Review for Video Game Super Meat Boy by Chandler Wang

 Super Meat Boy is a fast-paced platform game in the same vein as Sonic and Mario. It is notoriously difficult, but the difficulty makes for a fun challenge, and the levels are quick enough that your repeated deaths won't set you back too far. You pilot Meat Boy, a blocky, speedy creature made out of meat, dashing through levels full of spikes, buzzsaws, and monstrous creatures in a quest to save your one true love, Bandage Girl. Meat Boy can run incredibly fast, which is quite the double-edged sword, as your speed will often send you hurtling straight towards inevitable death. Death will come repeatedly and often, but the game has a unique replay system that makes dying almost fun - once you finally finish a level, a replay will start, and a mob of Meat Boys begins running through the level, one for each death. As you watch your ill-fated clones splatter against the obstacles of the level, noticing a large cut in their population on the one pitfall you kept falling into, you feel not only a great sense of accomplishment at finally besting the stage, but also amusement at the countless failures of your past selves. This replay makes you a little less angry after your thirtieth death, and a little more excited at the massive Meat Mob that will star in the replay. Similar to Mario and Sonic, Super Meat Boy doesn't just have obstacle-filled levels to traverse, but also bosses to fight. Giant, rampaging creatures will shake an arena as you zip and dodge, trying to find a weakness to exploit. There's a boss for each world, and again, similarly to other platformers, each world has a unique theme. Beginning in a grassy forest and journeying to a run-down hospital, a mess of a factory, and even the underworld, each world in Super Meat Boy brings a unique theme to the game. Super Meat Boy has a very strong soundtrack, and each world has its own distinct background theme. My favorite is probably the one of the fourth world, which is set in the fiery, lava-filled underworld. Overall, Super Meat Boy is very fun and fast-paced, and tests your skills and reflexes in a tough but rewarding platformer experience. 9/10.