The next Meat Boy game parodies a '90s Sonic spinoff

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Everyone loves Meat Boy, though sadly our fleshy friend is now one of those characters that floats free of its creator, Edmund McMillen, who happily signed the rights away to Super Meat Boy co-creator Tommy Refenes. The 2010 platformer was almost universally praised and became a breakout hit, though the sequel Super Meat Boy Forever wouldn't appear until 2020 and… well, it just didn't quite have the joy.

If the games showed us anything though, it's that Meat Boy takes a pounding (and a slicing and a burning) and comes bouncing right back. The new game Dr. Fetus' Mean Meat Machine, however, is moving away from the platforming and is basically parodying a Sonic spinoff from the 90s. Dr. Robotnik's Mean Bean Machine was itself a re-jigged version of the classic Puyo Puyo, and this basically looks like a contemporary version of those puzzling mechanics with lots of drills, saws, and various other implements messing around in the playing area.

The game's Steam page(opens in new tab) says it's a combination of «puzzle-gameplay and hardcore platforming elements that Super Meat Boy is known for», though the latter are notable by their absence in the trailer. The only thing I can think is that this is a reference to how the little meat slabs 'run' down the playing area, and if that is what this is referring to then it's rather misleading. The game will have over 100 levels, along with boss fights at the end of each world, and feature the return of Meat Boy environments like the hospital and salt factory.

Puyo Puyo is a great game, but the twist here is going to be the traps and hazards that encroach on the playing area. I'm guessing these screw up your lovingly arranged combinations which is one of those things that could be