlock the exit.

[@toxicghost58]

You know, that actually makes a lot of sense.

[@Mezziuu21]

That's a pretty cool idea

[@kmmahmud7177]

😮😊

[@toastedprocastinator]

oh OHHHHHH yeah that checks out.

[@Sir-Cletus]

What about his wife?

[@brohammer10]

1:04 BLOODIEST EPISODE??? That’s genuinely impressive when there’s a Warhammer episode

[@jakr3597]

Either that its super violent or the warhammer isnt

[@brohammer10]

@@jakr3597 I’d be surprised if the Warhammer one wasn’t super violent

[@creed8712]

@brohammer10entirely depends who they are fighting I suppose. Not a lot of blood fighting Necron. And do Orks have blood since they are fungus?

[@brohammer10]

@@creed8712 oooh you do make a very fair point! I didn’t think about that. Though in the trailer it looked like they were fighting humans? I’m not sure we’ll just have to see

[@JairoM.]

Looks like Secret Level's Pac-Man went "Bomberman: Act Zero."

[@مشفارس]

Pac-Man has a world with many characters like his wife Ms Pac and his son Pac Jr/Baby Pac, Professor Pac, Pooka but no one cares to talk about anything other than the first game in the franchise.

[@MTC-hy6ig]

Cyli and Spiral.... Hahahahaha

[@مشفارس]

@@MTC-hy6ig who?

[@Isntme6336]

​@@مشفارس he is talking about the animated tv show's characters

[@DanialTarki]

@@Isntme6336Ghostly Adventures

[@japhreal]

Idk why everybody thinks pac man has like one game in his entire lifespan as a franchise

[@simcity4111]

1:14 actually later games like the Pac-Man world stuff could be a very good groundwork for Pac-Man histories and I will say, independently of overall quality, that animated Pac-Man series was creative and able to make a good world/premise that felt authentic to Pac-Man, with actual adaptation of the characters and ideas

[@popsicIe.]

Yeah

[@TheLion-i4v]

I atleast wish the main characters face was a big yellow smiley face. And as he descents into madness the shell keeps on cracking and cracking until he stands in the rain and the once bright yellow shiney face is nothing but broken, cracked, dull smily face

[@Firewall546]

Honestly, Pacman going insane over eating every second of his life since y'know literally everything causes eating even defeating the enemies, possibly being separated from his wife and kids depending on where in the timeline this is in. With no recognizable way out. I'd actually kind of dig that it'd be kind of cool. Edgy but cool. Eh, we're probably just going to get this though.

[@TheLion-i4v]

@Firewall546 unfortunately, yes. Let's hope this is cool

[@Pat12379]

I hope there just mot showing he's yellow face yet and that's him at the very end

[@arktiix]

get out cornball

[@light_in_the_darkkk]

That actually sounds very promising, genuinely more interested in significantly different takes on IPs rather than religiously following one formula over and over

[@R3_En3zyProd]

I honrstly expected an adaptation of the goat Pac Man World but honestly? This teaser piqued my interest

[@joshjo9405]

And then there's Concord

[@S-treme]

​@@joshjo9405anything made for concord after his death are gold, why this would not be?

[@lightdarksoul2097]

I mean have we seen much of anything of a pac man story ghostly adventures and the old show did very different stuff

[@R3_En3zyProd]

@@joshjo9405 wdym Concord is game of the year, even da Vinci would be jealous that he didn't think to make the greatest piece of art known to man Concord, in fact its so good they had to shut down the servers because there were too many players 🗣🗣

[@markobibin4560]

There actually is some pacman material they could've adapted, eg there's a whole Pacman World trilogy from the ps2 days, with it's own lore and characters, and plenty of other 3d pacman games (yes, those actually exist)

[@cloudshines812]

Us Pac Man World fans are still YEARNING for World 4

[@TeamEmerald3]

Terminalmontage: look what they need to mimic a fraction of my power!

[@Pat12379]

What's that

[@TeamEmerald3]

@Pat12379 terminalmontage is a youtube channel, he created a horror pac man episode

[@Pat12379]

@TeamEmerald3 I watched it and it was so much better the the secret levels ons

[@TeamEmerald3]

@@Pat12379 didn't come out tho so we will have to wait

[@Pat12379]

@@TeamEmerald3 it did

[@gabrielepoli9140]

Tim Miller said that every episode was made with the support of the originals developers of the corresponding game, so that means that when doing this episode the develepors actually liked the idea of this kind of Pac-Man.

[@The_Atreides]

I thought they were doing an episode on Ghost of Tsushima

[@dojetunes]

Theyre doing an episode of playstation characters, Jin sakai is probably one of them

[@highlord2841]

After TGA, it turns out that they’re also making this a game

[@elinogales]

Brother, PAC-MAN WORLD EXISTS they could have used THAT to base a PAC MAN EPISODE!

[@MystM]

They know Pac-Mam has lore already right and a 3D version with legs and stuff? Like in Smash and Pac-Man World.

[@rjmartinez4800]

The fact that last time pacman got a on screen adaptation was with pixels an adam sandler movie and that 3d animated Disney xd pacman show to a gritty bloody art house episode is crazy and hilarious

[@joshjo9405]

What about the 3d tv show?

[@Faz10do987]

@@joshjo9405Pac-Man and the ghostly adventures sucked

[@jamesbland5207]

Pac-Man is the Dark Souls of Secret Level

[@patrickjones3546]

Honestly would of done dark souls instead of that daft crossfire episode

[@GUNUFofficial]

Theyre finally giving pacman the 1993 mario movie treatment.

[@SafiExists]

Pac-Man being bloodier than 40k is funny as heck

[@vihennn]

Great, really excited about ghost of tsushima 🔥

[@Unworshipediety]

That Pac-Man episode was so good. Reminded me of Twilight Zone or the hardest sci-fi your dad tries to get you to read. It's so gonna lose some people though, but it stood out. Damn... it's gonna be in my top 3.

[@mekman4]

It’s only a bold creative swing when the show runners purposefully memory hole the decades of consistent lore like in shows media, toys, the marquees, box art, cameos, sequels, spin-offs and consistent character representation between the East and West from over the last 40 years. Edit: this would be otherwise known as lying by omission.

[@vast9467]

What?

[@Latenivenatrix_Mcmasterae]

Pac-man is pac-man, we’ve all seen him. The concept of being chased by an omnipresent golden ball but taken in an artistic darker horror-esc direction is interesting

[@Pat12379]

I thought the grey banshee looking dude was meant ti be pac man

[@endrendstudios7665]

If we ever get that Pac-Man Multiverse game(it came to me in a dream) they'd probably fun of this version to hell and back

[@fredbearstudios7820]

I Wasn't Expecting A Pac Man Horror Episode In Secret Level

[@GatorBoyCL]

They pulled off an odd adaption and I’m here for it, the PAC IS BACK.

[@AdamSwyvern101]

Thing is though…. They have done a Pac-Man show before ever heard of the nostalgia Pac-Man and the ghostly adventures?

[@japhreal]

Or the 1982 Hanna Barbara one

[@AdamSwyvern101]

You know I have my one pitch for a Pac-Man episode: Have it be explained to be pac man being some kind of alien thing who lives on a space ship only to come in contact with a un maned ship in space. When he comes aboard on that said empty ship he discovers all the previous people were dead and became scary ghosts who wanna kill Pac-Man and his task is to get all the material and get the heck out of there It would be animated with a lot of color and with a looney tune-ish style movement

[@namedless]

I can already hear the theme blasting in my head

[@aidanwhite3769]

no, no, no the Pac is not back

[@uberrex8073]

​@@aidanwhite3769the pac is baaaAaaaAAACKKKK

[@MegaNinjaRyan]

I watched it today. It was a bold creative move. And in my opinion it works so well! I’m so invested in what their world is like and what the Pac-Man truly is. And they’re making a game based on this! Love it! This is how you sell games. Intrigue and fascination. I’m definitely gonna try the game out.

[@Infinite-style.]

So basically PAC man will get a gory, thriller, horror adaptation! Like all other public domain characters

[@kennethsatria6607]

At least this one will be quality

[@liamphibia]

That sounds really... Really boring.

[@Th3_sent1nel]

Pac-Man is still owned by Bandai tho

[@isolated_illust]

I mean, that at least makes sense because the main bad guys are literally ghosts... And the fact that tons of people have made horror based Pac-Man content in the past- -where is this backlash coming from-

[@buniboi2163]

@@liamphibia not to me

[@degocraft9525]

Bro somehow looks more like a space horror character than Kirby

[@leontriestoart]

"Pacman's a SAD guy?"

[@glauciarochelle]

pacman's a bad guy

[@7monolith]

I can not believe we live in the timeline where pacman of all things is the bloodiest episode

[@ve69]

The fact that among all the games featured in this series THE PACMAN EPISODE is gonna be the bloodiest is crazy to me

[@gianluigitorresi224]

Best episode of the series. Same as Unreal. The others are just fan service for fans.

[@francescozenocchini4428]

While i think it will be intresting. At the same time would have been fun an horror episode based on Pac-Man. Like one or more people are stuck in this labyrint/simulation with spectre and the only way to survive is to use the "Pac-Man" that is a machine that can destroy ghost but in a short amount of time and it need energy (the cherries) to do so. The whole episode is about escape the labyrint/simulation while also trying to survive the ghost.

[@itookawildcacti6179]

imagine they have actual pac-man show up at the end as a creature higher on the food chain than the "ghosts"

[@AutomatonRando]

I literally started kicking and screaming when I heard that the animators behind fucking LOVE, DEATH AND ROBOTS were doing this. WE ARE BACK!

[@ErickGameplaysN64]

You know a really awesome take on Pac-Man? The fangame "P. Ackman"

[@Crazd22]

It fits the atmosphere of how much the game was nightmarish in difficulty and appearance to me as a kid, but I wanted to grow stronger to face it

[@jeromemccalla9520]

PAC-MAN does have lore. Since 1984 PAC-LAND and 1999 PAC-MAN world has set a universe for the character. Don’t understand why people fail to recognise this.

[@anthonyortiz350]

1:32 you did not just say DEATH, LOVE AND ROBOTS!!!

[@heresthedealio3520]

Biblically accurate Gorr design

[@karlwes6273]

I heard that Bandai asked them specifically to make it so people wouldn’t believe it’s a Pac-Man episode

[@cloudshines812]

In case of anyone is wondering, the Pac Man World trilogy had some great lore to work off of: World 1 - Pac Man’s friends are captured and taken to Ghost Island where he must save them World 2 - Blinky, Inky, Pinky, and Clyde all steal the golden fruit which is the main source of power for Pac land and Pac Man has to retrieve them World 3 - The Spectral Realm is about to destroy the entire universe and Pac Man must save it

[@adrenpineda5255]

If i dont hear Pac-Man say "it's WAKKA WAKKA WAKKA time" then im out 🙏

[@VectorVideo64]

A Pacman world episode ❎ This thing ✅

[@Butwhythough881]

1:08 the synopsis refers to a mysterious entity summoning a warrior to help in escaping the maze. Perhaps the “mysterious entity” is the brother with the sword and through some magical means, summons Pac-Man to defend him against the ghosts and escape

[@liamphibia]

As a long time Pac-Man fan, I genuinely have no clue how to react to this... Creative direction.

[@Domihork]

It's kind of funny that "they had to do something else with Pac-Man because what is there to work with" as if there were not enough video-games in the world and they HAD to make a Pac-Man episode :D

[@chaster_mief]

I think it's just a different kind of cool, it would be nice to see an episode that had a more faithful pacman, but I think putting it in such a different and unique context makes it genuinely interesting

[@outlaster933]

When I saw the thumbnail I thought it was anything but pac man

[@luckyexplorer1053]

I was not expecting them to do something really really different with Pac Man. This reminds me of this short Pac Man horror movie video I saw along time ago where it was in the perspective of the ghosts. I belive it will be something a little bit like that but I'm quite curious on what they might do that is really different.

[@itswonderingnomad]

It's actually a episode about shadow labyrinth

[@MrMindCloud]

"There isn't much source material to go off of." Buddy, there are two original Pacman cartoons. No one else has struggled with it.

[@kitsutika6370]

My little brother had an idea like this. He said pacman could be interpreted as a man with schizophrenia, being chased by four monsters he's hallucinating. And in the four corners of his house are different doses of medicine (power pellets).

[@poppyfrancis7338]

They had Pac-Man World 3 to base an episode on, a story about a cheerful and helpful guy and his scientist eneny-turned-good friend saving the world from a different villain trying to collapse the Ghost world and Pac world into each other. It'd have stakes but we'd also have fun characterization based off of characters were (at least somewhat) familiar with

[@TheBumblebeeChannel24]

Pac-Man being the bloodiest is insane like warhammer has an episode two

[@Bodadu]

I most excited for the god of war episode

[@Anon-57]

I bet its gonna be the last episode

[@dirtyharry0191]

There is no god of war episode, just a playstation one

[@MTC-hy6ig]

Mine is megaman

[@vitopasco8266]

The sifu episode better he peak

[@mrjack3855]

Its just a Playstation episode

[@TheLemon26]

making an episode out of pac man is like making an episode out of chip-ahoy ads

[@the-NITRON]

-wait THIS gets a 10 minute short, BUT MEGAMAN ONLY GETS 5?!!?!?! *HOW!?!?!?*

[@CyberLou]

It looks like the guy in charge wanted to create there own thing, but instead they were stuck with pacman.

[@nolaz010]

There's a super old yt video from a guy named Scott Gairdner that's about 18 years old. He made a really good short solo Zack Snyder- esque Pac Man about a yellow motorcyclist pill addict fighting spectres and demons. Edit: just rewatched it for the forst time in like 15 years. I remember it being a lot cooler, but it's really campy in a good way. Still a good vision for pac man as a motorcyclist.

[@araucanoraptorargentinus3973]

This is Bomberman: Act Zero all over again.

[@holty1314]

How is a PAC-Man episode going to be “bloodier” than a God of War episode!

[@Beathisat7]

There isn't a God of War episode, there's an episode about PlayStation characters in general. But I get your point.

[@vast9467]

Considering pac mans single character trait is literally EATING THINGS i can see it easily.

[@PhazonOmega]

Terminal Montage had a GREAT Pac-Man video that could easily be stretched into 10 minutes.

[@jamesbacon300]

The idea is use pacman as a tool not necessarily make something about pacman, this is just what a pacman is

[@mr_blank4413]

Honestly that idea really REALLY works for pac man. pac man is essentially about repreating a cycle of violence, killing the ghosts or the ghosts killing you as you wander in a maze over and over and over again. a never ending cycle of kill or be killed. its clear from their statements that this is what they are trying to convey here. Perhaps we won't see inky blinky pinky and clyde, but do we really need to? If the episode is artistic enough and uses pac man enough then thats all that really matters at the end of the day.

[@pokemoner_365]

I feel like what they want to do is somehow tell how much trapped a person feels when in an addiction towards a game within an already repetitive game just to beat it

[@teukukeanu3078]

Honestly I’m really digging this, Its gonna be a darker anthology of pac-man (it sounds silly but i like it) and in my opinion, would leave a bigger impact than a horor themed pacman, since retro themed horor isn’t that rare IMO

[@flergus-guh]

man they couldve taken some inspiration from that one pac man animated series

[@HunterBloodHunterBlood]

Hey this could give namco ideas on making a truly unique pacman game though. A dark, sci-fi game set in a time loop where you play as an alien seeking a way to escape?

[@infntegaming]

Not having a episode for DOOM ETERNAL is a crime

[@franciscohope6035]

There is a New Pacman Game that is literally this. So just needed to wait some days

[@TheWiseDoge]

This actually sounds very promising. Taking the repetitiveness of packman and adapting it into a story of "Pac Man" or this new character facing the sheer horror of being chased by creatures only to repeat again and again and again. I really hope they do something like his face turning more and more yellow as he goes more and more insane. I'm honestly really interested.

[@ErickGameplaysN64]

Someone played Pac-Man and went: You know what? This is what this game is supposed to represent. This reminds me of Bomberman: Act Zero or the cancelled Mega Man X FPS (which I gotta be honest, this second one looked kinda cool NGL)

[@kwaryoip]

I greatly appreciate how straight to the point this video is. You expressed your thoughts, and that was it. Video over. Unlike those degenerate commentary youtubers who can talk 18 minutes about the same point and somehow still go nowhere.

[@KDizzy6]

This looks fantastic & I'm here for it.

[@defcom-zc4hy]

PAC-Man actually is shown more in a trailer that shows clips from all the episodes.

[@owenm.5056]

I thought this was a PAC MAN Spinofff for a second 😭

[@ShawnParker-x3r]

It's supposed to follow the concept of pac man in this episode kinda cool when u think abt it

[@exploringwithayaan]

We can't be excited enough for SECRET LEVEL

[@GestaltKirin]

It's crazy saying that there's no source material to go off of when the Pac-Man World series exists. Certainly it isn't very "rich" in its story or anything, but there's SOMETHING.

[@patrickjones3546]

Strange how it felt a lot more like dark souls rather than pack man, + im honestly surprised we haven't had anything fromsoft in secret level besides armour core but still. Happy we got some fromsoft love

[@vast9467]

it’s based on an upcoming metroidvania

[@rexwrecks2735]

I mean they could’ve at least given him a yellow suit.

[@tiesvanlieshout2856]

pac man has a whole netflix sereis dedicated to it called pac man and the ghostly adventrues, I watched it as a kid

[@noahbohnstedt2118]

Shoulda got TerminalMontage to direct it.

[@jorantheamazing]

This reminds me of the xbox bomberman, the one with the death robots

[@_assassin25]

When does secret level come out

[@someguy1894]

Edit: it was pacman horror movie by stanley wong :) I remember there being a youtube series of pacman being this evil force and the ghosts are just people

[@Jrsonicyt-is-weird]

Its gunna be so peak im calling it

[@cannibalmilkshake8923]

Obviously, it will have a message in it for people struggling in endless cycles like pac man maybe.

[@20Avalanche06]

It looks like live animation of the Centepede arcade.

[@rapidresponseteam6048]

I have a feeling this is somehow gonna be the best of the series.

[@DigDannyBoy]

Clever design to have the reflection of the golden pacman have a pillar type object to represent the eye

[@abaanmisger1775]

Looks like arcane

[@KJR_Whatever]

I’m from the future. I just watched the PAC-Man episode. And I’m not gonna lie, I actually thoroughly enjoyed this take on PAC-MAN. It’s a darker take that made for a great twist. Call me crazy, but this is definitely a highlight for me.

[@ramirezproductions0826]

A horror adaptation of PAC Man is the LAST thing I excepted! 😂😂😂

[@mikebig321]

they could’ve made the ghost the main characters and pac man a monster but this works too

[@lowfreqq]

i was like yes a video on it then realized it’s this guys channel

[@jonathanventura9183]

i wish they could have done something pac-man world related. i loved those games, pac man wasn't the classic hero but like a sassy dude.