The game where you jump to a wall and then do a walljump coolly... on a sawblade. Or attempt to fall to a platform only to miss by a pixel and fall on a pile of salt instead. Or you accidentally break that one crumbling block that you weren't supposed to break. Or you get smashed by meat golem's sudden head smash... The game where you die a LOT.

Super Meat Boy is a fast-paced platformer often compared to older platformers such as Super Mario Bros. and Mega Man in terms of gameplay and difficulty. You are Meat Boy, a cube of meat, who must save his girlfriend Bandage Girl from a jealous Dr. Fetus. Between you and your goal are over 300 levels with many different obstacles of pain and suffering, including sawblades, salt, syringes, lava, weird flying things that devour you, mutated maggots... Along with a boss fight for each area.

There are 14 areas, 7 Light World areas and 7 Dark World areas. Dark World areas are harder versions of the Light World areas. Many levels also have Bandages in them placed in a place that is more difficult to reach. There are also Warp Zones, where you have only three lives to complete a set of levels. Plus there are Glitch Zones that appear randomly in any chapter save for the last.

And that isn't even all! For completing Warp Zones, Glitch Zones and collecting Bandages, you can get new characters! Such as Head Crab, Naija, The Kid... There are many, each of them referencing to other games, each with different skills, such as Commander Video being able to float for a moment.

In other words, for a simple platformer game Super Meat Boy is bound to give you many, many hours of entertainment... As long as you don't mind dying a lot due to missing a pixel. The game is made by Edmund McMillen (The Binding of Isaac, The Basement Collection) and Tommy Refenes, along with the music made by Danny Baranowsky (The Binding of Isaac along with many more). oh dog.

It costs $13,99 in Steam, though the Flash prototype is still available for free. It doesn't feel the same as Super Meat Boy, but hey, if you like that, you'll definitely like Super Meat Boy!
It's also available in Xbox Live Arcade.

Totally recommended for everyone who like platformers, fast-paced games and unforgiving difficulty.

Oh man. I played the crap out of SMB when it came out. I completely forgot about it until now. Watching all your previous attempts all at once was my favourite part, it was just addicting to me.

When I played that game on xbox, I died so much I threw my controller.
This game is for non-ragers. lol

I beat the Light World without issues save for the ~1600 deaths, but Dark World... I'm gonna be in for suffering.
7 hours into it atm, only 11 bandages so far though I'm planning to get 'em after I finish Dark World. It's gonna be a long road...

oh yeah, gotta include the Xbox 360 version in OP.

Bought it, downloading at the moment, how much should I expect to die the first time I try it?

I specialy bought gamepad for SMB, to don't break my keyboard.

depends on how well you play platformers. you will die over and over again the further you progress, though.
the real challenge is trying not to rage. I tell ya, smb is the definition of frustration...