I'm having fun with Pac-Man 99, but it feels more like I'm hitting a slot machine than playing a competitive video game.
Pac-Man 99 Review
It reimagines the classic Pac-Man arcade game as a battle royale, where the winner is the last Pac-Man standing of the 99 players at the start of the round. You'll have to dodge ghosts, juggle power-ups, avoid hazards, and keep a combo going, sometimes all at once.
The natural point of comparison here is Tetris 99, a Switch Online freebie with a similar gimmick. The two games even share similar UI elements. The advantage of T99, however, is that player-versus-player Tetris was already a thing, so the makers of Pac-Man 99 had to come up with more new rules here. Some were definitely more successful than others.
The beginning of a round of Pac-Man 99 is when the game is at its calmest. You are dropped into a typical Pac-Man maze with four ghosts, just like always.
