Pac-Guy: Resurrection

Pac-Guy: Resurrection is an indie game that has plenty of reasons to like it and an equal number to not like it. It’s an arcade game that’s inspired by Pac-Man but also features a personal brand of uniqueness, one that doesn’t make any sense.

It’s very obvious that Pac-Guy: Resurrection draws inspiration from the legendary arcade game that is Pac-Man. From the first level you see the same kind of maze, pellets to eat, and the ghosts have been replaced with bugs. To complete the level, you have to eat all the pellets and survive.

The above is where the similarities stop because eating the larger pellets doesn’t allow you to consume the enemy bugs, you get to shoot them. Throughout the game, you will encounter several types of enemies and in each level new ways emerge for Pac-Guy to fire. When completing a level, Pac-Guy gets picked up in a car, the car is blown up, he then catches a ride in a helicopter, he ends up traveling on a boat, and then he parachutes out of a space ship.

Pac-Guy: Resurrection is one of the worst/best games you can play. On the down side, it looks close to terrible, and the production quality is just dreadful. However, regarding it as a spoof, you can easily see the humor in it.

The sound effects are intentionally wrong, the level designs are not what you would expect, and most of all, the enemies move like they’re glitched out of their minds. At times, you wonder if they even have any trace of AI or they’re just bugging all over the maze.

Pac-Guy: Resurrection is not the kind of game you play because it looks great or because it has excellent gameplay, mechanics. It’s something you end up playing when you lose a bet or when you’re really curious as to what it’s about. Either way, it’s an interesting experience, at most.