


The remake, subtitled Rebirth, was announced in a post-mortem on Gamasutra. The game features 13 possible endings, one after each major boss fight.Edmund McMillen's dark rogue-like The Binding of Isaac is coming to consoles courtesy of Nicalis. His thoughts are visible, ranging among rejection from his mother and humiliation from his peers to a scenario involving his own death. Isaac then puts the paper he was drawing onto his wall, which becomes the title screen.ĭuring the game's loading points, Isaac is shown curled up in a ball, crying.

He finds a trapdoor hidden under his rug and jumps in, just before his mother opens his bedroom door. Isaac, watching through a sizable crack in his door, starts to panic. She obliges, grabbing a butcher's knife from the kitchen and walking to Isaac's room. It states she has done well, but it still questions her devotion, and tells her to sacrifice her son. Once more, the voice speaks to Isaac's mother. Once again, his mother obliges, and locks Isaac inside his room. The voice once again speaks to Isaac's mother, stating that Isaac must be cut off from all that is evil in the world. His mother obliges, taking away his toys, drawings, and even his clothes. It asks her to remove all that was evil from Isaac, in an attempt to save him. Isaac's mother then hears "a voice from above", stating her son is corrupted with sin, and needs to be saved. Isaac, a child, and his mother live in a small house on a hill, both happily keeping to themselves, with Isaac drawing pictures and playing with his toys, and his mother watching Christian broadcasts on television. The Binding of Isaac 's plot is very loosely inspired by the biblical story of the same name. Rebirth is a remake of The Binding of Isaac developed by McMillen and Florian Himsl and first released in 2011. The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth is an independent roguelike video game designed by Edmund McMillen and developed and published by Nicalis.
