Super Meat Boy PERFECT Run?! 15-Year Quest Ends in STUNNING Victory!

After a decade and a half of near-misses and countless digital deaths, someone has finally done it. A gamer has conquered Super Meat Boy in a single, flawless, deathless run. Yes, you read that right. Every single level, every single saw blade, every single meat grinder navigated perfectly, without a single digital splat.

Super Meat Boy PERFECT Run?! 15-Year Quest Ends in...

The monumental achievement belongs to Nintendo speedrunner shredberg, who streamed the historic victory to a captivated audience just before the New Year. Super Meat Boy, for those unfamiliar, is infamous for its unrelenting difficulty. It’s a game where you’re expected to die – *a lot*. That's kind of the point! To see someone navigate its treacherous levels without a single mistake is honestly awe-inspiring.

Edmund McMillen, one half of the dynamic duo behind the game, responded to the news by calling shredberg "awesome," a sentiment echoed across the gaming community. I can only imagine the disbelief he must have felt. He created this monster, and someone finally tamed it.

Having dabbled in Super Meat Boy myself (and promptly giving up after repeatedly slamming into buzzsaws), I can appreciate the sheer dedication and skill this run required. Watching snippets of shredberg's run, you see a masterclass in precision. He's dancing through levels that I could barely crawl through.

"Let's go," shredberg calmly announced upon completing the final, grueling level, after what he estimates to be over 2,000 attempts and 1,000 hours of gameplay. "Let's go dude! I cannot believe it, I've been doing this too long. I got to go to work tomorrow." The relief is palpable, and the fact that he has to go to WORK tomorrow is just hilarious. Talk about going from the sublime to the mundane.

He admitted to feeling the pressure as he neared the end. "I'll be honest, I'm not going to say I wasn't nervous, because I was very nervous at the end there... but I was way more nervous just in Dark Cotton," he confessed, referring to a particularly nasty early level. "Once I got past Dark Hell 2, I was relatively fine. I got super nervous whenever I had any minor slip-up." It’s the little things, right?

Even with releases on almost every platform imaginable – from the Switch to the now-defunct Vita – shredberg's deathless run is an unparalleled accomplishment. The Super Meat Boy saga isn't over, by the way. Super Meat Boy Forever came out in 2020, and *Super Meat Boy 3D* is coming soon.

And what's next for shredberg? Well, the chat immediately demanded he tackle *Silksong*, to which he replied, with a weary but triumphant sigh, "I have to play Silksong now? Yeah... I'm so glad it's over. Not even in a 'this wasn't even fun' kinda way, because it was. But, man." Sounds like he needs a vacation.

Tom Phillips is IGN's News Editor. You can reach Tom at tom_phillips@ign.com or find him on Bluesky @tomphillipseg.bsky.social