Oct 03, 2015 Super Meat Boy is finally coming to Sony platforms next week, but the game PlayStation owners will experience is slightly different than the one that. Jan 12, 2018 Super Meat Boy (NS) – the platformer from hell. One of the best indie platformers ever made makes a victory lap on the Switch, with a brand new two-player mode.
Overview
Switch eShop
- 11th Jan 2018 (US/Canada), $14.99
- 11th Jan 2018 (UK/EU/AU), £11.99
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A meaty adventure
Stop us if you've heard this one before; Switch just got a port of a last-gen classic and it's selling like hotcakes. Super Meat Boy is the latest success story on Nintendo's latest hardware, despite having released on Wii U late in 2016. SMB is the brainchild of Binding Of
About The Game
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 in a jar wearing a tux.
Our meaty hero will leap from walls, over seas of buzz saws, through crumbling caves and pools of old needles. Sacrificing his own well being to save his damsel in distress. Super Meat Boy brings the old school difficulty of classic titles and stream lines them down to the essential no BS straight forward twitch reflex platforming.
Ramping up in difficulty from hard to soul crushing SMB will drag Meat boy though haunted hospitals, salt factories and even hell itself. And if 300+ single player levels weren't enough SMB also throws in epic boss fights, tons of unlockable secrets, warp zones and hidden characters.
And now coming first to Nintendo Switch™ is a brand new way to play Super Meat Boy with your friends. Introducing 'RACE MODE'! In this 2 player split screen race, friends (or enemies) can compete against each other through individual chapters, randomized levels, or the entire game! Choose light world, dark world, or both and have at it. Side effects may include: elevated heartbeat, severe anxiety, hubris, and schadenfreude.
Developer: Team Meat
Publisher: BlitWorks
Platform: Nintendo Switch (eShop)
Category: Platformer, Action & Adventure
Release Date: 11th of January, 2018 (EU & NA)
Slapping the meat one more time.
Super Meat Boy has now ascended to a point where you can find it on any platform. Similar to Sonic, similar to Doom, similar to Street Fighter II. If it isn’t on a platform, people question why. Now it seems like for the release on Switch, it’s the version to go for first.
I first came across Meat Boy in 2010 in passing when a housemate had pre-ordered it on his Xbox, and after that I owned it on macOS, PS4 and now Switch. Made by Tommy Refenes and Ed McMillen who called themselves Team Meat, they featured making the game in Indie Game: The Movie, which only made me want to buy it again. Mainly just from their passion for games and wanting to go for it. If you haven’t come across the game in its release on the Xbox 360 back in 2010, you control a slab of meat across five worlds, which, while easy to start with, you will be shouting at the screen eventually. For this game, it’s an inevitability.
The ‘story’ is heavily inspired from Mario, where the antagonist Dr. Fetus has kidnapped Meat’s girlfriend ‘Bandage Girl’, and it is up to you to go through five worlds, 4 bosses, and the (for now) final showdown. Each world gives you an intro movie, where it’s either a love letter to Castlevania or Ninja Gaiden. There are even additional levels where the difficulty is multiplied and the potential screams against the screen are as well, but the rewards do result in being able to play different characters with different abilities. You can collect bandages across the levels which allow you to claim these characters, and yet again it gives you the replayability.
The controls couldn’t be simpler, with the **ZR trigger** held down to run with the analogue stick, and the **A** button to jump anywhere you wish and to slide on walls when needed. Even on the Joy-Cons Controllers, no matter in what style you play them, in nunchuck mode or handheld, it plays great. There’s next to no latency and you’ll have no trouble in grabbing the walls and jumping between two blades already covered in red. I recently bought an 8BITDO SNES Pro controller, and it’s now the best of both worlds for me. Using the D-Pad and those coloured buttons almost takes me into an alternate 1994, where Meat Boy is highly rated in GamesMaster magazine alongside Sonic Mania on the Saturn in their review section.
The control is perfect, the shoulder buttons to help run and jump across vast distances, have no delayed latency on them, and there’s no extra weight. Even though there’s rumble, dual analogue sticks, and those extra shoulder buttons. As I’m trying to work my way through the extra hard versions of the levels, using this controller for them helps, and it does make me think I’m almost playing it on a SNES. Even though there wasn’t a multiplayer mode specifically, you could easily take it in turns with whoever was with you, and easily compare your times on the leaderboards. But now there’s something where you can really call it a 2 player game.
The new mode is simply called ‘**Race**’. This splits the screen down the middle, and gives two players the opportunity to, surprisingly, race against one another across the levels. You can track each of your progress by a bar that overlays the screen at the top. This was incredibly fun playing with the partner one evening, and even having the opportunity to play it on the train commute, the screen space for this is well-designed. Compared to Bomberman’s tabletop mode, it’s a godsend.
Conclusion:
For £11.99, it’s a cheap deal for a game that will keep you going for months. Whether that’s collecting the bandages, achieving ‘**A+**’ grades on all levels, or just playing with a friend, either in the new Race mode or just taking turns, you can’t help but enjoy it. I haven’t even mentioned the other hidden levels, but I’d rather you just found it out for yourself. We’re in an age where barely anything is a secret. Play through this without knowing anything. If there’s an opening on a ledge, go for it. If you find a purple swirl, see where it takes you. When it comes to Switch, it seems as though it is the version it was made for after eight years. To be on a console that sits next to Mario Odyssey, Sonic Mania and Zelda: Breath of the Wild on the Switch home screen almost makes it seem as though it’s made the game and Team Meat go full circle from 2010. The sequel is (hopefully) coming this year, to even more platforms, including iOS. Whether it will live up to the original and be its own Empire Strikes Back remains to be seen. But for now, reminisce or just discover Super Meat Boy on the console that it seems as though it was destined to be on
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Recommended
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