News

Super Meat Boy 2 is a Distinct Possibility

Super Meat Boy is an excruciatingly difficult but thoroughly addicting fast-action platformer which help start the indie revolution. The studio, Team Meat originally said a direct sequel would never happen and concentrated their efforts on a game called Mew-Genics. However, Team Meat’s Edmund McMillen and Tommy Refenes discussed the possibility of a sequel on the latest episode of Game Informer’s podcast. The team said:

“An interesting thing happened in the midst of chaos,”

“We were like How can we finish [Super Meat Boy Forever]? We have to finish this, and I don’t know what I’m doing.”

“That was around the time we realized we could release Meat Boy on other platforms, too. So it was kind of like this change of perspective in a way. What we talked about was possibly working on a sequel, and it’s something that I like a lot.”

“There were aspects of Forever that were moves that Meat Boy did…that we were prototyping that felt like they could be better used in a sequel. The future of Meat Boy is definitely up in the air, but a sequel is something that I wouldn’t be opposed to doing even though we both said that we wouldn’t do it.”

McMillen and Refenes explained why they were so hostile to producing a successor to Super Meat Boy:

“We wouldn’t even be mentioning anything about a sequel if we didn’t feel like it was realistic enough,” 

“But with Meat Boy, it’s not the same. With Mewgenics, it’s a genre that doesn’t really exist. We’re inventing as we go. With Meat Boy…we know what Meat Boy is. You run and you jump, right?”

“We purposefully avoided working on another Meat Boy because we didn’t want to jump back into it,”

Indie Game: The Movie showed how emotionally charging and stressful Super Meat Boy’s development was and the team couldn’t envision going through the same process again. Now over 5 years has passed, the studio feels refreshed and more confident about making a sequel. I cannot wait to see how the development of Super Meat Boy 2 pans out.

Image courtesy of Super Meat Boy Wiki.

Thank you Game Informer for providing us with this information.

John Williamson

Disqus Comments Loading...

Recent Posts

Nvidia’s GeForce RTX 5090 Possible Price Revealed

According to a new report, the GeForce RTX 5090 GPU will be very expensive. It…

1 hour ago

AMD Krackan Processor with 6 Zen 5 and Zen 5c Cores for Budget AI Laptops Leaked

A new AMD processor in the form of an engineering model has been leaked in…

1 hour ago

SK Hynix Begins Production of First 321-Layer NAND Chips

SK Hynix has claimed to be the first company to mass-produce 321-layer NAND memory chips.…

2 hours ago

Trust Gaming GXT 609 Zoxa 2.0 PC Speakers

SOUNDS GREAT – Full stereo sound (12W peak power) gives your setup a booming audio…

6 hours ago

PowerA Wired Controller for Nintendo Switch

Special Edition Yoshi design Ergonomic controller shape with Nintendo Switch button layout Detachable 10ft (3m)…

6 hours ago

Logitech G Saitek PRO Flight Rudder Pedals

Fluid Motion: These flight rudder pedals are smooth and accurate that enable precise control over…

6 hours ago