


The best thing you can do for yourself with The Binding of Isaac: Repentance is just start playing and see what happens. It's hard to give definitive advice right now, and that's part of the point. It's give and take, and you need to always be open to the possibilities, rather than thinking of getting a certain kind. Proptosis used to make Maw of the Void's ring larger, now it stays the same size, but Ipecac now blows enemies up on contact. In some cases, combos have just been switched. Same goes for Humbling Bundle, where previously bombs and hearts and so on became their doubled version-now you only have a chance of that happening. You're very unlikely to find anything like Dark Bum-a familiar who supplies set items based on hearts you picked up that now delivers based on random draw rather than on a cycle-to assist you in a routine fashion. Rather than finding a seed that has Tech X and the appropriate boosters so you can clear every room by sending out wave after wave of electricity, you're going to have to think carefully about how you use that weapon, because its damage is now scaled.Īnother combo I enjoyed was Brother Bobby and Cube Baby, wherein I shot tears at two different targets while kicking a giant frozen baby their way to freeze them. That's the important part to remember: Repentance takes some control out of your hands. I ended up dying in Depths II, because as good as this was, I still lost control of later rooms. For example, I use Jacob's Ladder to electrify all my tears so damage is chained between nearby enemies, and a demonic pickup that builds my rage-per-enemy killed to turn me into a rainbow-colored fiend that damaged any enemies I touched. You can still find worthwhile synergies, of course, they're just not likely to make for easy runs like before.
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You still get your full room blood coverage, it's just not quite as lethal. Others have been tweaked to prevent certain game-defining powers, such as Tammy's Head, a powerup that fired tears in ten directions, no longer gives Brimstone a damage bonus. Some fan-favourite components are just gone, like Polyphemus, which increased damage and made shots go through enemies they killed. The list on release was long, and it sought to challenge fixed approaches. The real nitty-gritty of The Binding of Isaac: Repentance is in its weapons changes. Your favourite combo probably doesn't work any more
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The first patch upped the frequency of max-level shops and tinted rocks appearing, thus granting better access to those killer items, and increased the chance of heart drops during grueling runs. That said, this has been tweaked since release. Repentance makes some effort to throw those preconceptions out of the window.Įnemies are faster, and getting those S-tier synergies is now considerably tougher. The last full expansion, Afterbirth+, launched in 2015, so now many in the community know every likely difficulty spike.

This sounds trite, but the higher difficulties in The Binding of Isaac: Repentance have been calibrated to make sure seasoned players have a tough time. (Image credit: Nicalis) Hard Mode is still hard
