Published: 31 Aug 2024
Last updated: 1 Sep 2024
- Develop and Published by: Team Meat
- Released on: 2010
- Genres: Precision Platformer
- Rating: 4/5
- Originally written: ~17th September 2023
A great fast-paced 2D platformer, difficult but never feeling overly frustrating thanks to the instant respawn/infinite retries mechanic. Not much to say, but beating this game (and getting to grips with Meat Boy’s slippery movement) was just, very satisfying, and continued to be satisfying for a long long time, no matter what the game threw at me. That combined with the stellar Danny Baranowsky OST was enough to propel me to both 106% and get some of the frankly unfair complete-whole-world-without-dying achievements.
The few downsides is that in retrospect, a lot of the unlockable characters are not as fun to play around with than Mr Meat Boy himself (other than to trivialise the odd level here and there), meaning that the incentive to 106% is minimal outside of self-pride, and it wears the newgrounds/flash aesthetic on its sleeve, for good or for ill.
