Mad Rat Dead

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Mad Rat Dead – Among the many game genres loved by “comrades” near and far, but with a respectable and long history – it is difficult for anyone to compete for the top of the action game “platformer” type (jumping, climbing).

Although in modern times, the “kingdom” has been occupied by more dramatic and attractive game types such as hack and slash action, shooting, role-playing, the platformer still has a firm footing thanks to the gameplay is “familiar ” difficult,” with many new variations.

If Mario is the original traditional platformer, Megaman incorporates fast-paced action slashing elements to create more engaging gameplay.

If the original game form still isn’t worth replaying enough, the “Metroidvania” game form makes up for it by combining puzzle and role-playing elements.

Coming from NIS America, Mad Rat Dead chose a new and more unique approach when merging the platformer with the music – something no one has done yet.

Play as a lab rat who’s been tortured all her life, then dies because of crazy savants – what would you do if you were given a chance to live again by the “Rat God,” even if it’s only for a day?

Each level in Mad Rat Dead is a poor mouse Mad Rat journey. The game has a standard layout of the “platformer” action style when the levels are divided into many levels to challenge the player’s ability to move and jump.

The Mad Rat mouse itself is also provided with basic “tools” to “overcome difficulties,” from the skill of “surfing” to accelerate and overcome long distances, to jumping two steps to get to a high place… to “turn on the wall” to specialize in terrains consisting of high but narrow walls.

However, to emphasize the element of being “revived from the dead,” every action of Mad Rat must match … his heartbeat, which must beat rhythmically and continuously to maintain Mad Rat’s second life.

That is the premise for the developer to integrate a unique element that makes the game different: music.

The background music in Mad Rat Dead will be displayed with a rhythm bar, where any player’s actions from jumping, gliding, and attacking are “evaluated” with the same degree of rhythm matching as a real music game.

This implementation has many similarities with the cult game Crypt of the Necrodancer.

Of course, to do the wall bounces in a platformer game in a normal, free way to “break the button” is sometimes difficult – but now everything has to be done smoothly and accurately, of course. However, players will face significant challenges.

However, the attraction from the very “emotion” songs is always the catalyst that makes Mad Rat Dead players feel like they want to overcome all the game’s difficulties.

Having a cool idea doesn’t make it a good product in the game industry history.

Things are not that simple. Because the idea is unique, no matter how good it is – but when it has problems in many stages such as control, transmission, expression but without reasonable solutions, it will still fail.

Mad Rat Dead is not to the point of failure, but to succeed, the game also encounters many problems, most of which come from the original design.

First of all, let’s talk about the “chaotic” in control – which is not anyone’s fault.

For a “platformer” action game, the player needs absolute freedom in the control array to perform flight sequences, aiming to get to where they need to go.

The writer still remembers the critically acclaimed platformer action masterpieces in the level design like Ori and the Blind Forest / Ori and the Will of the Wisps or Giana Sisters: Twisted Dream – then going wrong. Doing it will lead to 100% failure; you must play it to pass repeatedly.

That said to let us understand that the “soul” of a “platformer” action game lies in both stages: control and screen creation – without one, it’s not enough.

But with Mad Rat Dead, it’s really when the excitement with a new idea wears off that the game reveals its shortcomings as a platformer product.

Having to click everything exactly to the beat inadvertently creates a psychological barrier in players, making it difficult for them to “mash the button” to find the feeling of sublimation when performing a complex sequence of combos to get through difficult!

Finally, it seems that Mad Rat Dead also understands that the problem with the concept and control will make it difficult for players, so the developer seems to want to “compensate” by reducing the difficulty in the game.

The level of punishment of Mad Rat Dead is very low, almost nothing compared to when playing Contra video game “one-touch is dead” with a limited number of “life.”

The screen design of Mad Rat Dead is also not impressive when it is mostly just “basic lines” that even a Super Mario Maker 2-style game and software can do better.

It is easy to understand that Mad Rat Dead lacks the levels of play with a slick layout, many magical knots, and openings to challenge the player’s flight level.

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