Super Meat Boy

**Squirrel** · Posted: Tue Feb 22, 2011 5:24 pm Post subject:

Awesome job Confury!

I have to pick this game back up.... I haven't played it in a long while... been playing Pinball FX 2 too much.

I can only hope to complete it on normal mode, let alone dark world or anything like that... I never was good at platformers.
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**Qarx** · Posted: Tue Feb 22, 2011 10:11 pm Post subject:

Well, I finally got to play it, and I came here to give my impressions:

I don't particularly care for the fact that the controls are Shift to run, Spacebar to jump, and Arrow Keys to move... nor do I like how [at least it seems like] you can't customize the control settings. It's also annoying how the only controller it seems to support is the 360 controller, as I plugged in my PSP with Fusa GamePad (I have neither a 360 controller nor a gamepad in general), and the buttons were just... randomly placed, such as Select being the run button, and Circle being the jump button... thanks to Joy2Key, though, I was able to override this problem, and had MUCH better controls.

I also don't like how characters tend to slide all over the place. It gets really frustrating, as even simple platforming can be made much more difficult than necessary.

Other than that, the game is really fun. My favorite character to play as so far is Commander Video, though if there's a character with even more satisfying controls, then... well, you know lol.

If you're wondering why I hate the default controls so much, it's because of several reasons: the first being that I just am used to moving my character using my left hand, rather than my right. It gets worse, though, as I am not accustomed to using my pinky in gameplay (it's the only feasible [or rather, comfortable] way I could find to effectively run and jump), or using the spacebar in a platforming game. In IWBTG, I was able to tolerate the [IMO] backwards control scheme because the fire and jump buttons were right next to each other, meaning I could at least use my Forefinger and Middle Finger when playing the game (I generally use those fingers more than the others when typing, so it's tolerable when I play a game on a keyboard).

In the end, though, when it comes to platformers, I prefer using a controller anyway, so backwards-keyboard controls or not, that's what I might have ended up using (though I would have less motivation, I admit).
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**Qarx** · Posted: Wed Feb 23, 2011 3:47 am Post subject:

**Squirrel** · Posted: Wed Feb 23, 2011 4:25 am Post subject:

Check out a program called Joy2Key.

It allows you to assign joystick buttons to keyboard layout. I used to use it in MAME when back then, it didn't accept joystick inputs, just keyboard.

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**Qarx** · Posted: Wed Feb 23, 2011 6:15 am Post subject:

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**powahouse** · Joined: 26 Feb 2007 Posts: 1145 Location: Wyandotte, MI

All achievements unlocked other than 100% the game, and yes...unlocking the kid took me longer than anything else. Nearly mastering this game has been, probably one of the most satisfying things I've done since I started playing video games in the early 90's.
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**Qarx** · Posted: Sun Feb 27, 2011 7:33 am Post subject:

**suspectfenster** · Joined: 20 Oct 2006 Posts: 1771 Location: Portland, OR

I was able to plug and play with my logitech rumblepad controller without any hassle. *shrug* I'm surprised you had an issue, since the developers are so adamantly for using controllers over keyboard.

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**Silly** · Posted: Sun Feb 27, 2011 1:32 pm Post subject:

Finally got round to finishing light world after not playing for a while... gotta love how it took me less than 10 minutes to finish The Kid's entire warp zone when half of Cotton Alley's levels took me longer than that each

Probably never going to 100% this game but still fun to have a go at.
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**Vampyromaniac** · Joined: 08 Feb 2008 Posts: 1216

Honestly guys, I didn't think Cotton Alley was that bad. Dark world rapture and hell gave me more trouble, and possibly even the salt factory. Most Cotton Alley levels had a strategy that made them much easier, but I gave up on dark world Rapture onkly a few levels in.
Dark World cotton alley was pretty rugged, though. I did about the first half of those.
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**MehPlusRawr** · Joined: 20 Jul 2009 Posts: 1389

I stopped playing on the twentieth level of cotton alley in the light world a while ago and haven't came back since. I make the first jump in the tiny corridor at the end 1/5 times. There are 10 of those jumps. That gives me a roughly one in ten million chance for completing it, assuming that I don't get anxious and screw up at the end a lot, lowering my rate. After something like two hours of that, I said "dammit, I don't care" and stopped.
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