This Super Meat Boy spin-off title is a match-four mobile puzzler similar to Puyo Puyo, Tetris, and Dr Robotnik’s Mean Bean Machine with its own saw-blade twist.
Assist Dr Fetus in creating the ultimate Meat Boy clone by weeding out the weak through his six test chamber worlds, each with 20 levels and a boss fight. In these worlds, you’ll match meat boy clones together; position, rotate, speed up, and slow down the gelatinous blobs as they fall down, avoiding a variety of strange and whacky obstacles along the way, such as saw-blades, chainsaws, ghosts, lava, and electricity beams. Hit any obstacle in Super Meat Boy style, and the level will restart instantly without a second chance.
With every level locked until you finish the previous, and the difficulty matching the original Super Meat Boy, many players will not even make it past the first world. As soon as you complete a level, you’ll be relieved knowing you won’t have to play it again, cursing, rage quitting.
As a result of the team behind Super Meat Boy and Super Meat Boy Forever, the presentation has a cute cartoony visual style and artful animations. A catchy song from Ridiculon complements the art. In between levels, you’ll enjoy the quirky, vibrant, and comical short cutscenes.
In spite of its gorgeous presentation and interesting twist on the genre, Dr Fetus’ Mean Meat Machine lacks meaty content. Due to the steep difficulty, level restarts become frustratingly repetitive, and since all stages are locked with no hints, tips, or level skips, most players will not get past world one. There’s definitely more enjoyable ways to beat your meat.
Pros:
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This is a good twist.
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Catchy tunes.
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Cute visuals.
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It’s Super Meat Boy.
Cons:
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Gameplay repeats.
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Unfairly difficult.
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Lack of content.
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Locked up.
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No tips, hints, or skips.
Five over ten for this game.