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[theweaselking]

I would just like to review, in the most negative way POSSIBLE, "The Binding Of Isaac".

It's The Legend Of Zelda, Abusive Christian Edition.

It is an offensively terrible game in every respect, starting from the lousy gameplay and ending about 30 seconds later at the offensively stupid story, and I say this as someone who is entirely convinced that all religion is insanity to begin with.

It should never be played, ever, by anyone.

You should not under any circumstances buy this game.

I feel robbed of the $1.25 I spent on it.

This is, without hyperbole, the worst game I have played in years. And I play a LOT of lousy games - I've played Super Meat Boy, and it was nowhere near this bad. I've played Left Behind, it wasn't this stupid. The developers should be ashamed of producing it and Steam should feel bad for carrying it.

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[skington.livejournal.com]

Out of interest, what didn't you like about Super Meat Boy?

[theweaselking.livejournal.com]

Mostly that the gameplay wasn't fun - the controls were made artificially difficult so the timing had to be absolutely perfect, and the slightest slip meant restarting the level entirely from scratch. Which means it turned into "practice the same long series of commands over and over again until you get it perfect, and your reward is a new long series of commands to learn again".

There was no payoff, and the stuff you had to do to earn the no-payoff was boring, not fun.

[skington.livejournal.com]

Fair enough - it's an old-school platform game in that respect.

[theweaselking.livejournal.com]

I understand that some people liked Super Meat Boy. Those people were wrong, but, hey, shit happens.

I brought it up here as an example of a game from the same developers, that was terrible and yet *not this terrible*.