10 Video Games You Have To Punish Yourself To Play

The really annoying thing about Super Meat Boy is that it's so well-designed and so smooth that you can't blame it for your deaths without knowing all too well in the back of your head that you're placing the blame on the game to avoid confronting your lack of sweet skills.

It's perhaps the fairest game that also manages to be cruel, and that's exactly what is so awful, and so brilliant about it. It can beat you seven ways to Sunday, but at no point can you scoff and say "well, it's because the game is broken", even at its most ridiculous.

And so you're stuck confronting slick and speedy platforming, with levels that often don't offer you so much as a second to stop and catch your meaty breath.

This is best shown in some of the later levels - especially the boss battles - where you'll find yourself dodging seven things at once, if not doing that while racing another enemy.

Though you'll die a million times, each will be worth it to get just that little further into the game - and to get slightly closer to the bragging right of having finished it.