Ugh, not recommended

[g051051]

I really don't see what the hype is about. Sloppy controls, annoying stuff (like the loud announcer voice and the automatic "replay" mode), etc. It's just not fun. I'm glad I didn't pay full price, but I'm sorry I didn't wait for a demo and bought it on sale. Big mistake.

Maybe you'll like this game, but I'd definitely wait for a demo before putting down good money. Unfortunately, it seems a great deal of the Steam catalog is bad games that didn't sell well at retail.

[Xenesis]

Controls aren't sloppy - you just have to learn them. They're really quite precise.

Spend a bit of time and you'll get used to them.

[trojanpooh]

The fact that you say the controls are sloppy completely invalidates your opinion. Also you can skip the replay, it takes half a second. Not exactly a big deal. Sorry that you don't like it though. At least it was only $4

[TheKbob]

Games plays better than the Flash title. The integrated 360 pad support is leap years better than my cobbling together some XPADDER action to play the flash game (which I also beat).

Doesn't the announcer only speak once at the beginning? A bit nit picking, aren't we?

[Xenesis]

Originally Posted by TheKbob

Doesn't the announcer only speak once at the beginning? A bit nit picking, aren't we?

I believe the three announcer phrases are:

"SUUUUUPER MEAT BOY!"
"WAAAAAAARP ZOOOOOOONE!"
"PUSH THE BUTTONS!"

And seriously. How could you not love WAAAAAARP ZONE!

[Talset09]

Originally Posted by Xenesis

And seriously. How could you not love WAAAAAARP ZONE!

Honestly, only once, trying to get a band aid, playing in the am hours wanting to sleep, frustrated and really impatient, just shut up and warp me in already.

[TheKbob]

See, that's how often I don't even notice it. I'm almost on the 3rd Zone, but I have to get A+ on both light and dark worlds in a zone before I move on.

It's gonna make for a rough back half of the game, I know it. But after beating the flash game, I have a better idea of what their tricks are. It's now no longer raging and flipping out, but watching and learning levels until you see the proper tactics. Then you just train the execution and completely "rofl-stomp" the given time limit for Grade A+. Usually I can beat those times by 5 seconds on average.

[Selben Coirlo]

Most of the A+ times are easy to beat as long as you keep moving. A few of them are tricky though.

[trojanpooh]

Originally Posted by Talset09

Honestly, only once, trying to get a band aid, playing in the am hours wanting to sleep, frustrated and really impatient, just shut up and warp me in already.

The "Waaaaaaarrrrp Zoooonnneee!" Scene is actually a masked load time, so they can't get rid of it/make it skipable.

[g051051]

Originally Posted by trojanpooh

The fact that you say the controls are sloppy completely invalidates your opinion. Also you can skip the replay, it takes half a second. Not exactly a big deal. Sorry that you don't like it though. At least it was only $4

I stand by my assessment. The controls ARE sloppy, and just because you invested the excessive and frustrating time to master them doesn't make them any less sloppy, it just makes you more tolerant of bad controls. Again, I'm urging people to at least wait for and try a demo before buying it and being frustrated and disappointed.

And yes it's easy to skip the replay, but I NEVER want to see the replay. They need an option to disable that "feature".

[g051051]

Originally Posted by Xenesis

I believe the three announcer phrases are:

"SUUUUUPER MEAT BOY!"
"WAAAAAAARP ZOOOOOOONE!"
"PUSH THE BUTTONS!"

And seriously. How could you not love WAAAAAARP ZONE!

It's annoying, but the main complaint is that it's too loud compared to the other effects. If you turn it down low enough for the voice to be tolerable, you can't hear the rest of the game.

[Xenesis]

Originally Posted by g051051

I stand by my assessment. The controls ARE sloppy, and just because you invested the excessive and frustrating time to master them doesn't make them any less sloppy, it just makes you more tolerant of bad controls. Again, I'm urging people to at least wait for and try a demo before buying it and being frustrated and disappointed.

I honestly don't know what game you're playing because I have only once been frustrated with the controls when Speedrunning 6-2 and trying to walljump a 1-tile block while falling half a screen. And honestly, I think that's because of my own lack of timing at 3am more than anything :P

The controls are not sloppy. You have an incredible degree of control. You also have a fair amount of momentum which you do need to learn to use properly.

It's annoying, but the main complaint is that it's too loud compared to the other effects. If you turn it down low enough for the voice to be tolerable, you can't hear the rest of the game.

Eh, fair enough.

[trojanpooh]

Originally Posted by g051051

I stand by my assessment. The controls ARE sloppy, and just because you invested the excessive and frustrating time to master them doesn't make them any less sloppy, it just makes you more tolerant of bad controls. Again, I'm urging people to at least wait for and try a demo before buying it and being frustrated and disappointed.

And yes it's easy to skip the replay, but I NEVER want to see the replay. They need an option to disable that "feature".

They are quite literally the most intuitive and easy to understand controls I have ever felt in my life. I don't think I've ever played a game with better controls/physics. It has nothing to do with me being "tolerant of bad controls"

As for the replay, I still don't see how its at all a big deal, but whatever.

[GameRoom]

The replays are a pretty cool feature. A bit glitchy with lag, but not being amazed by the awesomeness of it shows that you have some sort of problem with being amazed by awesomeness. The controls took me like half an hour or so to get, and I'm pretty sure lag was screwing with me those first 30 or so minutes.

[Scarecroww]

This game has some of the tightest controls I have ever experienced.