Super Meat Boy 3D

Super Meat Boy 3D is a wonderful take on the 2010 classic, with that same “one more try" hook that makes it impossible to put down.

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I would like to start off my review for Super Meat Boy 3D by apologizing to each of the developers’ mothers. Ladies, I know you have nothing to do with this game’s development, but boy, did I curse you whilst playing it. My bad. Blame your children’s creation. What was once the king of 2D “I want to ragequit but let me give it one more try” has finally been transitioned into the third dimension. Welcome to 1996, Meat Boy! I guess you made up for the delay by being as brutally diffic...

Super Meat Boy 3D captures the same painful joy as the original while simultaneously pushing the Masocore formula forward.

When a 2D platformer leaps to 3D, the results can vary wildly. Mario stands as the poster boy for what the most successful 2D-to-3D transition looks like, as the plumber flourished in the third dimension. Conversely, Sonic the Hedgehog has often stumbled since making the same jump, and, in my opinion, never truly found his footing. Team Meat admirably tries its hand at reinventing Super Meat Boy in the same way, and the result hovers somewhere between the highs of Mario and the lows of Sonic....

Super Meat Boy 3D has brief moments of fun, but messy controls make it feel a lot more frustrating than was initially intended.

I always have an anxiousness about a 2D platformer going 3D. I fear that while it might look cool and handle well at the outset, the jump to the third dimension of level design and gimmicks always comes with some frustrating growing pains. I enjoyed the original Super Meat Boy, and while I thought Super Meat Boy Forever was okay, I was happy to see the series go back to proper platforming handled by the player in Super Meat Boy 3D. Indeed, it has some great level design, a solid soundtrack, and I love the look of Meat Boy and the usual suspects in this new style, but the third dimension has on...

Super Meat Boy 3D takes a bold leap into 3D, delivering intense platforming and addictive challenge - but not without flaws. This review breaks down its gameplay, design, and whether the transition truly works.

Filled with secrets and creativity, Super Meat Boy 3D is ultimately betrayed by slippery controls that cause a much less fun frustration than its predecessor.

Super Meat Boy 3D isn't exactly a massive leap for the franchise when compared to other side-scrollers that have made the jump to a new dimension, but that's okay. What's here is the high-level, fluid, and precise platforming you'd expect, and that fans of the series have come to adore. Yes, you will die thousands of times by the end, but that's also the point. There are small design hiccups here and there in terms of a few levels that don't feel fair, a couple less memorable bosses, and the added depth sometimes playing tricks on your brain. At the end of the day, however, Super Meat Boy 3D i...

Super Meat Boy 3D is an overall tight adaptation of the iconic Team Meat platformer into the squishier third dimension. The visual style loses some of its unique Flash edge in the transition to 3D, but the stages themselves retain the teeth-clenching challenge and goofy humor that made Super Meat Boy so beloved.