Watching the new trailer for Shadow Labyrinth, which dropped during yesterday's Nintendo Direct, you'd be forgiven for thinking it's just a sidescroller about a sci-fi world beset by otherworldly monsters and wreathed in tragedy. I mean, it is all of those things, it's just also a Pac-Man game, which you might have gleaned from the protagonist's yellow, spherical companion named Puck. He goes around eating pellets and stuff.
We first saw this world in the Pac-Man-themed episode of Amazon's Secret Level anthology series, which was inspired by a conversation with Bandai Namco where the showrunners were encouraged to make audiences "wonder what the fuck they did with Pac-Man." This game was revealed around the same time that episode came out, but the latest trailer shows off more of its metroidvania gameplay.
