Ednaldo Pereira Mescladasso is a free-to-play platformer game inspired by the Brazilian singer and composer Ednaldo Pereira. The game was initially released in September 2020, with a subsequent mobile adaptation for Android phones in 2023.
The game's storyline revolves around Matter, the leader of the "Elite Preta" faction, who deploys a colossal laser to obliterate Earth, resulting in the loss of Ednaldo Pereira's songs. This catastrophic event destabilizes the universe, and Elite Preta's malevolent robots commence a reign of terror across the remnants of Earth. In response, Ednaldo and Fleig embark on a quest that spans various portals to recover the lost songs and thwart the sinister Elite Preta faction.
"Ednaldo Pereira Mescladasso" features two playable characters: Ednaldo Pereira and Fleig. Players can switch between these characters, each with their own unique abilities. These abilities are strategically employed to navigate the game's diverse levels.
This game provides examples of:
- Airborne Mook: The square floating robots of Elite Preta.
- Anthropomorphic Food: Chico Melancia, a guy with a watermelon head who appears giving commentary during boss battles.
- Anti-Frustration Features: In case the player accidentally wastes a purple block or needs to use one again, they can always just spawn another one.
- Broke the Rating Scale: Before the Earth was decimated, Ednaldo Pereira had a follower count of "999999999999..." and so on.
- Boss-Arena Idiocy: The poddle boss from "Vagão dos Homens" is almost completely invincible, except when thrown the purple boxes that spawn at the boss arena, which make it become temporarily vulnerable. The purple boxes keep spawning indefinitely until he is defeated.
- Bottomless Pit Rescue Service: In the Guarabira level, whenever the player falls into a hole, they will just bounce back to the top.
- Chromosome Casting: The only female character is the delegate that hunts Ednaldo down in "Cidade Capital".
- Combat Commentator: Chico Melancia serves this purpose during every boss fight, always popping up at the right side of the screen. He can occasionally also show up when the boss becomes invulnerable.
- Death Is a Slap on the Wrist: In case the player dies, they will simply spawn back to the last checkpoint or, if they're in a boss battle, just start the boss battle again. The player can freely die and respawn as many times as they need.
- Defeat Means Friendship: Elite Preta become Ednaldo's allies after being defeated by him in the end of the game.
- The Dinnermobile: After completing the first part of "Cidade Capital", Ednaldo and Fleig flee away in a watermelon-shaped car.
- Giant Space Flea from Nowhere: During two levels, there is an unprecedented boss fight who's a giant rubberhose-style cartoon character reminiscent of Oswald the Lucky Rabbit or the Animaniacs. It shows up out of nowhere, its presence or purpose is never commented by Matter or any of the other characters, and it's unknown what it is even a reference to.
- Green Hill Zone: Guarabira, which is composed by entirely by grassy grounds and wooden platforms.
- Ground Pound: Ednaldo is able to belly flop the ground, both to give damage to enemies or to destroy orange-and-blue blocks.
- Earth-Shattering Kaboom: As the intro explains, Elite Preta exploded the Planet Earth with a giant laser, later sending their robots and lackeys to terrorize what little was left of the planet.
- Fat and Skinny: The two playable characters of the game, Ednaldo and Fleig respectively. While Ednaldo has a stubbier body shape, Fleig is very thin to the point it makes him more prone to fall down platforms.
- Flunky Boss: In "Cidade Capital", the giant Cartoon Creature appears as a boss along with Elite Preta's robots.
- Heel–Face Turn: When Matter dies, he turns into a benign spirit named "Elite Branca" and becomes a friend of Ednaldo and Fleig, warning them of bigger threats.
- Heroic Mime: Downplayed with Ednaldo Pereira, as while many recordings of his voice are used during the soundtrack (both from songs and spoken dialogue), his in-game character doesn't say a word. Played straight with Fleig, whose voice isn't heard at any point of the game.
- Ednaldo averts this on the mobile adaptation, as every time he suffers damage during a level, an upset audio recording of him in real life is played, and while he eats the french fries, an imitation audio of him is heard saying "Batata interessante".
- Loved by All: Exaggerated; in the intro, Ednaldo Pereira is shown to be followed by everyone on Earth and his follow count is composed by a load of 9's. This is what motivates Elite Preta to blow up the entire Earth as the only way to get rid of him.
- Musical Pastiche: While remixes of Ednaldo Pereira songs play all over the game, there are also some original compositions based on them. Most notably, the tune played both while starting and finishing a level is an instrumental version of the chorus of "What is the Brother".
- No Celebrities Were Harmed: Besides Ednaldo himself, many famous Brazilian personalities make cameos in the game, including the presenters Faustão and Jô Soares, and the singer Tim Maia.
- Sequel Hook: In the end of the game, After the final boss Matter is killed, his now-redeemed soul rises from his body to warn the heroes about an even more evil villain named Nego Ney, and that he must be defeated as soon as possible.
- Shout-Out:
- The game is loaded with references to Ednaldo Pereira's career and life. To name a few, the level "Guarabira" is based on his birth city of the same name; level "Vagão dos Homens" is a paraphrase of Ednaldo's song "Homens que Entraram no Vagão"; the game title itself is a reference to the song "Mesclado", and so on.
- The ending credits music is an instrumental guitar cover of the song "Buenas Noches Vecindad" from El Chavo del ocho.
