Deluxe PocMon

Whenever the arcade era of video games comes to mind, a few titles stand out from the crowd, thanks to their quality and popularity among the gamers. Thus, whether it's Space Invaders, Asteroids or Pac-Man, they all revolutionized the industry and brought new ideas to gaming, not to mention the countless remakes and clones that tried to emulate the originals.

Deluxe PocMon is an entertaining little game that emulates the famous Pac-Man franchise, featuring the same basic concepts and the same main protagonists, only with different names. Hence, PocMon must eat all the candy from the levels before the ghosts catch him, with each stage getting more and more difficult as you advance through the game and keep on winning.

Although the game plays out basically the same as the classic arcade title, there are some minor differences that make the game at hand stand out. Hence, one of the most obvious is the presence of original power-ups throughout the levels, such as huge bombs, speed bonuses and even one that automatically wins you the level, without having to move a finger.

Since it all revolves around candy and ghosts, everything around the game world is as colorful as possible, including the levels themselves, the candy and the various other objects that pop in and out of existence during the gameplay. Naturally, each ghost is a different color as well, although they all turn blue whenever you eat the right candy and get the power to consume them.

However, the graphics never really had too much to do with games like these, because the main attraction were the mechanics themselves and the ever-increasing level of difficulty, as you kept advancing through the mazes. These are the elements on which the title at hand focused as well, which makes it very hard to stop playing after you start winning a few rounds with the pesky ghosts.

Deluxe PocMon is a good example of a successful remake, since it manages to capture the feeling and the energy of the original title. The new collection of stages should prove to be more than enough for anyone, especially on the higher difficulty levels.