Morkull Ragast’s Rage PS5 Review: The Good, The Bad, and The Unexpected

by Jim Smale · Published March 11, 2025 · Updated March 11, 2025

Morkull Ragast’s Rage Review dives into the captivating yet uneven experience of this Metroidvania platformer, blending stunning cartoon visuals and unique mechanics with a gameplay flow that struggles to hit its stride. With highlights like colorful characters, a vast skill tree, and rewarding exploration, paired against sluggish controls and frustrating design choices, this is a game you’ll want to learn more about before jumping in. Let’s explore everything “Morkull Ragast’s Rage Review” reveals about this ambitious title.

Morkull Ragast’s Rage Review Pros:

Cool cartoon like graphics.
427.3MB download size.
Platinum trophy.
FREE playable demo on the store.
Metroidvania platformer gameplay.
Tutorial pop ups and sections as you play.
2D game World with animated backdrops and foreground.
Hack and slash combat, but at any time you can curl up into a shell to absorb attacks and it can rebound projectiles.
The goal of the game is to escape out of the game.
Many colorful characters to meet.
The map fills in as you explore and populates with points of interest as you find them.
Souls are the currency of the game and when you die you lose half of them each time.
The camera can be moved up and down to help with looking around the many platforms.
Unlock fast travel points via portals.
Health potion replenished health.
The game uses a health bar system.
A huge skill tree called abilities, and you spend souls on new abilities and upgrades.
Teleport, replenish options, uses, and levelling up are all done at the portals.
Portals will also respawn any killed enemies, which can be used to your advantage like souls farming.
Find potion bottle fragments to make a new bottle, which equals another use.
Many secret rooms and routes to find.
Soul drops can be found that give a huge amount in one go.
Boss encounters.
A lot of the game does arena-like enclosed areas where you kill an amount of enemies in waves, and then unlock the door.
Breakable elements of the levels.

Morkull Ragast’s Rage Review Cons:

You cannot remap the controls.
No actual game settings.
The game doesn’t move as smoothly as you would like, it’s almost like it’s struggling.
Combat is very messy, mashy, and unfulfilling.
No accessibility options.
The game does seem to freeze for a split second every so often, and during combat this is a real pain.
It’s hard to describe, but the jumping and attacking feels spongy and kind of delayed, it’s not butter smooth and is enough of an issue for me personally that I could get the combat to flow.
It plays badly, it’s not fun, and is so sticky and sluggish that more than two flying enemies is almost instant death.
Hitting enemies is not that responsive as the enemy will buck back but still hurt you, so you have no chance of knowing what’s up.
Early game is rough with you taking a lot of damage and deaths, meaning a lot of restarting.
The level design is not great with portals too far apart.
Abilities has a small, unnoticeable border color to denote where you are, it’s not easy to see or use.
Any abilities you have bought will still show up and have a buy upgrade option, only the yes button disappearing denotes you having already purchased the ability.

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