The Binding of Isaac is a hugely successful videogame, and thanks to two extremely lucrative crowdfunding efforts that netted around $8 million, you could argue that its a highly successful card game as well. The videogame fits almost too perfectly into begin turned into cardboard, with its roguelike genetics being suited to the randomness of dungeon crawler, variable bonuses and and player powers sitting well within the tabletop realm. There's around eighty thousand people who have some kind of variation of the tabletop game. So surely its extremely good because well funded games are always amazing, aren't they. I'm approaching this as someone who is away from the hype canoe sailing down the river rapids of marketing and excitement and so this is probably going to be dull in comparison. I'm also someone who is a fan of the game, and has spent many an hour running around randomly generated dungeons of blood and filth. For those unfamiliar with the videogame, you play
World War II as a theme is a tired, outdated and in some cases potentially dull affair. I have no idea why people would want to replicate and cash in on a conflict that killed millions and almost brought the free world to its knees. You can bang that drum repeatedly about the glorification of World War II. But with recent events in the world including the frightening rise of ring wing ideology, Nazis literally marching again in the US, you also can't help but feel that this drum needs to be there in the background reminding us about the past. Because there are now young people who don't know what the holocaust was, or how serious it was and why maybe getting people playing a card based game which makes them start to ask questions about history is maybe a good thing. I'll be honest, I knew very little about the existence of the British Long Range Desert Group before I unwrapped Undaunted North Africa even though I believe I had family who fought there during the War. It was