Comments on: Tip: Meat is Murder. Tasty, Tasty Murder...

Tip: Meat is Murder. Tasty, Tasty Murder...

Del Far — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 15:20:41 -0800

Some more Flash Friday Fun! Edmund McMillen, creator of indie platforming physics-based game darling Gish and "Experimental game" Aether has a new game called Meat Boy, about a chunky block of meat with a face and appendages, he must rescue his girlfriend, Bandaid Girl, from the clutches of the bad guy. To that end, Meat Boy must travel through more than 56 levels spanning four chapters.

By: GuyZero

GuyZero — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 15:28:24 -0800

argh wall jumping is hard.

By: aliasless

aliasless — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 15:44:00 -0800

Not bad. I did in fact rage quit on the projectile level. LOL at the premise.

By: anthill

anthill — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 15:52:07 -0800

The control scheme is pretty tricky, there's an acceleration component to it that doesn't forgive slow reflexes. Also rage quit on the 2nd salt factory level.

By: schyler523

schyler523 — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 15:56:14 -0800

That's where I quit anthill...it fun until then. Good premise.

By: xchmp

xchmp — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 16:36:07 -0800

I really enjoyed this one (finished it a couple of weeks ago, then went back and collected all the band-aids). I did initially quit on the salt factory, and the guided missiles in the Hell levels do get really annoying, but it's definitely one of the best flash games I've played recently. It's has very similar mechanics to N, and I'd played my way through most of that, so it didn't take long to get used to this one. I think there's two responses that people have to these tricky and frustrating games. Lots of people quit when it gets past a certain point of annoyance. The exact same feeling will make others spend far too many hours beating the damn thing. In some way it's like a personal affront. Neverball is another good example of this. I should really avoid even starting to play these kinds of games. Between N and Neverball there's at least a hundred hours of my life that I'll never get back. Fortunately, Meat Boy was only a single long evening.

By: Durn Bronzefist

Durn Bronzefist — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 16:52:35 -0800

I actually thought they made the wall jumping easier than they had to, since you don't even have to time your spacebar hit with the jump, but rather press it between jumps for a nice continuous climb. Quit at the salt factory, but not bad. Good music.

By: fuzzypantalones

fuzzypantalones — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 19:32:42 -0800

i wish there was a music = off button.

By: juv3nal

juv3nal — Sat, 25 Oct 2008 03:31:05 -0800

meat boy's secret "hot coffee" ending.