Review: Super Meat Boy (Nintendo Switch)
Super Meat Boy is a tough as nails platformer where you play as an animated cube of meat who’s trying to save his girlfriend, who happens to be made of bandages.
Pros:
- Awesome cartoon graphics.
- 203MB Download size.
- Opening tutorial with an optional how to play section in the menu.
- Statistics show off total deaths and progress in both light and dark worlds and overall.
- Simple control layout.
- 12 characters to unlock.
- Collectibles- Plasters or bandages that are used to unlock the characters.
- World map level select.
- Can replay levels.
- Can save replays- Has a replay manager.
- Dark world is a harder version of the light world.
- Instant respawns upon death.
- Difficult platforming race against time.
- Race mode for 2 players offline play.
- Race mode has two game options- Normal- choose a dark/ light chapter and off you go. The second option is random which is a case of picking random levels from a certain chapter or all unlocked levels.
- Responsive controls.
- Levels show the best time.
- Full online leaderboards.
- Helps players learn how to swear with force.
- Big boss battles.
- Addictive.
- Perfect for a handheld.
- In the race, you can collect plasters to skip or warp levels.
- Likeable characters.
- Tight level design.
- Speedrunners playground.
- Multiple ways to finish a level.
- Surprisingly easy to get into but hard to put down.
Cons:
- No touchscreen support.
- Only one layout for the controller.
- Difficult.
- Tricky to use a Joycon unless you have hands the size of an Action man hands.
