In flash isaac you can make Pin kill himself with his own ipecac shot if you stand next to him. And as for the shops, i've never had a shop pay out with anything helpful. you're better off donating to beggers. OOH, and sacrifice rooms ruin your devil deal chances
If you plan to use Brimstone, under no circumstances do you pick up anything that has Shot Speed Up as a perk. It'll reduce the beam's time on the screen and reduce damage. It's not worth picking up Chocolate Milk since it used to be an amazing synergy way back in the day, but now a full-charged Choco-Brim only deals roughly 50% its normal damage. Also, because of Shot Speed Up, Lump of Coal is not as useful as it would be. Also, calm down, especially with Mom's Heart. It cannot do any Bullet Hell behaviors. The worst it can do is spawn enemies and eventually shoot Ipecac shots. It doesn't do any bullet hell patterns nor does it have the Brimstone beams. That will maximize the chance you get to going into Sheol or Cathedral.
Ok so here are some tips for flash Isaac #1 if there is an active item, also pick it up even if you're just gonna put it right back down, as in flash Isaac, no items ever leave the pools until they are picked up #2 getting Krampus is really good in this version as because there is no head of Krampus, you are guaranteed a lump of coal.
Ah the old days of isaac, lol, trust me, that struggle, a lot of us understand it SUPER well! Couple details: -The best way to bypass ending the game after mom's heart is by not getting damaged, that's how you got entry into Sheol -Mom is a lot easier in this game, just stick to one of the doors, she never stomps if you are hanging out next to the doors, hugging the wall -My personal way of dealing with Satan's final phase here is to stock up on bombs and spam them as I run in circles, dodging the leeches, it never failed me! -Like in repentance, you will unlock it Lives after your 5th mom's heart kill, so keep it up! -Don't waste your keys on shops unless you actually got at least 15c or a Steam sale, money is actually hard earned here!
dont you unlock it lives after 11th mom kill? 1- 4 mom's heart kills are unlocks, 5th is Everything is Terrible (makes the game harder), 6-9 are unlocks, 10 is ??? unlock, and 11th is It Lives
Oh, i suppose you may know by now, but the reason you can't use Joker cards in Sheol in this one is cuz the original idea was that you don't get devil deals in hell. Ed was originally going to be very mean and make it work like Emperor, but Satan was such a hard fight that he made it a random teleport to give a chance for some health and items / charges
Yeah, it's a mix of a couple things. Part of it is the fact that there are just so much fewer ways to get strong enough to make it a fair fight, but also that Sheol was a chance to reach it (and the only way to guarantee it was to have a Joker by the time you beat the boss in Utero II) Satan was intentionally ass-blastingly hard back then, he was technically a superboss you could only get to if you played perfectly or got really lucky
The best dumb synergy I remember from flash isaac is book of shadows + the virus. Virus used to do CRAZY levels of damage, and book of shadows lets you use that without getting damaged in this version.
Pre-Repentance, it would always take any Soul or Demon hearts before taking your last half read heart. I do not miss that fact and am very glad you can empty your red health first without Crow's Heart.
Double book in the library was bc it was the last item in the pool iirc. Not picking an active item up won’t mark it at “seen” and since the book of Belial wasn’t “seen” yet and the pool had items in it, both pedestals were the remaining book
OG Isaac Game Break strat: 1. Unlock the D6. 2. Find Greed in a secret room. 3. When fighting Greed, wait til he spawns those jumping enemies, then kill Greed so he drops an item but leave the other enemies alive. 4. Exit the secret room (they don’t close up when fighting Greed in OG Isaac). 5. Repeat as many times as you can to get as many item drops as you want. 6. REROLL!!!!!
im a player since flash Isaac but my favourite era is the Afterbirth+ one, with all "booster packs", because there were so many easy breaks and breeze to get broken runs. Although Repentance added a lot of great natural synergies
I think WotL, right before rebirth is my favorite era. Playing with the community remix + wotl while getting so hyped about every little piece of news about rebirth, I don't think I'll ever forget it.
There is a challenge called "Dark was the night". You should complete it before Amy other challenge. It unlocks the blue candle, the second best active in game
In flash Isaac, if you don't have enough red hearts for a devil deal, you can still take the deal at no additional cost (no soul hearts needed) so you could have taken the familiar and the dead cat and still ended up at 1 red heart
Another reason why magic 8 ball and cat o ninetails (which is just shot speed) are so bad in og isaac is because lump of coal is the only item krampus drops. The way lump of coal works in flash issac (and old rebirth, got buffed I believe) is the amount of time spent in the air, not distance traveled, so shot speed ups with lump of coal are just damage downs.
Thing about the synergies in the 2011 Isaac is, that there is simply not a ton of items. All pickups together in the old one only equal to 196 Items, While Repantance has...I think 719?
Shot speed ups are actually a damage down in this game, as Lump of Coal (one of the most consistently achievable damage ups) bases its damage up on how long the tear is in the air, not distance from your character. Thank you for the entertainment and nostalgia
@@ovaiggy This is very true, you could take it if you really struggle with range, but it will not increase the damage, as it only increases the distance due to the tear traveling faster. The rooms are a fair bit smaller in the flash version, so I never saw a reason to take them when I played. You'd usually get a range up before it becomes necessary, as a boss item or otherwise
I I remember staying home and playing original Isaac with me and my family or my two brothers for hours on end and when we had to go to sleep we would beg to stay up for at least an hour longer it was so much fun.
It's been a very long while since I concerned myself with the og isaac, but from what I do remember: > Brimstone was THE item to have. Lump of Coal made it 1000x better. (This is what I commonly saw people do.) I do want to believe that Sacred Heart did exist...? > Cricket was called Max. Not sure why the name changed. > Not a lot of items existed back then. I wanna say you might be working with not even 1/16th of the items we have nowadays. (Someone can correct me on that math, im bad) > Good builds were extremely hard to come by, unless you focused primarily on devil deals (Brimstone aside). > Guppy was _insanely_ op. Every player wanted a chance to get that transformation, as it pretty much made you close to a god back then. > There was no Dark Room back then, so you couldn't fight the Lamb (despite the expansion being called "Wrath of the Lamb"). > Thus, there was little reason to go to Sheol, other than to get a chance to have that Satan kill (or get killed by him.) Anybody can correct me on these if they'd like. My memory of the old isaac is fuzzy at best.
Sacred Heart existed, Fakered Heart didn't. Good builds were not as much of a requirement, nowadays you HAVE to be op to have a chance on beating Hush and Delirium (and Mother, to an extent). Then, you just needed patience, experience and a bit of luck. Also Brimstone/Guppy/Mom's Knife = "You Win" button :D And both Sheol and Cathedral teleport you to The Chest if you have polaroid.
Apparently, Max was the name of a Dog Edmund wanted as a child, but never got Cricket was apparently a cat he got after Guppy died Still no clue why it the name got changed though
I have at least 500 hours in the original (2k or more in the modern version), and i had basically forgotten how much i loved the music and sounds in this version. Feels like home hearing it again...
OG Isaac was wayyy harder than repentance. It can be broken, but it takes min/maxing, luck, and patience. Also, if you stand against the top wall, red flies can't reach you.
Oh and tip with brim. Fully charge then tap the direction your firing. There was a bug in flash issac where you could restart the initial hit and just destroy bosses
pretty sure in this game, you can take 1 heart deals for free before a 2 heart deal if it's your last red health because you can take trade 2 heart deals for only 1 last red health. So like i think that sister maggy would've been free, nbd but just a tip.
Old Isaac player here! Started in Wrath of the Lamb. (that one DLC that didn't have The Lamb in it anywhere but the title) On a previous video, you found the Game Squid; it was added by Florian Himsl, the OG developer, after he played Rebirth and was inspired to make a free update for the OG flash version, the Eternal Edition. He also changed the way the D6 behaves, and that's what the Eternal D6 is. 1:34 no money crutch here! 2:49 good decision, Crack the Sky sucks in old Isaac. Makes no effort to track targets, and doesn't do much damage when it hits. 5:33 surviving with only soul hearts and empty red heart containers was not a thing for a long time. 11:22 full meat boy is great! And if it weren't for Book of Revelations, the Relic or the Miter, I'd probably never have gotten anywhere with blue baby Other notes: - The game is extremely un-charitable about devil deals regarding red health damage. There is no "i wasn't hit by an enemy so it's OK" system, so even curse room doors and blood donations aren't safe. - Movement speed didn't have a cap until Rebirth; it was very very easy to become uncontrollably fast, like with GFuel. - There's no EID here, but you can use platinumgod.co.uk's original Isaac page for item info.
Fun fact: you can turn invincible on the pony (not the white one). Just pres spacebar and use your mouse to shoot. And if you got Epic Fetus... Well, now bosses can't even push you out of the range. Or you can just get meat boy and wait for a while.
Hello, I'm a Vanilla Isaac player of 3 years. I started playing Isaac in like 2017 ig but my pc didn't run RB somehow so I played vanilla for like 3 years until my dad bought a new laptop. Here are some stuff I wanted to point about the things you said in the video: Blood donations never took your last half red heart until rep. Krampus never shot diagonal lasers until rep. Krampus's Head didn't exist in vanilla. The Virus was always a speed down until rep. I think they fixed the soul heart cap bug in later updates but I remember finding ways to farm infinite soul hearts in vanilla lol. Super secret rooms didn't have to be close to the boss room in vanilla, and since every room was designed to never block all four doors it could be literally everywhere lmao. Your build didn't blow, it was pretty decent in vanilla standarts, that's just how vanilla is.
5:19 truly a repentance player moment in pre-repentance versions you couldn't get all red hearts empty, when repentance came out I noticed the change and I was both grateful and scared (I fr thought that it killed me)
In case it has not been mentioned, regarding Lump of Coal. It makes the tear stronger the more frames it's on screen, not distance travelled, so a shot speed upgrade makes Lump of Coal worse. Also, regarding synergies, the website platinumgod can tell you have different items synergise. 10:20 It's "skipping" two item rooms (by skipping the item) and killing mom
2:27 In this devil deal you could have taken the other item too for free before taking nine lives because in this game it works like that, only in rebirth do the deals change after you take one item, and you'd end up with 1 red heart and 3 sacred hearts still.
Something that I remember about the old flash game was that cards/pills would crash you if you picked up too many after taking PHD. Bisnap would just not pick up tarot cards after Depths II
Pro isaac flash tips: don't ever go into the shop. Just don't. Most of the time it's useless and you cant use a restock machines because they don't exist
My advice: Forget everything about Repentance, and focus on Guppy, ignore early shops, and try to get the D6 for Isaac as soon as possible. Don't even bother trying to find a build, you'll never get it consistently, if ever again after the first time you find it Also try to find Tear ups
I used to play OG Issac on my mom's laptop in 2012 so I knew the struggle lmao. My mind was still hardwired for super broken OG Issac when I picked up Repentence so learning that you have all these new QoL and new synergies has been fun to see. Basically you want to abuse Devil Rooms as hard as possible cause all the items are kinda weak until you beat challenges.
throw me back to my highschool days, when this came out i remember every student in the school had it on USB, and every single class on computer had someone playing it in a corner, that or LAN quake 3 (sometime with the teacher in my classes), i'm talking of a time when tactile phones barely came out, mobile games weren't a big thing yet, i mean we could barely fit more than a dozen music track on our phone before filling the memory completely, we had to delete messages often or we couldn't receive more because the phone memory would be full, and personal laptops were a very rare thing too and everyone agreed to say this game was hard af so it's not just you don't worry
So.. fun fact about krampus in Isaac flash, krampus’s head DIDNT exist until rebirth I believe, meaning you were guaranteed lump of coal, also most synergies that are known and loved won’t exist until rebirth and ab/ab+
One pro-tip: Whenever you die, remember to exit the game before going back in. There's a bug with devil room % not being reset between games. So, if you die because you got hit on your red hears (especially at a boss), then your next game, the first devil room will have 1% chance to spawn, because it's not set to 100% at the start of the level.
If my memory serves me correct, you have to have guppys head with you in order to get guppy transformation. Meaning if you have 3 pieces and the head is one of them and you get rid of the head, you lose the transformation aswell
Not sure if this was ever patched but the basic flies that follow you can reach you if you’re touching the top wall. Something about their hit box or something doesn’t let them go that high
It is so hard finding anything about this game. I only started with this isaac since it was recommended (and on sale) on my steam page and i knew this game ecisted for so long. Now i'm playing through it, beat isaac for the first time yesterday or so and i struggled to find the wiki for this game and nice videos. I enjoy yours. Everything else is rebirth x10 which i will buy once i 100% this isaac i guess
no worries man, everybody starts at some point in Isaac, I wasn't quite a flash isaac myself too, but i've been here since rebirth, ya skill compensates for most stuff anyways
Stuff you should take in mind when playing flash Isaac Curse rooms might be connected to secret rooms so it is worth checking them if you are out of bombs but high on health Every single source of damage can take away your devil chances if takes away red hearts EVERY SINGLE one And if you are playing BOI eternal Edition or last dlc for flash Isaac, there is also its own hard mode worth to play and its exclusive transformation Eternal Isaac + Shops are worth checking if you can afford stuff from them, as it often sells Treasure room items because of how low the amount of shop items are there And brimstone is also curse room item pool.
I played the flash version for a very long time. Even wayy after Rebirth was released. Mostly because the only gaming device I had was my dad's laptop wich would already lag on long runs and would simply not run Rebirth at all, it would just crash on startup. and I must say, while the artstyle is nostalgic and I like the music better; Rebirth was such a massive improvement to the game. Like, there's just no contest. Even when I had no idea what items were in Rebirth, I could really feel the limited item pool being a problem in the flash Isaac because there were so few attack-ups. Stacking babies was literally a viable strategy because there really weren't many ways to make your attacks hit harder, making most runs feel oh so slow, worsening the longer you went into the run without a damage up. Brimstone was grossly overpowered, but the lack of damage ups really made it more worth it to reset if the first devil deal didn't have brimstone, because then bosses would take forever to kill and in turn, they would have a lot more time to kill you. I have a lot of nostalgia for flash Isaac, but I'd be lying if I said Rebirth isn't the better game.
If I remember correctly you can get items you've already seen but haven't picked up in the original Isaac. So with some game breaks you can get insane builds. I remember Cobalt Streak getting like 8 sacred hearts in one room.
16:24 I was confused there for a moment before realizing that you're usually crazy op by this point and not used to do endgame fights... I don't want to say "legitimately", let's say "normally". Sluggish controls don't help either. It's ok, it's fine.
Each iteration has had item power creep, so it makes sense that you think that items suck in classic. But fairly simple items have a larger impact in this game
Not so fun fact: the devil deal can spawn on depths 2 but can only enter it by teleporting out of the mother fight room and re enter it. The devil deal still needs to be open though.
Book of Shadows is great with Virus and the three orbitals (cube of meat, sac dagger, guardian angel). Dagger is really strong. Also, because of you, I am playing Flash again. I have to beat Eternal Samson and get Spelunker Boy, then I will have 100%ed it. :)
"A lot of items are bad here." I would think so coming from a game where the creator actually wanted people to hate it. He didn't intend for people to like it NOR to update it, but here we are now.
or is it...?
Why tf the video says "22 seconds"💀
hey vsauce michael here
In flash isaac you can make Pin kill himself with his own ipecac shot if you stand next to him. And as for the shops, i've never had a shop pay out with anything helpful. you're better off donating to beggers. OOH, and sacrifice rooms ruin your devil deal chances
If you plan to use Brimstone, under no circumstances do you pick up anything that has Shot Speed Up as a perk. It'll reduce the beam's time on the screen and reduce damage. It's not worth picking up Chocolate Milk since it used to be an amazing synergy way back in the day, but now a full-charged Choco-Brim only deals roughly 50% its normal damage. Also, because of Shot Speed Up, Lump of Coal is not as useful as it would be.
Also, calm down, especially with Mom's Heart. It cannot do any Bullet Hell behaviors. The worst it can do is spawn enemies and eventually shoot Ipecac shots. It doesn't do any bullet hell patterns nor does it have the Brimstone beams. That will maximize the chance you get to going into Sheol or Cathedral.
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"At least give me lump of coal"
Flash Krampus: "of course, what else could i possibly drop you? my amputated corpse?"
"How ridiculous would it be if my head was a reward?" - Krampus
@@yuanwang9324 "Thank god Im immune to those bombs you keep placing around us for some reason"
-Keepers
"Tears? Buddy I think your referring to my arrows there pal." Issac
"Are we there yet?"
"No."
Michael and Uriel.
"why do yall keep calling me cricket!?"
Ok so here are some tips for flash Isaac #1 if there is an active item, also pick it up even if you're just gonna put it right back down, as in flash Isaac, no items ever leave the pools until they are picked up #2 getting Krampus is really good in this version as because there is no head of Krampus, you are guaranteed a lump of coal.
lol I still pick up actives. I thought you need to do it even in repentance
@@marth2535 you do lol, that’s a good tip in general. I didn’t know that until I rerolled a library twice and got the same books each time 😂😂
@@willem_d1660 you dont need to do it in every item pool, but like you said, you do need to do it in libraries
@@Funlock1 relatable
Also if you didn't take a devil deal in a run you can get a angel deal instead of a devil deal on your next run. Unless you closed the game
Ah the old days of isaac, lol, trust me, that struggle, a lot of us understand it SUPER well!
Couple details:
-The best way to bypass ending the game after mom's heart is by not getting damaged, that's how you got entry into Sheol
-Mom is a lot easier in this game, just stick to one of the doors, she never stomps if you are hanging out next to the doors, hugging the wall
-My personal way of dealing with Satan's final phase here is to stock up on bombs and spam them as I run in circles, dodging the leeches, it never failed me!
-Like in repentance, you will unlock it Lives after your 5th mom's heart kill, so keep it up!
-Don't waste your keys on shops unless you actually got at least 15c or a Steam sale, money is actually hard earned here!
dont you unlock it lives after 11th mom kill?
1- 4 mom's heart kills are unlocks, 5th is Everything is Terrible (makes the game harder), 6-9 are unlocks, 10 is ??? unlock, and 11th is It Lives
@@DogMuncher22 i think its at 10th mom kill
@@gabrieldeamo 10th is blue baby
the 15 cent tip was how i remember people playing rebirth and afterbirth when i was first into isaac like 6-7 years ago
5th moms heart kill is everything is terrible, isn't it?
Oh, i suppose you may know by now, but the reason you can't use Joker cards in Sheol in this one is cuz the original idea was that you don't get devil deals in hell. Ed was originally going to be very mean and make it work like Emperor, but Satan was such a hard fight that he made it a random teleport to give a chance for some health and items / charges
its so crazy to me that satan is a super hard fight in flash era cause now we just roll our eyes at the wait times and then steamroll him in 2 hits
Yeah, it's a mix of a couple things.
Part of it is the fact that there are just so much fewer ways to get strong enough to make it a fair fight, but also that Sheol was a chance to reach it (and the only way to guarantee it was to have a Joker by the time you beat the boss in Utero II)
Satan was intentionally ass-blastingly hard back then, he was technically a superboss you could only get to if you played perfectly or got really lucky
The best dumb synergy I remember from flash isaac is book of shadows + the virus. Virus used to do CRAZY levels of damage, and book of shadows lets you use that without getting damaged in this version.
Also habit+book of rev makes you literally invincible pre-womb floors
Pre-Repentance, it would always take any Soul or Demon hearts before taking your last half read heart. I do not miss that fact and am very glad you can empty your red health first without Crow's Heart.
Double book in the library was bc it was the last item in the pool iirc. Not picking an active item up won’t mark it at “seen” and since the book of Belial wasn’t “seen” yet and the pool had items in it, both pedestals were the remaining book
OG Isaac Game Break strat:
1. Unlock the D6.
2. Find Greed in a secret room.
3. When fighting Greed, wait til he spawns those jumping enemies, then kill Greed so he drops an item but leave the other enemies alive.
4. Exit the secret room (they don’t close up when fighting Greed in OG Isaac).
5. Repeat as many times as you can to get as many item drops as you want.
6. REROLL!!!!!
Hahah thank you
God I loved the original. Was my childhood watching all of northernlion and biz's videos on it. By far one of my most favorite games
im a player since flash Isaac but my favourite era is the Afterbirth+ one, with all "booster packs", because there were so many easy breaks and breeze to get broken runs. Although Repentance added a lot of great natural synergies
In my opinion Repentance added a lot of new ways to break the game, but made the old ways either obsolete or not good
ah the classic blank card jera battery and chest in a big room on the chest floor
Agreed
I think WotL, right before rebirth is my favorite era. Playing with the community remix + wotl while getting so hyped about every little piece of news about rebirth, I don't think I'll ever forget it.
I'm also a Flash player, but I liked plain Rebirth the best; the additions in AB were good but I completely disliked AB+.
There is a challenge called "Dark was the night". You should complete it before Amy other challenge. It unlocks the blue candle, the second best active in game
This
What's the best one ?
@@clementquatrium6265 The D6. If you fine a library in Womb, and can roll more than 3 times, you will get more items
It's actually really cool to see some of the enemy concepts that were kept and how some were just changed for the future.
This is actually a very updated version of the original isaac
@@Lomaxxx53 well, it's still cool either way!
As a heads up in flash isaac you need to pick up space bar items even if you dont want them. They will stay in the item pool if you don't.
In flash Isaac, if you don't have enough red hearts for a devil deal, you can still take the deal at no additional cost (no soul hearts needed) so you could have taken the familiar and the dead cat and still ended up at 1 red heart
Wow I can't believe you didn't activate the Mega Goober in the Secret Sock gosh its a classic vanilla Isaac move how could you not know
I'm sorry for being such an ignorant but what is that?
@@AngelyN04 joe
@@Il__Signore joe who?
@@averagepepsiman6149 Joe mama
@@ridley2172 I've never seen a Joe Mama joke executed in the wild. Fantastic move.
Another reason why magic 8 ball and cat o ninetails (which is just shot speed) are so bad in og isaac is because lump of coal is the only item krampus drops. The way lump of coal works in flash issac (and old rebirth, got buffed I believe) is the amount of time spent in the air, not distance traveled, so shot speed ups with lump of coal are just damage downs.
Another thing is that shot speed ups actually lessen the time that brimstone is active, so big damage down with brim
Samson : Apparently, you needed to skip two Treasure Room items and defeat Mom in one run to unlock him
Brings back memories of watching Cobalt host speedrun competitions, good times.
Thing about the synergies in the 2011 Isaac is, that there is simply not a ton of items.
All pickups together in the old one only equal to 196 Items, While Repantance has...I think 719?
Shot speed ups are actually a damage down in this game, as Lump of Coal (one of the most consistently achievable damage ups) bases its damage up on how long the tear is in the air, not distance from your character. Thank you for the entertainment and nostalgia
But at the same time it increases the range.
@@ovaiggy This is very true, you could take it if you really struggle with range, but it will not increase the damage, as it only increases the distance due to the tear traveling faster. The rooms are a fair bit smaller in the flash version, so I never saw a reason to take them when I played. You'd usually get a range up before it becomes necessary, as a boss item or otherwise
I I remember staying home and playing original Isaac with me and my family or my two brothers for hours on end and when we had to go to sleep we would beg to stay up for at least an hour longer it was so much fun.
If there’s an active item you don’t want to see in the current run anymore, you have to pick it up. Or else it could spawn later in the run again.
0:03 I had a dog named max who was a Doberman and he looks almost identical to that dog (he died 2 years ago)
Did you got a dmg multiplier?
@@lukasmagana466 tear multiplier lol
i’ve been playing flash isaac more recently, its super hard but its still pretty fun to see all of the differences between it and repentance
It's been a very long while since I concerned myself with the og isaac, but from what I do remember:
> Brimstone was THE item to have. Lump of Coal made it 1000x better. (This is what I commonly saw people do.) I do want to believe that Sacred Heart did exist...?
> Cricket was called Max. Not sure why the name changed.
> Not a lot of items existed back then. I wanna say you might be working with not even 1/16th of the items we have nowadays. (Someone can correct me on that math, im bad)
> Good builds were extremely hard to come by, unless you focused primarily on devil deals (Brimstone aside).
> Guppy was _insanely_ op. Every player wanted a chance to get that transformation, as it pretty much made you close to a god back then.
> There was no Dark Room back then, so you couldn't fight the Lamb (despite the expansion being called "Wrath of the Lamb").
> Thus, there was little reason to go to Sheol, other than to get a chance to have that Satan kill (or get killed by him.)
Anybody can correct me on these if they'd like. My memory of the old isaac is fuzzy at best.
Sacred Heart existed, Fakered Heart didn't. Good builds were not as much of a requirement, nowadays you HAVE to be op to have a chance on beating Hush and Delirium (and Mother, to an extent). Then, you just needed patience, experience and a bit of luck. Also Brimstone/Guppy/Mom's Knife = "You Win" button :D And both Sheol and Cathedral teleport you to The Chest if you have polaroid.
There were 196 items in the original game, and there are currently 719 in Repentance, so it's closer to 1/4 rather than 1/16.
Apparently, Max was the name of a Dog Edmund wanted as a child, but never got
Cricket was apparently a cat he got after Guppy died
Still no clue why it the name got changed though
I have at least 500 hours in the original (2k or more in the modern version), and i had basically forgotten how much i loved the music and sounds in this version. Feels like home hearing it again...
OG Isaac was wayyy harder than repentance. It can be broken, but it takes min/maxing, luck, and patience.
Also, if you stand against the top wall, red flies can't reach you.
Oh and tip with brim. Fully charge then tap the direction your firing. There was a bug in flash issac where you could restart the initial hit and just destroy bosses
8 ball reveals the boss location on the map, that is a lot better than the other 90% of stat items in this game tbh
I remember the rumors back in the day. The one where item pools where tied to your system clock
Pretty sure item pools are affected by dates but due to seed generation
fun fact, you can get in secret rooms through curse rooms as you can see in 1:00
But sadly, there was no way to continue the run, no health and no bombs
pretty sure in this game, you can take 1 heart deals for free before a 2 heart deal if it's your last red health because you can take trade 2 heart deals for only 1 last red health. So like i think that sister maggy would've been free, nbd but just a tip.
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In this version of the flash, you die if you don't have any red hearts left no matter how many soul hearts you have.
You don't miss the dono machine... You just miss blowing it up. Haha
Old Isaac player here! Started in Wrath of the Lamb. (that one DLC that didn't have The Lamb in it anywhere but the title)
On a previous video, you found the Game Squid; it was added by Florian Himsl, the OG developer, after he played Rebirth and was inspired to make a free update for the OG flash version, the Eternal Edition. He also changed the way the D6 behaves, and that's what the Eternal D6 is.
1:34 no money crutch here!
2:49 good decision, Crack the Sky sucks in old Isaac. Makes no effort to track targets, and doesn't do much damage when it hits.
5:33 surviving with only soul hearts and empty red heart containers was not a thing for a long time.
11:22 full meat boy is great! And if it weren't for Book of Revelations, the Relic or the Miter, I'd probably never have gotten anywhere with blue baby
Other notes:
- The game is extremely un-charitable about devil deals regarding red health damage. There is no "i wasn't hit by an enemy so it's OK" system, so even curse room doors and blood donations aren't safe.
- Movement speed didn't have a cap until Rebirth; it was very very easy to become uncontrollably fast, like with GFuel.
- There's no EID here, but you can use platinumgod.co.uk's original Isaac page for item info.
Fun fact: it was originally called max’s head but Edmund thought it would be better to name it cricket’s head because Edmund has a pet named cricket.
Fun fact: you can turn invincible on the pony (not the white one). Just pres spacebar and use your mouse to shoot. And if you got Epic Fetus... Well, now bosses can't even push you out of the range. Or you can just get meat boy and wait for a while.
god this video is so much fun to watch as someone who has played isaac from the og wrath of the lamb towards now
Hello, I'm a Vanilla Isaac player of 3 years. I started playing Isaac in like 2017 ig but my pc didn't run RB somehow so I played vanilla for like 3 years until my dad bought a new laptop. Here are some stuff I wanted to point about the things you said in the video:
Blood donations never took your last half red heart until rep.
Krampus never shot diagonal lasers until rep.
Krampus's Head didn't exist in vanilla.
The Virus was always a speed down until rep.
I think they fixed the soul heart cap bug in later updates but I remember finding ways to farm infinite soul hearts in vanilla lol.
Super secret rooms didn't have to be close to the boss room in vanilla, and since every room was designed to never block all four doors it could be literally everywhere lmao.
Your build didn't blow, it was pretty decent in vanilla standarts, that's just how vanilla is.
5:19 truly a repentance player moment
in pre-repentance versions you couldn't get all red hearts empty, when repentance came out I noticed the change and I was both grateful and scared (I fr thought that it killed me)
once again another amazing video just chillin at school watching this helps with getting through the day, thanks lavencas
3:40 damn then I musta caught you early. I was watchin ur vids at pre 50k! Keep up the good work!
In case it has not been mentioned, regarding Lump of Coal. It makes the tear stronger the more frames it's on screen, not distance travelled, so a shot speed upgrade makes Lump of Coal worse.
Also, regarding synergies, the website platinumgod can tell you have different items synergise.
10:20 It's "skipping" two item rooms (by skipping the item) and killing mom
Fun fact:
Cricket is actually a cat not a dog
now that you say that the meatboy is cuter in this one, I'm sure someone will make a mod to replace the sprite for meatboy with this one
I'm fairly surprised it doesn't exist already.
2:27 In this devil deal you could have taken the other item too for free before taking nine lives because in this game it works like that, only in rebirth do the deals change after you take one item, and you'd end up with 1 red heart and 3 sacred hearts still.
max’s head is literally just crickets head
btw, 8 ball reveals the boss location which is really helpful as u wanna minimize extra rooms, and virus is actually a speed down in this version
Something that I remember about the old flash game was that cards/pills would crash you if you picked up too many after taking PHD. Bisnap would just not pick up tarot cards after Depths II
Pro isaac flash tips: don't ever go into the shop. Just don't. Most of the time it's useless and you cant use a restock machines because they don't exist
One pre repentance struggle I hate was that some boss rooms can be hallway sized rooms.
dude i forgot about that i lost so many runs to that lmao
tip for secret rooms: if you ever leave a secret room and used your bombs on it, make sure you have or find one because secret rooms close behind you
"aww no devil deal"
kid named the joker:
My advice: Forget everything about Repentance, and focus on Guppy, ignore early shops, and try to get the D6 for Isaac as soon as possible. Don't even bother trying to find a build, you'll never get it consistently, if ever again after the first time you find it
Also try to find Tear ups
Use more the cube of meat in flash deals a ton of damage
Man, it is been so long, can't believe it used to looks like this, so many memories
i have not seen flash isaac in a LONG time this unlocked some memories lol
I love flash Isaac's soundtrack so much that I even have a mod for repentance with that music
I used to play OG Issac on my mom's laptop in 2012 so I knew the struggle lmao.
My mind was still hardwired for super broken OG Issac when I picked up Repentence so learning that you have all these new QoL and new synergies has been fun to see. Basically you want to abuse Devil Rooms as hard as possible cause all the items are kinda weak until you beat challenges.
You shouldn't do my Meat Boy like that.
He stands there, MENACINGLY!
throw me back to my highschool days, when this came out i remember every student in the school had it on USB, and every single class on computer had someone playing it in a corner, that or LAN quake 3 (sometime with the teacher in my classes), i'm talking of a time when tactile phones barely came out, mobile games weren't a big thing yet, i mean we could barely fit more than a dozen music track on our phone before filling the memory completely, we had to delete messages often or we couldn't receive more because the phone memory would be full, and personal laptops were a very rare thing too
and everyone agreed to say this game was hard af so it's not just you don't worry
seeing old isaac is so good, keep the videos coming :D
So.. fun fact about krampus in Isaac flash, krampus’s head DIDNT exist until rebirth I believe, meaning you were guaranteed lump of coal, also most synergies that are known and loved won’t exist until rebirth and ab/ab+
One pro-tip: Whenever you die, remember to exit the game before going back in. There's a bug with devil room % not being reset between games.
So, if you die because you got hit on your red hears (especially at a boss), then your next game, the first devil room will have 1% chance to spawn, because it's not set to 100% at the start of the level.
Ah yeah, Issac gets Edmund "imaginary" dog.
Having too high a speed was always hella deadly back in the day, watch out for that
If my memory serves me correct, you have to have guppys head with you in order to get guppy transformation. Meaning if you have 3 pieces and the head is one of them and you get rid of the head, you lose the transformation aswell
I love how simple flash Isaac was in comparison to Rebirth
That krampus fight was the biggest skill issue ever
Not sure if this was ever patched but the basic flies that follow you can reach you if you’re touching the top wall. Something about their hit box or something doesn’t let them go that high
In flash Isaac, there is no limit to the amount of soul hearts you can have, so the book of revelations can get very silly
It is so hard finding anything about this game. I only started with this isaac since it was recommended (and on sale) on my steam page and i knew this game ecisted for so long. Now i'm playing through it, beat isaac for the first time yesterday or so and i struggled to find the wiki for this game and nice videos. I enjoy yours. Everything else is rebirth x10 which i will buy once i 100% this isaac i guess
"I think I'm going Devil Rooms today"
Do they know?
no worries man, everybody starts at some point in Isaac, I wasn't quite a flash isaac myself too, but i've been here since rebirth, ya skill compensates for most stuff anyways
Nice for a change! I love your content, keep it up!
"ok then :(" completely forgets about the joker card*
She was holding onto it to get past Mom's Heart, but got the door regardless.
Dont feel bad og issac is dummy hard. More suffering please!
Stuff you should take in mind when playing flash Isaac
Curse rooms might be connected to secret rooms so it is worth checking them if you are out of bombs but high on health
Every single source of damage can take away your devil chances if takes away red hearts EVERY SINGLE one
And if you are playing BOI eternal Edition or last dlc for flash Isaac, there is also its own hard mode worth to play and its exclusive transformation
Eternal Isaac
+ Shops are worth checking if you can afford stuff from them, as it often sells Treasure room items because of how low the amount of shop items are there
And brimstone is also curse room item pool.
I played the flash version for a very long time. Even wayy after Rebirth was released. Mostly because the only gaming device I had was my dad's laptop wich would already lag on long runs and would simply not run Rebirth at all, it would just crash on startup.
and I must say, while the artstyle is nostalgic and I like the music better; Rebirth was such a massive improvement to the game. Like, there's just no contest. Even when I had no idea what items were in Rebirth, I could really feel the limited item pool being a problem in the flash Isaac because there were so few attack-ups. Stacking babies was literally a viable strategy because there really weren't many ways to make your attacks hit harder, making most runs feel oh so slow, worsening the longer you went into the run without a damage up.
Brimstone was grossly overpowered, but the lack of damage ups really made it more worth it to reset if the first devil deal didn't have brimstone, because then bosses would take forever to kill and in turn, they would have a lot more time to kill you.
I have a lot of nostalgia for flash Isaac, but I'd be lying if I said Rebirth isn't the better game.
If I remember correctly you can get items you've already seen but haven't picked up in the original Isaac. So with some game breaks you can get insane builds. I remember Cobalt Streak getting like 8 sacred hearts in one room.
I'm not sure Edmund even had Cricket the cat when the original Isaac originally came out which might be why it's 'Max's Head' instead.
16:24 I was confused there for a moment before realizing that you're usually crazy op by this point and not used to do endgame fights... I don't want to say "legitimately", let's say "normally". Sluggish controls don't help either. It's ok, it's fine.
Each iteration has had item power creep, so it makes sense that you think that items suck in classic. But fairly simple items have a larger impact in this game
What a weird feeling knowing that someone so popular might now wind up finding my videos on this old ass game's broken stuff.
Oh! 9 lives can be used to farm boss items if you die after killing a boss but in their boss room. You respawn outside and the boss is reset.
Not so fun fact: the devil deal can spawn on depths 2 but can only enter it by teleporting out of the mother fight room and re enter it. The devil deal still needs to be open though.
getting Max's head first item room is an awesome start :v
Here's a fun flash fact for you: Goat Hoof will increase your speed past the 2.0 speed cap in this game. It's incredibly minor, but neat nontheless
You got this loving these
Cats aren't having a
good time with Satan
My brother in Christ, you were holding a joker card the entire time through Necropolis!
Nvm watched further I'm dumb
That is what you get for blue balling us with the joker card for SO LONG
You accidentally skipped two item rooms possibly thinking you would get a Planetarium room
11:15 isn't full meat boy 4 cubes? I cant remember if og issac is the same
No it's 3
@@animeloveer97 it's... four... it was always four. Cube>shooty boy>small meatboy>big meatboy, SMB Superfan unlock and an achievement.
Book of Shadows is great with Virus and the three orbitals (cube of meat, sac dagger, guardian angel). Dagger is really strong. Also, because of you, I am playing Flash again. I have to beat Eternal Samson and get Spelunker Boy, then I will have 100%ed it. :)
6:17 ooooh yes they are, like Habit charging half of your item on hit lmao
Habit and Yum Heart (+ Wafer) makes you immortal
I also really like your videos with this Issac, keep doing it, I like to see you play
How do you play flash isaac with normal framerate? When i try to play it runs at about 15 fps
That actually sounds normal :"D But yeah, no idea either. It's difficult to make it run decently on modern hardware for whatever reason.
@@selensewar "the reason" is literally because it's Flash lmao
@@redpheonix1000 this "flash" worked just fine before on the same machine.
"A lot of items are bad here."
I would think so coming from a game where the creator actually wanted people to hate it. He didn't intend for people to like it NOR to update it, but here we are now.