Interesting that this comment appears 18 months after the fact, coincidentally at exactly the time when it’s becoming fashionable to be a roguelike elitist. Hmm.

In any case, it’s not possible to play every game ever made, so there’s no way to be familiar with every game that has influenced something you’re playing. I guarantee there are games you enjoy that have been influenced by others that you’ve never played. Moreover, I assume you’ve never actually played Sushi Castle, or not for more than a few minutes. If you’d put a couple of hours into it you’d know that while it does draw very heavily on The Binding of Isaac, it also introduces features of its own that, while not enough to prevent it being extremely derivative, do save it from being a total carbon copy. If you’re going to attack something for being a ‘rip off’ you should familiarise yourself with it first. If anything, that’s a worse offence than being unfamiliar with the original.

I also think it’s worth making the point that it can be hard to distinguish between a ‘rip off’ and a new genre. In the mid-80s a lot of games mimicked Super Mario Bros. A LOT. Were they rip offs? Perhaps, perhaps not. Probably both. But they were also a genre – SMB created a new type of platform game, a new genre, and others followed. It’s too soon to say whether or not Isaac has done the same. If it has, then there’s no clear distinction between ‘rip off’ and ‘same genre’.

Nuance of thought, sir. It’s useful in adult life. Beginning a diatribe with “what a load of bullshit”, on the other hand, is not and will usually prevent anyone taking you seriously.

At the time I wrote this review, I only reviewed console games. Hence why I didn’t have plans to play Binding of Isaac.

“I’m sure you and Anita would be great friends”

I have no love or respect for Anita Sarkeesian. But I don’t have to resort to ad-hominid attacks to make my points about her. You’ve made two posts here, where you accused me of being in league with her, based purely on my gender, and where you called another reader an idiot. You’re what’s wrong with gaming.

You are an idiot.

True, but it still looks like fucking King Rollo. (look it up)

Who said it sucked? I didn’t. I put Sushi Castle on my leaderboard.