Pac-Man: Ghosted!

Pac-Man: Ghosted! (originally titled Pac-Man World 4) is a 3D action-adventure open-world platformer developed by Namco Bandai Games and published by Nintendo. for the Nintendo Switch and PC. The player controls Pac-Man in a 3D platforming environment, though six worlds. It is a spiritual successor to the PAC-MAN World series, as it contains gameplay elements from all 3 games as well as new elements. The plot and gameplay ideas for the game are based on the cancelled PlayStation game, Pac-Man Ghost Zone.

Plot
Tired of Pac-Man eating them and ruining their plans, Inky, Blinky, Pinky, and Clyde summon the Ghost Lord, an evil ghost emperor who is willing to help them take down Pac-Man once and for all. Meanwhile in Pac-Village, Pac-Man, Ms. Pac-Man, Jr. Pac-Man, Professor Pac, and Pac-Baby are having a picnic, and Pac-Man leaves to get some snow cones. While he's gone, a portal opens in the sky and sucks Ms. Pac-Man, Jr. Pac-Man, and Pac-Baby into the Ghost Realm, with Professor Pac escaping. When Pac-Man returns, Professor Pac informs him of the trouble and Pac-Man goes through the portal to the Ghost Realm in order to stop the Ghost Lord and save Ms. Pac-Man, Jr. Pac-Man, and Pac-Baby.

Gameplay
Pac-Man: Ghosted! is a 3D platformer in which the player controls Pac-Man, who collects dots and other pick-ups while avoiding many different types of ghosts. The main goal of the game is to defeat the Ghost Lord. . The game consists of 6 stages and 24 levels in total. All basic features of the original trilogy - Butt Bouncing, Rev Rolling, Power Pellets and the like - are implemented into this game, but are now perfected in their mechanics. Pac-Man can also eat different colored power pellets that can give him new powers, like the ability to freeze enemies, jump higher than normal, or throw fireballs.

Levels contain fruit that can be eaten for bonus points. Collecting all of the fruit in a level will unlock a bonus stage that players can play after finishing the game. You start with 3 lives by default. A new life is obtained if you collect 100 dots, and losing all your lives leads to a game over. Health pickups include different food (hotdogs, pizza, etc.) and lives. The goal of each stage is to collect all the dots in each level, while also making it to the end of each stage.

Unlike previous Pac Man games, Pac-Man: Ghosted! is the first game in the series to be an open-world game instead of a linear one.