Pac-Man controls well and has a nice weight to him, which feels at its best when using the butt-bounce to get around, the one move in Pac’s kit that feels wholly unique.
Thankfully, the actual platforming in Pac-Man World is a solid experience overall. Slot machine tokens you find around the level feel equally as meaningless, which just waste even more time at the end of a level, but at least it results in extra lives, not that you’ll need them considering how short and easy Pac-Man World is. This led to me mostly just avoiding collecting them, unless it wasn’t too far out of my way, which is a bit of a problem when one of the core purposes of a platformer is collecting stuff. Not only are all mazes mostly the same, but they’re slow-paced, interrupt the flow of each level, and don’t really have any purpose.
That sounds fun on paper, but the execution isn’t quite as solid. One collectible type for players to grab are maze levels, which recreate classic Pac-Man, but in 3D. Not all of them hit quite so well, however. None of it massively impacts gameplay, but it does give World its own identity instead of coming across as a hollow transition to the third dimension. For example, the collectibles you’ll encounter are different types of pellets and fruits from classic Pac-Man, while the ghosts will occasionally pop up in levels as enemies and need to be dealt with by using a Power Pellet before eating them all up.
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