History Awesome / TheBindingOfIsaac

* Defeating [[spoiler:Isaac]] as the Blue Baby and unlocking the D6. An awesome item in its own right, this item lets the user re-roll any item pedestal in the room. Don't like it? Re-roll it! But what makes unlocking it all the more awesome is that it immediately becomes Isaac's starting item by default. This turns Isaac from a basic, mediocre, but well-rounded character into the closest thing you can get to a wild card without playing as Eden.

* Let's name some awesome tracks from Rebirth, shall we? [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n8hGE8PcT58 Crusade]], [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O8R2q_2XPkc Matricide]], [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NsmegrKVkNc Ventricide]], [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LShwB6Zf8bo Hericide]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zLzyKTKxeO0 The Fallen Angel]], [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SLfisj0u3_o Infanticide]], and [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7T1Xt5V2FZ8 Ascension]].
* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2DAbjFT6SBs This]].

* Let's just say beating the crap outta [[spoiler: FREAKIN SATAN!]]
** And in Rebirth, it gets even more awesome when you beat the crap outta [[spoiler: FREAKIN MEGA SATAN!]]

* A bit of a meta example, but on it's release day, Rebirth topped Steam's sales charts, surpassing Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare. To make that even more awesome, Steam's sales charts are based off of gross revenue. Considering Rebirth is only one fourth of Advanced Warfare's price...
* [[spoiler:'''Rebirth's boss rush''', AKA every boss up to the Depths (as well as Blastocyst and Death) from the original Binding of Isaac and [=WoTL=], teaming up to ''take you down''. Bonus points to Isaac and the player if they manage to survive the horde.]]
* [[spoiler:And Rebirth's TrueFinalBoss, Mega Satan, a massive version of Satan that attacks with BulletHell, slamming his Giant Hands of Doom, and summoning the Horsemen of the Apocalypse, the Seven Super Deadly Sins, and two fallen versions of the Angel minibosses. And that's not getting into his second form...]]

* Meta: The sheer amount of content. First, the Halloween free update. Then the ''Wrath of the Lamb'' expansion, which was two-thirds of the original game. Then ''[[UpdatedRerelease Rebirth]]'' raised the item count to +340 from the original's 100 or so of. And as of this writing, there's a ''Rebirth'' expansion in the works that will '''[[UpToEleven double the amount of content]]'''. The expansion, ''Afterbirth'', provides a special meta example in how [[spoiler:it doesn't supplant Mega Satan as the True Final Boss, making this the first major update or expansion that does not add a new True Final Boss and defy precedent. Instead, we get a Bonus Boss and an alternate mode with its own Final Boss.]]
* Another meta example: former Nintendo of America head of indie relations, Dan Adelman, was thanked by the developers as the reason for ''Rebirth'' seeing release on the Nintendo eShop after the games initial rejection in 2012. Adelman himself once stated that one of his regrets from his days at Nintendo was being forced to reject Binding of Isaac's initial 3DS release, due to Nintendos eShop content guildlines still being outdated and restrictive at the time. Thanks to some reforms Adelman was able to work out at Nintendo prior to leaving and starting his own company, Binding of Isaac was, at long last, able to see release on Nintendo platforms in 2015 in the form of the ''Rebirth'' version.
* Let's name some awesome tracks from Rebirth shall we? [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n8hGE8PcT58 Crusade]], [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O8R2q_2XPkc Matricide]], [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NsmegrKVkNc Ventricide]], [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LShwB6Zf8bo Hericide]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zLzyKTKxeO0 The Fallen Angel]], [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SLfisj0u3_o Infanticide]], and [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7T1Xt5V2FZ8 Ascension]].
* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2DAbjFT6SBs This]]
* Defeating [[spoiler: Isaac]] as the Blue Baby and unlocking the D6. An awesome item in its own right, this item let's the use re-roll any item pedestal in the room. Don't like it? Re-roll it! But what makes unlocking it all the more awesome is that it immediately becomes Isaac's starting item by default. This turns Isaac from a basic, mediocre, but well rounded character into the closest thing you can get to a wild card without playing as Eden.

* Beating a run on ''Rebirth'' [[spoiler:as The Lost. Especially if you beat Mega Satan with it. Give yourself a pat on the back; after what you've went through, you've earned it.]]

* Meta: The sheer amount of content. First, the Halloween free update. Then the ''Wrath of the Lamb'' expansion, which was two-thirds of the original game. Then ''[[UpdatedRerelease Rebirth]]'' raised the item count to +340 from the original's 100 or so of. And as of this writing, there's a ''Rebirth'' expansion in the works that will '''[[UpToEleven double the amount of content]]'''.

* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2DAbjFT6SBs This]]

** Want to surpass even that? Ipecac plus Epic Fetus plus a damage multiplier of at least 1.5 (Cricket's Head, Magic Mushroom, Eve's Mascara, and a few others).

* Let's name some awesome tracks from Rebirth shall we? [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n8hGE8PcT58 Crusade]], [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O8R2q_2XPkc Matricide]], [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NsmegrKVkNc Ventricide]], [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LShwB6Zf8bo Hericide]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zLzyKTKxeO0 The Fallen Angel]], [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SLfisj0u3_o Infanticide]], and [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7T1Xt5V2FZ8 Ascension]].

* Another meta example: former Nintendo of America head of indie relations, Dan Adelman, was thanked by the developers as the reason for ''Rebirth'' seeing release on the Nintendo eShop after the games initial rejection in 2012. Adelman himself once stated that one of his regrets from his days at Nintendo was being forced to reject Binding of Isaac's initial 3DS release, due to Nintendos eShop content guildlines still being outdated and restrictive at the time. Thanks to some reforms Adelman was able to work out at Nintendo prior to leaving and starting his own company, Binding of Isaac was, at long last, able to see release on Nintendo platforms in 2015 in the form of the ''Rebirth'' version.

* Meta: The sheer amount of content. First, the Halloween free update. Then the ''Wrath of the Lamb'' expansion, which was two-thirds of the original game. Then ''[[UpdatedRerelease Rebirth]]'' raised the item count to +340 from the original's 100 or so of. And as of this writing, there's a ''Rebirth'' expansion in the works that will '''[[UpToEleven double the amount of content]]'''.

* [[spoiler:And Rebirth's True Final Boss, Mega Satan, a massive version of Satan that attacks with Bullet Hell, slamming his Giant Hands of Doom, and summoning the Horsemen of the Apocalypse, the Seven Super Deadly Sins, and two fallen versions of the Angel minibosses. And that's not getting into his second form...]]
* Beating a run on ''Rebirth'' [[spoiler: as The Lost. Especially if you beat Mega Satan with it. Give yourself a pat on the back; after what you've went through,you've earned it.]]

* Beating a run on ''Rebirth''[[spoiler: as The Lost. Especially if you beat Mega Satan with it. Give yourself a pat on the back; after what you've went through,you've earned it.]]

* [[spoiler:Beating a run on ''Rebirth'' as The Lost. Especially if you beat Mega Satan with it. Give yourself a pat on the back; after what you've went through,you've earned it.]]

* [[spoiler:Beating a run on ''Rebirth'' as The Lost. Especially if you beat Mega Satan with it. Give yourself a pat on the back; after what you've went through,you've earned it.]]

* [[spoiler:'''Rebirth's boss rush''', AKA every boss up to the Depths (as well as Blastocyst and Death) from the original Binding of Isaac and WoTL, teaming up to ''take you down''. Bonus points to Isaac and the player if they manage to survive the horde.]]

* [[spoiler:And Rebirth's True Final Boss, Mega Satan, a massive version of Satan that attacks with Bullet Hell, slamming his Giant Hands of Doom, and summoning the Horsemen of the Apocalypse, the Seven Super Deadly Sins, and two fallen versions of the Angel minibosses. And that's not getting into his second form...]]

* [[spoiler:'''Rebirth's boss rush''', AKA every boss up to the Depths from the original Binding of Isaac and WoTL, teaming up to ''take you down''. Bonus points to Isaac and the player if they manage to survive the horde.]]

* [[spoiler:'''Rebirth's boss rush''', AKA every boss up to the Depths from the original Binding of Isaac and WoTL, teaming up to ''take you down''. Bonus points to Isaac and the player if they manage to survive the horde.]]

* [[spoiler:'''Rebirth's boss rush''', AKA every boss up to the Depths from the original Binding of Isaac and WoTL, teaming up to ''take you down''. Bonus points to Isaac and the player if they manage to survive the horde of bosses.]]

* [['''Rebirth's boss rush''', AKA every boss up to the Depths from the original Binding of Isaac and WoTL, teaming up to ''take you down''. Bonus points to Isaac and the player if they manage to survive the horde of bosses.]]

* A bit of a meta example, but on it's release day, Rebirth topped Steam's sales charts, surpassing Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare. To make that even more awesome, Steam's sales charts are based off of gross revenue. Considering Rebirth is only one fourth of Advanced Warfare's price...

* Getting Brimstone and Polyphemus. All of the non-final bosses go down in either 1 or 2 hits. The two final bosses, [[spoiler:Isaac and ???]], which have 2000 hp, go down in 5 or 6 hits. It makes you feel like a god.

* Getting Brimstone and Polyphemus. All of the non-final bosses go down in either 1 or 2 hits. The two final bosses, [[spoiler]]Isaac and ???[[/spoiler]], which have 2000 hp, go down in 5 or 6 hits. It makes you feel like a god.

* Then there's getting any combination of items that turn Issac from a crying child into an angry winged demon [[BeamSpam shooting laser beams everywhere]].

* For that matter, the first time you beat Mom without [[spoiler:The Bible]] is definitely a triumph.

* Let's just say beating the crap outta [[spoiler: FREAKIN SATAN!]]