After laying down a foundation for a great platformer, Pac-Man returns to the third dimension in Pac-Man World 2. SOCIAL MEDIA LINKS: / nitrorad / nitroradofficial / nitrorad Pac-Man thumbnail render by: / nibrocrock
16:27-17:30 To quote AVGN, "You get unlimited continues, so there's no excuse to shut off the game. You just keep playing and playing and playing, eventually, you start to get good at it. You can blow through all these bosses taking as little damage as possible, but then the time always runs out. So you do it real fast, but then you end up getting killed. Then you start to go through a phase, where you get so frustrated, that all the skill you've accumulated starts to weaken. So instead of getting better, you actually start to get worse, because you keep playing the same fucking thing over and over."
For those pits, you could always put collectibles around the pit, or leave more distance between the player and the boulder so there's more room for error.
As someone who DID complete this 100%, I'd say the hardest levels to 100% were haunted boardwalk and yellow pac-marine. The first because you have to time jumps perfectly to get all 6 pellets in an arc between boardwalk segments, and the second because the fruit in yellow pac marine are semi-random, so you basically have to destroy everything in hopes of getting all of it. Other than that, I'd say the rest of the levels were intermediate in 100%ing
You did what!? I got stuck on magma opus for years and I cried when I finished the swamp (or whatever wan the level with the spoopy evil tree) and you are like "oh btw i did a 100%" like it's nothing. I'm having an headache rn
The sub level is probably the only level in the game that I actually just don't like. Not only are the collectibles annoying to get, but it's just a long, bland, boring level. It also starts to get STUPID spammy and difficult at the end for no reason making it easy to miss things or just straight up die over and over. Blegh. 100%'d this game as well and that one was the worst for me. Even though Haunted Boardwalk is hard, it's soooo fun to beat once you get it
*Qualske* It is. I honestly expected for sure that they'd brought the Pac-Man World moveset back in Smash 4 but I was surprised when they didn't. At least we got that air kick I guess.
Random fan theory, but the gold form Pac-Man gets in the Spooky fight might be what allows him to hurt Spooky in the first place- they basically turn the fight from a guaranteed win for the bad guy into a fair fight, hence why Pac takes and deals normal damage to Spooky, who was said to be so strong he was practically invincible until the golden fruits were created.
Very unpopular opinion; Pac-Man World 2 (except for maybe the GBA version, because if I ever said that Pac-Man Eorld for the PS1 is nothing compared to the GBA version, I’d be COMPLETELY sarcastic) deserves much better than Sonic Adventure 2, the Sonic Adventure remakes and Super Mario Sunshine!
This was... MY childhood game, genuinely. This is the first time i've seen a larger channel talk about the game, and just that music at the start alone got me feeling nostalgic. And honestly, every single issue you had with it I found reasonable and agreed with myself, I honestly shared all the thoughts you did. This review honestly couldn't be better, thank you for making this
This is one of my favorite games of all time! I grew up with it and I still love it. As for the Clyde boss fight I hate that one too and I had a friend who was stuck on it for 14 years
TooManyVoices 14 years? Dude I was only 7 when I figured out you had to hit the top of his machine's glass dome. You can also hit the top of Pinky's blower, but it's quite tricky. Now the level where it had the giant ghost tree, is what I struggled the most with.
16:50 When I played through this, I actually gave up on the slide and managed to find a precise way I could jump into the darkness in order to land at the end of it. That's how difficult the slide was.
And the most underrated gaming series goes to... Pac-Man World (yes, I know what I said about Pac-Man World 1-3 for home consoles. That’s why I pretend they don’t exist).
You should cover the PC exclusive game as well, Nitro Rad. Adventures in Time. You seem to like that Ms Pac-Man game a lot, and Adventures in Time is fairly similar with better graphics and interesting levels
Honestly I had never heard of the Ms Pac-Man game, and when I saw the gameplay it instantly reminded me of the PC game. It honestly surprised me when he moved onto this right after, when Adventures in Time and Maze Madness came out the same year
OH MY GOD YES ADVENTURES IN TIME! That was the Pac-Man game I had growing up! I sucked at it but I didn't care because the graphics were so beautiful and awesome! And the mazes were so varied and always had something new to them! And that _soundtrack_ , that _sooooundtrack_ ... my lord it's so good.
Davrial aka Blue Mario now that’s a game I haven’t heard about by pretty much anyone, it was weird too for me as it was one of the few retail PC games I played with growing up
As someone who considers the Pac-Man World 2 OST one of his top-3 game OSTs ever, I completely understand where you're coming from...yet the recurrent variants on the Pac-Man theme through different filters completely sells it for me alongside the absolutely gorgeous layering. It's a simple concept, yet delivered upon with majesty.
I think the gold Pac-man thing was a glitch...In the Gamecube and PS2 versions (Not sure if this glitch is also on the Xbox version), the first time you use the metal power up, if you wait until the power up wears off, and then quickly get the power up again, Pac-man will turn into metal Psc-man, but he will be his normal color, but shiny like metal. Basically, it's metal Pac-man, but he looks like the gold Pac-man on the final boss. Maybe Namco saw this glitch and thought it would be cool if Pac-man turned into that on the final boss.
Do you think that despite being a mostly fair review of Pac-Man World 2, it could also get kinda nitpicky at times (re, “So that was Pac-Man World 2 and I think they played it safe with this one.”, the 100%ing when it’s not even mandatory and the endgame)?
Could it be? Someone who would actually put the home console versions of (one or two of) Pac-Man World 3’s predecessors on his list of greatest video games? Just what I needed! - Super Mario Advance 1 playable character
@jeriahrosen101 my grandpa and I struggled to pass Clyde until one day I finally beat Clyde and I this I jumped on my feet shouting FINALLY! But I could be remembering it wrong
Found your channel yesterday: binged all of your Silent Hill reviews, now I am finding more reviews on stuff I played when I was a kid. Played the hell out of this game when i was younger, didnt play the first one until recently. Good stuff man! makes me want to get back into making videos.
Pac-Man World 2 is one of my favourite 3D platformers of all time, I don't even think it's necessarily one of the best ones out there, but it's just a super fun and enjoyable good time, just don't go for 100% as Nitro said and you'll have a great time with it. Pac-Man World 3 though.... *oof*
Pac man world 2 is one of my most favorite games of all time. The soundtrack gives me goosebumps, I agree the songs sound thesame but ohh the nostalgia
This is one of the few platformers on Gamecube (aside Mario Sunshine) that I remember enjoying a lot when renting it as a kid. Too bad I forgot most of it except the trampoline sections.
Oh my God I love this game so much, even just the music is too nostalgic for me to handle. This and World 1 were defiantly my fave platformers of my childhood even above the Crash and Spyro games. Your videos did these games amazing justice, but good luck with World 3.
The leitmotif thing was one of my favorite parts of the game's presentation--I liked the idea of each region having a theme that got arranged differently for each level, especially with how lighthearted most of the themes were and how they got turned into angrier, darker boss themes. And Avalanche Alley. Holy heck. I loved and hated that stage. You're right, the ice and the pits are frustrating. I ended up revving into one of those jet stalagmites and flying through half the tunnel most of the time. And that. Dang. Slide. But I love this game, it's a big part of my childhood, and I'm glad to see it again!
Pac man world 2 is one of my most favorite games of all time. The soundtrack gives me goosebumps, I agree the songs sound the same but ohh the nostalgia, my personal favorite is Balde Mountain.
What I like about this game's music is every world has a song that each level remixes. It's like how in Banjo Kazooie every world has one theme, and each area in that world changes up the instruments in some way. It always felt like it effectively tied the worlds together.
Pac-Man is (or should be) known for having genuinely strong video games, but yes, the PMW games, like Pac-Mania (both the NES and PMW2/original versions) and Pac-Attack (PMW2 version) are the best of the best!
One solution for the running towards the camera part, is to have a path of coins (or in Pac Man's case dots) to subtly guide the player towards safety or to indicate danger. I notice this being used in various Lego games like Lego Harry Potter. Actually in Lego Harry Potter they reward you for playing risky when following the studs (Lego's coins) that leads to danger. The line of studs goes from grey to blue the closer you get to a pit or an obstacle. This gives casual players a clear indicator that something dangrouse is up ahead and gives players who want a challenge a reward for collecting the studs and avoiding the trap.
As someone who also 100 percent the game.. I teamed up with my childhood self who almost collected everything. The hardest part was speedrunning most of the levels. Collecting the stuff was kinda hard for the avalanche level thou. Apparently On ps2 if u die once.. a glitch happens where one of the pellet respawns and it takes away from ur pellet count so if u die in that level ur going to start over again.
I actually really liked Pac-Man World 2 more than the first game. I didn’t play much of the first game because I enjoyed the design, gameplay, soundtrack and sound effects of the second game. I played World 3 of Pac-Man but didn’t feel the nostalgia I got from World 2, sure they play similar to each other but World 3 made some arrangements to gameplay and sfx that did not feel appealing, to me at least. I’d say I played 10% or less of World 1 and 50% or more of World 3, meaning just completing the game and ignoring the collectables. I beat World 2 but not 100% completion cause I just wanted to get through the level and on to the next while thinking “oh, I missed some fruit and dots, I’ll come back for it another time when I feel like it.” But everyone else has their own opinions and this was my opinion on this game of the trilogy. When I get this game again, I’ll at least attempt to go for 100%. Great vid overall tho ❤️✔️
Nitro Rad, I'm sorry that I have to say this, but... I used to enjoy your content in the past... And I still do. Keep up the great work, your videos bring me joy and I'm having a lot of fun watching them.
I can’t say whether I prefer Pac-Man World 1 or 2 because they’re just slightly so different enough that they both offer a fun, unique experience. I will say, however, that I’d much rather 100% this game than Crash “4”: It’s About Time. As a life-long Crash Bandicoot fan at least of the Naughty Dog games and some of the other sequels, I have no shortage of issues with that one…
And this is why I would love to see PMW Pac-Man have a crossover battle with Gloria the Hippopotamus! That’s right, I played one of the most underrated games based on films; Madagascar 1 for handheld consoles! So I know Gloria the Hippopotamus has “Butt Bounce” as a power-up (except it isn’t really a bounce; it’s more like a Ground Pound).
