Chapter 205 What story does "The Union of Isaac" tell?

The reason why "Isaac" really became popular in countries around the world is of course not because two hot girls played the game all night.

Its diverse and rich prop combination has become the primary core of attracting players.

And after many designers discovered the unique ideas of this game, they also began to design similar types of games.

Any designer with a little bit of mind knows it.

This type of game will probably have a majority of player audiences for a long time in the future.

And as players develop various prop combinations of "Isaac", they pass the levels again and again.

They found that this game mirrors many current social status quo.

Campus power, gambling, superstition, gender vision, depression (Note: Recently, the seal of the starting point is very powerful, some words can only be used to fill in the blanks.)

These profound meanings are combined with the details hidden in the game props, and are spliced ​​with different cutscenes that pass each level.

Finally, he pieced together Isaac's appearance and wrote his short life.

A game mode that is already unique can also hide many fragmented details in the game.

This undoubtedly makes players more fond of this game.

"This is the most interesting game I've ever played this year! None of them!"

"Perhaps its contribution to the history of games is exactly the same as those legendary games and is irreplaceable!"

"Mr. Chu's talent is far beyond my imagination. The gaming industry needs more such heroes!"

Many ordinary players can only turn their praises to this game into sounds like "Great", "Excellent", "Damn it's so awesome"

But there are also many game reviewers who have made more comprehensive comments.

"Long Review and Warning: Why do we play Isaac? What story did Isaac tell?"

"Isaac is not just a good game, the game designers are also using their best way to make more people realize that they may be making mistakes now."

"In essence, the game "Born of Isaac" is actually playing Isaac's inner world. Simply put, the treasures we explored in those rooms after another, and the monsters we defeated all came from the imagination of an ignorant young child. When we clicked on the game, his imagination began to continue."

"From the opening CG, we can see that Isaac was born in a not-so-happy family, and his mother was seriously addicted to religious programs, so that the young Isaac, who should have lived his childhood carefree life, also came into contact with too obscure things like religion too early."

"If the game is all out of Isaac's imagination, then it is not difficult for us to find in the game that the influence of early exposure to religion on Isaac is very intuitive. In the game, we can pick up various scriptures, Bibles, Necromancers, Revelation, Seven Original Sins, Satan's Bible and other series of religious books many times."

"There are more props in the game that reveal Isaac's living environment. When we pick up [Mom's coin wallet], there are a bunch of pills of various colors. Does this mean that my mother has serious drug dependence, so that she needs to carry these things with her wallet."

"Why did my mother suffer from drug dependence? We need to start with Isaac's father. There are very few direct descriptions of Isaac's father in the game, but we can still prove his father's existence from many props. For example, the [Dad's Key] who finally opened the door to Satan of the Chaos Level and the complete family portrait, you can also see the figure of Dad."

"It shows that at the beginning, Isaac's family was originally peaceful. Why did it turn into a tragedy in the future?"

"The gambling machine, blood donation machine, pet stealing money, and other related props in the game can also be explained in part. Perhaps his father was addicted to gambling, and even used his family's savings, and finally donated blood for money to gamble. You will find that in the gambling room of the game, there is usually a blood donation machine next to it. Whenever we get closer, we will deduct part of the blood volume and spit out some gold coins from the blood donation machine. Then we will naturally run to the gambling machine beside us and start a big gamble."

"My father was addicted to gambling and often had disputes with his mother. Before the final finale of the game faced the boss, we would enter a back line. If we turned the volume up, we would find that the parents' arguments hidden under the background music, the mother's fierce tone at the beginning, and the father's plea after leaving home, further verified my guess."

"After my father left, a pillar of the family fell down, and my mother cried all day long."

"When humans are most vulnerable, they are often the time when humans need religious protection the most. Because, in reality, they are unable to find a place to stay, and urgently need a spiritual sustenance."

"This may be the reason why my mother is addicted to and even crazy about religious shows."

"After the absence of my father, Isaac's living environment became worse. There were a lot of props that hint at Isaac's situation in the game."

"If Isaac picks up the prop [Nine-section Whip], corresponding scars will appear on his body. After picking up the [toothpick], Isaac's eyelids will be supported with a toothpick. Picking up the [iron clothes hanger], Isaac's head will be inserted with a clothes hanger. In addition, have you noticed a detail?"

"The props that can increase Isaac's health in the game are dog food, mushrooms, rotten meat, and even the most normal milk, there are a few fly floating on the sticker to indicate that it has expired and deteriorated."

"All signs indicate that after my father left, Isaac had been abused and beaten by his mother many times, and his food was very difficult to swallow."

"Of course, there may be another explanation. That is, the conditions at home are really at the point where they can't eat. The mother even had to become a worker to maintain the most basic expenses at home. In the game, [Mom's Bra], [Mom's Lipstick], [Mom's High Heels], and a series of props such as eye shadow, dressing table, mirror, etc. seem to be meaningful."

"At the beginning, after sorting out these relationships, I was very angry at one time. On the one hand, I sympathized with Isaac's experience, and on the other hand, I condemned my parents' inaction. A father who has been drinking and gambling all year round, a mother who has mental problems and has punched and kicked her children many times. This is very infuriating, isn't it?"

“But as I learned more about the game, I found that the designers wanted to tell us more than that.”

"Are you going back to the [family portrait] prop that allows Isaac to lead to heaven or hell in the game."

"This prop is obvious that the Isaac family was very harmonious in the past. So what exactly caused the current ruined family?"

"Soon, I found a prop that was hidden deeper in the game - [Sister Maggie]"

"Its effect is just to form a pet follower and increase the damage of the character. When I first started playing, I didn't care, just treat it as a small prop."

"But other pet followers are called [Evil Spirit Baby], [Baby Dead Bone], [Rainbow Baby], [Baby Beggar Baby], etc., and only this follower is called [Marge Sister]."

"And, I've found more and more details in the game that can explain the existence of this prop."

"【Sister Maggie】 is likely to be Isaac's own sister. There are several other props in the game that seem to be related, such as [Casalectasis], [Doctor of Baby], and the hanged stillborn boss Isaac encountered in his mother's uterine level BOSS room, which seems to confirm one thing. This sister of Isaac may exist, but unfortunately passed away due to some accidents."

"The death of my sister caused a huge blow to her parents, so my father began to drink and gamble to escape reality. His mother's spirit was also impacted. He watched religious programs all day long, hoping that God could comfort her, a poor person."

"I dare not say that this is absolutely correct, but if we quote the statement that "Isaac once had a stillborn sister", it can make the game plot better connected."

"In the cutscene, we can see that the mother will try to dress Isaac up as a girl, and there are also various 'doll' props in the props, which means that the mother's condition has worsened at this time and often thinks that her daughter is not dead, and Isaac is her daughter."

"And this twisted mental state also indirectly led to the campus bullying Isaac suffered in school. The students thought that Isaac was not normal in women's clothing and was an alien, so they excluded him."

"It's still a random cutscene. We have seen Isaac's classmates bullying him many times, and when Isaac mustered up the courage to confess his love to his beloved girl, his classmates will pull off his pants and make him look ugly."

"This is also a basis for aggravating Isaac's insanity."

"Yes, mental disorder, you guys heard it right. This child, who is only a few years old, has begun to have problems in his mental state indoctrination of his distorted views and campus bullying and his mother's family's efforts."

"If players who play a few more games should know that there is a 'prop set attribute' in Isaac, and the most popular set is the 'cat set', which is popular among the majority of players. That is, from the eight props of [千千千千], the head, body, cat claw, cat tail, cat hair, cat bell and cat photos, cat eyeballs, you can form a cat set. The effect is also very powerful. Isaac obtains flying ability and generates a blue fly whenever it causes damage to the enemy."

"From these props, it is not difficult to see that Isaac had raised a cat before. When Isaac became a punching bag, he had no way to talk to him, so he could only spread his temper to this black cat with no power to fight back. This was the best way for him to divert his anger."

"But the pet's physique is not as good as humans after all. It could not survive Isaac's repeated venting and eventually passed away. After the cat died, Isaac realized what he did. He began to repent, repent for everything he did to the cat, and put the cat in his treasure chest."

"Every time the game fails, Isaac's diary summary appears. One sentence says, 'I died, I died at the hands of this monster. I hope to give all the props I have obtained to this cat', and draw the cat's avatar when signing next to me."

"Isaac, without a cat, also lost his only punching bag. When his mother vented her dissatisfaction with him and when his classmates bullied and laughed at him, he could no longer divert his anger."

"I mentioned earlier that when humans fall into vulnerability, they always hope to have some powerful power to protect themselves. When they were young, they fantasized that quilts were their best defense, and they didn't have to worry about anything when they got into quilts. The world of adults is much more cruel, and quilts are just fairy tales for children, so some people chose to believe in religion."

"But Isaac was different. Because Isaac was immersed in the religious program that his mother loved for many years, he was influenced by the things he wanted to seek protection, not the quilt... but the Bible that was placed at home."

"At the beginning of the game, you can clearly find that there is a Bible in the living room, and in the CG with multiple endings of the game, you can also see the scene of Isaac looking through the Bible."

"It is obviously not a good idea to show the Bible to children, but Isaac has no choice."

"Not everything in the Bible is bright, and Isaac saw many sinners who were judged for various reasons."

"He was not mature in his mind and was bullied for many years, and began to think about a question that would eventually lead him to the end - is it because he is a sinner that the death of his sister, the departure of his father, the mental breakdown of his mother, and the bullying of his classmates?"

"If it weren't for their guilt, why would they all treat themselves like this?"

"As time passed, Isaac, who was only puzzled at the beginning, gradually aggravated this idea."

"Let's see what sinful people are in the Bible."

"Cain, born by Adam and his wife Eve, hated his younger brother Abel and killed his younger brother with his own hands, and then was punished by God."

"Judah, one of Jesus' twelve disciples, was well known for his betrayal of Jesus, and he was included in his famous painting "The Last Supper."

"Eve was expelled from the Garden of Eden by God for stealing the forbidden fruit."

"Samson was once a Jewish leader, but because of his arrogant nature, he liked women, and did not hesitate to betray the race, he was eventually dug out his eyes and suffered torture."

"Azazel, the scapegoat in the Bible, was sinless, but by replacing the life of the sinner who betrayed the dead, it sinned."

"Lilith, the succubus who sneaked into a man's dream in Jewish mythology."

"There are many other characters who also bear their own sins. Let's take a look at which characters can be unlocked in the Isaac game besides Isaac. You will find that the other characters unlocked in this game are also named after these sinful people in the Bible."

"Isaac read the sinful man in the Bible and reexamined his original sin again. He believed that his existence might be the sin itself."

"As for the many characters unlocked in the game, they are all transvestites played by Isaac during his insanity. The clues can be seen from their appearance that are almost the same as Isaac."

"Finally, one day."

“Isaac’s mother heard the ‘gospel’ from God, which is the opening CG of the game we see.”

"Isaac's mother took up her butcher's knife and walked towards Isaac's room."
Chapter completed!