What is The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth
"The Binding of Isaac is a randomly generated action RPG shooter with heavy Rogue-like elements. Following Isaac on his journey players will find bizarre treasures that change Isaac’s form giving him super human abilities and enabling him to fight off droves of mysterious creatures, discover secrets and fight his way to safety." The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth is a top-down 2D game in which the player controls the boy Isaac, amongst sixteen other unlockable characters, as he traverses the basement and beyond, fighting off monsters and collecting items. The gameplay is presented in a roguelike style; the levels are procedurally generated through a random seed into a number of self-contained rooms, including at least one boss battle. A run is completed by beating one of a number of different final bosses. Like most roguelike games, it has permadeath: when the player character dies, the game is over.
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A Little Background on the Game
The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth is a remake of the game The Binding of Isaac. The remake inculdes a new game engine that runs at 60 frames per second, a new pixelated art style instead of the old hand drawn style, polished visual effects, and a new soundtrack by Ridiculon. They have release 3 DLCs that have vastly expand the game, changing it drastically, this DLCS are "The Binding of Isaac: Afterbirth", "The Binding of Isaac: Afterbirth+", "The Binding of Isaac: Repentance"
The Plot
The story The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth's loosely tells follows the biblical story of the same name, similar to the original game. Isaac, a child, and his mother live in a small house on a hill, both happily keeping to themselves, with Isaac drawing pictures and playing with his toys, and his mother watching Christian broadcasts on television. Isaac's mother then hears "a voice from above", stating her son is corrupted with sin, and needs to be saved. She removes all his possessions (including toys and clothing), believing they were the corrupting agents, and later locks him in his room to protect him from the evil outside. When she receives instructions to sacrifice her son to prove her devotion to her faith, Isaac flees through a trap door in his room, leading to "the unknown depths below".
After venturing through various floors and reaching The Depths, Isaac battles his mother. After defeating her, the game cuts back to Isaac in his room, where his mother attempts to kill him, grasping a butcher's knife. A Bible is knocked off a shelf, striking Isaac's mother in the head, killing her. Isaac celebrates, before the game cuts again to a smiling Isaac, where his mother once again opens his door, holding a knife.
While this is the story the game directly tells the player, if the play starts to read between the lines of the story and different ending the player can get, they see the real story of a young boy's family falling part and the depression he feels because he blames himself for it all. The game is Isaac using his imagination to hide from his pain.
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Source
https://store.steampowered.com/app/250900/The_Binding_of_Isaac_Rebirth/