Line #13 Videogame/PacmanMonsters


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3	A puzzle/RPG hybrid released on mobile devices on March 31, 2014, by Creator/BandaiNamcoEntertainment through the iOS App Store and Android Google Play Store, ''Pac-Man Monsters'' is a simple concept:
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5	Use your team of creatures (including fairies, demons, and of course, ''VideoGame/PacMan''–based monsters) to fight increasingly difficult enemy waves and bosses that are wreaking havoc in Pac-Land. Obtain coins and various wonder eggs that can be used to upgrade monsters you have or obtain more monsters. In addition to Eggs, seeds must be obtained to evolve your various party members.
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7	In battle, the bottom half of the screen becomes a sort of ''VideoGame/{{Tetris}}''-esque puzzle game. players are given a certain amount of turns to wipe across stacked blocks, guiding Pac-Man to eat power pellets to allow your monsters to attack, and use special abilities. Different enemies only give the player so many turns, however, so one has to plan what path Pac should take and what monsters need to attack.
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9	Special quests and monsters become more and more available to the player, allowing them to get more rare monsters without having to really level grind for seeds. Unfortunately, [[DefunctOnlineVideoGames the online service has ended, with its game's removal]], on March 9th, 2015.
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11	!!!Pac-Man Monsters exhibits:
12	* ArtShift: Most Pac-Man games, though different in their own ways, generally have a bright toy-like feel between them. Pac-Man Monsters on the other hand, has the same artist as ''Anime/PantyAndStockingWithGarterbelt'' (noticeable in some designs, such as Grand Prix Queen Fairy), with sharper edges, darker colorations, shadows, and so on.
13	** The style seems to be based on the character style vote shown [[http://www.nydailynews.com/life-style/new-pac-man-styles-vote-article-1.1174180 here,]] mixing various aspects of B, C, and D's styles. Many people have confused the poll for Ghostly Adventures' artstyle, which came out far too late to have affected Ghostly Adventures' artstyle, as the final Ghostly Adventures designs had already long been decided and finalized.
14	* {{Crossover}}: It had several with other Namco titles.
15	* ElementalRockPaperScissors: Water (blue), Tree (green), and Fire (red) form the obvious trio of what affects what. Dark (purple) and Light (yellow) cause great damage to each other in particular.
16	%% ** PlayingWithFire
17	%% ** MakingASplash
18	%% ** GreenThumb
19	%% ** CastingAShadow
20	%% ** LightEmUp
21	%% ** YinYangBomb: What you're basically doing if you allow only monsters of Light and Dark on your team to attack or make the team itself exclusive to Light and Dark.
22	%% * FiveManBand: Technically, any monster can become developed enough to have its own spot, but based solely on the opening cutscene, and ignoring that not all ghost allies are available when you start:
23	%% ** TheLeader: Pac-Man
24	%% ** TheLancer: Blinky
25	%% ** TheSmartGuy: Inky
26	%% ** TheBigGuy: Clyde
27	%% ** TheHeart: Pinky
28	* FragileSpeedster: Black and White Cait Siths and their relatives.
29	* TheGoomba: Gremlins, which [[MagikarpPower evolve into the much more powerful Wendigos after being leveled up]].
30	* GottaCatchEmAll: Though it's interestingly different from other {{Mon}} genre games, eggs are dropped occasionally by enemies, and from there, you have a chance of having a new creature when hatched or be left unhatched and used to upgrade your monsters' level. This does not allow them to evolve however, and so one also has to collect seeds to achieve that.
31	* LevelAte: Pac-Land itself, as seen/described in the opening cutscene and some levels.
32	* MsFanservice: Many female monsters are pretty shapely when evolved from a lower tier monster (Witch monster's "Queen" evolutions), and some are like this even before then (Valkyrie and Black Valkyrie). There's also the Egyptian Fairy that summons monsters for you whenever you get a "Lucky Bonus".
33	* MyFriendsAndZoidberg: The initial team has an elemental Pac-Man-looking character, Pinky, Clyde, and two elemental Fairies.
34	* ShoutOut: Various monsters in this game are loving tributes to earlier VideoGame/PacMan titles. Here are a few examples. See
35	** Anubis and its evolution, Anubis Rex, based on ThatOneLevel / ThatOneBoss of the same name from the first ''VideoGame/PacManWorld'' game.
36	** Killer Frog is from ''VideoGame/PacManWorld2'', but instead of Clyde driving it, a random blue ghost is the pilot.
37	** Spooky, the main villain of Pac-Man World 2, appears as an event King Boss named Ghost Spooky. He can also be hatched from a King Boss egg in a weaker form, simply called Spooky.
38	** Golvis, the main villain of ''VideoGame/PacNRoll'', is given a ''pre''-evolution, Funny Golvis.
39	* {{Wendigo}}: Surprisingly coming in all elemental forms and evolving from Gremlin {{Mooks}}, Wendigo's here are large mammal/reptile combos that are powerful in battle.

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