| Super Meat Boy | Team Meat | 2010 | |
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Meat Boy is a small sentient cube of meat. He must rescue his girlfriend Bandage Girl, a girl made of bandages, from Dr. Fetus, a fetus in a jar clad in a tuxedo. This is a fast-paced scrolling platformer based on the earlier 2008 online Flash game Meat Boy. Meat Boy's only abilities are to run, jump, wall jump, and die. As the game's defining feature is its extreme difficulty, he will die a lot. To counteract this, each stage is short -- sometimes only a few seconds, sometimes up to a minute or so -- and upon death the player will immediately be returned to the start for another attempt. If Meat Boy manages to reach Bandage Girl, she is then swept away once more by Dr. Fetus, and the player moves on the next stage. After clearing enough stages in each chapter, the player can then fight the boss of that area, who must be defeated to move on to the next chapter. The game features over 300 stages across seven chapters, including retro-style bonus stages, boss stages, and even higher-difficulty variants of every normal stage in the game. There are also more than a dozen playable characters making guest appearances from other indie games, including the Machinarium robot, Half-Life's headcrab, and Minecraft's Steve. Characters are unlocked either through retro bonus stages hidden within the normal stages, or by collecting bandages hidden in many of the game's levels. The player's best times are recorded for each stage and uploaded to a global leaderboard. Also, after completing a stage, a replay is shown that simultaneously displays every single attempt the player made, which can also be saved. A level editor will be released In December 2010, animal rights organization PETA released a free flash parody of Super Meat Boy called Super Tofu Boy. Team Meat took it as a complement, and in turn added Tofu Boy as a hidden playable character to the PC version the very next day. | ||
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