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Review by amarillion all reviews by amarillion

This is a fairly faithful pacman clone, where pacman is replaced by his evil twin pacula. Pacula has big pointy teeth dripping with blood, which makes me wonder if eating ghosts can really still his thirst.

As pacman goes, the game is quite playable. It has quite a finished feel, for example, when you eat a ghost a pair of eyeballs remains that goes back to its origin. When you wrap around (i.e. from the left side to the right side of the map) you see a shrinking / growing animation. These are nice little touches that show the maker has eye for detail.

Still, a couple of essentials are missing. First of all, there is only one level, and as pacula wins or dies, you drop straight back to the dos prompt. Secondly, there is no score keeping. Fix these two ponts and the game would immediately become something that is worth playing for at least more than five minutes. Another point is that pacula and the ghosts moves fairly slow making the game pretty easy.

As for the rules: only the parody requirement is somewhat satisfied (although this means nothing more than adding teeth and blood to the sprite of pacman). Thus far I haven\'t been able to unlock anything or discover and sine wave or troll.

All in all this is a good start but it is just not there yet. Probably the author didn\'t have enough time to implement some of the rules and some other crucial things.

Scores: Overall 2 Artistical 1 Technical 1 Genre 3