You’ll spend more time agonizing over the game’s surprisingly long load times and the fact that it checks the save data and saves the game between each round, then makes you look at everyone’s progress before continuing. While the mini-games are fun, they all last about 30 seconds and are instantly forgettable. There are no games that are specific to the DS or 3DS’ touch screen, which isn’t really a bad thing, but it drives home the point that this is a port of a Wii game (which is a little sad, right?). All of the mini-games were clearly designed for the Wii pointer-even the cursor is straight out of most Wii games. If you’re lagging behind, you can use one of your oodles of cookies to temporarily power up, although it’s certainly not a “win” button. I don’t think I played a repeat mini-game during my entire first game or until well into the second one. There is seemingly an endless variety of them: You’ll be shooting holes in doughnuts, log-jumping, eating power pellets, playing Fruit Ninja, bouncing around a simplified pinball table, shooting objects with cannons from afar, and that’s not even the tip of the iceberg. There are random effect spaces too, which may award you cookies, take cookies away, or move you (or everyone) to a different position on the board.īut the mini-games are the stars of our show. If an opponent lands on your castle, you have a mini-game duel, and the winner keeps or takes over the castle.
PAC MAN PARTY UPGRADE
If a player lands on his or her own castle later in the game, they get cookies, and they can also upgrade their duds to increase the number of spaces the castle takes up-increasing the chance of winning cookies. In a bit of a nod to Monopoly, empty spaces that a player lands on are “won,” and a castle is built there. Thankfully, everybody moves at the same time-it’s only when players stop, and their fates are determined, that things start to slow way down. At the start of each round, the players play pachinko or throw darts or play a slot machine to determine how far they move. Everything about Pac-Man Party is a mini-game, even rolling the dice. Once you accrue a certain (very high) number of cookies, you win. Each player gets a certain number of cookies at the start of each game, then it’s off to the races to steal other players’ cookies, earn cookies by winning mini-games, or simply win cookies by luck alone. You’re out not to collect coins in this board game, but cookies.
PAC MAN PARTY FULL
Even though I had no friends with 3DS’ to play this game with, the story mode perfectly replicates the tedium of a full four-player game. Pac-Man Party 3D is a port of a Wii game that takes Pac-Man, the ghosts, and a host of weird-looking new characters, and throws them into a Mario Party clone that’s not nearly as fun or frenetic as that series.
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