Team Meat has been working for over a year now, long before New Super Mario Bros. Wii blew the doors off E3 09. Now that Mario has successfully returned to home console roots in the genre that made him famous, 2D platformers stand in a very different position within the gaming landscape. A genre that was recently viewed as a near-dead holdover from a bygone era has now proven itself to be a mainstream-friendly, multi-million-dollar cash cow again.
So if 2D platformers have returned to the forefront of the gaming world, where does that leave Super Meat Boy? Does this once very niche-looking game have a chance at mainstream success in this post-NSMB Wii world? And perhaps more importantly to the game's developers, what are the chances that Super Meat Boy will sell nearly one million units in Japan in its first week?
Humble Bundle is back with a new bundle, offering 8 classic titles for a low price - including titles such as Super Meat Boy and Worms WMD.
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.
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.
