Super Meat Boy

Mr E · 20-10-2010 8:29am #1

Out today on XBLA, and its getting great reviews. It was also reduced in price from 1200 to 800 (until November), so its even more tempting. There are around 300 levels altogether (with tons of secrets, warps, unlockable characters and more) so value for money is an understatement.

IGN Review:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EfrvpJSenko

NotorietyH · 20-10-2010 10:07am

I'm looking forward to playing this now, despite the fact that I tend to have a bit of a short fuse when it comes to frustrating games. From what I gather though Super Meatboy controls so well, that it helps with the frustration factor because you know it's your fault that you died not the game's.

Giant Bomb did a good quick look of it too.

Giant Bomb Quicklook

Andrew76 · 20-10-2010 2:20pm

It's available to download now.

johnny_ultimate · 20-10-2010 2:35pm

Had a go there, really like it. Unlocking

the Bit.trip Commander

was a nice surprise!

This and Costume Quest = a good day for the Arcade!

NotorietyH · 20-10-2010 2:38pm

God damn it's good. Enjoying the hell out of it. Tough, but not in a cheap way.

calex71 · 20-10-2010 2:54pm

800 points you say? Well that does sweeten the deal

/goes off to try the demo

valleyoftheunos · 20-10-2010 4:08pm

Have they made any mention of the WiiWare release date does anyone know?

calex71 · 20-10-2010 6:01pm

the amount of swearing this game has caused here already is shocking especially the 1st boss level

NotorietyH · 20-10-2010 9:13pm

This has to be one of the most satisfying games I've played in ages. Of course to balance that out, you have some really tough parts. Nothing beats that sense of achievement when you finally manage to get through especially difficult parts.

WolfForager · 20-10-2010 9:32pm

Dying has never been so enjoyable :P

Now the decision becomes if i should step up from the trial

Mr E · 20-10-2010 9:54pm

I adore this game..... pure unadulterated (hard core) fun. I can't remember a game where I have sworn like a f%&$ing sailor and laughed in equal measures.

Some of those bandages are a bitch to get... I can't imagine what later levels are going to be like.

Andrew76 · 20-10-2010 10:08pm

valleyoftheunos wrote: »

Have they made any mention of the WiiWare release date does anyone know?

Supermeatboy.com didn't mention dates only that it was coming to Wii Ware. Bloody brilliant game altogether.

calex71 · 20-10-2010 10:09pm

WolfForager wrote: »

Dying has never been so enjoyable :P

Now the decision becomes if i should step up from the trial

Up to the 3rd section and little if any repetition so far in about 40 levels or so

Mr E wrote: »

I adore this game..... pure unadulterated (hard core) fun. I can't remember a game where I have sworn like a f%&$ing sailor and laughed in equal measures.

Some of those bandages are a bitch to get... I can't imagine what later levels are going to be like.

You said it, when I do a new level I get pretty far then die, after that 1st run I find I die more quickly as I'm thinking about it too much, or quick on the trigger to get back into it making 10 suicide leaps in a row at one point

Those bandages f@#k sake :mad:, i suspect some are not actually obtainable until you unlock some characters and go back? I just got Gish and netted a few with him.

cherryghost · 20-10-2010 10:41pm

Just been playing it there. Fairly decent! Good fun, only other platformer this year besides SMG2 that I really enjoyed

johnny_ultimate · 21-10-2010 2:43am

This game makes ne cry wonderful tears of pain.

The bandages are so near, yet so unbearably far!

Sabre0001 · 21-10-2010 10:09am

Tough enough game and I've only really started! As said above, it's not cheap though in the way that you die...Great challenges added with the bandages and the requirement to get an A+ to unlock the Dark world (a challenge unto themselves!).

Definately a few grrr moments - had done the first couple of levels and saw that it shows a replay of your runs - ok but not very interesting. Once I hit a level where I was dying it became necessary to pass and then the replay was quite a cool touch - seeing that I only made close to the end twice (and relived that painful moment of falling short once).

NotorietyH · 21-10-2010 10:10am

johnny_ultimate wrote: »

This game makes ne cry wonderful tears of pain.

The bandages are so near, yet so unbearably far!

The best is when you finally grab the bandage you've spent the last half an hour trying to get only to run straight into a saw as you land.

calex71 · 21-10-2010 11:11am

Aghhhhhhhhhhh this is driving me insane.

And those warp zone levels, breeze through the 1st 2 and then rapidly lose your 3 lives.

Sabre0001 · 21-10-2010 7:45pm

hmmm....I appear to have lost some progress! Highly irritating...

calex71 · 21-10-2010 8:00pm

Sabre0001 wrote: »

hmmm....I appear to have lost some progress! Highly irritating...

Are you using the new xbox dashboard? Same thing happened to me back to the 2nd world, among other issue I have with that dash :mad:

NotorietyH · 21-10-2010 9:00pm

My new obsession with it is now the leaderboards, have been going back to the earlier stages to try and improve my times, going to try and get par time in all the dark world stages too up until the point when I finally turn insane.

Mr E · 21-10-2010 9:17pm

I found that if you quit to dash, you can lose progress. Exit the game through the menu system.

I also had an issue where I was downloading Costume Quest while playing, and it kicked me out to the main menu when the game finished downloading (so don't download while playing)

johnny_ultimate · 21-10-2010 10:28pm

Mr E wrote: »

I also had an issue where I was downloading Costume Quest while playing, and it kicked me out to the main menu when the game finished downloading (so don't download while playing)

Yeah that's happened to me twice when stuff was downloading in the background. Strange and annoying glitch!

Josey Wales · 24-10-2010 9:49am

Has there been any mention of this game coming to the PSN?

valleyoftheunos · 24-10-2010 1:18pm

They said during development that it would never come to PSN, not sure why they were so adamant.

Josey Wales · 24-10-2010 1:20pm

valleyoftheunos wrote: »

They said during development that it would never come to PSN, not sure why they were so adamant.

Well it might just be my first purchase on Wii Ware if that is true. Although I'd much rather PSN for the Trophies.

WolfForager · 24-10-2010 1:33pm

Probably too lazy to port it to suit the cell. Pretty stupid stance imo.

valleyoftheunos · 24-10-2010 1:39pm

WolfForager wrote: »

Probably too lazy to port it to suit the cell. Pretty stupid stance imo.

I doubt they are too lazy, the two guys built the game pretty much on their own it seems to have been a real labour of love. I'm sure their reason is entirely stupid if it isn't a deal with Microsoft.

johnny_ultimate · 24-10-2010 3:59pm

The second level in the

Jill

unlock warpzone (after I had to google how to use her special ability since the game didn't tell me!) is the closest I've come to TV breaking yet. And then along came the second boss, which kept throwing more and more death traps at me. But the pure joy of finally making it - and the game isn't unfair, you're just **** - makes it all worthwhile.

I love this game: it's like getting punched in the face, but in the nicest way possible.

CiDeRmAn · 24-10-2010 5:55pm

A cracking game alright, I like the persistent blood left after you expire!
But isn't it all very like N+ on the DS?
You're a tiny ninja jumping around perilous levels, finding switches to open the exit.
Well worth a look until Super Meat Boy gets to the DS, which it surely must!

NotorietyH · 24-10-2010 7:07pm

CiDeRmAn wrote: »

A cracking game alright, I like the persistent blood left after you expire!
But isn't it all very like N+ on the DS?
You're a tiny ninja jumping around perilous levels, finding switches to open the exit.
Well worth a look until Super Meat Boy gets to the DS, which it surely must!

N+ is on Xbox Live too.

Super Meat Boy is coming to the Wii and PC too apparently.

Super Meat Boy

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