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Oh they have other platforms and use them, every week its a detective game trying to work out if things will come via email, the private app they have, the website, facebook. I suppose my main position is that there shouldn't be any social media of kids at school regardless of the audience. -
By BowserBasher · Posted
OK, one highlight from me (sorry no more Twitter links, I'm sure people know why) https://bsky.app/profile/bowserbasher.bsky.social/post/3lgl5ldeds22x https://mastodon.social/@BowserBasher/113889533646584551 Take your pick on where to view -
Ms. Pac-Man Maze Madness NA release: 12th November 2000 PAL release: N/A JP release: N/A Developer: Namco, Mass Media Publisher: Namco N64 Magazine Score: 72% In trying to escape its arcade roots, the Pac-Man series tried multiple things: a puzzle game, a bizarre point & click adventure, shoving Pac-Man into a different 2D platformer made for another character, and, of course, a 3D platformer (and that’s not including the strange attempts at new arcade games). It’s rather strange, then, that it took Namco this long to build a more structured game based on the original gameplay: collecting dots in a maze. Maze Madness does expand upon this, though, by adding puzzles you need to solve to progress, primarily in the form of block puzzles. One thing that really annoyed me about these puzzles was the complete lack of discovery. When you encounter something new, a hologram of Professor Pac blocks the way to tell you exactly how it’s used. For complex mechanics, this is a necessity, but this is all simple stuff, and should be easy to figure out on your own. It may sound simple, but by being told exactly what to do, it just feels like you’re going through the motions. That feeling penetrates the whole game. The puzzles don’t get difficult, and the enemies are quite easy to deal with, with ample health provided if you do get hit. The biggest difficulty is in forcing yourself to put in the effort of trawling through the levels, collecting every single dot – with hundreds in every level. To progress, you need to collect stars under four conditions: getting a high score, finding all the hidden fruit, finding every single dot, and completing the level a second time in a separate time trial mode. Maze Madness isn’t bad, it just doesn’t have much challenge or excitement. The levels feel too long, and I think that cutting them up into separate levels would have helped immensely, due to having to find everything on your first playthrough (if you don’t end up missing something in an area you can’t return to) and completing it quickly on a second. Being able to quickly play a level would probably help with the more arcade style gameplay. As it stands, this game is just fine. Fine Remake or remaster? Maze Madness is worth putting on a collection of Pac-Man games, although Namco would probably need to replace the main character due to the strange licensing issues around Ms. Pac-Man. Official Ways to get the game There is no official way to play Ms. Pac-Man Maze Madness. -
Just looked to see if there was anything about this on the software supplier's forum and all I could see was someone saying it would be nice. Can't see anything about it in the release notes for the next version either I'm afraid. -
If BlueSky have any sense, they'd work with console manufacturers for supporting screenshots. Even an email option would be better than what is currently on offer for each platform. The Xbox app is almost there, but you have to download them individually. Also, hopefully the Switch 2 saves in better quality. I was really disappointed when I looked at my screenshot of Metroid Prime Remastered, it looked so nice on my TV.
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