Dr. Fetus' Mean Meat Machine

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Dr. Fetus' Mean Meat Machine
Developer(s)Team Meat
Publisher(s)
Unity[1]
Platform(s)
Release
  • WW: June 22, 2023
Single-player

Dr. Fetus' Mean Meat Machine is a puzzle video game developed by Team Meat. It is a spinoff of Super Meat Boy and Super Meat Boy Forever. Thunderful and Headup Games published it for multiple systems in June 2023.

Plot

After his last attempt to beat Meat Boy, Dr. Fetus tries to create a clone of Meat Boy via various recordings of him and his girlfriend, Bandage Girl. His plan to create the clone is to put the imperfect clones thorough a series of tests based off the worlds and enemy's of Super Meat Boy and Super Meat Boy Forever. After many clone mutations and personally fighting them, Dr. Fetus finally has enough data to make the perfect Meat Boy and sends it into a cloning device to make it. After killing the first one with a plasma shotgun, he proceeds to spawn as many as he can and prepares to launch a spike ball at them but gets sucked into a Warp Zone before he can do it. As he gets whisked away, the ball fires and destroys the machine controlling the spawn of clones and starts spewing out Meat clones as the screen fades to black.

Gameplay

Dr. Fetus' Mean Meat Machine is a spinoff of

checkpoint. Checkpoints are created by getting matches. As players get more matches, more hazards are placed.[3] There are 120 levels.[4]

Development

The title is a reference to Dr. Robotnik's Mean Bean Machine.[5] Thunderful and Headup Games published Dr. Fetus' Mean Meat Machine for Windows, PlayStation 4 and 5, Xbox One and Series X/S, and Switch on June 22, 2023.[6]

Reception

On

Push Square enjoyed the game's presentation and said it has an interesting twist. However, they felt the gameplay is repetitive and called the difficulty "brutally unfair".[10]

References

  1. ^ "Dr. Fetus Mean Meat Machine". Thunderful Games. Click on "press kit" and "fact sheet". Retrieved 2023-07-02.
  2. ^ Yang, George (2023-03-17). "Super Meat Boy Spin-Off Puzzle Game Dr. Fetus' Mean Meat Machine Announced". GameSpot. Retrieved 2023-07-02.
  3. ^
    Nintendo Life
    . 2023-06-22. Retrieved 2023-07-02.
  4. ^ a b Riccio, Aaron (2023-06-23). "Dr. Fetus' Mean Meat Machine Review: Get in the Meat Grinder and Sharpen Your Reflexes". Slant Magazine. Retrieved 2023-07-02.
  5. ^ Diaz, Ana (2023-03-17). "Super Meat Boy's spinoff is one giant reference to an old Sega game". Polygon. Retrieved 2023-07-03.
  6. ^ Romano, Sal (2023-06-06). "Dr. Fetus' Mean Meat Machine launches June 22". Gematsu. Retrieved 2023-07-02.
  7. ^ "Dr. Fetus' Mean Meat Machine (PC)". Metacritic. Retrieved 2023-07-02.
  8. ^ "Dr. Fetus' Mean Meat Machine (Switch)". Metacritic. Retrieved 2023-07-02.
  9. ^ Musgrave, Shaun (2023-06-26). "SwitchArcade Round-Up: Reviews Featuring Sonic Origins Plus & ProtoCorgi, Plus Today's Releases and Sales". TouchArcade. Retrieved 2023-07-02.
  10. Push Square
    . Retrieved 2023-07-02.

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