Super Meat Boy!

YES It’s Super Meat Boy! This game is hard as heck, even a chapter is called Hell in this game. I guess a couple of pictures won’t spoil the gameplay right? Still, spoiler alert!

Somehow I enjoy indie games much these days. I found that Black Ops is rather boring. Go out there, shoot few dudes, get surrounded, shoot more and level complete! Rinse and repeat for about… 12 times? I don’t know, I haven’t even finished the game yet.

Getting started.

Looks lame? Think again.

For the introduction, you are a boy made out of meat (I don’t know how to put that) and you have a girlfriend called Bandage Girl. She loves you and you love her, typical story. Then there’s Dr.Fetus who is jealous of Meat Boy because he’s forever alone and nobody likes him. So he beat you up and kidnaps your girlfriend away. You just have to save your girlfriend.

Gameplay is rather simple. It’s a platform jumping game. The challenge comes when it’s filled with chainsaws, instant death spots, super long jump, etc. just made the elements of surprise being present at all times.

There are multiple characters which some need to be unlocked via Warp Zones that could be found throughout the game or just plainly collecting bandages. Each character have their own special attribute. Meat Boy has speed.

You play on “light side” which is necessary to have 17 out of 20 levels to be completed per world to get to the next world. There is this optional time-critical objective that gets you a Grade A for each level. When you do achieve it, you’ll get to play the “dark side” of the world which is very much harder and complicated.

This is from a level in the world “Hell”, light side.

It might look impossible, but as I said the game’s mechanism is made just right. You CAN beat the game with only Meat Boy alone. The jumping length/duration, the time needed/taken/required are all made and meant for Meat Boy alone. Other characters can still beat the game, but might be harder, impossible or prohibited on some levels, such as boss levels.

The level looks impossible, but you can beat the game. No problem on that.

Some jumps just look ridiculous, but yes you can pass the chainsaws.

As this game really requires faith in what you can do, it does test on your skills too.

The jump is possible, just leap away from the building and stick back to the building above the chainsaw. Not impossible.

There are enemies too. Those white slugs are just constantly moving blobs. That red face though, chases to eat you alive. Dropping into those white things will cause death too =(

Time to show off some impossible jumps of the game.

You need to leap through the gap between the chainsaws from the left wall to the right wall to get up. This is on the dark side of the first world.

Rotating chainsaws. Just get to the opposite side. This is also the dark side of the first world.

After playing this game for hours, I’ll have to vote this game the hardest game. Seriously.

Don’t mind this anyway.

Someone made a comic which I think it’s true. I don’t know how many times I died in the game. Perhaps 600?? I guess it’s more than that.

It speaks the truth.

Did I mention that this game is a game of faith? Have trust in yourself that you can make it through the impossibilities, and eventually you will. I got past majority part of the game and I'm enjoying it. I barely got through half of Black Ops. Seriously.