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Super Meat Boy
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When his beloved Bandage Girl is kidnapped by the evil Dr. Fetus, the diminutive yet plucky Meat Boy springs into action!
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"Super Meat Boy hates you, but don't let that stop you from loving every minute of this hilarious, over-the-top platformer from Hell."
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SUPER MEAT BOY REVIEW – A PERSPECTIVE EIGHT YEARS ON

Super squidgy platforming Edmund McMillen and Tommy Refenes are the talented duo working under the Team Meat banner and have not only brought us one of the best 2D platformers ever made, but one of th… Read more

Hardcore fun

There are many indie platformers that are good, but this one stands out. Super Meat Boy is a unique game, inspiried by many popular platformers. It consists of small levels that are super hard, each w… Read more

The Art of “Simplicity” is Very Much Alive in Gaming; Team Meat Delivers.

Following a fleshed down black and white intro of our characters, raging guitars and pounding drums, Super Meat Boy the game immediately greets us to our bloody crusader – Super Meat Boy ! Instantly,… Read more

Super Meat Boy for Linux: Masocore for the Masses

I’ve yet to see Indie Game: The Movie . This is probably a sad state of affairs, and puts me at something of an informational disadvantage to people who are passionate about Team Meat’s debut title Su… Read more

Torture Porn

Super Meat boy was never on my radar till I watched Brad's Quicklook on GiantBomb.com. I, like many others, am a fan of Super Mario Brothers and all other 2D platformers that control very well. So aft… Read more

This Game Is Great.

Is this game frustratingly hard? Yes. Is this game quirky and you feel accomplished beating it? Yes. Should you buy this game? Yes. My experience for Super Meat Boy is one of pure, frustrating, fun. S… Read more

Do you Crave the Challenge?

Find Mario a bit to easy? Well then let Super Meat Boy whip you into shape, with levels that are both difficult and satisfying to beat. Don't get me wrong, this game is great, but for people who are n… Read more

Welcome to platformer hell

One of the biggest XBLA indie games of the year, Super Meat Boy is an exceptional example of difficult gameplay done perfect. It is easily a must-buy for the system. What did you love about the game?… Read more

The meat shall inherit the Earth.

I love it I love it I love it I love it I love it I love it I love it I love it I love it I love it I love it I love it I hate it I hate it I hate it I hate it I hate it I HATE IT I HATE IT I HATE IT… Read more

old school

Super meat Boy is very fun game but VERY HARD!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!! It's a old school plateform game. You make an error, you die and you restart the level. If you will finish this game in 100%, you must… Read more

The Holy Of Holy

my god is this game HARD i mean it took me 2 months to finish half of this game that's longer than any game i've play in a while i still can't finish the cotton alley but MY GOD! the music is great, t… Read more

Varied, challenging and hilarious, this is a superb plattformer.

At first glance, Super Meat Boy may seem like the kind of plattformer that will have you exercising in frustration. It throws just about every obstacle and hazard imaginable at you, from buzzsaws to h… Read more

Infuriatingly difficult, yet ridiculously addictive.

Super Meat Boy is, very simply, psychotic. That’s the only way I can even hope to start describing it. It was clearly designed by total sadists with the blackest of hearts whose days must usually be f… Read more

Fun, Challenging and Infinitely Rewarding

For a while now I’ve been worrying more and more about the movement of the games industry towards the casual market. The existence of this trend is pretty much indisputable nowadays, with the introduc… Read more

enter the meat dimension

Super Meat Boy is the latest in the frustrating but satisfying genre of masochistic platformers. Initially shown as a flash game super meat boy is a tough, tough game that requires incredible precisio… Read more

SquishSquishSquishSquishSquishSquish

Super Meat Boy is nothing short of a getting-hopped-up-on-drugs-and-having-your-teeth-kicked-in-by-a-horse experience. Sure it's painful, but that doesn't stop you from laughing, or really even enjoyi… Read more

The Meat That Can't Be Beat...

Super Meat Boy (SMB) can come off as if it is nothing more than a simple platformer falling back on its retro roots. Everything from the visuals, the music, and its humor can lead you into its spider… Read more

Hell Yes!

Super Meat Boy is one of the major indie games of 2010. This is very surprising especially when looking at the difficulty level of this game. This is literally is right on the top of the hardest games… Read more

Challenging and Rewarding

This is easily the most challenging fun I've had for a long long time. The levels are mostly quite short but very rewarding and the gameplay is very addicive especially because of the fast load times… Read more

Are you man enough to be a meat boy?

Probably the one review I was not looking forward to. Not the game itself which I'll get to but rather my opinion of it. Just like Braid and Limbo, Super Meat Boy's review have been through the roof w… Read more

Masochistic fun.

This generation of games has been nice for indie game developers, the scene is becoming increasingly more democratic with digital distribution, that's a good thing for gamers since there are many tale… Read more

The Classic Struggle Between Meat Boy and Evil Fetus

Super Meat Boy is a furiously challenging 2D platformer. It features over 200 levels that constantly test the player’s thumb-eye coordination and perseverance. To those who can muster the will to atte… Read more

Super Meat Boy: Full of Fuzzy Animals and Cotton Candy!

Super Meat Boy could be described as a platformer, but that wouldn’t be quite accurate; this game is more of a masochism simulator with an indie platformer’s skin. Whatever genre it falls under, SMB i… Read more

First Impressions: Super Meat Boy

First Impressions: Super Meat Boy My initial assessment of Super Meat Boy (now available on Steam for PC ) is that it's everything that it was hyped up to be when it was originally released for XBLA.… Read more

The beauty is when all those botched jumps pay off...

Dr Fetus strikes again Super Meat Boy pays homage to old-skool gaming in many ways, but unlike many tribute acts, it isn’t a one-trick-pony that tries to dig in with the hooks of nostalgia. The steady… Read more

Where that time of the month is all the time!

While I do tend to talk a fair share about video games to the people in my life, I try to skew the conversation towards the interests of said person. My macho-would-be-tough-guy friends will hear abou… Read more

I love this game!

If you can't tell from the title of this then you should probably stop reading this. I do honestly love this game, the cute retro design, the 8-bit mania, the fact you play as a cube of meat fighting… Read more

Super Meat Boy Is Bloody Great Fun!

No, the title wasn't to highlight the fact I'm British, it was a bad pun to highlight how awesome 'Super Meat Boy' is! You'd think I was a masochist by saying how much I love this game, because it's j… Read more

You'll Enjoy Every Rage Inducing Moment

I don’t what it is about the game genre of ‘ Masocore ’ fascinating. I am as easily frustrated with not being able to progress through a game because of an impossible boss or asshole level design. Rea… Read more

If the Devil designed a video game...

...it might look something like Super Meat Boy. Everyone knows this is a tough game, believe the hype. It needs to be said that while it is tough, it is not cheap. You do not feel like the game is kil… Read more

Worst game of the year.

Welcome to Super Meat Boy. Super Meat Boy attempts to be a throwback to classic gaming. The creators attempted to make an old school styled platform game with a over the top level of difficulty. Howev… Read more

Meet Meat Boy

Super Meat Boy hates you. It literally hates you. The game punishes you for purchasing it and that's actually a good thing. Super Meat Boy is a game that pushes you to the very edge of your sanity but… Read more

Super Meat Boy hates you ( but it's awesome )

For those who don't know, I'm a huge fan of indie games. In the past 2 or 3 years, I've probably had more fun with indie developed PC and XBLA games than almost any $60 retail release you could name.… Read more

Difficult Done Right

Super Meat Boy is a fast paced platformer that balances intricately difficult levels littered with spikes, saws, and other instakill obstacles with tight controls, instant death respawns, and bite siz… Read more

Super Meat Boy Review

By -- Craig H. Super Meat Boy describes itself as a “tough-as-nails” platformer and rightfully so. The game is punishingly hard but you can’t help but keep playing. The satisfaction of completing each… Read more

Most fun you can have bashing your head against a wall...

Let me start off by saying that Super Meat Boy is an evil fucking game. Let me follow that up by saying it's the most fun i remember having with a game in quite some time. SMB will make you hate yours… Read more

Super Meat Boy Review

When I first saw this game I thought it would be just like any other plat former over the years. I was really excited for it and when I saw the first game play my heart dropped. For a while I didn’t f… Read more

One more try

Super Meat Boy is a platformer that makes you cry as much as it makes you laugh. This is definitely a game that demands a download of the free trial before purchase because you'll either love it or ha… Read more

One of the best games in XBL

Everything about this game just oozes quality. Sure it is hard but the overall polish is clearly visible. I got this yesterday and played almost two worlds with my friend watching and even he who hasn… Read more

the most hardcore of all games and this game sucks aha

so sicknick or whatever that guy that review this game he say it is the best game but then i downloaded it and it made my dick hurt what is this stupid shit if i want a hardcore game i play halo reach… Read more

The wrost game of the year.

This game blows. Do you like paying $15 to play an overglorified flash game with generic chip tunes and all the appeal of a 13 year old pretending they liked the Super Nintendo? Then this is the game… Read more

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