Binding Of Isaac Prequel 'The Legend Of Bum-Bo' Launches This Month

Ew... Nicalis...

Meanwhile, I'm still waiting for Binding of Isaac: Afterbirth to get a discount on the eShop. This looks pretty cool and totally different, I might get it, if reviews are good.

That'll be why I thought it looked inspired by BoI then.

Oh yay, yet another match 3 style game

Also Ed McMillian has said there is going to be a physical but later next year:

https://twitter.com/edmundmcmillen/status/1537102548045180928

I mean when your game is struggling to sell on the PC (3 years after release) when it goes on sale for $5.......releasing it on the switch is a great way to get people to pay full price again.
Oh and why not just add another $5 to the base price.......you know Nintendo/console tax and all.

Not really attack on the game itself just tactic on not even having price parity on a port of a 3 year old game.
But it doesnt really come as a surprise being a Nicalis release and all.

But an criticism on the trailer at least (the could have used PC video) ........at least put direct control in a port instead of making you control a cursor (aka mouse with a stick) on a console port

@Bunkerneath I wouldn't get my hopes up. I've been waiting for my physical copy of BoI Repentance for the guts of two years

@steizgr8
It not all a bad thing though......at least it will be fully patched up with the latest patches (you'd think)
Theres been some pretty big changes since launch.........physical collector prefer it all complete on cartridge.

This interview by Digitiser with James Interactive and Edmund McMillen has all the questions you need answering about the game, such as: "Do you like beans?", "Does Bum-Bo like beans?" and "Is Bum-Bo your son?" https://youtu.be/SDlCLrQL5_I

Oddly excited about this. I think it's just isacciness

@steizgr8 I was going to pre-order the Physical of BoI Repentance, but with shipping first of all not available to my country and then updated to $55, I thought f-that for a lark

Despite the mixed reviews I’m still hyped to play this

I'd be more excited if they actually put Isaac on sale for once. At this point I doubt I'd even get it then since it's been out for so long. Weird some people think their games are forever worth max price regardless of how long they've been out/cheap they are elsewhere (cough Nintendough).

@SteamEngenius to be fair, Isaac actually is still worth full price.

@Scapetti Except it isn't, it's been out for ages. A discount is long due

@Pillowpants it's still being updated. They haven't stopped adding content since its release. And even more DLC recently came out for it. Why reduce the price when people are still buying it?

Anyone considering Bum-bo based on the BoI might want to consider the issues with the title.

Bum-bo is a fun title, but the development of the game was famously drawn out and the finished product was rushed. Releasing in a buggy state, the first month was spent fixing the game into an playable state, before ideas of a mini-DLC (inputting missing endings, adding new items) were mentioned for Christmas time.

It took over a year.

The final update for Bum-bo released early March 2021, with less content than was detailed for the mini DLC (less bosses, less new items, only a single new character) and the ending was updated to now link into Repentence. The only solace that could be taken was that it was offered for free (when the original talk was to release it for a small fee).

Bum-bo was rushed on PC, and these ports look somehow more rushed than that (rather than implementing actual controller support, just making it a mouse pointer and clicker). I'd recommend holding off for a while. This title needs an update to fix the obvious issues, and maybe the minor support it will inevitably receive from the Isaac community will make it so they actually fix their game on console.

@Scapetti Full price for the new DLC, sure. But everything else that's 4+ years old? It's not that good.

@Ontrevant yes it is

@DarkTron the trailer looks to be the pc version. The eshop screenshots clearly show button controls so it's not as rushed as it makes out. Not sure why they decided on using pc footage for the console trailer but I'd hold off on the hate until it's actually out and we can see how it plays

@Scapetti Hardly. Rebirth was good. Afterbirth really enhanced the game. Afterbirth+ was a bad idea. It bloated the item pools, then McMillan kept adding his "personal favorite mods" which most were subpar at best. After everyone begged him to stop adding them, he quit after the third one.
Afterbirth+ was released in 2017. It was FIVE years before a complete fan made expansion was "officially" added in. Repentance actually FINALLY fixed the glaring bugs, glitches and broken code that both McMillan AND Nicalis completely ignored for those FIVE years.
So, sorry if full price doesn't feel worth it for an expansion that took fans to fix what was it ored by the developer and publishers.
Buy, hey! Maybe he'll say he's working on Mewgenics again! 😑

@Ontrevant I mean he's just the artist and designer... seems silly to blame him for bugs

@Scapetti He's one the head programmer too. Don't be a shill if you don't know all the facts. 🤣

@Ontrevant he ABSOLUTELY is NOT a programmer. Check it and read back your own message to yourself

@Scapetti He must have magically made the original then, huh?

@SteamEngenius tbf I’ve seen it on sale a bunch of time and got afterbirth+ with a decent discount on the eshop myself

@Ontrevant not magic, he made it with Florian who was the sole programmer... why do you keep writing stuff without checking the facts? You clearly have no idea what you're talking about.

Most of the things in your other post make ZERO sense. "Everyone begged him to stop adding them" what?! Not only is that completely incorrect but you say there were three updates and there were in fact FIVE booster packs. And what glitches and bugs are you specifically referring to that remained unfixed for "five" years?! Not only are there none of significance but it was actually less than three years between the last Afterbirth+ update and Repentance. I do not recall any hideous game breaking bugs that needed to be fixed in that time.

And finally it's not McMillan it's McMillen, learn the guy's name at least. Not a programmer, he's the designer.

T-Speed is right, it's been on sale before, quite a few times