IngramJ
Mar 11 2005, 10:18 PM
Game: Pac-Stan
Genre: Maze/Action
Creator: Beamer
Description: Cartman has locked Wendy up, and Stan must save her.

Rating: 90%

Review: Pac-Stan is a remake of the popular SNES Game, Pac-Man, of course. Although it is harder, it's less likely for you to fail, since you don't lose when your lives empty. The Cartman enemies you shall face are in miscellaneous species. There are normal Cartmans which wondrously bounce about, light hatted Cartmans which will bounce towards you a lot more than any other ones, Greedy Cartmans (Only found in L4), who eat your power-ups, however slow. Spooky Cartmans who jump out at you when you collect a power-up and clones of Wendy, which are real pests.

Anyway, each level needs you to collect all the cheesy-poofs which make Stan 0.5% quicker, in order to break the lock on Wendy's cell, so you can save her. Each level is rather challenging, which I imagine is why Beamer gave unlimited lives, because the Cartmans go for you all the time, and it takes loads of attempts to pass the levels, and you're always a power-up short to kill all the Cartmans, except the levels with Wendy-clones in them.

The ending is rather happy, so I think, 'cause it's nice, and it's *amusing*. There is a 2-Player game, also, where you can challenge a pal or parent. There's only one incredibly annoying thing with the menu events, and that is: there is no return to menu function and the save/load feature never works, meaning you have to constantly reboot this game! Very frustrating.

There are cheats in this game as follows:

Press B on 2-Player to unlock the secret Beamer's Bedroom stage.
In the spooky level, press A to kill the alien (or revive him if he's already dead)
In the colluseum, press G to release a lion, which can only be eliminated by power-ups, and will harm you.
Press C in the credits to undraw the curtains.
Type in Cred in the passwords to see the credits.
In the menu, press Home to see what's under Cartman's hat.

Really, this game doesn't deserve 90% at all, it really deserves 74%, I gave it 90% because I like the game so much (especially the ending)