The Binding of ISAAC: Review

What to do if my mother has incomprehensible voices in her head, she locks you in the room and takes away all the toys? The correct answer is to urgently find a hidden hatch in the basement and jump there until a mother and Myasnitsky tesak burst into the room. This is what a thoughtless, non-stop viewing of Christian talk shows on TV brings.

No, you don’t think anything like that-we are not doing the agitation of a la “religion for weaklings” or something like that, this is just such a tie The Binding of ISAAC. But seriously, the situation around the little Isaac has developed not only the deplorable, but also canonical-biblical. The main and only parent in the person of his mother began to hear a voice from above, took away the toy from his son, wasoled him from the surrounding reality and prepared to sacrifice to the Almighty. It was then that our little crying hero finds the entrance to the basement and goes to a small but full of dangers.

Responsible for all this disgrace Edmund McMilllen – one of the creators of the keyboard -core and nervous -rustic Super Meat Boy. It was from there that the recognizable graphic style of cartoon cruelty and hardcore came.

The plot of their own child sacrifice in the name of God the developers stole from the most popular-book-on-plan. From the Bible. True, there was no TV with Christian shows, but there were Abraham and God, who wanted to “test” faith in himself and ordered the poor fellow to kill his own son in a agreed place. However, when the woe-papash with tears in his eyes had already brought a knife over the throat of Isaac, an angel went down from heaven and stopped the death. Unlike the source, the game provides several endings.

What is it The Binding of ISAAC? This is a real arcade vinaigrette. On the one hand we have inspired Legend of Zelda gameplay, on the other hand, some features characteristic of the “pants”, with the third-a kind of RPG system of pumping through the collection of various objects. And you know what? All this is perfectly connected and really works!

Here, for example, is a level generator. link Every time Isaac descends into the basement, its structure is generated again. The basement is not a boy. The structure of boys is difficult to change with the help of some generator out of random numbers. In general, local locations are different, with various monsters, bosses, bonuses and special rooms.

Yes, in addition to ordinary rooms stuffed with hostile creatures, there are unusual. For example, a shop where collected coins can be exchanged for something useful like a first-aid kit, bombs or levels of levels indicating secrets. And there is a hellish shop where very useful items are usually sold, only you will have to pay for them with your own blood. There are weapons, casinos with Blackjack, but without whores, hidden locations with bonuses and something else.

There is enough variety in unusual rooms. And the usual things are even better, because they are inherently cells with monsters, and the latter authors were more than enough, so each simple room is a small tactical puzzle. Each type of enemies has its own characteristics and each needs its own approach. Someone shoots, someone bites, and someone explodes after death, releasing flies languishing inside. There are so many every evil that in one passage it is unlikely that you can meet at least the third of all the creatures.

I don’t help help with tears, as folk wisdom says. However, our hero is not so simple and, no matter how absurd it sounds, fights with the creatures of darkness, filling them with tears. And a variety of objects and bonuses in this properly help him. All good in the game a phenomenal amount, and often the effect of the same thing is simply impossible to predict. There are, for example, pills that can both make a natural terminator out of a small boy and almost kill him, fatally slowed down the speed of movement.

Three classes are divided: constant bonuses recharged due to the murder of all around the ability and disposable pieces like the tablets described above. Permanent bonuses usually have in addition to increasing damage or increasing the speed of running to change the appearance of the hero. As a result, by the end of the game, Isaac may look absolutely infernal.

At the end of each level we have a battle with the boss. There are not many of them, but they are in random order – and if you are lucky once to stumble upon a relatively simple Duke of Flies, then the next time a dangerous Larry Jr can be stitched there.

In addition to large and important bosses, there are semi -bosses that personify various sins. Some of them are reduced versions of their older brothers, and some are unique. For the victory over everyone, they usually give something tasty and healthy.

There are only six levels. It would seem that it is ridiculous. However, do not rush to judge by one single figure, because … in The Binding of ISAAC There is no conservation system. That is completely. That is, in general. The maximum that you can count on is a pause. Got to the last level and there were leaned skates there – if you please turn everything from the very beginning and on the new map.

And here the adventure of Isaac demonstrates what far from everyone thinks about at the very beginning. Just a fantastic reiglable. Even after the thirtieth restart, it suddenly turns out that there is something else unprecedented and unrequited.

In addition, all this was served with an amazing cartoon painting and abundantly seasoned with excellent atmospheric music.

What do we have in the end? Excellent free time destroyer for all fans of old -school hardcore arcades. The Binding of ISAAC Or he will hook and will not let go for a long time, or after a couple of deaths it will make it clear that this is “not yours”. In any case, revelations from above is not worth it from it … And even if it is worth it, we recommend listening first of all to ourselves, and not voices from the ceiling. But you never know, suddenly the neighbors talk loudly.

Pros: hardcore;animation and drawing;very high reiglabia;music.
Cons: Hardcore.