The Binding of Isaac: Repentance

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Generally favorable reviews- based on 75 Ratings

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  2. Mixed: 4 out of 75
  3. Negative: 13 out of 75

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  1. UltimateRich
    Apr 9, 2021
    1
    I consider myself to be an Isaac super fan. I've been playing since day 1 that Rebirth released, and have put in approximately 1700 hrs into the game across PC, PS4 and Vita. I've achieved 1000000% (full completion) on PS4 and continue to play regularly. I was very excited about this expansion and stayed up to play it the night it came out. Now 10 days later I've put 40hrs into the gameI consider myself to be an Isaac super fan. I've been playing since day 1 that Rebirth released, and have put in approximately 1700 hrs into the game across PC, PS4 and Vita. I've achieved 1000000% (full completion) on PS4 and continue to play regularly. I was very excited about this expansion and stayed up to play it the night it came out. Now 10 days later I've put 40hrs into the game and I've only won 2 out of about 50 runs. To put this into perspective on Afterbirth+ my win percentage was approximately 80%, and now it's dropped to 4%. This is an unreasonable difficulty increase. The enemies shoot faster and further, many items have been nerfed, and the item pool is further diluted with bad items. I like the design of the new bosses, there are many cool additions, and the amount of content is staggering, but none of this matters if the spirit and fun of the game has been drained. I no longer enjoy playing my favorite game of all time.
    Maybe you're now expected to reroll your run until you get a powerful item, but that's not how I play. I loved the randomness, and overcoming adversity, and if I lost, it felt like I just got a string of bad luck. Now, the game feels like it wants you to fail and it's being malicious. I'm going to go back to playing Afterbirth+ and in no way would I recommend getting this expansion.    … Expand
  2. ils
    Apr 23, 2021
    1
    It's everything you liked about Binding of Isaac Afterbirth+, but made worse!

    I love a lot of the additions to the enemy/boss pool and the graphical improvements are nice. Everything else inside this expansion makes the game worse.

    Afterbirth+ is the definitive version of Isaac. Repentance is the Robocop 3 of this series - let's all pretend it didn't exist.
  3. dblmo
    Apr 16, 2021
    0
    It's not fun anymore. I spent 1900+ hours on rebirth to afterbirth+. Item nerfs were unnecessary
  4. NRGesus
    Apr 6, 2021
    0
    The game really ruined the Binding of Isaac. All items that used to be strong were nerfed into the ground, and all terrible items have been only slightly buffed.

    In conclusion, all items suck now and you just die. You'll be lucky if you get more than 5DMG in a run.
  5. DrkAsDeath
    Apr 15, 2021
    0
    An extremely disappointing dlc to a great game. Imagine a fun game but they took out everything that max it good and made it mediocre. Who thought of some of these things?? Nerfing all the fun items so that everything is bland and making some of the items that was bad just ok. Is really disappointing. It just waters down the game to a bland experience with no. OMG BRIMSTONE WITH SPOONAn extremely disappointing dlc to a great game. Imagine a fun game but they took out everything that max it good and made it mediocre. Who thought of some of these things?? Nerfing all the fun items so that everything is bland and making some of the items that was bad just ok. Is really disappointing. It just waters down the game to a bland experience with no. OMG BRIMSTONE WITH SPOON BENDER AND TRIPPLESHOT. It’s just now. O thank god. An item that gives me health. Cause health is very rare now. Nerfs- you can’t play demon judgments twice. Brimstone nerf. Book of belial nerf. Shop nerf. Nerf nerf nerf nerf nerf. Buffs to bad items- idk I haven’t noticed a difference. Or lived long enough to find any Difficulty increase- I don’t play Isaac for a competitive Multiplayer perfectly balanced no fun time. I play it to get away from my problems. Now I can’t even play Isaac without some garbage hitting me and then eventually killing me. When there’s nothing I can do to avoid it. The only thing I can do is pray that I get a stream of good items. Which is as rare as my heart condition. So thank you For letting us wait for a trash dlc Ed. Nice Job. Just go play ab+… Expand
  6. worldwarnone
    Apr 6, 2021
    0
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. DLC really... sucks.
    Like it's got all of this cool **** and the artstyle looks nice, but if it makes it a way worse game would you really be up with it? There's literally a challenge where your whole screen goes to **** and you're supposed to beat it. What the hell? Who thought this was a good idea? You've seriously ****** up, Ed.    … Expand
  7. Matthewx86
    May 20, 2021
    4
    Game is now too hard and brutal (also in Normal difficulty), only for tryharder. Waste of money.

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  1. TheSixthAxis
    Apr 27, 2021
    80
    The Binding of Isaac: Repentance is an incredible achievement that goes beyond just being a DLC expansion. This is another load of thread connecting yet more pieces to the potential of the already brilliant base game. With all of these plates spinning, it's impossible to know how well a run is going to go at any given time, but it remains incredibly fun trying to figure that out.
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  2. Jeuxvideo.com
    Apr 15, 2021
    95
    Repentance is a must have expansion that sublimates the base game to make it the greatest Rogue-lite of its generation.
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  3. GameSkinny
    Apr 13, 2021
    80
    Repentance doesn't add anything particularly game-altering to the formula; it's not going to win you over if you don't like this style of roguelike. What it does do, however, is add huge amounts of content to the already massive base game (and other DLCS) that is The Binding of Isaac. On top of that, there's some even more hardcore endgame content, including a series of new, game-breaking characters to unlock. Not bad for $15.
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