Ms. Pac-Man ~ Wonderful GameMy personal spiel about Ms. Pac-Man:
Ms. Pac-Man is a game that I played on my Sega as a young child. I played it with my mother rather frequently. It was probably the only game that I could get my mother to play at all. (She was big against video games because of my father.) It was a game that I loved then, and still love to this day - several years later.
Difficulty: 5 (Average)
Not too difficult, not too easy. This was a game that simply took practice. As a 12 year old, I played it enough to beat it. At 18, after I haven't played it for six years? It's nearly impossible for me to even make it halfway through, because I am out of practice with it. Ms. Pac-Man is definitely a game that demands patience and time.
Depth: 10 (Excellent)
Pac-Man and Ms. Pac-Man are both fairly simple. However, Ms. Pac-Man holds many different settings and functions that allow you to extend your game and change it up quite a bit. With the various difficulty settings (Easy, Normal, Hard, and Crazy), Maze Options (Arcade, Small, Big, and Strange), as well as the Pac Booster and Player options, this game boasts many ways to play.
Story: 5 (Average)
Ms. Pac-Man does not have an extensive story. It's cute, it's short. It's to-the-point... and the story has very little to actually do with the game itself, honestly. The story is there just for the change in acts... which is rendered completely useless if you are playing Strange mode.
Addictiveness: 10 (Amazingly Addictive!)
Most every body who plays Ms. Pac-Man becomes addicted to the game; it's just that much of an addictive game. At 12, I played it every chance that I go to at the Laundry Mat down the road. At 16, I owned it and wore out the Cartridge on a Sega Genesis. At 18, I have it on my PC in ROM form and play it like crazy.
Sound: 10 (Extremely Clear)
For a ROM based on such an old game? The sound is extremely clear. It gets annoying after awhile from the sheer repetitiveness but hey, it's not like it is 64 Bit Full-Blown, Ozzy Osbourne written and sung music.
Graphics: 10 (Awesome)
Again: ROM ripped from insanely old game. Considering the age and the glitches in some of the other ROMs? This one is absolutely amazing, as far as Graphics go. Besides, it's an arcade game. I don't expect Spore graphics to rip and shred at my computer's graphics card anyhow. Not in a Ms. Pac-Man game.
Overall: 8
Great graphics, clear sound, extremely addictive, decent story (although fairly useless in my eyes), tons to do, and easy to learn without being too easy to master. This is a game that I would suggest to anybody interested in puzzles or fast-paced game play and anybody who needed something to entertain him/her that is not a game that requires endless amounts of attention. As a last note, Ms. Pac-Man has a ton of replay value.
Graphics
10 Sound
8 Addictive
10 Depth
10 Story
5 Difficulty
5