Posted on: December 18, 2021
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Gry: 370 Opinie: 15
McMillen's Apocalypse Now.
Let me get the review of the gameplay out of the way first, because I've read good arguments made in favor of video games being art, so, I wish to review it as such. The gameplay: take away the random "seeding" and you're left with a mediocre, repetitious top-down shooter that is based more on luck than skill. Play Nuclear Throne instead. Now, as art... The Binding of Isaac is single-handedly the most unpleasant, unnecessary gaming experience I've had in an industry that isn't lonely for company. Like Cpt. Willard, I survived the insanity, made it to the end of the line, and finished what I had set out to do. But once I got over the 'game' aspect and had time to reflect upon what McMillen was trying to convey, I couldn't help but ask myself, "What was the point? What did I suffer these demonic images and sounds for? What is the ultimate purpose to all this madness?" Then I remembered a message written in the booklet of a band's CD I used to listen to: "Functionless art is simply tolerated vandalism." The best impression I'm left with is the creator's anti-authority, anti-theist stance that does nothing to be insightful or meaningful. Instead (inadvertently?), the game reveals his own id and revels in an orgy with his own personally curated legion of demons. Everything that McMillen could think of that is gross, shocking, disturbing, disgusting, blasphemous, horrendous, you name it... all of it is thrown against the coding wall as hard as possible here. And not in ways that would exorcise said personal demons like the therapist's couch or confessional box, but rather to shamefully flex them and rub our faces in his figurative feces while boldly charging money for the privilege. Like Coppola's ego trip, The Binding of Isaac is an overbloated, overrated, self-indulgent mess that (more than anything) bespeaks its creator's nihilism, and its Reddit-level echo-chamber pretensions are full of it in more ways than one. Get thee behind me, Satan.
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