What The Binding of Isaac does right.

You’ve fallen into your mum’s basement, and it’s obvious that the only way out is down. Standing in your way are enemies, treasures, bombs and secrets. Here’s the clever bit:

-There are flies and maggots and other annoyances, but every important enemy is a mutated distortion of your avatar. Some are identical, some abstract twists on your most basic shapes. According to the fiction, they’re your brothers.

-As you pick up power-ups, you become more mutated yourself; growing an extra head, a third eye, bulging flesh. The further down you go, the more powerful and twisted you get.

-The final boss is your mum.

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About Jack McNamee

In the third year of a game design course in Queensland, Australia. Thinking a whole lot about games. Scrabbling desperately against the oncoming future.
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