But Epidoe 6 proved all these fears wrong, as the makers gave the original Pac-Man game a dark twist. The Pac-Man game involved a floating orb stuck in a maze. The player must control the orb to ...

The maze in Secret Level episode 6 Pac-Man represents endless survival and repetition. The Swordsman's maze journey is a darker version of the original game's repetitive gameplay. Each corridor ...

In an interview with Game Rant, developers for Shadow Labyrinth talk about its darker takes and more brutal presentations of ...

The traditional Pac-Man maze design is now reimagined as a 2D platformer or “Metroidvania.” Piasek adds, “We know that when players describe this game outside of saying the name Shadow ...

The way [Glen] tackled the port is quite handy. [Glen] built a utility that would scrape a disassembled version of the original Pac Man Z80 code, look up the equivalent 6809 CPU instruction ...

Tekken chief Katsuhiro Harada is now also the executive producer of Shadow Labyrinth, the surprise Pac-Man spin-off first ...

And when we thought about the maze, we thought ... isn’t actually Pac-Man, but rather a companion character named Puck. That’s a reference to the series’ original name, Puck Man.

“Many years ago, Iwatani-san, the original creator of Pac-Man, was still in the company ... goal is to "eat" as they attempt to escape a maze. It’s a Metroidvania of sorts, and a significant ...

and the swordsman will have to at least devour the bosses using a giant color-inverted black Pac-Man in order to get stronger and survive in the maze, which is a clear callback to Pac-Man’s ...