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Super Meat Boy
Release Date: October 20, 2010
Playing on: PC
Previous Experience with Meat Boy: Watched a Let's Play
Expectations for Meat Boy: A good platformer, but too hard

I still remember my first Edmund Macmillan game: it was Clubby the Seal. I think it was my brother who found it first, randomly surfing Newgrounds. That was a simple flash game where you played a seal who clubbed humans to death and skinned them, possibly as an act of revenge. Edmund has come a long way from such humble beginnings, since Super Meat Boy and Binding of Isaac are two really influential little indie games, but Clubby gave a good flavor of what he'd do from then on. His games are simple, tightly designed, and whimsically dark. Meat Boy is possibly a man turned inside out while Isaac is a perpetually naked child picking through dark, ugly places. Actually there's some neat storytelling in his games, Isaac especially. I should probably save this topic for later, but that game is sort of implicitly about an imaginative kid coping with neglect, abuse, and self-loathing through fantasy, which it portrays in a subtle, sad kind of way. I don't think Meat Boy has as much context behind it, but I do think it's cool how its backgrounds progress from a sunny day on an open field to some kind of apocalypse.

This is one of those games, the same type as VVVVVV. Everything kills you in one hit, you respawn super quickly, and it's intended that you'll rack up hundreds of deaths. There's even a cool little feature where when you finally complete a level it replays all your attempts at once. I think I'll like this game, but I'm not really an aficionado of those games, and a part of me is a little worried I'll get frustrated.

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