By my estimates, roughly seven trillion so-called roguelikes have come out since Edmund McMillan first supplied up The Binding Of Isaac again in (oh no) 2011. But you’ll be able to’t hold McMillan and his bare toddler kids out of the basement for lengthy. The Legend Of Bum-bo, an odd deckbuilding/match-four mashup painted in cardboard, embarks on its gross-out journey at this time.
I’m unsure concerning the performing right here, thoughts. Bum-bo’s efficiency is quite stiff. Wooden, maybe. What’s the phrase…
Now, I used to be by no means actually one for The Binding Of Isaac (or its more and more unusual sequels). Whether it was the floaty motion or the overly scatological humour, it by no means fairly devoured my time in the identical method as Nuclear Throne or Enter The Gungeon. But I’ve completed the maths, and I reckon six trillion so-called roguelikes have come and handed since Isaac’s first journey to the basement. It’s laborious to argue McMillan’s hit didn’t go away a everlasting, shit-smeared mark on the scene.
Rather than providing one other top-down cry ’em up, Bum-bo is a tile-based tactical match-four. Matches flip into assaults and generate vitality to make use of objects, that are collected and upgraded over the course of a run, as Bum-bo faces a rogue’s gallery of flies and mutilated kids. Yup. It’s an Isaac game.
Keeping to the spirit of Isaac, varied Bum-bos (fats Bum-bo! bizarre Bum-bo) carry their very own spin to the desk, serving to you are taking down delightfully grim bosses. It’s a quite unusual game to explain, thoughts. Thankfully co-developer James Interactive (who beforehand pitched in on Isaac’s horrifying live-action trailers) has put up some prolonged gameplay footage that can assist you familiarize yourself with Bum-bo:
Is it nearly as good as its timeless predecessor, although? Our Matt is penned in for a visit down the basement to provide us his full verdict subsequent week.
The Legend of Bum-bo is out on Steam. A 10% launch low cost brings it all the way down to £9.68/€10.62/$12.74 till subsequent Tuesday.
