It makes you feel like you feel great about almost every move you make by using audio and visual feedback. Like everything else in this genre, it is free to download.
I tried Puzzle Tour out for myself, and it’s definitely a game where you match three things. And, even then, it has nothing close to the hyper-lucrative Puzzle & Dragons and Monster Strike games that dominate mobile in Bandai Namco’s home territory.īut iOS and Android has too much money for the publisher to ignore, so that’s why we get something like Pac-Man: Puzzle Tour. But most of that is coming from modern releases and licenses that primarily appeal to a Japanese audience. In Japan, it’s doing better, according to data from industry-tracking firm App Annie. It only has one game, Dragon Ball Z: Dokkan Battle, in the top 200 highest-grossing apps on Google Play in the United States. And Tap My Katamari is a mind-numbing take on those clicking games where all you do is tap the screen and buy powerups.ĭespite these attempts to tack popular styles of gameplay onto a familiar franchise, Bandai Namco hasn’t had a ton of success on smartphones and tablets. Dash is an endless runner, which is one of the few genres more saturated on mobile than match-3. It is a puzzle game where you must fling Pac-Man through elaborately set up stages. Bounce is similar to the early mobile physics puzzler Cut The Rope. Those previous apps also cloned mechanics from other, more popular games already on the market.
Puzzle Tour is not the result of that initiative.īandai Namco developed Puzzle Tour itself - just like it did with Pac-Man Bounce, Pac-Man Dash, and Tap My Katamari. But that was an exception to the company’s general strategy that came from its efforts to revive its retro brands from the 1980s by working with indie developers. Of course, Bandai Namco tried to do something new with Pac-Man last year with the well-received Pac-Man 256 from the studio that created the beloved mobile action hit Crossy Road.
This is Bandai Namco’s latest crack at the $30 billion mobile market, and the company has once again tried to jump on a trend by leveraging one of its existing properties. Pac-Man must match together three of the same kinds of fruit instead of chasing ghosts through mazes. It is the publisher’s spin on the megapopular Candy Crush Saga games. But these days, the yellow pizza-shaped hero is spending more time chasing other hit games than his own power pellets.īandai Namco released Pac-Man: Puzzle Tour for iOS and Android today. Pac-Man is one of the first gaming franchises that fans turned into a phenomenon. Missed the GamesBeat Summit excitement? Don't worry! Tune in now to catch all of the live and virtual sessions here.
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