Y'know, apparently this is loosely-based upon the same story from the Jewish Bible ([url]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_binding_of_Isaac[/url]), only in the game Issac ends up heading down into the basement to escape his mother, only to encounter his other siblings. A rather dark-sounding story if you ask me.
If that thing at the end was the Mother, she looks kinda demonic.
As I was watching the trailer, I was thinking "This music is very DannyB." And then it was. :v:
Anyways, looks interesting. I really see the Legend of Zelda influence, but it's definitely got plenty of McMillen's trademark weirdness.
I was expecting Deadspace to be honest.
Yep, very Zelda, but looks fuckin' twisted, even moreso than Super Meat Boy, and that shit got twisted by the second world!
The sheer thought of there being so many rooms in that basement, and the fact that the Mother looks like the Baphomet (a deity commonly associated with demons), gives me the impression that The Binding of Issac takes place in some dark corner of Hell, or if you look at it in a different way, with all the mutant siblings Issac must fight, and the extensive basement dungeons running beneath wherever Issac lived, it might be that it's After The End, and Mother is some sort of insane supreme mutant (kind of like The Mother from Dragon Age: Awakening, if you think about it), with Issac being one of the least-mutated of her offspring.
The description of the game on Steam doesn't help too much either, that she starts hearing "the voice of God" demanding a sacrifice to prove her faith...
Still, even if it is after The End (which came after The Rapture), it's probably unrelated to Super Meat Boy, although then again there are connections, like the Larry Jr boss that's apparently gonna appear, for one.
Also, that last "Issac" sounded softer and more benevolent than the callings of his mutant siblings, and especially gentler than the dark demonic abusive voice of Mother. Perhaps the gentle call was from one of his less-hostile siblings, or maybe Issac himself, or maybe even a benevolent "Father".
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