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
Of course, choice is something that is closely controlled. In many cases, you're faced with the illusion of choice, governed by external forces, whether that be self imposed or pushed on you by another party, or even the Brownian motion of society itself. You could make the choice of walking out of your job, pouring your water bottle into the middle of the floor and marching out, head held high, sneering at anyone who cares to look at your performance. Though you are more likely to spend the evenings instead scowling and checking recruitment sites, because walking out isn't viable, because of bills and references and what's actually acceptable, and when it comes down to it, it's simply not a choice that is on the table. Choice can be fun when you limit the choices, and it manifests itself in the form of triumph as previous choices line up and lead to victory, or as analysis paralysis, when a simple choice is not an easy choice to make. Geode from District 31 is