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I disagree with your Greed mode takes. I think Greed mode, if not equally as fun as the normal game, is more polished/fun than the normal game. The dynamic between "which upgrade should I buy? Should I even buy, or should I reroll? Or maybe even save up for the next floor? But what if the next floor doesn't have anything good either, should I buy the mediocre items now?" is, I think, amazing. And the game actively punished you for playing poorly (reducing your health, getting less money if you press the button, etc). I think it teaches you about how to play the game better much more effectively than the normal game mode. The game encourages for you to do better, to find new ways of using active items, to find new ways to SURVIVE with what you got. I kind of agree with the Greedier mode unlock thing, however. I think "Greedier" should be unlocked relatively soon compared to your first playthrough of Greed mode. Either at the same time, like Normal/Hard is, or at 100 coins, to make sure anyone playing Greedier mode knows what they're doing. However, I completely disagree with the whole "it forces you to replay the game many times!" bit. If you want 3,000,000% completion, you have to replay ALL the characters in both Greed AND Hard/Normal mode. Why is there no complaint about the player having to complete the normal game with all characters NINE TIMES as opposed to Greed mode's 2 per character? What about the amount of times you have to beat mom/mom's heart/isaac to unlock more content in the base game? I think your analysis/complaints are just unfair when a lot of your complaints are just... something the main game does as well, if not even worse. Greed mode is a fresh of breath air compared to the monotony of normal/hard mode, I don't get why it's such a "terrible concept" for you besides the 500 coin, holy mantle/greed unlock complaint. I agree it could be better, but I disagree that it's a "terrible concept". It's fun, and I hope you someday elaborate on your stance on greed mode instead of just off-handedly saying "I don't like it" for 5 minutes in a 3 hour video.

The computer motif is also seen in the ost, as most of the songs contain a lot of synth sounds

This video was unreal, i watched half of it due to time constraints, nostalgia kicked in...I learned more about the game than I previously knew..quite entertaining. Hats off to you for the hard work you put in to put out such a lengthy and comprehensive look at this game.

I was watching a completely different video, then dozed off for a second. When I opened my eyes again, I was 2 hours into this video 😅

Fire Emblem: Three Houses, Pikmin and Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door shown in the intro? Good taste!

I like this video

When I saw this guy has less than 2k subs I died inside. This is incredible! I have so much respect for people who put this much care into games and its development especially, and the person behind it. I love both the gameplay and the lore aspects so deeply. Great job!

I finally beat it this morning

Really excellent video - one comment about pay to play. While I agree it's very niche to be valuable in the main game it really shines in greed mode. When a key is 5c a pop it can easily pay for itself. Also while I agree greed mode is less compelling than the main game the wave format really can make some active items shine.

anyone else fall asleep with auto play on?

i woke up to this after leaving my phone and falling asleep

I woke up to this autoplaying and spent the rest of the day listening and just being like "yea"

Damn i can't believe i haven't seen this video until now with how much im into issac. This was an amazing video and the kilburn interview was actually very interesting listening to. Great job my man

Yea no,none of tboi games are rougelites. The definition you gave is just wrong,a rougelite has a permanent post-run meta progression system,charater unlocks obviously dont count. Vampire survivors is a rougelite because someone thats playing on a 2 hour save will be 200 times weaker than a player with all achievements unlocked without any way to match that with game knowledge. In tboi however,besides the characters unlocks that change playstyle while not giving you a flat out advatange,you are a better player uniquely by what you know about the game. Your first run ever can be min maxed for 4 hours on each floor if youre good enough,vampire survivors is completely unbeatable on your first run through

Great vid

I just like getting good overpowered run and the satisfaction of seeing dead god on my file. Other than that, pretty repetitive at times

2 years and still hasn't passed a million views, UA-cam really screwed you over

i play with no curses mod and my experience isnt frustrating anymore (completed afterbirth+ 100% with curses so i have experience)

Danny B made OST for original flash isaac but not rebirth

3 hour long essay on Isaac? Exactly what my ape brain needs

Issac players when the curses that are meant to debuff you actually debuff you 😱💀

I Didn't Like This Video, but i Will Give a Like, Because it has Love and effort into it

Just randomly found the video but you are def saved to the playlist, car rides just got better!

While there are certainly things I disagree with (i.e. I like T. Jacob but dislike T. Lazarus) this video is overall very informative and extremely well put together. Definitely deserves more views than it has.

the game looks like shlt, couldnt be bothered to play it for more then 3 minutes

just got recommended your video. very nice video essay. playing the game on and of since i bought it on release. it just doesnt get stale and all the subtext and the story makes it for me the best and to be honest only rogue like i ever stuck with

Wowie cool video :)

Great video. Also holy shit very whiny

If you want an example of someone who actually seems to quite like tainted Jacob, I recommend checking out the pacifist video of this game by Davey gunface. He seemed to really enjoy the character and actively admitted that character being a major part of the inspiration for the challenge.

The interview section can seem like you are just complaining about mechanics you dont like to a dev under the excuse that its an interview

I think that its a good idea that no tainted characters are in the daily runs because while you may think they are just another regular character, new players have no idea that they even exist and discovering them is a super awesome experience that would be ruined if you just randomly get T lilith because it happens to be a friday

55:03 T Samson? 😢 I agree that his gimmick is super basic and could be easily replicated by any half decent modder but I find him super fun for the first 3 floors or so

Good Video

Listened to this a while back during my shift, just remembered to come back and leave appreciation. I enjoyed this a lot; I didn't think I'd care for the interview portion but I was intrigued the whole time. Thank you for sharing such a project with us. I as well hope this sees more an more attention soon, it certainly deserves it.

I just watched a youtube tutorial and beat it in a few tries lol.

Just got this recommended. Hope this video explodes by the random blessing of the algorithm!

68k views is criminal. I'm hoping that this will be one of those videos that in a few years will get recommended like crazy and get millions of views.

a bit of this video seems like it's just putting down other roguelites rather than explaining why isaac is so good. for necrodancer, you also left out a very significant part of its gameplay, and that's how different every character plays. isaac does this too, but only really goes far enough with half of the cast in tainted characters. talking about mods in the first section was also kind of weird- It should have 100% been a separate section since it's community content that wildly varies in quality.

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I'm pretty surprised by your opinion on tainted jacob, and I think you're not giving the character enough credit. After dark esau was changed to be unkillable (on launch I admit he was borderline unplayable) I find him to be a very unique challenge with plenty of upsides to explore. Being pursued by an entity for the entire run is a cool idea for a challenge character imo, and if you learn to slingshot dark esau around with anima sola he can be very effectively used as a weapon. Dude's damage is insane, every boss in the early game is going to die near immediately when charged. Not only that, his charge ignores boss armor, meaning he can actually do serious damage to hush and delirium. Plus, if you let esau touch you after clearning the floor, you can give yourself flight to grab any out-of-reach items, like having the white fire from downpour II on every floor (minus mantle). I think having to manipulate dark esau's position to trick him into charging enemies while not boxing yourself in a corner makes you think about positioning in a way no other character does, and that's what makes him so fun to me.

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All the comments are saying the same thing... The algorithm brought you to me... The masses will see you soon...

The binding of isaac is my favorite game. It's how I made my best friend and has been with me for nearly a decade. This video does it justice and makes me appreciate it even more. Thank you.

With t.esau having infinite health, t.jacob is unironically one of if not the best character in the game unironically. Damage is the only stat that matters once you have too many hours in the game, and t.jacob starts with a nuke. If anything I want esau's damage nerfed because it trivializes the game to an unhealthy degree, but damage as a whole needs to be either removed outright or heavily reworked since being the only stat that ever, matters appart from tears which are just another measure of damage, it's not fun to have a run without any that feels like a slog or too much that feels free. I don't think I'll ever be able to truly express how awful damage feels in this game. After 800 hours or so I'm slowly realizing more and more how it's the only real stat and it sucks. Isaac is never about if you're going to get hit, but when (thanks rng) and killing everything faster almost always provides more defensive value than the dedicated defensive items. I'll always ALWAYS take a meat over a stopwatch for example, it's not even close how funny the difference in power is between quality 2 dps items a'd quality 4 defensive items. Or maybe playing the game too much left me to have plenty of damage-less 60 minutes+ runs that left a bad taste in my mouth even after thousands of okay runs, who knows. I've come to only play t.lost, t.jacob and other characters with starting damage when doing casual runs because they feel like the only characters balanced against bad rng.

I've always found active items to be my absolutely most disliked mechanic. They're the biggest contributor to item bloat by far, not only by themselves, but by the items that interact with them. To add to that, their effects are rarely well balanced. Most of the time they're either extremely underwhelming for late game, absolutely game winning on their own, or game breaking when combined with energy mechanics. I feel like these items should have their own separate way of obtaining them; Energy passive items should be removed; And other energy mechanics should be heavily limited. Anyhow great video for one of my favourite games of all time you're the best.

I loved listening to this while playing games, good video essay

such an incredible video, hope it blows up!

We didn’t need this. This felt fun to figure out as my own as a teen. Now this feels like one of those bogus creepypasta theories kids that haven’t seen a show tell you about when the show is brought up.