Team Meat Super Meat Boy was occasionally frustrating, because you could see the goal but struggled to reach it. It required lightning-fast reflexes and precision control and an understanding of all of the game's chaotic systems. Super Meat Boy Forever is frustrating because a lot of the time you don’t know what you’re doing. Super Meat Boy was a game of its age that genuinely changed the gaming landscape and the mainstream audience’s precision of indie titles. It was slick, precise, and incredibly popular in the era where indie games were just starting to receive such attention. But its Newgrounds humour has aged, and Forever does very little to update itself for a new audience. In fact, it feels like Super Meat Boy Forever is purposefully positioned in opposition to its predecessor's success. It might look just as slick, have an impressively varied soundtrack, and capture the same catchy, arcade feel and design, but it is discordant to everything Super Meat Boy tried to achieve.