Pac-Man and the Ghostly Adventures

I grew up watching this. Went back and checked it out semi recently. It's fine. Honestly for how bare bones Pac-Man as a series is (even the world games are pretty basic 3D platformers without much meat in terms of anything you'd derive a narrative from) it's kind of impressive what they did manage to throw together.

The visuals are probably the best part of this. Considering it's 3D animation for a network television show, this could have just looked cheap and bad. But they managed to create a style that's clean enough to avoid that. Backgrounds are simple but they manage to make that the style. It's hard to explain, you'd need to seek out screenshots or scenes to see what I mean. It looks very video gamey. That's a positive. (and funnily enough it got a couple of games.) It's not groundbreaking but I think the artists deserve the praise for managing a very stylistically appealing show.

The writing is where it starts to feel a bit bumpy. This is a kids show, and while I totally agree that just because someone for kids doesn't mean it's ok to be bad, nor am I saying this is entirely bad. It's what it says on the tin. It's a very basic threat of the week show with a sort of overarching mystery that's nebulous enough to serve as a solid enough foundation for weekly hijinks without being a ticking clock problem that would make anyone stressed or annoyed with a lack of narrative progression. (Though the show would never get a chance to wrap this up, with the final episode ending on a... cliffhanger? Sort of.)

The titular pac man's parents were explorers so most episodes have some amount of "my parents might have been here, that's just cause enough for us to go here." Plus "we can also deal with whatever immediate problem not skeletor is causing."

It's a tried and true setup for a show. Love it or hate it. Your mileage will vary. If you're an adult reviewing this in all seriousness then I think you're setting yourself up for failure. This is by no means the worst show on the planet, nor is it a masterpiece. Though shockingly it's probably among the better video game "adaptations" out there. Low bar but hey that's still clearing it. Again there's not a lot to pull from in terms of the greater Pac-Man extended media, so it woulda cleared it anyway. Still...

Though I will say, due to the artstyle and it being a game adaptation, I noticed that more often than not, the episodes felt like levels out of a video game. Sure a kids show having episodes end with a giant monster fight isn't new, but this felt like they tried to make it feel like something out of an actual video game. In fact that happens quite a bit. There's powerups Pac-Man uses that feel like out of a video game (which were adapted to the aforementioned video games this show did get) there's rules and concepts to locations and items that feel like status effects or abilities from a video game. Maybe I was just imposing this onto the show, seeing things that weren't there. But I mean if you're watching a video game show and it starts to feel like a video game, then isn't that a good thing regardless of wether it was intentional?

Characters are simple enough, with the various villains being the highlights, which the showrunners seemingly understood because they're in the show quite often. Walmart brand skeletor is a solid enough villain for what this show is and is probably the best part.

Listen, I don't know how many ways I can say "this show is exactly what you'd think it's gonna be"

It's exactly what you think it's gonna be. If a show about teens written by adults who don't know how teens act for an audience of little kids doesn't seem your fancy then I can't imagine why you'd seek it out.

I think it's charming. At times so bad it's good and others just actually good. Well, good for what it is.

As it is I think it's harmless. Certainly worse kids shows exist. Worse video game adaptations exist.

Terribly cheesy voice-acting, cliché villain, horribly written characters, and humor that relies on fart jokes all combine to make this lame show.

Honestly I don't understand that love for this whatsoever and the fact that someone here actually compared it to a masterpiece such as Courage the Cowardly Dog is ridiculous.

Everything apart from the animation is terrible in this show.

It's basically the Sonic Boom for Disney, relying on crap humor, a cliché terribly written plot, and flat characters that they constantly try to add depth to but honestly the characters are irredeemable. The show pretty much relies solely on the edgy teenager cliché for the characters.

Basically everything that's been done in this show was done about 10 years ago but was done far better back then.

I forgot about this show for the past years, but it never failed me to laugh to its most scenes. I understand about people somewhat disliking this since it differs from where they think about this show like the animation and voice acting, but for me, it wasn't too bad. I actually like the design of the ghosts, like I would imagine the ghosts from the NES game that what if they have personalities and new appearances.

The protagonists are also cute and adorable to be honest. Especially Pac-man, its decent animation tops it all off and make a great contribution to Pac-man's personality. The concept of new power pellets was also interesting like giving new abilities and powers which is very helpful in the battlefield.

Overall, it's greatly decent show, I can recommend this to the kids out there or for some who love Pac-man the most.

I understand namco wanted to make the new pacman show for the new generation, which is understandable because pac-man was starting to be forgotten about. I've watched some episodes, and i will say this: The animation is good (S1 ep 1 part 1 and 2's are pretty good, the rest of the series is kinda mediocre but still good) the ghosts (Inky,Blinky,Pinky,Clyde) have somewhat a personality (same with pac man's friends) One problem is that the fart jokes are VERY unfunny. Especially since pac man is the one who holds that gimmick, it's gross and annoying. But overall i recommend this show if you like pac-man, it's on Netflix (it also used to air on Disney XD from 2013-2016) : )

I saw the fist episode in 2014 and I like it so I want to see more episodes of this Pac Man TV Series so much that I started to see all the episodes in Netflix and I loved the TV series is fun, catchy and pretty. I recommend this series to every Pac-Man fan (specially Kids from 7-12). From what is this TV show, well Pac a teenager student and his friends Cylindra and Spiral have adventures saving Pac-World from the evil ghost Betrayus and his army of ghost of the Underworld but secretly there are 4 ghosts (Blinky, Inky, Pinky and Clyde) allies of Pac and his friends that tell Pac the evil plans of Betrayus. The only problem I found to the TV series is that I really want soon a season 3 or finally Pac find his parents