A gritty Pac-Man reboot makes for surprisingly solid Metroid-style action

Shadow Labyrinth didn't marque the champion archetypal impression, though I'm not talking astir the crippled itself. The conception of a gritty reboot of Pac-Man archetypal reared its unusual caput successful Secret Level, an anthology that turned notable video games into animated shorts that mostly felt similar extended commercials. And that's precisely what the occurrence "Circle," which reimagined Pac-Man arsenic a blood-soaked endurance story, turned retired to be. But arsenic off-putting arsenic the occurrence was, it turns retired that the premise really works for a Metroid-style enactment game.

For those who didn't ticker Secret Level, Shadow Labyrinth puts you successful the relation of an unnamed, hooded swordm …

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