It's Taken 15 Years, But Someone's Finally Completed Super Meat Boy Without Dying Once

Super Meat Boy, the hard-as-nails platforming classical wherever dying dozens of times per level comes arsenic standard, has present been played from commencement to decorativeness successful a cleanable run.

It's been 15 years since Super Meat Boy primitively released for Xbox 360, and it has taken each of those 15 years for idiosyncratic to propulsion disconnected this frankly astonishing feat.

Step up shredberg, a Nintendo speedrunner with a peculiar brushed spot for Super Meat Boy, who livestreamed his deathless completion of the crippled conscionable earlier the extremity of 2025. The accomplishment rapidly drew congratulations from Edmund McMillen, the game's co-creator, who dubbed shredberg arsenic "awesome" for being the 1 who yet managed it.

For anyone who's played and struggled with Super Meat Boy implicit the years, peculiarly its aboriginal levels which simply look intolerable erstwhile you archetypal spot them, it's hard to not ticker the afloat video of shredberg's tally and beryllium impressed astatine the calm mode helium leaps, slops and slides astir each level conscionable pixels distant from sawblades, nutrient grinders and explosions.

"Let's go," shredberg said calmly, upon completing Super Meat Boy's last level aft much than 2000 attempts and implicit 1000 hours of gameplay. "Let's spell dude! I cannot judge it, I've been doing this excessively long. I got to spell to enactment tomorrow.

"I'll beryllium honest, I'm not going to accidental I wasn't nervous, due to the fact that I was precise tense astatine the extremity there... but I was mode much tense conscionable successful Dark Cotton," helium continued, referencing an earlier level. "Once I got past Dark Hell 2, I was comparatively fine. I got ace tense whenever I had immoderate insignificant slip-up."

"I'm going to beryllium emailing everyone," shredberg added. "Kotaku, IGN, CNN, Chef's Illustrated, they're each going to perceive astir it. I volition unironically email IGN."

Over the years, Super Meat Boy has launched connected each large console from Nintendo Switch to PlayStation Vita, though nary 1 other has managed this feat — thing galore players thought was impossible. A sequel to the game, Super Meat Boy Forever, launched successful 2020. Next up for the bid is Super Meat Boy 3D, owed for motorboat aboriginal this year.

And for shredberg? The 2nd helium completed his run, 1 spectator had a proposition for what helium should play next. "I person to play Silksong now?" shredberg said, speechmaking the inevitable comment. "Yeah... I'm truthful gladsome it's over. Not adjacent successful a 'this wasn't adjacent fun' kinda way, due to the fact that it was. But, man."

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