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Great basic arcade-puzzling game

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 31 / 32
Date: July 02, 2005
Author: Amazon User

If you've got a DS and enjoy classic arcade style games, then be sure to give Pac Pix a try. You get to draw your very own pac-man and watch it gobble up ghosts!

Let me say first that this is a basic arcade game - it's NOT a game with complex soundtracks, with high quality anime fighting characters. If you're looking for shoot-em-up adventure, this just isn't it. It's more a complex puzzle game that gives you an artistic outlet. For me, this is just perfect.

In essence, you are drawing arcade weapons on the bottom part of your DS screen, to gather up goodies and eat up ghosts. You start with a pac-man. You can draw a big one that moves slowly, or a tiny one that moves super-quick. You can draw him with a big mouth or little. Whatever you draw, that's what takes off after the ghosts!

Now you draw lines to help your pac-creature move around. You can also draw arrows that fire off, bombs, and more. The puzzles grow more complex as you go - but part of the challenge here is to replay levels to try to do them as quickly as you can. This is where the puzzle-like aspect really comes in. Do you draw two tiny pac-creatures and try to keep them both going - or do you draw a larger one to eat all the ghosts in one pass? By knowing the order in which the ghosts come out, and their placement, you can plot to get them in the most efficient manner possible.

I will say that someone with poor coordination might have trouble making a pac-creature properly. You of course have to have a general circle shape with a mouth. But the game does start in beginner steps so that you can practice and learn how to use the stylus, in order to get the hang of this. Really, with so many DS games involving fine stylus control, think of this as a practice game, to get your skills built up!

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5 Rating: 5, Useful: 11 / 14
Date: June 25, 2005
Author: Amazon User

This game is awesome for those classic nintendo lovers. It brings back the old pac-man feeling and is a never-put-down-game-in-my-life game. I love the way it resembles the old pac-man games but also has a new kick in it, to since you can use the touch screen to conroll all of pac-man's movements. Be sure to get this game. Many reviews out there are very wrong. No offence, but u people who wrote bad reviews for this game, you dont know how to enjoy a simple classic game so why do u even bother getting it??? NEway, I reccomend this game for all, especially for thos classic nintendo lovers as I said earlier. Be sure to buy this game. Trust me, it is a must.
Thank you, and have a nice day :) :) :)

Pac-Man Galore!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 4
Date: December 04, 2005
Author: Amazon User

Wow this is fun! If you draw small pac mans they go fast but only eat one ghost at a time, if you draw big ones, they go slow, but eat more at a time! COOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

This is cool

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 8
Date: November 27, 2005
Author: Amazon User

This game is pretty cool i would buy it and i did this game is worth money i think you should buy it this games is awesome and you get to conttol pac man and make him eat the ghost and draw him bigger to get over stuff

Very Fun, wish it was longer

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 1
Date: May 05, 2005
Author: Amazon User

One of my favorite cartoons growing up (I cannot remember it's name) was one in which an old guy would draw things on a chalkboard and then they would come to life. This is sort of what happens in this game, and also a possible preview for future, more sophisticated DS games.

You are able to draw pacman (I love giving him a Simpsons look with an overbite)and then see your drawing come to life and start carpet munching. You then control the direction by drawing lines. The goal is to complete several stages that make up a chapter and beat your previous higher score. There are 12 chapters in all. This is such a fun game, that replay value is huge, as you can replay levels to constantly try to beat youor hight score. In a sense, it is like a racing game, as your have a time limit.

I have not played it enough to get to the levels in which you draw bombs or arrows, but am guess they are just as fun.

Overall, this is a unique and fun game that is well worth the price. I only wish they had 20 stages and not just 12. And it is also a very welcome addition to a very sparse and disapointing DS line up.

very fun and addictive

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: February 21, 2007
Author: Amazon User

Picked this up on a clearance sale for 15 bucks and it was money well spent. I had read a couple so-so reviews of this game, and I often saw it in the used section of a local video game store for around 25 bucks so did not think it would be so good. Like many games for the DS which utilize the touch screen, its a novel approach to an old game and is quite fun. I'm terrible at drawing, yet even my most bent out of shape pac-mans come to life.

PacMan Redesign, Not Spyro Rewrite

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: June 29, 2007
Author: Amazon User

Pac Pix is a top-notch game for the Nintendo DS handheld system. In this game you use both screens, top and bottom; and all the action takes place using the stylus. It's a little tricky at first, until you learn the "gestures" (the drawing symbols you need to use to control PacMan and his environment), but once you've learned those and had a little practice, the real challenge is in getting through the levels.

Using the stylus, you draw a PacMan (small or large, depending on how fast you want him to go), in the bottom screen. You then create "walls" which cause PacMan to turn and go in the direction you specify. Loose ghosts in the bottom screen are gobbled up as PacMan rolls over them. But just because all the drawing takes place on the bottom screen, doesn't mean the top screen is a gratuitous display piece. Quite the opposite! The top screen houses the PacMan road, a single channel where ghosts, extra lives and pickups can be found. PacMan can travel the PacMan road, but only when it's open. Navigate PacMan onto the entrance in the bottom screen, and he will automatically resize and charge around the top screen, encountering anything on the road.

The top screen also houses ghosts and switches that aren't on the PacMan road. These items can only be encountered when you have the arrow. Shoot the arrow from the bottom screen onto the top screen to flip switches and to knock ghosts onto the bottom screen where PacMan can gobble them up. Once PacMan has managed to get all the ghosts to the bottom screen, and has eaten them all, the level is over.

This game is a fantastic rewrite of the PacMan genre. Although I've played - and enjoyed - PacMan World when it came out, I saw it as more of a PacMan flavored rewrite of your typical 3d games of the time - Spryo the Dragon, etc. It didn't really seem like a PacMan game. It was more of an adventure game starring PacMan. This game is ALL PacMan (accept no substitute!). It feels like you're playing the original PacMan, except it's been rewritten to take advantage of both screens and all of the amazing new features of the Nintendo DS system.

Don't think it's easy - though. I'm on Level 8, and I just can't seem to beat the boss (yes, did I mention there were bosses?). This particular boss sits on the top screen taunting me to knock him down, and spits ghosts onto the bottom screen. I have to eat them, shoot the boss, and prevent PacMan from dying by traveling offscreen all at the same time. It's quite challenging!

Awesome

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 4 / 6
Date: November 10, 2005
Author: Amazon User

This game is so fun! Tou get to draw your own Pac-Man! If your Pac-Man is small, it goes fast. if your Pac-man is big, it goes slower, but can eat 2-3 things at a time!

A fun twist to the original Pac Man game.

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 3
Date: May 28, 2005
Author: Amazon User

I have been having a lot of fun with this game. It is very innovative and really utilizes the touch screen. I mean, how fun to draw your own Pac Man and watch it come to life to play the game with! The object of the game (yes, there is one contrary to what other people have said) is to fight the ghosts and turn them back into "ghost ink". They had invaded all the pictures and books, but Pac Man was able to conquer most of the ghosts with his "magic pen" and put the rest of them together in one last book. But before he could turn them back into ghost ink, they put a curse on him. Now he is in the paper and it is up to you and Pac Man, along with the "magic pen" (your stylus), to finish the job and save the last book. You go through the chapters of the book and each chapter has levels to where you have to eat all the ghosts in order to advance to the next level or chapter. As you advance you earn weapons to help you along the way. There are also other fun things involved in this game but I don't want to spoil it for the people who get it. My favorite part of the game (besides making your drawings come to life) is trying to beat the bosses at the end of each stage. My only gripe is that if you don't beat a boss, you have to go back to the beginning of that stage and do all the levels in that chapter again. But that I think is a minor thing. The game gets harder as you go on and there are new things added and more to do to keep you interested. I don't find this game boring at all and it keeps me real busy and interested. Overall, I think Pac Pix is a cool game and is worth getting. It even makes me laugh at times, like if I draw a really funny Pac Man or he goes the wrong way. I don't have any regrets with buying this game.

Fun Fun Fun Fun Fun Fun Fun

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: October 21, 2007
Author: Amazon User

Very fun game! I love it, as it is not too easy, but not too hard either...great as a gift for children with a brand new Nintendo DS, as it helps them get used to the idea of a touch screen, and having to concentrate on the top screen, and the bottom at the same time! A definite great buy. ^_^

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