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
We don't exist in a bubble. Our differing experiences shape our opinions and life views, and that's a wonderful thing. Trends effect our decisions, new ways of thinking change our perspective. Comparisons will always be made by what we used to do in the past compared to what we have done now. Board games naturally feed off each other, as designers can't help but be subconsciously influenced by what they see, read and play. I've personally never seen the sense in the ultimate big list comparison of all board games. Games are generally designed and sold to facilitate making the passing of time easier on us and also ideally make money for the creator. Whether that be through forcing us to guffaw with laughter, or spend seven minutes staring at the same space deciding whether to place a meeple or not. Games have an objective, an aim that they intend to fulfil. So it's important when I'm writing about them to take that into account. Pocket Paragons aims to fill that