24/05/21
Mad Rat Dead is a duplicitous beast. Take a quick glance at any of the below screenshots and you’d be forgiven for thinking it’s just another bog standard 2D platformer. But that’s where you would be wrong, because Mad Rat Dead is a rhythm action 2D platformer. How the blue hells does that even work? Well, you’ll have to keep on reading to find out.
Mad Rat Dead follows all the normal rules of a 2D platformer. Your avatar, a recently deceased lab rat, must bound from left to right through increasingly challenging platform-filled levels. The crucial difference is that accompanying Mad Rat’s leaps, flips and dives is a funky musical tune. Time your button presses to the rhythm and Mad Rat’s movements will be boosted, leaping further, flipping higher, and diving like a premiership footballer. Mistime the beat though, and it’ll be like Mad Rat’s wings have been clipped, sending the cute, but oh so angry vermin plummeting into the void of despair at the bottom o