This is crazyyyyy okayyy im finally getting to talk abt it after finalyl getting good at the game and finishing it.
SO if youre a little confused lookin at the profile for this game, this is a 2d RHYTHM platformer, first thing ive ever played like it really! And first i've ever heard of to do it on this scale, and after playing it
YEAH yeah you can see why really fast

It's got a lotta electro n orchestral ass songs with the OST, but to be honest with you i think there's only a handful tht rlly stood out To Me specifically.. some of them I outright forget because I was so intent on just the beat alone and livin in the moment with it all
MRD also has some really cool looking visuals and colors! I actually rly dig how this game can manage to be pretty cute and cheery and also KINDA ugly and grotesque(in minute ways)

and im VERY surprised this even had a story.. like.. let alone a pretty decent story!! I liked the boss fights and the vertical platforming and bits when youre in the air and youre tensed and focused cause you REALLY R E A LL Y dont want to lose your rhythm because otherwise it can be hard finding that spot to rewind back to and Oh My GOd did I rewind a LOOOOOOOOOOOOOT

yeahhhhhhhhh kay now im talkin abt why this isnt a 5/5 to me, I rlly like the kit Mad Rat has in this game! hes got a drop dash and a homing attack and even a charge thingie he can do
What sucks about getting used to this game is that there's moments in the songs where things will get slow or youll see moments where youre not at a very fast interval of the song and youre doing shitty hitting the beat, and i didnt know how this worked for the first third of the game I thought the Switch version was just shitty and that It was performance issues
but it isnt!! atleast not tOTALLY in the ways I thought

But this fucked me up on numerous occasions babes, you get a time rewind feature that doesnt really account for the timer system(you can toggle this but I felt like if I toggled it OFF it wouldve cheapened the feeling of completing the levels and getting good at the songs for me... i wish i toggled it off LMFAO), its a good rewind since you can just keep using it at infinitum!! its just also if you get fucked up, you REALLY get fucked up in this game by proxy of "oh where the fuck is the beat" "oh why is it slow now noooo iim in mid air and i cant hit it right with this jump nooo i need to waste more time and go back"

And sometimes some shit can happen to you without you even rlly accounting for it, i came across a couple bugs where mad rat clipped through the land and one where he practically teleported off the walljump into a pit but like..
these only happened once or twice so i dont really fault the game for it
I still cant believe this got released in 2020 and I didn't know about it.. It's definitely earned it's spot in my heart as one of those rhythm games thats a dime a dozen for its creativity and how even though it's not too terribly long(really why would you want a platformer level based rhythm game to be something like 40 hours anyways, thats so much music.. i dont think we're there yet pft)
it doesnt dwell on anything too long and keeps goinnn and goinnn and you gotta respect that for what it is

final thoughts: so yeah above all else the game is fun, i think the music is charming and the character design is coollll, i think its got some rough bits here and there with the gameplay but the kit is so fun to do that it gets my brain twitchin to the point where id genuinely just keep hittin shit to the beat back and forth without even progressing in some levels just because it was that satisfying
but on the other side of the coin it can get TOUGH and you Will be thrown some curveballs here n there
but im glad to see this genre combo works really well :>
i wonder if someone's out there doin anything similar
but yeah shoutout to my friend Aidan for helpin me nab this, hes such a peach <3

Reviewed on Jul 17, 2023


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