With sad predictability, it would appear that another publisher has cottoned onto the “one save file” scheme experimented with inResident Evil: The Mercenaries 3D. Namco Bandai is the unsurprising felon, with word thatPac-Man & Galaga Dimensionscannot have its saved scores and unlocked content deleted.
Dimensionshas no scoring table,as reported by Wired. Your high score is all that’s recorded, and it cannot be reset — which naturally puts a dampener on its value as a secondhand title. This also means that once you’ve unlocked all the Achievement-like awards on offer, there’s no chance to start over from scratch.
I previously arguedthatThe Mercenariescould begin a new, unwelcome trend and Namco Bandai has all but confirmed it. It seems publishers are trying to use the “It’s only a score-attack game” excuse, regardless of the fact that used customers might not want to compete against a stranger’s score, and that new customers might want to start from scratch. What Capcom started is on its way to becoming a “thing”, and I think that’s sad.
So yeah, that’s another 3DS game I was planning to buy but will now ignore. Cool.
