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What’s Happening

Real talk: Super Meat Boy’s reputation precedes it.

The notoriously-difficult precision platformer is designed to be deadass challenging, and death on every single screen is basically inevitable. Amazingly, it’s taken over 15 years for anyone to fully complete the game — that’s get 106% completion — without dying, but it finally happened at the end of last year (thanks IGN). (plot twist fr)

Back in December, Nintendo speedrunner shredberg became the first person ever to fully complete Super Meat Boy deathless Random Switch eShop Random: Speedrunner Becomes First Person To Complete ‘Super Meat Boy’ Deathless A rare feat by Alana Hagues 4 hours ago : 12 Super Meat Boy ‘s reputation precedes it.

The Details

Yes, seriously, no one has been able to do this since the game was first dropped on the Xbox 360 in 2010. The platformer came to Switch in 2018.

“I’ve been doing this way too long” shredberg says laughing after his record-breaking win. “I’m not saying that I wasn’t nervous, because I was nervous at the end there, but I was way more nervous just in Dark Cotton…

Why This Matters

Once I got past Dark Hell 2, I was relatively fine. ” “I’m gonna be emailing everyone — Kotaku, IGN, CNN, Chef’s Illustrated. They’re all going to hear about it.

This is the kind of news that gets gamers talking across social media.

Key Takeaways

• ” You can watch the full two hour stream up-top, but if you’ve even played a few minutes of Super Meat Boy, you know how tough this game can be.
• Shredberg, somehow, makes this look effortless.
• Even one of the game’s co-creators, Edmund McMillen, congratulated shredberg on socials with a simple “Congrats!

The Bottom Line

🜏 Edmund McMillen 🜏 (@edmundmcmillen) Sharing his achievement on the Supermeatboy subreddit , shredberg thinks it took him “like 700-800 hours of grinding” to reach this goal, which is staggering. He’s been streaming much of his progress over on Twitch over the years, in-between other speedruns for games like Mario Kart 8 , Celeste , and Captain Toad: Treasure Tracker .

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