Dr Fetus’ Mean Meat Machine is a Super Meat Boy spin-off title from Team Meat, based on the famous match-4 mobile puzzle game similar to Puyo Puyo, Tetris, and others. Dr. Robotnik’s Mean Bean Machine And it added its own saw blade spin to the genre.
You will assist the titular Doctor Fetas on his mission to eliminate the underdogs in test chambers across six worlds and recreate a clone of the ultimate villain, Meatboy. Each world consists of his 20 levels and boss battles, in total he consists of 20 levels. There are 120 stages. Across these worlds, you’ll be combining different colored Meatboy clones of him. Position, rotate, accelerate, and decelerate gelatinous blobs falling from the top of the screen down, avoiding a variety of weird and wacky obstacles along the way, including saw blades, chainsaws, ghosts, lava, and electricity. beam. In typical Super Meat Boy style, errors are very forgiving, and hitting an obstacle immediately restarts the level without a second chance.
The game needs it because many players can’t even get past the first world because every level is locked until you’ve completed the previous one, and the difficulty is comparable to that of the original Super Meat Boy. That’s all there is to it. It will curse you, make you stop getting angry, and eventually, as you complete each level, you’ll be filled with relief knowing you’ll never have to play that stage again.
The presentation is delightful with its cute cartoon-like visual style and artistic animation from the development team of Super Meat Boy and Super Meat Boy Forever. The art is accompanied by his Ridiculon’s bright and catchy tunes that are instantly humming. The visuals and music create quirky, vibrant, and fun comical short his cutscenes that play between levels.
Dr Fetus’ Mean Meat Machine is gorgeously presented and an interesting twist to the genre, but it lacks the meaty content it needs to keep players engaged. Most players won’t be able to see world 1 and beyond, as the steep difficulty causes frustratingly repeated level restarts and every stage is locked with no hints or hints or level skips. There are definitely more fun ways to smack meat elsewhere.