I’ve been playing The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth so I’m gonna make a post about the crying child and how his inclusion in Smash could work (note: I’m only familiar with most of the basegame of Rebirth so far (I got it about a little over a week ago) as well as the original game’s demo, but I’ve looked at/read about/listened to some stuff online):
Moveset:
My creative juices are not flowing very well, so here’s a video by BrawlFan1; it sounds kinda complicated but also like it could be very cool and fun:
Of course, there are many items and stuff in The Binding of Isaac, so I’m sure they could make an awesome moveset out of various options, but it
must include Isaac’s perpetual waterworks.
Music:
Some music probably wouldn’t be chosen due to their titles, like Matricide, but there’s still a lot I think could represent the game perfectly well on their own:
-The main menu theme
-The Basement theme and other areas’ themes
-The standard boss battle theme
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Maybe Ventricide (since it’s not an existing word, but a combination of ventricle and the -cide suffix)
-Music from the original game (so we could get two different themes for the Basement and other areas, as well as music for the bosses who may have a not-E10+ titled theme in Rebirth (so we could also get music such as My Innermost Apocalypse))
Stage:
It’d probably just be the Basement, but a stage with various locations would be cool; maybe it’d randomly choose a location upon starting a match (similar to the Minecraft stage). Some areas would likely meet Nintendo’s ban hammer (such as the ones in Chapter 4), but here’s summaries of some that could work:
- Basement - A standard basement with wooden walls and a hard floor.
- Cellar - Similar to the Basement, but completely made of wood, detailed with webs, and has a focus on spiders.
- Caves - Caves made of brown stone, with water here and there.
- Catacombs - Similar to the caves, but with brick walls detailed with skulls on some spots
- Depths - A dark, prison- or dungeon-like area. (may also be based on a sewer or torture chamber however)
- Necropolis - Similar to the Depths, but with brick walls and maybe a little spookier (I learned “necropolis” means a land of the dead/a large cemetery)
There’s also others, such as the Flooded Caves and more in the DLC. Maybe the chest Isaac hides in could also be used, since it seems to have some significance + there’s another area/floor based on it, though if not its own area I’m not sure what the chest itself would do in Smash.
Alternate Costumes:
If Isaac doesn’t just get color alts., I believe the other playable characters could be used, since they just look like Isaac but in a wig, outfit, or with a demon or dead appearance (the characters being Magdalene, Eve, Samson, The Lost, and multiple others), and would still fit what BrawlFan1 explains in his video (that Isaac’s appearance changes with the items he picks up like in his game) if they use that mechanic.
Spirits:
I’m not entirely sure, since a lot of the bosses and such have a detail that Nintendo may not allow without censoring if they can even be censored (like Gurdy, Gemini, Larry Jr., Mega Maw, Mom’s Heart, It Lives, etc.), but here’s some examples that could probably work:
-Isaac himself
-The other playable characters
-Mom
-Monstro
-Chub
-Pin
-The Haunt
-Greed (he wears a cut noose around his neck as if it were a tie so this may be a stretch)
Reveal Tagline:
Idk. “Isaac faces his fears!” I guess?
Evidence for Isaac:
absolutely nothing. He doesn’t really have anything other indies don’t have, that being having their games on Nintendo systems and having popularity, so there’s not really anything indicating he’s any likelier than other characters (even if I like to say he’s definitely gonna get in and defeat Dharkon with his tears in my less-serious posts out of hopeful optimism and a belief that it could very well happen).
Conclusion:
5 year old bald kid who weaponizes his eye fluids would be awesome in Smash, and he’s gonna be top tier and make his opponents rage so they’ll copy that “I will become back my money” meme.
