Super Meat Boy is a tough-as-nails platformer where you play as an animated cube of meat who's trying to save his girlfriend (who happens to be made of bandages) from an evil fetus wearing a tux who lives in a jar.
Leap from walls, jump over seas of buzz saws, and run through crumbling caves and pools of old needles. Super Meat Boy relives the old school difficulty of classic retro platformers and streamlines it down to the essentials, no BS, just straight-forward twitch reflex platforming, and all while sacrificing his own well-being to save his damsel in distress.
About halfway into the warp zone, I realized no other game in 20 years had pulled me out of my doldrums. This thought was put on hold because I was dying at a rate of five times per minute. Forty minutes later, I unlocked 10G: The Kid, granting me permission to use the Kid -- the wishful hero from I Wanna Be the Guy -- in Super Meat Boy. As the game puts it, the Kid is "not the guy." He wears a cape, but he's doomed to die. He has a slick double jump that, for an instant, lifts the weight from his heels. Read More »
Release Region: United States
Release Date: October 20, 2010
Publisher: Team Meat
Release Region: United Kingdom
Release Date: October 20, 2010
Publisher: Team Meat
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