The game of the Binding of Isaac implies something more. The Binding of Isaac isn’t just some sick, twisted game, nor is it simply a knock against religious zeal.

It may seem silly claiming there are spoilers, but there are a LOT of secrets that ought to be discovered on your own, or, as I’ve done, by watching playthroughs at my own leisure.īut the weird thing is, there’s an underlying tale. One of the best things in the game you can do is pick up pieces of your dead pets – three ‘Guppy’ items turns you into Guppy itself, a floating cat thing that unleashes flies as it continues to damage enemies with its tears. You’re playing a child, using your tears to kill freakish mutants of yourself. Wandering around in a basement, running through caves, panicking through more and more hellish places. The game even warns you that things are going to get worse, as you beat Mom, then beat Mom’s Heart and unlock It Lives. If you want everything, you need to go through hell your mom’s womb and down into the depths of the Chest and the Dark Room. As you look deeper, it gets more and more difficult. At first glance, the game looks easy, simple controls, simple goals, things like that. I’ve never beaten the Caves in the original flash game, and the closest I’ve gotten is to the Mom fight in Rebirth. I’ll be honest, I really, really fucking suck at the Binding of Isaac.

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