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Something that really stands out when comparing Mewgenics and TBoI are the final bosses. Like, Dogma and The Creator both give really interesting snapshots of their respective protagonists' motivations, I feel.
Despite the game being pretty overtly about religion *God* never appears in Isaac, the closest you get is, well, Dogma. As far as Isaac is concerned the christian god didn't really affect his life much, the thing that DID have importance, so much so it gets inserted into his pre-mortem hallucinations, are the televangelist broadcasts his mom watched, and the beast it turned her into. The game's true ending and alt-characters are locked behind that boss because it symbolizes its protagonist finally accepting that how he was treated wasn't his fault and how that knowledge lets him be free.
The final boss of Maggie's story, on the other hand, is the literal christian god. The fight against The Creator works so well as a capstone to Mewgenics because it symbolizes the exact opposite of what Dogma did. Maggie can't bring herself to acknowledge that Isaac's fate is her fault so she kills god over and over again as a vain attempt at revenge. In the true ending Beanies asks how god could take a son from his mother even though nothing "took" Isaac, Magdalene's parenting just pushed him away until it was too late. Dogma *should* be as much the villain of her story as it was his, but she can't admit that, so you fight the very universe itself instead.
Despite the game being pretty overtly about religion *God* never appears in Isaac, the closest you get is, well, Dogma. As far as Isaac is concerned the christian god didn't really affect his life much, the thing that DID have importance, so much so it gets inserted into his pre-mortem hallucinations, are the televangelist broadcasts his mom watched, and the beast it turned her into. The game's true ending and alt-characters are locked behind that boss because it symbolizes its protagonist finally accepting that how he was treated wasn't his fault and how that knowledge lets him be free.
The final boss of Maggie's story, on the other hand, is the literal christian god. The fight against The Creator works so well as a capstone to Mewgenics because it symbolizes the exact opposite of what Dogma did. Maggie can't bring herself to acknowledge that Isaac's fate is her fault so she kills god over and over again as a vain attempt at revenge. In the true ending Beanies asks how god could take a son from his mother even though nothing "took" Isaac, Magdalene's parenting just pushed him away until it was too late. Dogma *should* be as much the villain of her story as it was his, but she can't admit that, so you fight the very universe itself instead.
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