Super Meat Boy is Edmund McMillan and Tommy Refenes follow up to McMillan and Jonathan McEntee’s 2008 flash game Meat Boy. Super Meat Boy is a platform game in which you control a small, dark red, cube-shaped character named Meat Boy, who must save his girlfriend Bandage Girl from Dr. Fetus.

The game is divided into chapters, which together contain over 300 levels.You attempt to reach the end of each level, represented by Bandage Girl, while avoiding crumbling blocks, saw blades, and various other fatal obstacles. You can jump and run on platforms, and can jump off or slide down walls. The core gameplay requires fine control and split-second timing, and has been compared to, regarding both gameplay and level of difficulty, traditional platform games such as Super Mario Bros.

The relationship between Bandage Girl and Meat Boy is interesting, because he is just meat and she is effectively skin, so she literally completes him. Be prepared to yell obscenities at your tv, because Super Meat Boy is HARD. It’s so hard that i capitalized hard, but that comes with an extra sense of reward from beating levels. Especially because by beating levels you get to watch all your previous run throughs until only one is standing, it’s sorta hard explaining how rewarding it is.

My only gripe with the game is the sound Meat Boy makes while moving, it’s sort of a squishing sound, it’s probably the most stupid nitpicking thing to complain about i just don’t like. Super Meat Boy was one of the first BLA games to become a hit. With difficult levels that pay off with an extra sense of reward, and extra fun times if you play with friends around it is well worth a play through. -Frankie