LogFAQs > #948416000

World 3 is called Salt Factory, and it lives up to its name. Actually I got through it without too much trouble. It took me around half an hour and I got almost all the A+ rankings, but just about none of the bandages. I even beat the boss on the first try! It's a rival battle race sort of deal, after which Dr. Fetus cutscene-murders Meat Boy and he goes to Hell. It's a little reminiscent of God of War, but the intro for that world directly recreates that of the original Ninja Gaiden. I thought world 4 was a noticeable step up in difficulty, though the worst parts were isolated to a small handful of levels. I think 4-10 was pretty rough, and I know I had trouble with 4-20. That one was a long sequence of individual rooms, with the worst one being a lava room around the middle where you have to quickly slide down a wall and then back up again to get to the other side before the room fills up and kills you. At first it seemed like the room would start filling when Meat Boy went inside, but on further attempts it looked like it would periodically move up and down regardless of where the player was in the level, so the key to getting through was to enter while the lava was in the process of draining.

The boss in world 4 is a giant Meat Boy formed out of the corpses of all the meat boys who have died up to this point in the game. It's basically just a process of pattern memorization, since it always uses the same attacks in the same order. Once you dodge it for long enough it just dies.

Yesterday I had been playing with my keyboard, which was a mistake. Things started going a little better when I switched to using a PS3 controller, though I still find some parts of the controls a little awkward. I actually finished worlds 3 and 4 slightly faster than 1 and 2, though the main reason for that is that I haven't done the dark world versions of any past the first.

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I'm playing every game from GotD 2020! Games Completed: 12/129
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