It takes a maze game with four colored dots chasing a yellow circle and asks, with a straight face, what the ghosts want. That's the joke and the hook: Betrayus isn't a sprite, he's President Spheros's own exiled brother, running the Netherworld with a bumbling squad of Blinky, Inky, Clyde and Pinky, the last of whom would rather flirt with Pac than haunt him. The berry system is the real engine, Fire, Ice, Chameleon, Metal, each one a costume change that turns a dot-muncher into a shonen power-up show for eight-year-olds. And yes, Pac still eats ghosts, then burps them back to the Netherworld, which is both the goofiest and most lore-accurate thing this cartoon does. Underneath it all it's Pac, Spiral and Cyli doing homework between apocalypses. Nobody asked for Pac-Man mythology. It committed anyway.

Pac is a round yellow teenager living in Pac-World, and President Spheros tells him and his friends about an old legend: a round yellow Pac-Worlder will one day rescue the planet. As the only citizen who fits that description, Pac is the one for the job. The evil Betrayus leads a ghostly army out of the Netherworld to cause chaos, and nobody in Pac-World wants them back. Alongside his friends Cyli and Spiral, Pac works to send the ghosts back where they came from while also handling the everyday problems of being a teenager. Each adventure mixes action with comedy.