So what of the included games themselves? Namco have compiled 14 games into this collection, featuring several classics – and familiar, but not necessarily amazing titles – as well as some more obscure entries. The console-originated (as opposed to arcade) games feature as selectable titles from a console rather than a dedicated arcade cabinet, which works fine. Though you can access each game in the compilation via a menu, it’s much more fun to populate your arcade with machines and actually interact with them to play each game (with my dogged need for order, I have ensured that I’ve lined up the machines in chronological order in my in-game arcade!). Characters from the games wander around your arcade, with more of them earned as you progress through the various titles included. Thankfully, one of the things that Pac-Man Museum Plus gets right is going back to the classic Pac-Man look for its hub, which takes the form of an arcade which you can decorate yourself with machines, consoles and other Pac-Man paraphernalia that’s earned and purchased from in-game vending machines. This meant that its hub – and the world which you were collecting objects and characters for when making progress through the games – was based on the awful designs in that CGI cartoon monstrosity. The 2014 Pac-Man Museum was an excellent compilation – but it had the misfortune of being launched while the horrendous animated misfire Pac-Man and the Ghostly Adventures was being broadcast.
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