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[Selbi]

Dear Team Meat,

I've been a fan of this game ever since it was released (bought it in last year's pre-sale) and it became one of my all time favorite games. I achieved over 50 hours and saved myself a place in the Top 1000 player list (probably not as awesome for many people but still an awesome personal achievement for me).

This year's summer achievement was sick. In fact, it was the reason why I came back in the first place after not touching this game for several months. Fun, challenging, you know what I mean.

And now this. At first I obviously thought "Hell yeah, another achievement hunt on SMB!" and instantly got my hopes up. But what I saw when the servers finally got back let my jaw hit the floor:

Out of all the amazing concepts you could've thought of you pick... a remake of the The Kid stage split over 5 stages that we are supposed to finish in one sitting.

... Seriously?

I mean, come on, it's not a secret that everybody hated this stage. Hell, to this day I don't even remember how I did it in the first place. And now you bump out something like this? Just... why?

Just look at all the other Steam sale achievements. They are all meant to be easily achievable, for a damn obvious reason: People should buy the game to get the achievement and get a gift. But how in the godly love of God is a newbie able to do that within only two days when not even most of the experienced players can do it?

One final note for the possible forum trolls: This is not a butthurt post. I'm just expressing my disappointment with this, in my opinion, extremely poor design choice. I know the devs are not forced to fill my butt with free gifts, but this isn't exactly the right direction either.

[Splee]

I disagree.  I am thoroughly enjoying these levels, and I thought the achievement was fitting for SMB.  Ridiculously crazy hard challenges. The merciless act of my left hand being destroyed brings back memories. But I guess that might be just me.  And so far the only obvious rehash is 5, and even that offers new challenges.

Edit:  I will say the 'in a single game session' part of it is a bit annoying. EDIT: LOL NEVERMIND, FUCK THIS REQUIREMENT UP THE ASS WITH A KNIFE.  Maybe it wouldn't be a problem if meat boy didn't crash so fucking much.

[juxtapose519]

I had a BLAST getting the achievement. I can understand your frustration because it was for the winter achievements, but I've been so bored with all these other easy peasy ones for the other games. Most of them are just a chore. What's the point of even having achievements if they only take 5 minutes to get? The developers already have our money. I wish they were all this challenging.

If anything, I'm mad at the Binding of Isaac achievement. I've put 5 hours into that games since the winter sale and I still can't find that stupid boss because it's completely random. SMB, on the other hand only took me 3 hours and a sore wrist.

[Zarkith]

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