Binding of Isaac

      I recently bought Binding of Isaac on sale during these Summer Sales, great decision. Although this game gives everyone a hard time, it's a fun experience. The game actively seeks to ruin Isaac's day - everything tries to end him.  Swarms of flies, dive bombing parasites, laser eyes, and huge swathes of bosses, they all challenge the player. Eventually some enemies become predictable, but most don't. Once you get far enough, the boss of each floor poses another challenge. Each of the seven sins, four horsemen turn into bosses, and even more convoluted creatures each become harbingers of Isaac's doom crashing a nice streak against the little guys into a fleshy brick wall.
      Even the pills with random effects have it out for him. Although he might get lady luck on his side and find all his health back after using the pill, likely Isaac consumes the pill and finds his range or damage downgraded while he balances on half a heart. Even the beneficial items can hurt Isaac's chances of survival, perhaps giving you an awesome laser eye that deals damage in a straight line, when the situation calls for him to curve his shots to kill a few zombie fetuses. Some items turn you into a devil spewing insta killing tears while flying around the map, but these are only commonly found after making pacts with the devil in exchange for your own hearts. The glass cannon archetype can easily be created here, but if Isaac breaks, it's all over.
    Binding of Isaac embraces dark humor and teeth grinding difficulty, but the game never becomes overly frustrating. While Isaac may die while pimped out with a huge arsenal of weapons, the game drags the player back from a pool of tears into a determination to find even more loot and see how many more ways he can go from sitting pretty to into a death sentence.

Plus he's just so cute, even with a coat hanger lodged in his head!