Super Meat Boy

This game has gotten me irritated numerous times, but I personally think that's one of the best parts of playing this game. I'd finished the main worlds in the Light World numerous times, and have done a no-death run on the first Light world once. I certainly was not expecting the scene that plays at the end of the Dark World's final level.

As an avid fan of level editors, I am absolutely loving the inclusion of one, albeit separated from the base game. It will still take me time to get used to the UI and details of the editor, but still. You'd probably have no idea the exceptional amount of joy and excitement I felt when I tested out my unfinished level and explored the different gimmicks I'd placed.

Now, for certain gimmicks(?) in the game, I think all of them each have respectable qualities and some or most of them are pretty easy to deal with if I practice enough. But there are two gimmicks that I personally have a lot of trouble with and—at times—annoy me: the missile launcher and the Black Maws. To me, the missiles that are ejected from their launchers seem to have an accuracy that seems way too precise; they seem to turn unnaturally quickly, and it kind of throws me off on certain levels containing them.

Other than that, this game has been quite an enjoyable experience, and I am so glad that I actually got to play it myself.

(Also, Ogmo, to me, is based fr.)

What's great about Super Meat Boy is the game actively encourages you to find faster and faster ways to complete each level. I can see speedrunners and fans of difficult platforming having a lot of fun with this.

Good, fun, and challenging game overall. However, Level 6-5 is an incredibly frustrating experience. It’s not even challenging— just pure frustration.

this is the kinda shit I unironically do not think you could have ever created at any other point than 2010 and it's amazing

you can really feel edmunds influence throughout the entire game with it's very gritty feel that mixes with the artstyle in a really interesting way

meat boy himself controls wonderfully slippery and every run and jump feels 100% in your control

absolute gem of a platformer

This game ruined my life. still good though

Cómo es posible que sea tan difícil un juego de un cubo de carne con patas??

Very fun game, I currently have 5 hours and I'm on the last chapter. The game is short for the main story but the dark world is insanely hard. If you liked this game you might also like another game named Celeste, it's similar in difficulty and is also a 2D indie platformer.

The game launched normally the first time but when I adjusted the resolution to my monitor resolution the game screen went black with sound only. I closed the game and restarted it but now it launches with the same black screen and sound only. Tried some fixes I found online but none of them worked, sadly I can't recommend it.

Without any shadow of a doubt, the absolute finest 2D platformer ever made. Each and every of the 300+ levels is immaculately designed and highly replayable, with one of the smoothest difficulty curves ever implemented into a video game. This makes Super Mario 3 look like Gex. Everyone interested in games should play this.

---{ Graphics }---
☑ You forget what reality is
☐ Beautiful
☐ Good
☐ Decent
☐ Bad
☐ Don‘t look too long at it
☐ MS-DOS

---{ Gameplay }---
☑ Very good
☐ Good
☐ It's just gameplay
☐ Mehh
☐ Watch paint dry instead
☐ Just don't

---{ Audio }---
☑ Eargasm
☐ Very good
☐ Good
☐ Not too bad
☐ Bad
☐ I'm now deaf

---{ Audience }---
☐ Kids
☑ Teens
☑ Adults
☑ Grandma

---{ PC Requirements }---
☐ Check if you can run paint
☑ Potato
☐ Decent
☐ Fast
☐ Rich boi
☐ Ask NASA if they have a spare computer

---{ Game Size }---
☐ Floppy Disk
☑ Old Fashioned
☐ Workable
☐ Big
☐ Will eat 10% of your 1TB hard drive
☐ You will want an entire hard drive to hold it
☐ You will need to invest in a black hole to hold all the data

---{ Difficulty }---
☐ Just press 'W'
☑ Easy
☐ Easy to learn / Hard to master
☐ Significant brain usage
☐ Difficult
☐ Dark Souls

---{ Grind }---
☐ Nothing to grind
☐ Only if u care about leaderboards/ranks
☐ Isn't necessary to progress
☐ Average grind level
☐ Too much grind
☐ You'll need a second life for grinding

---{ Story }---
☐ No Story
☐ Some lore
☐ Average
☐ Good
☑ Lovely
☐ It'll replace your life

---{ Game Time }---
☐ Long enough for a cup of coffee
☐ Short
☐ Average
☑ Long
☐ To infinity and beyond

---{ Price }---
☐ It's free!
☐ Worth the price
☐ If it's on sale
☐ If u have some spare money left
☐ Not recommended
☐ You could also just burn your money

---{ Bugs }---
☑ Never heard of
☐ Minor bugs
☐ Can get annoying
☐ ARK: Survival Evolved
☐ The game itself is a big terrarium for bugs

---{ ? / 10 }---
☐ 1
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☑ 10

meat boy is the golden standard for challenging platformers. though it's not edmund's best work in level design (TEIN >>>>>>>>), most of these levels remain some of the most fun obstacle courses you could have the luxury of blasting through, highlights for me being The Forest (ofc), The End and a good chunk of Cotton Alley... Rapture freakin' sucks tho!

the only thing that mechanically holds this game back is how sticking to the wall can screw you over in 1 block wide holes, and the seemingly random nature of whether or not slowing down on ground is an instant momentum cancellation or a slip'n'slide adventure.

My Last Review (because I am not doing 117 more...):

Super Meat Boy is an intense platformer with some of the tightest controls in history. The premise is goofy, yet understandable being reminiscent of older games that were rooted in outrageous scenarios simply for the sake of the game. Countless characters, all with differing move sets, as well as a plethora of levels with many secrets. This game wasn't just an underdog... it was a champion shrouded by those who never saw the light of what it was. A good game.

I will be honest in saying that if this game didn't have the development story it had then I would have probably not been into gaming as much as I was as a teen and young adult because what attracted myself to the web was creation itself rather than hollywood-fueled delusions that many chase now. I do not regret my time with games and the internet as a whole as I understood it's depths long before actually understanding them as an adult. I was simply dumb enough to think it would get better on it's own.

Plus, I made some great memories with some great friends. Thanks so much for that.

I dislike this game for the same reason I dislike Hotline Miami. There are better indie games now.

This is one of my all time favorite platformer games, highly recommended! The level design, art, and music are all amazing! This is by no means an easy game.

This game is so freaking cool, but it's very rage inducing. I love difficult games.

Great game, ideal for spending a rainy weekend or evening glued to the screen. Gamepad is pretty much mandatory

If you actually hate yourself, or have lots and lots of xanax you wish to get rid of, then by all means give this game a try.

As much as it's frustrating for the difficulty to be so high, I think it actually is a sign of respect for the player. The developers expect it's possible for us to beat hard games because they think highly of us. Of course not everyone is much of a speedrunner, but it's nice to have games designed for that purpose and for the devs to see opportunity in us.

Most of my complaints are honestly about the menus. It's effectively the same inputs as the world select in New Super Mario Bros, but without all the visuals or even context to give a reason for why it's so slow to navigate. If you play levels individually, then you might just have to press the arrow keys several dozen times before you even get in. Looks like the highest is 25 presses. Even a simple hub world would've been more cohesive. Ever seen a 2-D hubworld? Me neither. That would be so unique.

A big part of my frustration is that the enemies are so fast and accurate. You can say the same thing about the player's abilities, which means the game is fair, but I keep quitting for like a year at a time. It's very painful, casually; the silver lining is that mistakes are punished with the tiniest amount of down time. Much better than having to sit for several minutes until the end of a round in CSGO.

The difficulty I welcome most is momentum. The animations in this game are somehow better than Mario, but also simpler. They do enough to communicate the game's mechanics, like momentum, without costing the developers too much time and money. It really is obvious that this game had a small dev team, but production value isn't everything. Meat Boy has so much character to it. A lot of recent Mario games have felt sterile and linear in comparison, which is really just a side effect of corporate culture becoming so dehumanized recently. Which is funny, because that's from the same country as anime. You know, the same country that's funny about making straight walkways in their gardens?

The character designs were honestly probably not given much time, but they're still inventive. I do prefer when developers write more than even gets put in the game; maybe Team Meat wasn't ready for that kind of thing? It might've been Shigeru Miyamoto that said the fun of playing should come first, anyway.

Also above Nintendo is the extra movement options that other characters offer. Team Meat really had faith in us, because the extra characters have such a steep learning curve. Maybe that's the beauty of making a game more mature than some 7-year-old's plumber game, or maybe the devs are really just that unique. They also made the damsel in distress more of a prominent feature to each level, which tells me they were really confident about their design choices.

Of course a lot of the game design could be dumb luck, but I think that the weight of Super Meat Boy is really underestimated. I still quote the narrator maybe once a month, even when not playing.

A old game, but a very good game that I say aged well, and I used to play the demo a lot back in the day!

Super Meat Man offers great platforming and characters, with precise controls, and a banger of a soundtrack!
Plus the levels are often fun and it's worth replaying over and over...

Plus this is the reason I know of The Mighty Jilloff, so meh-

after celeste, this hits all the right spots, a pretty big flex too if u wanna platinum it so defo recommend if ur fine with an insane challenge, if u get annoyed easily, just dont :)

Slightly buggy and with some slightly odd design decisions, but overall a fun and charming platformer!
Time to reach 100% completion: 117.2 hours

-Complete light world
„Oh wow, that was kinda hard! But still easy!“
-Get through the salt factory in dark world
„...what the f**k.“
10/10 would recommend (be ready to rage)

Great game, just don't unlock the Kid; it's not worth losing your sanity over.

good challenge + lots of content and replayable

Edmund McMillen trying to make a good game challenge (Trivial)

This game rocks! Simple yet fun jumping adventure

Bought this hoping it had the xbox soundtrack, it did not. im not mad, just disappointed (still recommend tho)

The best and one of the first hard platformers truly inspirational how much this game affected and inspired games

There's not a lot to say that hasn't been said a million times about this game. Right at the tippy-top pinnacle of the precision platforming genre. A fantastic game to play on the steam deck, by the way. Perfect, responsive controls and a massive battery life. Run it in proton compatibility mode, as the old linux-native build is very out of date.

this game is an absolute fucking abomination. You can't fucking edit your keybinds? Who the fuck games with the arrow keys? I sure don't. Which is why this shit is getting a thumbs down

SUPER MEAT BOY: AN INDIE MASTERPIECE

(All this review is just my opinion, if you have a different opinion I'd love to read it)

Story: 5/10

Not much of a good story, just save your gf, but the game focus on the gameplay, so it's not a big deal.

Characters: 8/10

Although none of the characters say anything, they're very charming. It's amazing 'cause I've played other games that focus more on their characters and their development, but in the end I don't care about them, while in Super Meat Boy I liked most of the characters.

Game art: 7/10

For me, the game art is not that good. However, since it's an indie game and was released in 2010, it deserves a solid 7.

Gameplay: 10/10

Simple but excellent.

Level design: 10/10

The level design is great, one of the best I've ever seen in a platform game, although the levels are difficult, if you master the movement you can beat them in less than 1 minute (and it's so satisfying to do so). Also the difficult progression between worlds is smooth.

Soundtrack: 10/10

Super Meat Boy's songs are such a banger, each song gets better and better as you progress through the worlds, and they fit perfectly with the speedy feel of the levels. I never get tired of them.

Replayability (Not counting achievements): 8/10

Since the very beginning of the game, it offers 4 types of replayability:

• Bandages: There are bandages in certain levels, you can go and collect them as you play, but it's quite likely that you won't even get half of them before you beat the main story because you don't have enough experience or you don't have a specific character. As you collect the bandages, you unlock characters (from other franchises, which is fockin' awesome), each with different abilities. There are 20 bandages per world, for a total of 100.
  
  
• A+ grades: Each level has a timer to beat, if you beat it you'll get the A+ grade and unlock the Dark World version of the level, if you beat all the Dark Worlds you'll get the real ending.
  
  
• Warpzones: In every world (except The End and The Cotton Ally) there are 4 warpzones, 3 in the light world and 1 in the dark world. A warpzone is a hidden portal in a level, and when you enter one you'll be teleported to an 8-bit zone, with only 3 levels, but also with only 3 lives per level, if you lose all your lives before passing the 3 levels you'll get kicked out of the portal and have to restart (you can enter it from the map though, since you've already unlocked it). In each warzone there are 2 bandages, except for the character warzone where you play as a special character, and when you beat this warzone you unlock it.
  
  
[*]Glitch levels: These are like warpzones, but there's only one per world, and they only appear after beating the boss of the world. When you replay a level there's a little chance for bandage girl to glitch, when you touch her you'll get teleported to a single 8-bit level, with only 3 lives too. I think beating these levels doesn't contribute the 100% of a world, so you can try to find n' pass a glitch level or not.

Some problems:

I had a problem at the very beggining because meat boy moved 1 or 2 seconds after I pressed the buttons of my controller. I thought it has no solution, but playing with the settings I ended up fixing the problem, how? i don't know, but it is fixed (I keep playing with my keyboard cause I got used to it, though).

Final grade: 8,8/10

It's a great pioneer indie game, a master piece indeed. If you haven't played it yet, you really should!! The feeling of satisfaction for finishing the game was overwhelming. Now I will take up the challenge of getting all the achievements. I'm sure I'll die, get angry, and cry a lot trying, but if I succeed, it will be the happiest moment of my life, and if I fail, at least I can say I tried.

P.D.: I'LL NEVER FORGIVE YOU FOR WHAT YOU DID TO C.H.A.D., MEAT BOY!!!
P.D.2: Brownie is a hero without a cape, he will be forever in my heart

very very good reminds me of when i lived in dorset and i owned a xenamoprhic atopical corset, unfortunately upon my moving to the trossacks i was forced to toss it to make space for my lycanthropic tropical faucet in my pocket. but oh well, when the you put the fork into the stem of it, things aren't as bad they seem, the broccoli is in the freezer!!!

had to get a new keyboard
but it was an upgrade so its a good game

Super meat boy!! Sometimes the movement feels difficult to control and both slidey and precise at the same time. This is very much like the era/realm of platformers that it belongs in, which is flash games. Can be pretty hard, but overall pretty fun and very fast paced.

☺☺☺

Type the words petaphile in the character select screen in order to make this game a cake walk :D. Anyways great game, Died over 1000 times! That's how you know you're in for a good time.

Really difficult for some of the late-game, but great levels and soundtrack!

Game Review: Super Meat Boy

Wendrex wrote:

Developed by Team Meat, Super Meat Boy is a fast-paced platformer that stands out for its challenging design and unique visual style. Released in 2010, the game quickly became a modern classic, known for its fast-paced gameplay and quirky charm. Here’s a full breakdown of what makes Super Meat Boy such an exceptional and unforgettable experience.

Plot and Setting
Super Meat Boy features a simple and straightforward narrative: the protagonist, Meat Boy, is a piece of meat who must rescue his girlfriend, Bandage Girl, from the clutches of the evil Dr. Fetus. While the plot is minimalist, the game makes up for it with a series of varied and themed environments that are full of challenges.

Pros:

Straightforward and Funny Story: The plot is light and fun, with a premise that is both funny and engaging. The simplicity of the story allows the gameplay and design to take center stage.

Varied Environments: The game features a wide range of levels, each with its own theme and challenges, keeping the experience fresh and interesting as players progress.

Gameplay and Mechanics
Super Meat Boy’s gameplay is at the heart of the game, with precise and challenging platforming mechanics that require refined skills and precise control. The levels are short but require precision and agility, with a gradually increasing difficulty.

Pros:

Precise Control: Meat Boy’s controls are highly responsive and precise, allowing players to perform complex jumps and maneuvers with high precision. The sense of control is one of the game’s strong points.

Rewarding Challenges: The levels are challenging but fair, and the feeling of achievement when completing a tricky stage is extremely rewarding. The difficulty is balanced to keep the game challenging without being frustrating.

Creative Level Design: Each level is designed with creativity and care, offering a variety of obstacles and traps that require skill and strategy to overcome.

Graphics and Music
Super Meat Boy's visual style is distinctive and captivating, with pixel art graphics that are both nostalgic and modern. The soundtrack and sound effects complement the experience, creating a lively and energetic atmosphere.

Pros:

Visual Style Charm: The pixel art graphic design is well executed, with an aesthetic that is both retro and vibrant. The characters and environments have a unique charm that contributes to the game's identity.

Energetic Soundtrack: The music is energizing and fits well with the game's fast-paced and frenetic gameplay. The sound effects are well implemented, adding to the impact of the action and challenges.

Length and Replayability
Super Meat Boy offers a satisfying length with its short and intense levels, which can be completed in quick sessions, but offer a significant amount of content. Replayability is high, with plenty of additional challenges and achievements to unlock.

Pros:

Ideal length: The game is designed for quick play sessions, but it offers a challenge that can keep players engaged for a long time.

High replayability: In addition to the main levels, there are a variety of extra challenges, achievements, and unlockable content that encourage players to revisit the game to complete all objectives.

Conclusion
Super Meat Boy, developed by Team Meat, is a shining example of how challenging platforming design can be combined with a unique visual style and precise gameplay to create a highly rewarding gaming experience. With its well-polished gameplay mechanics, captivating graphics, and a vibrant soundtrack, Super Meat Boy offers a platforming adventure that is both challenging and incredibly fun. If you are a fan of platforming challenges and are looking for an experience that combines precision and fun, Super Meat Boy is an excellent choice that promises to keep you entertained and engaged from start to finish.

I hope this review highlights the positive aspects of Super Meat Boy and why it continues to be a highly recommended title in the platforming genre!

I feel like this game is synonymus with difficult 2D platforming, which is true. And even though I´m pretty good at those, I never ever want to fully complete this game.
However the main game should be doable and ejoyable for pretty much everyone. The gameplay is super tight and fun.

Fast paced platformer that makes you feel amazing when you nail the hardest jumps. The fast respawns and relatively low punishments for failure mean this game is all about refining your skills.

At first it is really fun and the difficulty on most levels is perfectly manageable for a casual like me. I only had to skip 3 levels, but I can't get past the final boss (of light world) and I am not having fun trying anymore. The controls are the worst; very floaty and slippery (there are supposed to be other characters, I didn't see them). The art style (and music) I think was great, but obviously subjective. The story is cute, but has little bearing on whether you'd like a game like this or not. I'll give the game a trepidatious thumbs up, but I would add that it is certainly not for everyone (I didn't really love it). 6/10

If you like the instant movement in Celeste you probably won't like the movement in Super Meat Boy but either way this is a very fun game and i give it a good out of good