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The announcement of Super Meat Boy Again+ served as a reminder that Edmund McMillen is no longer part of Team Meat
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Team Meat announced Super Meat Boy Again+, a remake of the classic indie platformer, during a Sweet 16 Birthday VIP Event on Nov. 14. While the announcement was meant to be celebratory, it has reminded people of the falling out that Super Meat Boy and Mewgenics creator Edmund McMillen has had with Team Meat, as he is not involved in the new project.
What is Super Meat Boy Again+?
Team Meat describes Super Meat Boy Again+ on its Steam page as "everything you remember from Super Meat Boy presented through the wonderful lens of nostalgia with stuff added to it." In practice, that means it's a remake with art, music, cutscenes, and secrets for players to discover. Super Meat Boy Again+ does not currently have a release window.
We learned shortly after Super Meat Boy Again+'s reveal that Edmund McMillen wasn't involved in the project, despite being a co-creator of the franchise. On X, he posted the GIF of Homer Simpson backing up into bushes in response to a Wario64 post about the game's announcement. When another X user asked if he had anything to do with Super Meat Boy Again+, McMillen simply replied, "It's all news to me man."
Edmund McMillen co-founded Team Meat and designed the original Super Meat Boy, but he had left the studio by 2017. Since then, co-founder and programmer Tommy Refenes has continued to run Team Meat as CEO and has expanded the franchise since McMillen's departure with games like Super Meat Boy Forever, Dr. Fetus' Mean Meat Machine, and this year's Super Meat Boy 3D.
None of those games have been able to reach the same level of critical acclaim as Super Meat Boy. Earlier this year, Polygon's Giovanni Colantonio wrote that "Super Meat Boy 3D makes me feel like the series has run out of questions to ask, and that’s a dangerous creative place to be stuck in." The announcement of Super Meat Boy Again+ shows that Team Meat is content to just play its greatest hits over and over again.
Meanwhile, Edmund McMillen has continued his journey as an independent developer and found success unrelated to Super Meat Boy. Earlier this year, he launched the raunchy cat-breeding tactics roguelike Mewgenics, and it became one of the year's biggest indie games on PC before making its way to consoles in September.
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