Tired of sitting down to play a game and beating it with almost no effort on your part because of how easy it is? Then those days are over. Get up and go buy Super Meat Boy on XBLA. No seriously, go. Go! You still here? Ok, if you are, you might as well read why this is one of the best arcade games available on XBLA or anywhere else for that matter. Read more for the full review Now, what is Super Meat Boy? SMB is a platformer created by Team Meat (Edmund McMillen and Jonathan McEntee...just two guys?! I know, impressive!). It's the succesor to a little flash game available on Newgrounds. The story is a very simple one. You are Meat Boy, a little cube of meat, who must save his girlfriend, Bandage Girl, from the clutches of the evil Dr. Fetus.
Microsoft is a little slow this month when it comes to announcing the Games with Gold lineup for June 2022. This has led to the lineup leaking ahead of the announcement.
Super Meat Boy was a Games with Gold title back in 2016..It's leftover Meat from 2016
I actually really enjoyed Aven Colony when it was on Gamepass. I got it for free from Epic Store a few months back.
I’ll give it another go.
"Now that we finally have a sequel to the iconic super-difficult indie platformer, let's examine both and see which one's the meat to beat." - A.J. Maciejewski from Video Chums
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The last decade wasn't the Golden Age of platformers, that's for sure, but there were still many great games. Check out Wccftech's shortlist!
They put Celeste in the honorable mentions. Such a shame, this game is premium in platforming. Rayman is also def a 10/10 platformer.