Binding of Isaac: Rebirth - Afterbirth Review

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Review: Binding of Isaac: Afterbirth+
Don't cry to me, oh baby!

Over the years, I've grown to have almost an obsession with Edmund McMillen's games. They typically are fiendishly simple ideas with tremendous complexity in execution. Super Meat Boy is just a platformer, but the level design follows a Mario Bros. style approach to teaching through mechanics and the art design reflects a personal belief that McMillen felt games were failing to live up to. Any meager description doesn't do the game justice.

The same can be said for The Binding of Isaac, which is almost like an autobiography of McMillen's childhood. While he obviously wasn't killing weird creatures (or his own mother) in a disgusting basement, the naivety of childhood shows in the grotesque depiction of biblical figures taken through an almost literal description.

And while the remake for Isaac, dubbed Rebirth, felt like a definitive edition of McMillen's magnum opus, we eventually saw the release of an expansion that basically doubled the game's content. A little over a year after that and we're being treated to a second, and supposedly final, expansion called Afterbirth+.

Does this final chapter live up to fan expectations and is it worth getting for the uninitiated?

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Score: 8.5/10 - Great​