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The pixelated art style and overall top down, rogue-like look might turn away some, but it really is a must try. It is very unforgiving throughout the countless hours of playtime. I get sweaty hands all the time when trying to constantly dodge and weave through its bullet-hell nature. It is especially tough because if your life bar is depleted, it's over. There aren’t any checkpoints or extra lives or anything. It’s all the way back to the beginning of the game, trying to survive until the final stage where you confront your murderous mother. In this game, you control Isaac, a small boy who tried to escape his mother by leaping into a secret entrance to his basement hidden under a rug in his room. His mother, being motivated by a deity who …show more content…

After crying it to death, you get a free item; Though, the items from boss rooms generally aren’t great. The replay value of Isaac is the highest of any game I’ve ever played. After beating mom in the Depths, there is a way to progress even further. As if the game couldn’t get any crazier, after a second time killing her in a new game you'll be able to enter her womb, which has two stages. At the end of them, you'll be able to fight Mom's heart, which is essentially the final boss. But wait! Did you really think it would end there? You’d be surprised by how much more there is to grind out of this game. Beat the Heart eleven times and you can go down to Sheol, which is essentially Hell in this game, where you'll fight Satan. So, it is getting totally non-sensical now. If you do things a certain way, you can go upwards into the Cathedral, in which the boss is yourself. You must fight Isaac, great. There is even more, because you can go further after beating Satan or Isaac to either a blue, stuffed doll version of Isaac, or a demonic skeleton of a ram erupting in flames called the Lamb. The gameplay is very simple concept, dodging and aiming projectiles. Dodging is hard and definitely a skill that will be tested all the way until the ending cutscene. Some enemies are downright rage inducing like spiders, which crawl around in a very irritating manner, making them very unpredictable. Luckily there are some very strong items to help you in the game, but that

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