Rating Curve

Rats in my computer is a level that stands out amongst the rest. Mainly because of it's playful and unusual nature. The level is over the top in terms of how silly it is, but in a good way. Its theming as the name suggests, is around rats. Specifically, the famous Stupid Rat from the hit game Pizza Tower.

The decoration like I said is really silly and playful in its nature. It explores through cybernetic/old windows xp-esque parts, getting more energetic the further it progresses. My absolutely favorite part must be the one with movie posters in the background, where the rats took over our most famous action/horror movies in movie culture, such as "Jurassic Park" being "Jurassic Rat", or "Silence of the lambs" being "Silence of the rats". The part itself is also self-aware and toying with the player - In the structures one can see texts such as "Does anyone even reading these", "I'm out of ideas" or "This part is going to end now". I really love how that section of the map turned out, and it is easily my favorite. The weakest part in my opinion would probably be the dual at the drop, since it retains the color of the rats, but falls really flat and empty in terms of overall decoration.

The gameplay is really fun and straight forward. I'd say it may be a bit hard to sightread at places with some parts appearing confusing, such as the robot with the movie posters that I mentioned before, or the also mentioned dual. The map is really fast paced and energetic, which combined with its quirkiness keeps the player involved and engaged in playing and enjoying the visuals as well as the gameplay.

Overall, I think that rats in my computer is a map that does spectacular job on being as silly as possible. Scattering internet culture references, and movie references whenever it has a chance to do so. The execution is really nice, and it is 100% a level that is refreshing to see amongst others :)

As it stands, Fire Hazard is a really energetic design level that has an industrial feeling to it. Like the name implies, the colors are mainly orange/yellow/red, reminiscent to those of fire, while the map itself focuses a lot on the hazardy theming, where you as the player is traveling through what looks like a sewage plant. My only note about the decoration overall is that it falls flat a bit after the first half of the level, which is pretty unfortunate to see.

In my opinion, the gameplay is really solid, though there is a click that feels a little bit off, which is the mini cube transition before the rainbow part, where the blue orb feels a bit off with the half-blind transition from the white flash before hand.

Overall though, I think that Fire Hazard is a neat design level that despite having its flaws, it still presents itself as a tidy level staying truthful to its theming :)