The Madness of Little Emma

TMoLE is not just an Isaac ripoff; it's an Isaac ripoff that pits everyone against each other in super-competitive ladder mode, where people chase after #1 like it's a Willy Wonka golden ticket and then sit on it, preening their feathers in the nucleus of the circle of attention for all to see. I was in that circle of attention for about 2 weeks, and it was OMG-ly amazing, until some hardcore superfocused ADD-Rainman-savant came along and displaced me. Now, just a handful of months later, the current high score is closing in on twice my high score as #1. Games that do not make you feel differently aren't games. TMoLE made me feel three separate emotions during different periods of my playing it: good, bad, good about feeling good. I'm okay with all of that. I wish more games impacted me that much.

Every run can end with just one unbalanced room. Basic enemies suddenly shooting at high speed through the walls is something that can just happen, have fun. Even if RNG wasn't this bad, the game still has awful movement, cheap enemy/boss design and a bunch of other problems.