Super Meat Boy

Seeing as there are no threads for this (at least to my knowledge), I figured I'll stick it here.

Anyways, to be honest, it's a tough choice between getting the Steam version or the Non-Steam version. The former has a headcrab while the latter has the black goo. Either way, the whole PC/Mac crowd still gets the Minecraft guy (among others) while everybody gets The Kid (again, among others), and there are two more slots for PC/Mac-exclusive characters (I hope one of them would be P. B. Winterbottom). FYI, to the PC/Mac crowd, preorders start next week ($10).

edited 17th Nov '10 4:33:02 PM by WartysNeryon

DLC released.

I prepurchased this just now on Steam. I cannot fucking wait for thanksgiving. It's been a long time since I've looked forward to a game this much.

It's a really awesome game.

I like how Dr.Fetus beats the crap out of Bandage Girl for no reason at the end of each stage.

Preordered the Steam version. I'm ready to have my teeth pulled, one by one, by this game.

Same here.

In regards to the two remaining slots, Run Man and Naija seems to be the confirmed PC/Mac characters.

Just in case you want the soundtrack, it's only four bucks here.

Naija? How exactly would that work out?

If your steam copy appears to have disappeared, don't panic. The appid changed for it from 40809 to 40800, which kind of fucked with the system. A restart of steam should be all you need to have it reappear.

doublepost for IMPORTANT NEWS

Direct2Drive has pushed their release dated to the first of December, and Steam's servers are having serious issues doing pretty much anything right now. It'd be a pretty safe bet that we're going to have to wait until tomorrow unless things turn around.

PETA is at it again! Haven't tried Super Tofu Boy yet, so I'm not sure if this reaches the same So Bad It's Good quality of Cooking Mama: Mama Kills Animals.

. . . How do these people manage to completely miss the point of the characters? He's not a sponsor for meat. He's just a video game character harkening back to the days when the plot was an excuse to start jumping around and get to the end.

Hell, one of the end-of-level quotes from the Flash prototype states the increased cancer risk from eating x amount of red meat a day.

The most recent post on the SMB blog suggests that Edmund is kind of to blame for that.

Tofu boy is going to be in SMB

Hello TV tropes,

My name is Flyingdingo0827 and I have just played "Super Tofu Boy" which was previously linked to this forum. After spending a couple of minutes playing I have come to one conclusion.

it's fucking terrible

The first thing you'll notice about STB is how horrible the controls are. When you get control of Tofu boy, you'll notice how sensitive the controls are. SFB will run at top speed no matter how hard you press the button which can fuck you up immensely when you have to gently walk over the edge of a platform while dodging dangerous objects on the way down. You'll also notice how hard it is to move in a given direction whenever you jump straight up. Lastly, you'll notice how horrible the wall jump is, for some reason whenever you wall jump, Tofu boy will always jump diagonally which will cause you to have several unnecessary deaths due to Tofu boy jumping too far up or to the side.

In addition to this, the level design seems to be almost completely copied from meat boy's (the flash one not the console version) level design which doesn't work as well when you factor in the horrible controls. In addition to this, you'll only be able to play in three world with three levels with one or two bonus levels to keep you coming back. This shows the designers laziness more than anything else when you compare it to (super) meat boy which more than 5 times the levels per world (not including the bonus levels) even though it was made by two people.

The music is also seemingly copied from the meat boy soundtrack without any of the quality. Throughout the entire game, you'll only hear a small handful of songs with one song being played for every single level of the game.

The graphics are, of course, poorly made and copied wholesale from meat boy. Tofu boy simply looks like a white meat boy, bandage girl's sprite is merely a simple sprite taken from meat boy, and the rotten meat boy and dr. fetus simply look like bastardizations of their former selves. The background images are also simply pictures of the inside of a slaughterhouse with mild variations in between. Overall though, the background never changes from a blood splattered room with meat hanging from a hook. In addition to this, the graphics can sometime cause serious lag with the game which makes an already horrible game even worse.

Overall though, the game tries and fails at being a parody and a game period. This game takes super meat boy and dissects everything that made the game fun. Between the horrible controls, fake difficulty, shitty graphics, shitty music, and the level design, there's nothing that can thoroughly make this game enjoyable. Avoid this game at all costs (unless your into playing horrible games of course) and save yourself unnecessary rage and frustration.

If you want to play a good game however, go play the original meat boy here http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/463241 or play Super Meat Boy over XBLA, Steam, or Wiiware.

And that's all I have to say on the subject.

Have a nice day

-Flyingdingo0827

P.S. sorry for the long post but seriously don't play this game.

edited 2nd Dec '10 11:10:52 AM by flyingdingo0827

Actually, SMB isnt' going to be on Wii Ware because they had trouble fitting the whole game into 40 MB of space.

If they release it on the Wii at all, it'll be retail.

Aw fuck.

Wait. It was a master troll sequence?

. . . *claps*

The developers played PETA like a violin. Wow.

Just tried playing as Tofu boy.

For those of you who didn't take a look at Team Meat's blog: He can't even finish the first stage. Like... at all.

I mean, he can finish other stages, sure, but it takes a shitload of work.

edited 3rd Dec '10 12:12:28 AM by Shlapintogan

Owned.

Wow.

Eventually I'll get this game for Steam. For now, Bit Trip!

I'm on the last boss.

edited 28th Dec '10 1:35:02 PM by IngMarx

The last boss is pretty damn hard, but I finally beat it today. But no... it's not finished yet...

That said, a real fun game, and I'm glad I got it at the Steam Sale.

edited 28th Dec '10 3:21:42 PM by WartysNeryon

I'm currently stuck on the last boss. I'm not even going to try to unlock The Kid yet.

Any advice?

edited 29th Dec '10 9:50:52 AM by Torquey

Holy Carp, this game is awesome! That said, I have apparently lost all the (miniscule) experience I've had with "break your head against the wall"-style jump-n-runners I've gained through repeat deaths in IWBTG, sadly. It's still awesome, though.