Hi! Made an account here just to address the banana nerf (for the record I love this game, I'm hopelessly addicted; especially if it involves dash panel clip farming lol):
In my opinion, the risk and reward nature inherent to choosing the banana in the rotation necessitates heavy punishment for failing to conquer and tame the banana. An item that has its identity firmly placed in friction should prioritize friction, especially if its an optional pickup. Truth be told I do think the game already leans slightly on the easy side; There's a lot of ways to bend the game on your knee if you make smart upgrade choices and eat a lot of ghosts early on. The banana offered a pretty strong way to incentivize risky plays and induce a higher level of difficulty on repeat playthroughs for those who want it (still available through routing your upgrades suboptimally (oops all lemons)), and so I believe nerfing the banana is a misstep. It truly feels so much better to make crazy banana plays when the risk of death is higher! Honestly, if it were up to me I'd make the banana even more brutal by increasing the stun time the longer you keep the banana going, as in punishing the player for getting close to clutching the banana but failing at the last second, and being just a slap on the wrist for simply grabbing it and hitting a wall right away; just my drop in the hat though :p
The biggest mazes are fun but a commitment to chew through once the game only spawns those kinds of mazes; my advice to people is invest in speed lategame (round 107+) and go for the mirror! It makes quickly dispatching the largest mazes much less of a hassle, and the downside of eating both power pellets at once has less consequence when you've already gotten so many upgrades.
Just wanna say thanks for making something as rad as this game, its truly a marvel seeing something like this made by just a couple fans, honestly one of my all time favorite pacman games now! My highest round is 137, and my highest score is 49773340.
PS. the grass level on the highest size maze is realllllyyy laggy xp