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If you don't mind about artistic direction and focus on gameplay, if you always dreamt about finishing a game you liked and keeping on improving and improving for ever until everything is absolutely perfect, if you have a soul of completionist this is one of the best game ever but just for some particular people.

I heard a lot of bad things about it among gamers on twitch or reddit, a lot of people complain about his PTW aspect, his aspect and many weird points. So, after digging it for hours, here is the answer to what people say :

1 This game is not a gacha if you don't want it to be one, just resist and time will give you everything. This are really REALLY more huge gacha games over here, this one is not one of them as there is NO PAYWALL AT ALL, I say that after 2.5k hours of playing so I KNOW, thanks. Also, not paying will give you 100% of the challenge.

2 Why do you even want to spend a dime when someone can come in your try hard 3k+ hours base and destroy everything after 1 hour of playing at rank 10... yes hackers assets users are welcome in this game but not in a direct way, they can just be untouchable when you are offline or away from your waiting room. Honestly, this are only a few of them.

3 That's really quasi infinite after game fun and really time consuming. I have a specific disease due to overwork and I have to semi-quit my job for a moment in order to heal, that's perfect for this kind of figure or if you are a hikikomori. But you can casually play it and try to reach the first end if you like it.

4 reaching the last floor is REALLY challenging even if you pay everything you can, that's really one of the most challenging game I ever played and I started in 1985 with pong on collecovision, played every souls, cauldron II, sapiens, black crypt, shadow of the beast, getting over it, do you wanna be the boshi, lost planet II, every ninja Gaiden, catherine, Hollow Knight, Isaac, Gauntlet, Plan 9 from outer space... the list is crazy 1000 games + long and this one is the most challenging. I don't speak about reaching floor 41, that's really easy, I speak about reaching floor 351, around 8 million people got this game on steam because it's free, only around 3% made it to 41, and around 10 made it to floor 351 on PC XD this game turn every gamers on steam into laughable clowns and I love it for that. That's more a skill, knowledge, experience wall than a paywall.

5 The artistic direction and the use for ever the same places over and over for 311 floors is really REALLY bad and boring. I hate this game for that, that's really just calculating, making the game harder and harder and being lazy while making an after game for fans. The mediocrity of it mostly explain why such a few people made it, hard as hell in endless boring places and confusing places, the level design is a joke... So you fall asleep and at 200+ you need to focus really hard because one mistake and you are dead in a blink.

6 On the other side, if you focus on the game play, that's funny and joyful for ever. Every map and places are like a Chinese puzzle, finding the solution is finding a way to no damage everything, every boss, every moveset. That's the core man, why I really really love this game, you can't finish it if you don't know how to no-damage everything and the skill demand is really huge.

GOOD LUCK SENPAI.

"Zelda a link to the past" dungeons for ever but you got a quasi infinite amount of possible random builds with a lot of crazy and funny ideas ; from time to time, if you need medical breaks with your hardcore job where you need to be the best but there is a price to pay... that's quite relaxing.

RNG everywhere

Deeply, Isaac is the story of the son of a broken couple, the father was violent with her mother and she just build some spiders in the roof, she decided to kill her son because "god" was asking her to do it... a broken family. That's not literal in fact, when your mother menace you with a knife you don't jump in this trap in the ground that just appeared somehow ; no, in the reality you die. Isaac's mother didn't, she did it on the platonic field, symbolically, you kill your son by ♥♥♥♥ talking him, destroying his image of himself, comparing him with his violent and crazy father... so the son become dissociative :

Dissociative disorders are mental disorders that involve experiencing a disconnection and lack of continuity between thoughts, memories, surroundings, actions and identity. People with dissociative disorders escape reality in ways that are involuntary and unhealthy and cause problems with functioning in everyday life.

So, that's a critic of something deeper and someone in the staff lived that, in his dissociation he had this very game idea :

So has we go on, that's a critic of this broken capitalism we got today because he force so many to marry each others for the bad reasons, money. Money is necessary but without love that's just ♥♥♥♥, a pretext to face ♥♥♥♥ your so called "useless wife" when ever you want, and if she refuses you just slap her in the face or shoot her and psychologically destroy her the ♥♥♥♥♥♥ way. Isaac is a violent critic of this soooooooo ♥♥♥♥♥♥ up capitalism, it's about dissociation in us inner world, and how good and evil can be what you find inside yourself, Lewis Carroll, Lovecraft, Kafka, Edgar Allan Poe... you know, all the good guys, and then they just added a lot of biblical stuff and character for the lore you will discover little by little... if you know your bible that will just be repetitions and some hum?

so that's a good game for sure, a lot of fun,

what build will I get this time ?

That's a really good game, if you want holidays on the beach, in the jungle, on an Island, YOUUUUR ISLAND, in many places, under the sunset, rainy or sunny, that's a wonderful jewel, beautiful and funny.

On the other hand, I was hyped about the comments selling an overpowered difficulty, "one step you die", "hardest survival game", "hardcore..." you can read all those comments... well... hum hum... I'm the "challenge" kind of player who played his first game in 1985 on a colecovision, I started in permadeath ready to loath hard at every death!!! ready to be puzzled and to search every solutions :D and I just died one time in 36 hours :'(

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if you understand that tobacco heal any venom (???¿¿¿), if you understand that all you need is water even in the hardest and creepiest situations, if you understand that iron armor is OP as HEEEEEELLLL, If you can headshot with a bow... my first death was a cannibal melee three shot without an armor... if you put an armor on, seven shot will not be enough to kill you...

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so, just take your time, play it slowly, farm, appreciate the view, explore, make a lot of bases, keep it on permadeath in the name of immersion, just enjoy every minutes and that's an easy, really super over easy game. 8/10 is legit ! if you know where to go, you can also finish it super fast. Don't spoil yourself!!!