![]() To add to Super Meat Boy’s quirks are the titles of the levels themselves, showcasing a playful admiration for creativity in its references, which range from metal bands such as Boris and Mastodon to cult film directors like David Lynch and Alejandro Jodorowsky. The graphics cover a wide variety of styles to original Gameboy graphics, to high definition B+W silhouettes. The cutscenes are hilarious the wonderfully animated expressions convey Meatboy's emotions perfectly, and the music suits the game's tone, almost giving you a beat to match your rhythm and timing as you make your precise little jumps. But once you manage to get that bandaid, beat that level, or move up in the rankings, the sense of accomplishment is enormously rewarding The game charms extend outside of the gameplay as well. The game is highly replayable in this regard, because in addition to trying to earn A+ ranks on a level, there’s 101 bandages to collect spread across the game, ramping up the difficulty even further for those interested, even to sometimes frustrating degrees. Even after you've mastered a level, there's always this nagging sense of competition coming from the game's online leaderboards, challenging the player to discover new shortcuts or utilize different characters in order to shave off just a few milliseconds from a run. This challenge helps motivate the player to keep going, to give a particularly difficult stage just “one more go”. The difficulty is brutal, but it's honestly a bit refreshing to see a game come along with such a high level of challenge. ![]() The controls really add sense of seamlessness as well, in that there's never a moment where you feel as if you've been cheated out of a victory. To start things off, no matter if your time is spent dying repeatedly or beating levels consecutively, the game flows together seamlessly. ![]() ![]() It's squishy, lovable and full of life, and it’s platforming at it’s very best. 100% Xbox 360Super Meat Boy is a wildly inventive, sadistically challenging, and extremely competitive game. ![]()
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