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The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth |OT| Pixel Heart Mother
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I like it too.
One of my favorite are the Thunder Thighs. You get one more heart, reduced speed and the ability to destroy rocks, pots, etc. by walking on them.
You can basically stomp your way around, smashing everything away. Also super useful to hunt down marked rocks and get a ton of soul hearts.
This was the first item I got in the 689D MH34 seed on ps4 but for some reason the Vita version gives me another bonus in the same room (Revenge Spider).
After beating the game once, I played again to beat
, but just before that boss battle it teleported me to another level filled with fast monsters that exploded on contact. As basically all my weapons were short range, and cause I had the terrible exploding brain weapon, I quickly lost everything and died. Dammit!
Mom's heart
Seraphis Cain
bad gameplay lol
Hey, I tried this seed in the Vita version and it doesn't work, what gives?
I tried it with both "O"'s and "0"...
Same here, would also like to know what's up.
dantevsninjas
Member
I don't think any of the graphic filters work on the vita version. Probably a hardware issue.
Red Arremer
Member
Bob's Brain can be good but it can also just royally screw you over, depending how the room layouts are. Especially if you get bomb synergy items, particularly the one that increases bomb radius. That's just rough.
I really like how you can save and exit if you need to stop playing
It was always a bummer if I was having a good run but it was really late or I had to leave
I even had my game crash last night and it recovered my save and was just a floor back or something. No huge huge loss
It was always a bummer if I was having a good run but it was really late or I had to leave
I even had my game crash last night and it recovered my save and was just a floor back or something. No huge huge loss
Had a great run going. Was sufficiently powerful and was into a second row of real hearts.
Then it gave me
. What a shitty powerup to fuck everything I was doing up. Practical
so it made it impossible to beat bosses.
Thanks BoI:R.
Then it gave me
Nine Lives
1 hit kills on me as it reset my heart count to 1 and it always warped me out of the room on death
Thanks BoI:R.
Can't wait to play more tonight
EnlightenedMint
Member
Same here, wouldn't have been able to beat it without the brain.
Deathstroke
Neo Member
YianGaruga
Banned
I bet there's something we are missing with that boss. It seems strange that it's not acknowledged at all.
It's a great item, but only in synergy with others, like
Guppy's Paw
Phawx
Member
I've gotten Nine Lives twice. The first time I retained all of my hearts, the second time my hearts we reduced to 1. Is that normal?
YianGaruga
Banned
It should always reduce your hearts to 1. You only keep all your soul hearts,
autoduelist
Member
Secret Rooms...
So after a couple runs with various map/see forever type upgrades, I've found that the two secret rooms are often extremely valuable. However, I've been skipping these on 99% of my runs, only going for them when they're marked or opened accidentally by a miniboss or something. I've been using my bombs on tinted rocks, getting to blocked items, and occasionally on mushroom clusters... but now I think I'm doing it wrong and that it's worth using them trying to find the rooms.
So... I'm wondering how important finding secret rooms are to everyone. How many bombs do you stockpile before you burn a few on random guessing? How do you go about guessing? Basically, I'm wondering if there are any secret room tips.
So after a couple runs with various map/see forever type upgrades, I've found that the two secret rooms are often extremely valuable. However, I've been skipping these on 99% of my runs, only going for them when they're marked or opened accidentally by a miniboss or something. I've been using my bombs on tinted rocks, getting to blocked items, and occasionally on mushroom clusters... but now I think I'm doing it wrong and that it's worth using them trying to find the rooms.
So... I'm wondering how important finding secret rooms are to everyone. How many bombs do you stockpile before you burn a few on random guessing? How do you go about guessing? Basically, I'm wondering if there are any secret room tips.
I try not to go under 3-4 bombs, but I do use most of them for finding secret rooms. Always check any empty squares that are surrounded by 3 rooms (like a U shape).
YianGaruga
Banned
Secret rooms are always connected to as many rooms as possible, so check for that. If you could bomb into the room from three directions, it's probably there.
Super secret rooms are a bit harder to guess but sometimes it's obvious when you go down a path that just ends with no significant room. It's often at the end of that path.
Phawx
Member
Should have taken a screen cap. Def red hearts were kept. I thought nine lives was OP
Michanical
Member
You can better your odds by playing well, but there is a luck factor. I got to
link's bedroom
three extra spirit hearts
Really, devil and angel rooms are usually my path to victory since its been easy to not get hit on the early floors and bosses. Cellar is a bitch, still, but as long as Im not fighting The Haunt, Ill get a devil deal more often than not on the second floor.
Also, bombs on early bosses help.
Michanical
Member
Nine lives should always reduce your red hearts to one (letting you keep your additional spirit and black hearts), so you either got the 1-up or the game glitched.
They're worth it more often than not, as long as you don't go around guessing randomly.
Tips:
Secret rooms will generally be touching three other non-boss rooms. You can rule out blank spots where one of the borders is inaccessible without mobility upgrades, e.g. there's a chasm preventing you from walking up to the wall.
Super secret rooms will generally be touching only the room they're accessed from, and like to be located near the boss. Rooms containing red, black, or eternal hearts will force almost all heart spawns in that room to be of that type, which is highly exploitable given the right items.
In either case, if no suitable location is available due to how the floor spawned, they'll break their own rules.
Super secret rooms will generally be touching only the room they're accessed from, and like to be located near the boss. Rooms containing red, black, or eternal hearts will force almost all heart spawns in that room to be of that type, which is highly exploitable given the right items.
In either case, if no suitable location is available due to how the floor spawned, they'll break their own rules.
stump sock
Member
I got platinum god on the original version, I'm pretty good on the mechanics, but on the deeper floors on this one, it's pretty hard to not take at least some damage and that'll completely wreck a ??? run.
I guess if devil rooms are key, (like I thought they might be), going for evil+ items is probably a good idea. I unlocked Krampus, and his item is pretty excellent too, although I kind of miss lump of coal...
Dr_LucienSanchez
Banned
Yeah, it's all about just getting lucky items with ???. I got to
Isaac
cathedral
Definitely wasn't this hard in the original. Believe that all we had to do then was beat
It Lives
giga-ganon
Banned
Too bad i didn' get any angel room to unlock the final door, i would have beaten
so easily, i was so much overpowered that ??? died in one shot
mega satan
Seraphis Cain
bad gameplay lol
Finally unlocked Azazel. Completely by accident, as a chest in a spike door room teleported me to the last Devil Room I needed. Love when stuff like that happens.
I thought I saw someone say you can't access challenge 19 until then? maybe I'm just misremembering.
challenge 19 unlocks
epic fetus, the most OP item in the game
stump sock
Member
I just bought 3 one-heart items in one room (and killed myself doing it) to do that. Felt pretty good.
I haven't touched any of the challenges yet. Any of the other rewards particularly worth going after?
stump sock
Member
actually, yeah, looks like there's some good stuff in there. http://bindingofisaacrebirth.gamepedia.com/Challenges
Ipecac + Quad Shot + Sad Bombs + Bob's Brain + Rubber Cement = LOL.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2lDDHrFweZU
Michanical
Member
Lump of Coal is still in the game! They just give you two (maybe more?) options when you beat Krampus.
Well worth the trouble. Most of the rewards are at least nice to find, while a few are positively amazing.
stump sock
Member
nice! it's one of those underrated but consistently useful items.
Wuthering_Heights
Banned
What's the clock icon mean on the level map when transitioning between levels?
Most of them unlock really powerful consumable items but a few unlock particularly powerful items: 14, 16, 17, 19
SerTapTap
Member
After using Tammy's Head with Azazel, Krampus' head just...isn't has impactful as it should be. Not a terrible use item though.
There'd be more controversy if the game weren't so heavily focused on gameplay, I think. Or, of course, if it weren't an indie game. Super glad Sony decided it was worth funding and stupid heads aren't trying to start shit, not that Edmund would care much honestly.
There'd be more controversy if the game weren't so heavily focused on gameplay, I think. Or, of course, if it weren't an indie game. Super glad Sony decided it was worth funding and stupid heads aren't trying to start shit, not that Edmund would care much honestly.
If you kill Mom before the clock reach that floor then you can do the boss rush fight.
Came so close to beating Isaac with Isaac. I skipped the Bible to fight
and stuck with Tammy's Head but I didn't have an amazing super weapon to go with it. I got Isaac down to the last bit of health and I just figured out the pattern of the fight when a random hit got me. I had Guppy's Collar but of course it brought me back to life with 1 heart and spawns me outside the boss door and the boss regains all of his health...
It Lives
Michanical
Member
I agree! I'm thrilled that Sony was so willing to promote such a weird game. They are really focusing the PS+ on games that play extremely well (velocity 2x, sports friends, towerfall, etc.)
If there was controversy at all it would've been 3 years ago when vanilla came out, and even then there wasn't much of a controversy then iirc.
DXLelouch153
Banned
guys why did my music stop playing?
is it a bug?
Vita version btw
is it a bug?
Vita version btw
Jimmyfenix
Member
Hopefully the Nintendo ports don't get censored.
SerTapTap
Member
Spoiler free option: use them and find out (R1 on PS)
Spilery option: look them up, because they all do different things. I've played dozens of hours and I still have to look them up on occasion.
They're 1 use consumable items that are moderately common drops and can be moderately useful. (some rarer ones can be very to hilariously useful)
I don't know about Epic Fetus, but I got Dr Fetus and it was terrible.
Bombs seem to scale with your tear damage. They aren't generic bomb damage.
So that's why.