![]() The game has full game pad support, in fact it encourages it, and given the split-second timing it’s likely a keyboard isn’t really up to the job for this game, although you’re welcome to try of course. ![]() The levels and characters are realised with a kind of 16bit style of graphics with a bit of modern polish, keeping graphics simple yet colourful. The game manages to keep up with it’s almost meme like style throughout, with odd little story sections played out in what look like flash animations, most likely akin to the games original release as the flash game “meat boy”. It’s your job to rescue her, a simple yet well story formula for a games plot if there ever was one. The story is laid out in a short but highly amusing story board style intro, where you take the role of Meat Boy, a simple, square shaped character, who I think it’s safe to assume, is a supposed to be a chunk of meat, who would have guessed right? Meat Boy, is in love with his girlfriend Bandage Girl, who is kidnapped rather quickly by the rather bizarre looking Dr. The downloadable puzzle game has been a great success across Xbox Live Arcade and Steam not to mention its release late last year for OSX and on Linux as part of the Humble Indie Bundle (#4). 2010’s indie classic “Super Meat Boy”, designed by Edmund McMillen and Tommy Refenes and developed by Team Meat broke over 1 million sales in January this year.
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