A game that throws you into a random situation -- one that may be completely and totally unfair -- and demands you adapt to it in a short period of time And if you fail, well, whatever That world gets trashed and you start again with a blank slate
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Replying to @arthur_affect @authomony and
It has a certain resonance with the way I live my life "Well, this run isn't going well, guess I'll have to pull the plug and move to a different state soon"
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Replying to @arthur_affect @authomony and
(Along these lines, in terms of the chrome -- the themes and imagery of the game -- this is why I prefer rogue-lites to be grimdark af The Binding of Isaac was my first love here There's no permanent home in this world, only a series of nightmares you keep waking up into)
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Replying to @MikeFennelly @authomony and
BoI kind of fits really well with this thread because the dungeon *is his childhood home* turned monstrous -- with the ever-shifting map and the need to constantly press forward and wreck everything in order to bust out and run away
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Replying to @arthur_affect @MikeFennelly and
And it's specifically a hoarder house -- filled with rotting food and piles of excrement and vermin, stained and torn and faded remnants of childhood trying to chain him and hold him back Nostalgia and homeliness and security turned rotten and toxic, turned into a prison
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Replying to @arthur_affect @MikeFennelly and
The edgy and deeply personal politics he put into it, that Isaac thinks of his deadbeat dad as the good guy and his mom as the monster Dad is the one he identifies with, because he, too, wants nothing more than to fucking hit the road and leave all this shit behind
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Replying to @arthur_affect @MikeFennelly and
I thought the whole point is that in the end he thinks he's the monster, that obviously he himself caused his Mom to attack him?
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Replying to @MassiveQ @MikeFennelly and
Depends on the ending you get, but sure I read it as what happened to his mom was to some degree actually his dad's fault, but he refused to admit that and took the blame on himself instead
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We get some confirmation that Isaac thinks of his dad as the "good guy" and his idea of "God" is all mixed up with his dad (and voiced by the same person as his dad and the Narrator) in Legend of Bum-Bo Although I don't really think of that game as canon because it sucks
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Replying to @arthur_affect @MikeFennelly and
Huh, and here I was thinking that was a fan made tribute game.
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