They are so much fun! Each one is beautifully animated and hilarious. The sound design is fantastic and adds a heightened sense of urgency to the gameplay and makes every jump or dash feel weighty and impactful. Super Meat Boy actually began as a flash game on Newgrounds way back in the day when it was just Meat Boy so it’s very cool that it’s kept true to its roots. The art design is improved and takes huge inspiration from the classic Weebl’s Stuff and Newgrounds style of animation. Graphics/SoundĮverything in Super Meat Boy Forever is better than its predecessor visually and audibly.
For the modest price of £15.99/$19.99 you are getting a reasonably large amount of game if you want to put the time in. There is even the option of a speedrunner timer if you are into shaving off seconds on total playtimes. There is definitely a good chunk of replayability to be had if you can handle the difficulty of the game. Super Meat Boy Forever can take anywhere from an hour to upwards of five hours without even experiencing the “Dark Levels” or unlocking all of the characters. None of the characters play any different so only completionists will probably put in the time to unlock them all. You start off with Meat Boy and Bandage Girl but unlock characters like Doctor Fetus through random encounters, challenges, level completions and defeating bosses. There are also eighteen characters to play as i n Super Meat Boy Forever. I did complete the game though so I don’t know whether that is on personal merit or the game taking pity on my poor old chubby hands and slow brain. I didn’t notice this at all in my playthrough which either means it was skillfully implemented or doesn’t work. They are by far my highlight of Super Meat Boy Forever.Įach playthrough is seeded and scales to your skill as you progress apparently. The boss battles are a great break from the regular gameplay and some are ingenious. There are regular checkpoints throughout the stages to break up the frustration but getting to the checkpoint doesn’t always feel earned. The auto-running in Super Meat Boy Forever was a huge disappointment to me at first, it takes away a lot of the precision of the game and instead of each stage completion feeling earned they now feel more like luck due to the number of variables you need to line up perfectly to proceed through a section. 50% of your precision and control instantly taken out of your hands as that little blob of meat will now just run, and run he must. That being said you won’t have much time to stop and appreciate the level design as Super Meat Boy Forever’s other big change is now it’s an auto-runner. Super Meat Boy will always be remembered for its genius level design, precise controls and blistering difficulty but in Forever the chapters are procedurally generated which makes each playthrough different but means the level designs don’t feel as deliberate and as well crafted. There is some big changes to the Super Meat Boy formula in Forever that will divide the player base somewhat. For example, there is a minigame which is a throwback to the old “Test Your Might” minigame from Mortal Kombat which I thought is a great bit of fan service. There is also minigames scattered through the chapters that are a love letter to the great minigames from games of the older generations. You also have “Dark” versions of each chapter which ramp up the difficulty and are for the more hardcore of players. These levels are broken into a number of stages which are all procedurally generated, which we will come back to. The campaign is made of six levels, each more difficult than the next and nicely varied.
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Focussing on precision timing, rage-inducing trial & error and a hell of a lot of luck. Super Meat Boy Forever hits a lot of the same notes as its predecessor. The story is told through some brilliantly animated cutscenes which I could just watch on their own to be honest, they’re that entertaining.
After slapping the loving couple about the dastardly Dr Fetus kidnaps Nugget and now we embark on a campaign of paternal revenge to reclaim Nugget from the doctor’s clutches. We rejoin Meat Boy, Bandage Girl and their adorable baby Nugget at a lovely family picnic when the evil Dr Fetus drops by to ruin the day. Super Meat Boy Forever boasts the same insanely difficult precision platforming but with a few twists on the Team Meat formula. Super Meat Boy Forever is the follow up to 2010’s ground(and controller)breaking indie gem Super Meat Boy which changed the landscape for indie games on consoles upon its release.
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