Just before mom bursts into Isaac's bedroom with a butcher knife, though, he escapes down a hatchway into a creepy basement, and the game is on. Apparently, taking away the kid's Game Boy and toys isn't enough for old Jehovah, who insists on mom doing the Abraham thing and sacrificing her son to prove her love. Isaac is on the run from his mother, who has some kind of prophecy/mental meltdown in the stick-figure opening cinematic and tries to kill her son on the orders of God.

Instead of the usual warrior elf or whatever, you play a little boy named Isaac. Isaac’s mom isn’t just a religious nutbag, she also needs to rethink the way she cleans up after the family dog.īut that stock description sells the game short. Repeat through each level until you kill the end boss or die and start all over again a little bit older and little bit wiser. You run around constantly, shoot everything that moves, and grab power-ups. If you've ever played a classic arcade game, you know the drill. The feel is decidedly old-school in that the top-down maps are randomly generated and you have to plow through the entire game in one sitting (so don't die, or you're going right back to the beginning). The game is a basic roguelike, with tips of the hat to the frenzied combat in Robotron.

I still don't know exactly what I've been playing for the last six or seven hours non-stop, but I know that I liked it and that I want to go back for more.Īctually, Rebirth is easy to categorize on the surface. This remake of the scatological 2012 original from developer Edmund McMillen (best known for Super Meat Boy) doubles down on the dementia with even more surreal power-ups and bizarre enemies.

Despite all that, good luck walking away from The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth. It's creepy, blasphemous, and obsessed with poo.

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