Super Meat Boy vs Super Tofu Boy...FIGHT!

Super Meat Bay was a game released by a couple of indie game developers, Edmund McMillen and Tommy Refenes, in 2010. A few months later PETA release their own take on this game, calling it "Super Tofu Boy", in an attempt, through procedural rhetoric to promote veganism, riding on the success of the original game and video games in general.

The game parallels many of the games features including the name of the development team, originally "Team Meat", calling themselves "Team Tofu". The story is also very similar, but instead of Meat Boy rescuing his girlfriend, Bandage Girl, from Dr, Fetus, the "tasty and satifying" Tofu Boy is rescuing his girlfriend Bandage Girl from the "rotting cube of animal flesh" Meat Boy's "bloody, jealous rage"

This game uses the same idea as the example shown in class, "Cooking Mama: Mama Kills Animals", where the basic premise of the game is adopted, along with the gameplay elements, but the content fails to make any message of its own. They made the 'meat' character evil looking, the same way they did 'Mama'. The levels are set in places such as slaughter houses and Mc Donalds restaurants covered in blood. The game also features anti-meat facts (again like their version of Cooking Mama) thinly veiled as hints on how to play the game.

"Team Meat" resopnded to PETA's protest with their own version of the character "Super Tofu Boy" which was added in to their game the day after PETA released their version. The character, available after typing the password "petaphile", was designed in such a way that he was extremely slow and could not jump very high, making completing levels very difficult.

How this doesn't count at PETA breaching copyright, I would like to know.



Play Super Meat Boy (flash version)
Play Super Tofu Boy