Never Give Up

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  1. somedude14
    Dec 8, 2019
    9
    I got Golden God in Super Meat Boy on the 360. 200/200 achievement points. This game is better than SMB.

    Basically SMB 2.0. Better graphics than SMB, better gameplay than SMB (thanks to even tighter controls), better level design than SMB, better sound effects than SMB. The soundtracks are so different it's hard to compare, this is upbeat yet relaxing music to listen to while getting    I got Golden God in Super Meat Boy on the 360. 200/200 achievement points. This game is better than SMB.

    Basically SMB 2.0. Better graphics than SMB, better gameplay than SMB (thanks to even tighter controls), better level design than SMB, better sound effects than SMB. The soundtracks are so different it's hard to compare, this is upbeat yet relaxing music to listen to while getting gibbed. Still an excellent soundtrack, just neither exceeds the other as they're both high quality. SMB actually feels like garbage when playing after this one, it just feels "dated" and ancient control-and-level-wise.

    There is an easy mode that has checkpoints. Hard mode is your standard "die and start back at the beginning of the level" affair. There's a permadeath mode where you only get one life for the entire game - some people have actually managed this!

    You will die many times. You will love it. You will beat the level set and then go back to get all the coins and find the hidden item. You will hate that it expects you to no-death run each level set in order to fully complete this game.

    Major props to the developers for allowing players to disable screen shake and animated backgrounds if they find them too distracting and/or nauseating. There's also an option for infinite jumps, if you want to cheat a bit - I recommend leaving this disabled (obviously). This game is one of those beauties that allows double jumping. Everything about the controls feels natural and fluid.

    This game is outstanding. This is the peak of the genre to date.    … Expand
  2. inoffensive
    Nov 25, 2019
    5
    Most levels are good if you like difficult games. Much of it's value comes from the fact that the levels are hard and a lot of times unfair. Bosses are also not fun.
  3. notsu
    Jun 25, 2020
    4
    This is Super Meat Boy if you took it, digested it, and puked it on the floor. No one would want to play with that, thank you very much.

    You've only played a few minutes, and the game has already copied the saws, the seeking missiles, the general level design, everything. The problem is that everything is similar, but bad instead of good. Nothing feels right. The graphics are    This is Super Meat Boy if you took it, digested it, and puked it on the floor. No one would want to play with that, thank you very much.

    You've only played a few minutes, and the game has already copied the saws, the seeking missiles, the general level design, everything.

    The problem is that everything is similar, but bad instead of good.

    Nothing feels right. The graphics are unappealing, the music gets on your nerve after about two and a half minutes, the controls suck (for instance, if you jump just as you're landing on the ground, sometimes it doesn't jump, it doesn't even do the double jump that it should do if it's still considering you're in the air, nope, the game just gives up and drops your input), the levels are lazy and repeat stuff (on top of copying it from SMB), its few original ideas are dumb (oh I'm gonna make an invisible wall appear right in your path, now start the level from the beginning again knowing that there is an invisible wall here).
    And the worst thing, it doesn't even run well. It's an hardcore platformer, and it can't even run smoothly in the first level, sometimes you go right and you see the camera move normally, but often it looks choppy and it's just not fun to play and look at (And my PC can play the latest games on max settings, so it definitely doesn't come from that).
    Playing Super Meat Boy right after playing this feels like you're breathing again after having held your breath for like 10 minutes straight.
    Would not recommend.    … Expand

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  1. Screen Rant
    Aug 13, 2019
    50
    The negligible story, uninspired bosses and very basic art design and animation leave a lot to be desired by the end of the relatively short campaign.
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