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Would You Play a Smash TV Roguelike With Zelda Dungeons?

Yes, yes, and yes.

The headline says it all, doesn't it?

Even better, it's coming from Edmund McMillen, one half of the two-man development team behind Super Meat Boy. Titled The Blinding of Issac, McMillen revealed details on his blog today, a project he's working on as Team Meat begins putting together whatever's coming after Super Meat Boy.

While the dungeons are imitating the structure established in The Legend of Zelda, the layouts themselves are randomly generated. The game even has a frickin' treasure room with items to buy! The specifics are still being worked out, but there will be at least six worlds/dungeons to fight through, with a minimum of 10 different bosses. And tons and tons of items.

Oh, and Danny Baranowsky of Super Meat Boy, Canabalt and others is doing the soundtrack.

Basically, this sounds awesome.

The game's coming in August sometime through Steam. Just take my money already, won't you?

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everything about this sounds appealing....

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Ok... it's been hours now. You still have the TITLE of the game wrong for crying out loud.

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What the hell is this? It's called "The Binding of Isaac," and I made the wiki page for it plural days ago!

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August? That's pretty much tomorrow!

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umm i made the wiki page for this days ago...but hey if theres a game called BLINDING of isaac and BINDING of isaac then whatever. patrick -1

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Concept sounds good, execution looks less good unfortunately.

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I LOVED Super Meat Boy, and can't wait to play this. But, yeah, I need to see everything in action to make a purchase decision.

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This sounds great, unless of course it's ridiculously hard like MeatBoy.

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The ridiculous hard gameplay about super meat boy was the only thing that turned me away from getting it but I liked the rest of what they did as far as the art, music, humor so I'll definitely be following this game as it looks quite interesting & worth picking up.

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Just a heads up, it's BINDING.

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I'm slightly put off by the fact that this looks way too much like Super Meat Boy. I'm not sure why as well because I loved SMB. 

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Looking forward to it for sure

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If you're interested there is a track from this game up at DannyB's bandcamp 
I'm a bit worried about this game because it seems like it might be trying to mix too many genres together. As well my concerns rest with DannyB's music, he's a great musical artist for sure but the reason why I loved the zelda games so much is because of their music and I feel like his style is not what I would expect or want from that kind of game. Thoughts?

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@eccentrix said:

Although I play almost all of McMillen's games, I never really liked the art style.

I agree, it looks too much like a draft version of a flash animation instead of actually processed art. I think the gameplay will be good but it seems like Edmund lacks the fine art to tighten up his graphics. 
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Of course I want to play this game.

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The description sounds pretty sweet, I shall keep an eye out for this.

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I disliked the recycled artstyle from SMB.

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Looks interesting. Any word on a PSN release?

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Wondering about an XBLA release over here...

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I'd buy that for a dollar!

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I'm rather enjoying the fact that XBLA gets shafted after royally buttfucking Team Meat on SMB. I'm happy they're heading straight for Steam, because this seems right up my alley.

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I SO would.

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@Cross said:

I'm rather enjoying the fact that XBLA gets shafted after royally buttfucking Team Meat on SMB. I'm happy they're heading straight for Steam, because this seems right up my alley.

How did they "buttfuck" Team Meat? They are the only ones (I think) allowed to bring updates to XBL without selling it as DLC and stuff like that and Microsoft was really interested to get them on XBLA unlike Sony or Nintendo.
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Bitchin'
 
@Cross said:

I'm rather enjoying the fact that XBLA gets shafted after royally buttfucking Team Meat on SMB. I'm happy they're heading straight for Steam, because this seems right up my alley.

Bummer!  Guess I'll wait for the Steam discount.
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@mnzy: I would like to direct your attention here, sir. http://bit.ly/eHNzQk

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@Cross said:

@mnzy: I would like to direct your attention here, sir. http://bit.ly/eHNzQk

Yeah. does not sound like "butt-fucking" to me eventhough kotaku tried their best.  Microsoft underestimated a really good game by totally unknown developers and didn't give it the appropriate PR, I'm sure they regret that by now. Big whoop.
 
I really like Team Meat, I bought SMB twice and even bought the soundtrack, but I feel like they forget how much of a risk it is to support such an unknown game company and how hard it is to set boundaries for games to be released on a closed platform to keep the quality high. Sony did not take the risk at all and Nintendo wasn't very supportive either. 
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Could be fun -- too bad they are still capping the game out at 30fps tho...

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Well. It uses all the right buzz words.

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I WILL PLAY THIS GAME. 
 
Probably. Big fan of roguelikes, though.

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Oh god yes, yes, yes!

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Sold.

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Sounds epic. However I'm going to wait for a gameplay trailer or something. 

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Yes, make it yesterday...

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@IncredibleMeltingMan said:

I'd buy that for a dollar!

That's about how much I paid for Super Meat Boy, thanks to Steam sales.
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I would have to see more screen shots

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Hope it comes for XBLA. i like being able use a controller with a big TV as opposed to a monitor.

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Why yes I would play that.

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this is going to be 5 bucks at launch, thats... nice