Pac-Man still has the same weakness from previous games, mainly the colored ghosts that cause instant death, but now the game offers new power-ups that can take out the enemies. Hipster Whale have used the glitch as a concept for “Pac-Man 256,” as the yellow blob must now try to avoid the glitch, while also eating as much dots as possible. The game’s title is derived from the infamous 256 glitch, which plagued gamers of the original “Pac-Man” game after they managed to beat level 255 of the game. Hipster Whale, the same studio that worked on the incredibly addictive “Crossy Road” for mobile devices, developed the game. Sure you are basically playing frogger with a Pac-Man skin but for my money I think I might actually like it better.“Pac-Man 256” is now available for download on the iTunes App Store and Google Play. The Pac-Man 256 character in Crossy Road however has none of these problems. Pac-Man 256 feels to me like Bandai-Namco forcing Hipster Whale to add in common mobile free-to-play monetization mechanics in a tone deaf way. I also have no idea why upgrading a power up takes time, because you can't pay to skip the upgrade time and you need to dig into the menus to enable local notifications so I don't think it really helps retention much as well. The credits system feels stingy compared to Crossy Road and unlocking power ups is not as good a carrot as unlocking characters. Its not as good as either version of Championship Edition but it's better than the mobile ports of CE. I have mixed feelings on the Pac-Man 256 game. It swaps all the graphics / sound effects, swaps the eagle out for the kill screen glitch wave and even adds in a power pellet pickup.

Hipster Whale released an update to Crossy Road that includes a free (at least for the moment) Pac-Man 256 character.

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