It really does go back to the decision to make this is an auto-runner with attacks and checkpoints. Without that core competency Super Meat Boy Forever is no where near as impressive as the original. The presentation was a nice tidy bow on what was a gameplay driven experience. But that really wasn’t the original’s strong suit. Fans of the original will not be disappointed by these presentation aspects of the game. The soundtrack, while not quite as good as the Danny Baranowski set of tunes from the original release of SMB, doesn’t feel out of place and feels wholly authentic. Everything has a nicer, cleaner look to it than the previous game. The revamped art style and improved visual fidelity in things like between level cutscenes delivers an impressive style made famous by the original game. With checkpoints, auto-running, and some light combat, the gameplay in SMBF is a stark deviation away from a successful formula.Īside from the shift to using automatic traversal, Super Meat Boy Forever feels like about what you would expect from a follow-up 10 years in the making. The original game was about mastering a level and moving on. It’s almost as if Team Meat didn’t realize what people enjoyed about the original Super Meat Boy and that was the pixel perfect platforming, controls, and moveset of the first game. Unlike the original though, that navigation feels cumbersome due to the autorun nature of the game. Made of meat, the trademark spinning saws, spikes, and other dastardly hazards will splatter you over and over in Super Meat Boy Forever… just like the original. In your way will be a variety of hazards. There are also a slew of level specific moves that can be performed as well. Those abilities are jumping, wall jumping, dashing, punching, sliding, and more. So instead of having control of your character entirely you’ll simply manage a set of abilities as you make your way through each level. For reasons that don’t seem entirely clear, Team Meat made the decision to turn Super Meat Boy Forever into a auto-runner game.

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