This game is telling you, no ordering you, with threat of violence to you and your loved ones that it is Super Meat Boy. Don't let it break you. Don't believe it's lies. The programmers of SMB wanted dying to have meaning. They made it easy to do, unobtrusive, and entertaining. You got that replay at the end showing how many times you died before you got it right, and you felt accomplished. The devs of this game, made it tenuous, dull, and annoying. Boy does this game love to remind you of your failures. The color palettes change into even more upsetting versions that hurt your eyes and make you die even more. Then you make it to the end and just feel sad and angry that the next level is going to be even worse. The most frustrating part for me is that you have to earn your abilities. But they're not cool abilities. It's crap you should already have...like jumping. Again, Meat Boy gave you the challenge, the tools, and let you figure it out yourself. Bree+ gives you no tools, demanding utter conformity that you beat the game the way the programmers stated, no other way. It's the equivalent of "YOU CAN DO IT, HERE'S WHAT YOU NEED!" vs. "YOU CAN'T DO IT ANYWAY EXCEPT MY WAY!" This game is that little kid who won't play sports with you unless he gets the position he wants. What a selfish game. Match all of this with the pretentious storyline, ugly puke-green (unless you die too much than it gets worse) color palette, boring design, and artsy graphics, and we have a game that insists it's Ingmar Bergmann. Your not Game, your not! Your Uwe Boll on valium, and I hate you! I for one am deleting my copy of this tripe. I'm embarrassed to say I paid for it because I thought it looked good. Furthermore, I hope the coked-up hooker my $2.99 helped to finance gave all of the devs a life altering STD. Serves them right for doing this to people. Shame on you Taw Studio, shame on you!
One of the biggest travesties to ever kill a franchise. This game was broken in 1998, and modern systems just exacerbate it's problems. Perhaps you've heard of a mod called Blood 2: Extra Crispy? The mod seeks out to fix the games myriad of problems like: it's broken damage system, guns do seemingly random amounts of damage; it's broken enemy AI, who either swarm you to death or stand there and get killed without a fight. All among so many countless other problems that have existed for 2 decades now. Noble cause...they failed. Even the launcher for this game is broken. For some GODAWFUL reason, you are only allowed to access one feature of the launcher PER LAUNCH! Want to load mods? You won't be able to fix the resolution using the widescreen fix. Want to fix the resolution? Can't run Extra Crispy now! Figure you're really clever? Just going to adjust one, then close and restart and adjust the other? Sorry, it forgot all of your previous settings in between launches. It's pure BS. This game wasn't meant to be played. Interplay released unfinished. Nothing short of a full remake in a brand new engine is going to fix this disaster, and I seriously doubt even Night Dive Studios would be up the task. It doesn't want to be played. It doesn't want to be enjoyed. Only masochists would like this; and then probably only as an ironic joke for a crappy youtube let's play show. Just leave it to rot in shame and obscurity. That's what it has earned.
