Super Meat Boy Forever

If you were a huge fan of Super Meat Boy, like me, you will be extremely disappointed with this game. It's like they took all the parts of Super Meat Boy that made the game AMAZING, and lit them on fire and let them burn to nothing but ashes. I can't help but wonder if the game would have been great had Edmund McMillen remained a part of Team Meat. I will admit that I was not aware of the fact that this was going to be an auto runner game where you don't control Meat Boy's movement. You can only jump, dash, and attack (maybe one or two situational other buttons). After getting over the initial wave of disappointment at this game's mechanics, I gave it an honest try. I still hated it. There were times that the randomly generated levels seemed to be made in a way that it could not be completed. Like a mistake had been made. After my 3rd encounter with one of these situations, I closed the game, and got a refund. 1.5 out of 10. Can not recommend unless you are a giant fan of games like RUNNER.

I was super excited for Super Meat Boy (taking) Forever to hit EPIC Store on Dec 23. So I made the leap of faith and just bought it without knowing anything about it outside of loving part one immensely for its challenging but always very fair gameplay. So, should you be excited for Super Meat Boy Forever? It depends on if you can live with the controls! First, the good: they kept the original comical over-the-top humor of the first Super Meat Boy, down to the last charming sharp line art, graphic settings can go up to 4K natively, making this super crisp. A perfect fit for the comic style art. The music and atmosphere are a great continuation from part one. It's super challenging again - read: throw your controller at the screen - hard (again). Levels are procedurally generated. Yes. No Sawblade will ever be the same on all your playthroughs. Controls are sharp and responsive.... ... but you can only control jumping and ducking... the game does the "running" for you! It's an auto runner. Meaning you cannot control the direction nor even the speed of your meaty protagonist. Outside of being stopped by a straight 90° wall, there's no stopping. After trying to overcome my sincere dislike of this for an hour, I put away my controller in disgust. Seems I just cannot like the "Auto" anything genre, outside of its use on mobile phones with limited input options, and even then it's a big "meh" for me. A mobile iteration is which is what was intended for the game originally as far as I gathered, but losing the ability to directly control the protagonist on the "big platforms" with an actual controller kills the game outright for me on a controller-based platform like console or PC. I do like it's a side scroller now, and procedurally generated, too... but not being able to be in the driver seat here is just not for me. Sorry, Team Meat. I'll be getting this refunded for now.