Most enemies do a lot of damage to your characters, and they are placed around levels with sadistic intent behind the level design. Alternatively, if you do level the characters up evenly, you’re also in for a mighty grind, since you’re essentially working for four characters, rather than one.Ĭurse of the Sea Rats has a brutal edge to it, too. If you don’t level these characters evenly, you’re in for a mighty grind to get them up to scratch. Unfortunately, experience is shared between characters, meaning that if you’re levelling up one character’s skills and abilities, you’re drawing on the same pool that all the other characters use. This is also the premise of the game’s multiplayer, and the concept would have been a great idea, were it not for one significant flaw. You’ll need to use all four characters to fully explore the world, reach all the far-flung locations, and ultimately complete the game. One of the neat things about Sea Rats is that it does allow you to swap between all four characters, and each of them has substantially different abilities and skills. The only catch is they need to go on a deadly journey to defeat one Flora Burn, the pirate witch behind the curse. So, thanks to the curse, the captain (who is also now a rat) gives them the opportunity to win their freedom. Amusingly enough, this was actually a fortunate turn of events for them, as all four characters were prisoners on a ship to… a less-than-pleasant fate. You play as one of four people that have been cursed and turned into a rat. With that being said, Curse of the Sea Rats does try to at least have its own personality. They’re all derivative of one another, and the overall “genre” has gone completely stagnant. It’s also because we’ve run out of ways for developers to actually make these things functionally differentiated. Not only because the term itself has, like with the roguelike, lost almost all meaning from its over-use.
I’m now at the point where seeing “Metrodvania” in press materials will make me groan. Curse of the Sea Rats is a cute concept that needs to compete in a badly over-saturated genre.
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