Super Meat Boy, the hard-as-nails platforming traditional the place dying dozens of occasions per degree comes as customary, has now been performed from begin to end in an ideal run.
It’s been 15 years since Super Meat Boy initially launched for Xbox 360, and it has taken all of these 15 years for somebody to tug off this frankly astonishing feat.
Step up shredberg, a Nintendo speedrunner with a specific gentle spot for Super Meat Boy, who livestreamed his deathless completion of the sport simply earlier than the tip of 2025. The achievement shortly drew congratulations from Edmund McMillen, the sport’s co-creator, who dubbed shredberg as “superior” for being the one who lastly managed it.
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For anybody who’s performed and struggled with Super Meat Boy through the years, significantly its later ranges which merely look not possible while you first see them, it is laborious to not watch the complete video of shredberg’s run and be impressed on the calm means he leaps, slops and slides round every degree simply pixels away from sawblades, meat grinders and explosions.
“Let’s go,” shredberg stated calmly, upon finishing Super Meat Boy’s ultimate degree after greater than 2000 makes an attempt and over 1000 hours of gameplay. “Let’s go dude! I can’t imagine it, I have been doing this too lengthy. I bought to go to work tomorrow.
“I will be trustworthy, I am not going to say I wasn’t nervous, as a result of I used to be very nervous on the finish there… however I used to be far more nervous simply in Darkish Cotton,” he continued, referencing an earlier degree. “Once I bought previous Darkish Hell 2, I used to be comparatively tremendous. I bought tremendous nervous at any time when I had any minor slip-up.”
“I will be emailing everybody,” shredberg added. “Kotaku, IGN, CNN, Chef’s Illustrated, they’re all going to listen to about it. I’ll unironically electronic mail IGN.”
Over time, Super Meat Boy has launched on each main console from Nintendo Swap to PlayStation Vita, although nobody else has managed this feat — one thing many gamers thought was not possible. A sequel to the sport, Super Meat Boy Without end, launched in 2020. Subsequent up for the sequence is Super Meat Boy 3D, due for launch early this yr.
And for shredberg? The second he accomplished his run, one viewer had a suggestion for what he ought to play subsequent. “I’ve to play Silksong now?” shredberg stated, studying the inevitable remark. “Yeah… I am so glad it is over. Not even in a ‘this wasn’t even enjoyable’ kinda means, as a result of it was. But, man.”
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