Platformers are a curious game genre, despite being one of the oldest and most well-known from classic franchises such as “Mario” and “Sonic the Hedgehog”, they all have a certain polish that’s hard to put together well. For a platformer to be considered high quality, it needs responsive controls, fantastic level design, a consistent set of mechanics, obstacles and visual styles and a feeling of real progression under stacked odds leading to a just and sweet reward. After almost 10,000 deaths and counting, it can be proudly stated that Super Meat Boy ticks all of these boxes with an unashamedly frustrating sheen.
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.
This is just plain sad, they are basically charging you for online and that's it, I guess this goes hand in hand with the "tell me you only play AAA games without telling me you only play AAA games"
Both Gamepass and Gold games offerings have gone way downhill.
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.
