That was sooo worth the wait! I'd occasionally re-watch your previous video on AB+ during the development of Repentance to remind myself of what exactly we're trying to achieve, so seeing that you actually ended up liking it mean the world to me, thank you so much! Editing was on point too, that was just a great watch all the way through.
Holy shit this is one of the nicest things anyone has said. I’m so fucking glad you loved this video and my old video so much Kilburn. You guys on the dev team did such an amazing fucking job, and deserve all the praise. Also don’t take my jabs at the booster packs personally please, you guys did absolutely the best you could do without overhauling the entire afterbirth + expansion. Either way, thank you so much for listening and making this incredible expansion!
Holy shit, Killburn! You guys did an incredible job with Repentance, I love it :) btw pls tell me how the team programmed challenge 45, it's incredible.
Burn! My man! Just wanted to let you know you guys did a phenomenonal job, Isaac was already one of my favourite games but what you guys did brought it to a whole new level and completely solidified it as one of the greatest pieces of media ever, you brought it to new levels and gave the series a wonderful Finale. Good job mate!
Fun fact: as soon Edmund saw (or played?) antibirth he Immediately went and hired the antibirth team. It was even said if they contacted him before they released it, he would’ve made it official.
Just curious, is there ever any plans about making the escape sequence *not* mandatory if you’ve already done it with a character to prevent tedium? I’m honestly just curious.
*"This is where shit starts to get, Really, Fucking, Cool"* _Distant sounds of Isaacs parents arguing and eventually his father leaving_ Yeah thats pretty dope buddy, ngl.
It's a small detail, but I really love how when you switch to the tainted characters on the select screen, the narrator sings the background music. Feels like it really brings it all together after the true ending. Like a lullaby he's singing to his son.
this makes me think that the narrator or isaac's dad since they sound similar is singing the lullaby to the fucked up and traumatized tainted characters as a way to "comfort" them and I personally like to think that
Dark bum is still pretty good. It has a 40% droprate for a black heart which is still very high, almost half of the time, giving you plenty chance for survivability. If you're anywhere near decent at the game you'll stack that HP pretty quickly. Black hearts are better than the previously given soul hearts too. The consumables he drops can also be useful when you don't need any more HP or for a character like the lost. Imo I think his changes are more of a sidegrade than a downgrade. I think it's extreme to say that it's nerf makes him as bad as the rest of the bums.
blank card isn't usable with runes because they added a clear rune item that does that placebo's charge time changes based on pill, which i think is fair
okay, someone please explain to me, how come all this time I thought placebo's name was ''pillcebo'' because every time I would read it I thought it was a joke on how it looks the same as a pill in the shop?
@@theoverseer1775 Well, some people aren’t very bright. That’s all. IQ is largely inherited, so you can blame your folks if that makes you feel better.
I still have chills when i hear the divorce of isaac's parents, like first time. Its so sad and it work so good with the story. It was so cool to be in the mood of the story and being hyped up by dogma. When dogma is finaly dead the real fight start. Its just perfect
Okay, i feel like i need to say this. This Vid's a fucking banger especially in your stylistic choices, knowing when to Set accents with text on screen, switching to the paper asthetic, the memes the spins. It feels great to watch even without any focus on what you are saying. So very cool vid Vinny
Ridiculon started okay in Rebirth, gradually was getting better in Afterbirth, and is now making straight bangers in Repentance. Armageddon is a huge incentive for me to play Boss Rush. I quote Living in the Light daily. Even Mudeth made an expansion to the Antibirth soundtrack for the game (Allnoise >>>>> Terminus). Also, Keeper is actually fun to play now.
Fun fact: it used to be harder to get to the corpse, since you had to get 3 pieces, the Mausoleum had a teleporter puzzle, inactive and active, there was another room full of fires, which you had to match so you can reach the end. Also anti birth called Mother “The Witness”, which is a baller ass name.
The discovery of finding out there are a whole new set of alternate characters blew my mind, and sometimes the outro to the Beast fight still gets to me. It truly is a masterpiece of an Expansion.
As a Repentance only player I am very glad to get in when I did, especially after seeing this video lmao. I can't believe Dark Room red chests used to not even give a guaranteed item that is insane, and the worst part of my runs is going to Delirium who is the final boss in Afterbirth+. Really dodged a bullet here.
The Game was still really fun now is more easier old the Lost was shit his dice would make every enemy literally stronger if You get a dinner item it was Your problem, holy Mantle usted to give more invulnerabily time atleast.
I don't really agree on balance changes part, the nerfs don't really change the overall difficulty of the game that much because a bunch of other items received buffs, and a lot of new super good items were added into the pools. Also, most of the nerfs are just balancing the items them from broken to very good (example : Maw of the void doesn't drop black hearts anymore but still is a super powerful way to deal damage), there still are a few exceptions where items were too much nerfed to the point of becoming bad (example : serpent's kiss), but I don't feel like it's the majority. Great video overall btw
All the nerfs I mentioned in the video I still stand by being just all around unnecessary and dumb. Yeah, the nerfs arent the worst thing in the world, and I mention that in the video, but its a slippery slope they are going down. I would have preferred them not changing all of the items because the game is already a LOT harder in more fair ways, but still incredibly daunting for new players. To keeps some of the weapons that were a tad overpowered would have been a welcome idea imo to help balance out with the difficulty. Like I said though, Im sucking the game off most of the time and its just something that bothered me. Also glad you enjoyed the video!
@@vinnysuperg123 I know this is an old post but what i kinda miss is that the game isn't that much harder in normal mode and regular path. It's mostly just harder in 1) hard mode and 2) alternative path (or new bosses). The game should have maybe made hard mode unlockable after a few runs in repentance (like greedier) and locked the harder content longer, because hard mode is now actually hard. The new unlocks at another layer of strong items (R key, glitched crown, sacred orb, red key) and so on, so I feel some nerfs are justified. You can't have too many OP items in the game, and antibirth had a lot of fan favourites. l just think that alt path unlocking after only beating hush 3 times is just too brutal, I don't recommend anyone going there on hardmode with les than 500 hours in the game.
@@megavore97 You missed the point of my post. It's not directed towards myself, as an experienced player I can beat hard mode quite easily. The point is that hard mode does make a difference, and new players struggle with the difficulty. Dodging patterns work for the most part, especially for bosses, but there are rooms with different combinations of enemies. Especially the combination of turrets + enemies in a room can overwhelm inexperienced players. And because they are different each time, the shot speed on those turrets or exploding enemies can make a lot of difference in hard mode. Some attacks are also slightly randomized, like spider AI, falling rocks or light beams.
seeing your genuine reaction to the tainted characters screen when you unlocked tainted isaac was extremely funny. I can truly feel every ounce of hatred, and bewilderment seethe.
I was originally annoyed and fairly baffled about a lot of the balance changes to the items and such but after playing a lot more I honestly really like most of them. The shop changes are still dogshit generally, but I feel like the game is a far more consistent experience now, and I really like that. There are very few really broken items that carry a run on their own, and it’s led to more focus on synergies, having fewer spikes and dips in the experience of playing different runs, and a heavier focus on items that change the feel and play style rather than just stacking bonuses and multipliers. Especially with more items generally available on average, through means like the alt path, you have more choice and freedom in items and get more of them, making runs that are fun even if you aren’t stupidly broken or crashing your game every time you hit the fire button
The alt floors are such a good addition man. There's so many clever ways to use them, like getting an extra item room out of mausoleum 2, alternating main/alt path to force boss challenge rooms, using the extra floor of downpour 2 for another boss item and extra pickups, there's so many options for how to take a run and them being easy to access/switch to means your path will be different for each character and first floor item set
9 Months late BUUT, i loved isaac and havent played it since OG, (i dont know what version i only remember play some kind of isaac in my school PC with friends) and finally decided to get into it again AND HOLY MOLY repentences kicked my aaasss.... and loved it, i dont know i REALLY respect a game that doesnt pull punches from new players and allows them to fuck up and make very complex plays even in the very begining. First run got to kill moms heart, also got to kill Satan. That was Epic
Man, what an amazing video. This is, imo, the best DLC of any game ever. The amount of content we got for 15 dollars (well, I got it for like 3 dollars because of regional prices lmao) is astounding. The tainted characters, with 2 glaring exceptions, are super fun to play and innovative; the new bosses are incredible; the enemies; the items... I love it.
I honestly think.. The week the repentance update dropped, was one of the best weeks of my entire life. Following isaac for so many years, and then seeing such an incredible dlc, made me realise: the binding of isaac is my favorite game of all time.
Bro, when I first watched ur AB+ vid all the way back in 2019, I rlly considered it the best vid criticizing that very expansion, and now here in 2022, I'm enjoying it again but instead with one of the best game expansions to date. Thank you for all the laughs and enjoyment!
I’m actually so glad they reevaluated the existing items for the sake of item balance. There was a large effort to reduce the amount of soul hearts which is why they nerfed dark bum. I hate the notion that nerfs are only needed in online games. Item balance is important in every game. The game breaks in AB+ aren’t as rare as you made it sound. The ease of breaking runs made me start to play less. I don’t like every run being broken, I want it to be a rarity. It needs to feel special.
@@gabrielandy9272 Then they can use mods, seeds, or cheats to have crazy runs everytime. That way, both camps can be happy without ruining the experience for vanilla players.
@@MarioMan392 yes people that want unbalance the game can do it just fine besides I do wish the game had more cheat options for these people as well, not much cheat inside the game, and there's many good mods that add amazing items some are cool And op as well on workshop, but vanilla game should be balanced 100%
Awesome video after all the delays. Repentance really does feel like the perfect compromise between flash and Rebirth. Now if only we can get those important patches in the next decade.
As someone who has followed this game for years and years without the chance to actually play it, this video reminded me of Isaac and got me to buy it when I realized it was on the Xbox store, good ass video too.
So I just got into Isaac about 4-5 months ago, and just finished all major story points if AB+ (still trying to do Delirium because he's exhausting). I was contemplating downloading Repentance for a while now, but wanted to first get to know my way around AB+ and I was a bit intimidated by the size of Repentance. This video was a great breakdown of the differences, I think I'll just go for it!
This is the most underrated gaming video I have seen, amazing video dude! Great editing, great sense of humour and kept me entertained all the way to the end.
It was only a matter of time. Btw, I heard Superstar Saga, Yoshi's Island, Twilight Princess, Xenoblade, Super Metroid and probably something else I don't remember. Great music choices my guy and great video!
Man i was so excited to see this video pop up i loved your afterbirth + one i do feel a little bad about the other tainteds though so i guess i'll do some heavy lifting Tainted maggy: your health drains but you have the best hearth type in the game oh also every time you take you do deal 3x your dmg in melee and killing with it gives you health back.. become a masochist Tainted samson: you get redder the more dmg you take or deal acquire maximum redness to go Berzerk and become the forgotten but stronger... also you don't die if your health reaches 0 while mad Tainted ???: No more Bombs you now Have Shit with superpowers you can really control which shit you get but they easily make him the strongest base char due to Creep and holy poop alone Tainted lazarus:like Jacob e esau but instead if at once you switch between them every room...wait for his rework Tainted azzazel:no wings you have full brimstone and it deals 60% dmg but if you sneeze on enemies by releasing your charge before complete you deal knock them back and applies a debuff that allows for you to deal max dmg Tainted eden:it's like regular EDEN but you reroll every time you get hit..shenanigans ensue Tainted lost:no Holy Mantle but useless items don't appear..neither does degensive ones Tainted kepper:back to 2 health but quad shot,shop are always open and WAY better, enemies drop coins on death and all items cost money no matter what Tainted apollyon:instead of succing items for random stats get a permanent FLY you also gains special ones if you succ good items Tainted bone boi:the body and soul are always active and The body can't move but the soul can and the soul can pick up and yeet the body so you can deal dmg Tainted Bethany:red hearts are the counter now and instead of active item fires you get purple fires that while they're alive give you the effect of passive items Tainted Jacob e Esau: your just jacov and esau is the goddamn devil after you it's like the Chase in Mines 2 but everytine you get hit by it you become the lost for the floor also you have Chains that prioritize Esau to help you survive him and he deals ALOT of dmg to enemies too so Become a beast tamer
The problem with afterbirth was that it wasn't balanced. An experienced player such as myself could use exploits to break 8/10 runs and an inexperienced one would be quite underpowered a lot of the time. However, now in Repentance game balance works significantly better. Its not either No power or All the power its usually just a balanced experience and broken runs feel rare and special again That being said J&E is torture and I hate them, still completed the character but it was so awful...
27:55 I just started playing isaac about a month ago and I think the game is freakin awesome. I wouldn't have anything to compare the game's balance to anyways cause I have limited experience
the shop change is a good mechanic its cool to have it be random how many items will be available to you it add variation, and in a roguelike variation like that is cool, its better than before. even the nerf changes are good, the blank card did not make sense to work with runes before so even the nerf is good game design/improving the game. besides all the items buffed also needed the buff its just perfect.
I feel the same way on a-lot in this video. I don’t think you mentioned it but i also like how when you play as lost for the first knife piece, not only is the map in reverse but the music plays in reverse as well. Its the little details.
What a great Video - I really enjoyed every minute of it, even when I already knew all the content. The last part was the best - And I really loved your forenshadowing to it. Your live reaction to the tainted characters where such amazing. In case you need a new video idea: I would love to see your opinion to all tainted characters once you unlocked them. I don't care if this take another few month. :D
Finally, I'm not the only one thinking that Tainted Judas is Vergil, I mean, cutting through a cluster of proyectiles and watching each individual cut reminds me of most of Vergil's attacks and how much dopamine it gives, damn, it's a judgement cut end. Oh, and btw, there's a new charge bar in the game settings (also, smaller item icons for your inventory) and helps a lot with T. Eve, since the blood clots don't come out over time, those come out over time AS LONG as you keep shooting, there's a charge bar for that, just a tip.
Nerfs are often good for games, full-stop. I see a lot of this sentiment of "why can't you just bring up weaker items to a new standard?" and not only is that not feasible, it's also not healthy. It's power creep, and most often things that need nerfs aren't simple numbers. There was absolutely no need for maw - one of the most damaging items in the game by an almost goofy margin - also needed to generate black hearts and give a damage up. Now this is coming from the perspective of the huge amount of post-launch support that Repentance got (it's so much, I feel like there should be a part 2 to the video), but if you're trying to revamp the entire game so items are as a whole better, then some will need to catch nerfs.
Underrated channel. vid, editing, and comedic timing were all great. Definitely gonna re watch this in like a week while playing repentance in the background
21:13 I do really like how Jacob & Esau work in the base game, cause it can lead to some really fun gameplay, but I also really like the one mod I found that makes Jacob be controlled with wasd and Esau with the arrow keys with having their shooting being done either manually with the mouse, or automatically tracking and shooting at any enemy (it also meshes really well with the WaterJacob and FireEsau mod turning htem into fireboy and water girl respectively cause the controls are the same as the fire&water flash games, making the thought process easier for me cause I spent a lot of time playing those games)
this is like the 4th time i’ve rewatched this video. Idk i can sometimes get bored and fall out of playing issac and then i watch this and then i’m hooked again lol. thanks for brainwashing me
fun fact: in antibirth there were 3 knife pieces and the mausoleum one looked like this: find a room with working and not working teleporters then find a room full of fires and then extinguish the fires that are on the place that a disabled teleporters are in the teleporter room after you didit you get the third knife piece
I like the void because I enjoy how chaotic it feels, even if it feels bullshit, because it is a like a fun kind of bullshit when you are fighting an overpowered unpredictable boss when you are overpowered yourself.
I understand what you mean by the neft. The dark numb one, I actually like the most. Sucks yes but is one that should be. But how the neft serpent kiss and virus? That is too much. If you have black bomb runner, lower the chance of getting a black heart. Not just take it way
Omfg... There's too much content in this game for how bad I am at it. It's so complex. I just got repentance on my Switch. Gahd I'm gonna be playing this for a while lol.
My current favorites from the Tainted list (I haven't unlocked even half of em yet, haha): - Isaac; I adore RPGs that have tight inventory management mechanics (Etrian Odyssey, Legend of Grimrock, and Pokemon Mystery Dungeon to name a few), so Tainted Isaac taps into that in a really cool way - Judas; Mr. Connect the Dots out here, nuff said - Maggy; Masochism, _goooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo_ Also as a fun addendum to the Tainted characters topic, there's a fan-made set of "Tarnished" characters in the works that plays with the cast's core playstyles even more From what I know, only Isaac and Maggy have their Tarnished versions implemented right now but it'll be interesting to see where the mod goes with the rest of the cast
I'm hearing all this cool shit about repentance, meanwhile I just got into Isaac rebirth two days ago and spent six hours trying to get to the womb again and failed miserably because I'm garbanzo
Hey, Soon if they ever make another DLC, they're probably gonna get the mod developers of revelations and fiend folio to give us an even better game. But it's unlikely as Edmund did say this would be his last DLC in the works.
That was sooo worth the wait! I'd occasionally re-watch your previous video on AB+ during the development of Repentance to remind myself of what exactly we're trying to achieve, so seeing that you actually ended up liking it mean the world to me, thank you so much! Editing was on point too, that was just a great watch all the way through.
Holy shit this is one of the nicest things anyone has said. I’m so fucking glad you loved this video and my old video so much Kilburn. You guys on the dev team did such an amazing fucking job, and deserve all the praise. Also don’t take my jabs at the booster packs personally please, you guys did absolutely the best you could do without overhauling the entire afterbirth + expansion.
Either way, thank you so much for listening and making this incredible expansion!
Holy shit, Killburn! You guys did an incredible job with Repentance, I love it :)
btw pls tell me how the team programmed challenge 45, it's incredible.
Burn! My man!
Just wanted to let you know you guys did a phenomenonal job, Isaac was already one of my favourite games but what you guys did brought it to a whole new level and completely solidified it as one of the greatest pieces of media ever, you brought it to new levels and gave the series a wonderful Finale.
Good job mate!
Crossover comment moment!
@@vinnysuperg123 Whats the name of the track after the Axiom Verge Boss Theme, its killing me and I can't remember.
Fun fact: dogma has a cross at the end of his name so if you read it as an "I" and read dogma backwards it is "I am god"
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Damn.
Fun fact: as soon Edmund saw (or played?) antibirth he Immediately went and hired the antibirth team. It was even said if they contacted him before they released it, he would’ve made it official.
Haha funny man 10 years ago
Another Fun fact: the rotgut heart is actually his balz😘
Now we just gotta wait for revelations
@@matthewmatt6Edmund isn’t adding content anymore just play the mods
@@phoenixsenju8984 except he keeps saying that. Rebirth was supposed to be the end xD
42:42 "Eventually you start learning what items get crafted"
the later patches: we don't do that here
oops lol
because people was cheating, looking stuff up, when you are suposed to just learn on the fly for the specific run so its better now.
@@gabrielandy9272 I get that. It wasn't a criticism. I just wanted to be funny
@@gabrielandy9272 you know you can just type your seed into the calculator now right?
@@gabrielandy9272but why would that be considered cheating in a single player game? If people like to read recipes it's up to them, why change that?
alright alright maybe I should make a few more escape sequence rooms then
YES LEATHER I'd love to see more!
Just curious, is there ever any plans about making the escape sequence *not* mandatory if you’ve already done it with a character to prevent tedium? I’m honestly just curious.
omg lol
Make another escape sequence.
*"This is where shit starts to get, Really, Fucking, Cool"*
_Distant sounds of Isaacs parents arguing and eventually his father leaving_
Yeah thats pretty dope buddy, ngl.
That ruined my entire day lol
*"This is where shit starts to get, Really, Fucking, Depressing"*
@@dr.stronk9857 until I beat the Beast. Then it melted my heart
Jamming to this shit bro
*shut up Maggie! Just shut up!*
XDDDDDDDDDDD
It's a small detail, but I really love how when you switch to the tainted characters on the select screen, the narrator sings the background music. Feels like it really brings it all together after the true ending. Like a lullaby he's singing to his son.
Epic
this makes me think that the narrator or isaac's dad since they sound similar is singing the lullaby to the fucked up and traumatized tainted characters as a way to "comfort" them and I personally like to think that
@@sylv_exter5272it is Isaac dad so you are correct
Dark bum is still pretty good. It has a 40% droprate for a black heart which is still very high, almost half of the time, giving you plenty chance for survivability. If you're anywhere near decent at the game you'll stack that HP pretty quickly. Black hearts are better than the previously given soul hearts too. The consumables he drops can also be useful when you don't need any more HP or for a character like the lost. Imo I think his changes are more of a sidegrade than a downgrade. I think it's extreme to say that it's nerf makes him as bad as the rest of the bums.
blank card isn't usable with runes because they added a clear rune item that does that
placebo's charge time changes based on pill, which i think is fair
They also changed placebo to mirror blanck card and rune
okay, someone please explain to me, how come all this time I thought placebo's name was ''pillcebo'' because every time I would read it I thought it was a joke on how it looks the same as a pill in the shop?
@@theoverseer1775a placebo is usually a pill already
@@theoverseer1775pillcebo is better imo
@@theoverseer1775
Well, some people aren’t very bright. That’s all. IQ is largely inherited, so you can blame your folks if that makes you feel better.
Vinny reacting to unlocking Tainted characters hit hard
Feel free to screenshot
@@humpsterthedumpster3653 lmao
38:29
Yo WHAT?????
18:57 i feel like you are coming a crime by calling soul hearts spirit hearts
Literally who cares
@@saulgoodman5073 you cared enough to comment
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Fun fact: dogmas brimstone attack is based on a glitch in flash binding of isaac called "brim snapping"
43:47 this is hands down my favourite moment of this whole essay. Laughed and replayed it too much
Isaac's parents: having an intense grueling and traumatic argument
Charmed fat bat: 32:38
I still have chills when i hear the divorce of isaac's parents, like first time. Its so sad and it work so good with the story. It was so cool to be in the mood of the story and being hyped up by dogma. When dogma is finaly dead the real fight start. Its just perfect
Okay, i feel like i need to say this.
This Vid's a fucking banger especially in your stylistic choices, knowing when to Set accents with text on screen, switching to the paper asthetic, the memes the spins.
It feels great to watch even without any focus on what you are saying.
So very cool vid Vinny
Ridiculon started okay in Rebirth, gradually was getting better in Afterbirth, and is now making straight bangers in Repentance. Armageddon is a huge incentive for me to play Boss Rush. I quote Living in the Light daily. Even Mudeth made an expansion to the Antibirth soundtrack for the game (Allnoise >>>>> Terminus).
Also, Keeper is actually fun to play now.
By far my favorite tracks from Ridiculon are the blue womb and the beast fight(runner up is dross). Straight bangers.
"I quote living in the light" you mean the bible??
(agree with all your points btw lol)
@@tnarwhal pretty much lmao
Mudeth >>>>>>>>> Ridiculon
@@lucassworldofletsplays9270 Rebirth tracks, yes (mostly).
Fun fact: it used to be harder to get to the corpse, since you had to get 3 pieces, the Mausoleum had a teleporter puzzle, inactive and active, there was another room full of fires, which you had to match so you can reach the end.
Also anti birth called Mother “The Witness”, which is a baller ass name.
honestly i think dark bum got rebalanced instead of just nerfed, especially with the introduction of flipped taro cards
plus he still drops hearts all the time
The discovery of finding out there are a whole new set of alternate characters blew my mind, and sometimes the outro to the Beast fight still gets to me. It truly is a masterpiece of an Expansion.
As a Repentance only player I am very glad to get in when I did, especially after seeing this video lmao. I can't believe Dark Room red chests used to not even give a guaranteed item that is insane, and the worst part of my runs is going to Delirium who is the final boss in Afterbirth+. Really dodged a bullet here.
The Game was still really fun now is more easier old the Lost was shit his dice would make every enemy literally stronger if You get a dinner item it was Your problem, holy Mantle usted to give more invulnerabily time atleast.
“Going down this path rewards you with dozens of room layouts,enemies,bosses”
*proceeds to show baby plum who is a basement boss*
I don't really agree on balance changes part, the nerfs don't really change the overall difficulty of the game that much because a bunch of other items received buffs, and a lot of new super good items were added into the pools.
Also, most of the nerfs are just balancing the items them from broken to very good (example : Maw of the void doesn't drop black hearts anymore but still is a super powerful way to deal damage), there still are a few exceptions where items were too much nerfed to the point of becoming bad (example : serpent's kiss), but I don't feel like it's the majority.
Great video overall btw
All the nerfs I mentioned in the video I still stand by being just all around unnecessary and dumb. Yeah, the nerfs arent the worst thing in the world, and I mention that in the video, but its a slippery slope they are going down. I would have preferred them not changing all of the items because the game is already a LOT harder in more fair ways, but still incredibly daunting for new players. To keeps some of the weapons that were a tad overpowered would have been a welcome idea imo to help balance out with the difficulty. Like I said though, Im sucking the game off most of the time and its just something that bothered me.
Also glad you enjoyed the video!
@@vinnysuperg123 also blank card doesn't work on runes anymore because clear rune exists, which is the blank card equivalent for runes
@@vinnysuperg123 I know this is an old post but what i kinda miss is that the game isn't that much harder in normal mode and regular path. It's mostly just harder in 1) hard mode and 2) alternative path (or new bosses). The game should have maybe made hard mode unlockable after a few runs in repentance (like greedier) and locked the harder content longer, because hard mode is now actually hard. The new unlocks at another layer of strong items (R key, glitched crown, sacred orb, red key) and so on, so I feel some nerfs are justified. You can't have too many OP items in the game, and antibirth had a lot of fan favourites. l just think that alt path unlocking after only beating hush 3 times is just too brutal, I don't recommend anyone going there on hardmode with les than 500 hours in the game.
@@Japie__ Hard mode is easy as hell still though, sure enemies fire faster but nothing changes if you do the same dodging patterns that you always do
@@megavore97 You missed the point of my post. It's not directed towards myself, as an experienced player I can beat hard mode quite easily. The point is that hard mode does make a difference, and new players struggle with the difficulty. Dodging patterns work for the most part, especially for bosses, but there are rooms with different combinations of enemies. Especially the combination of turrets + enemies in a room can overwhelm inexperienced players. And because they are different each time, the shot speed on those turrets or exploding enemies can make a lot of difference in hard mode. Some attacks are also slightly randomized, like spider AI, falling rocks or light beams.
seeing your genuine reaction to the tainted characters screen when you unlocked tainted isaac was extremely funny. I can truly feel every ounce of hatred, and bewilderment seethe.
I began with repentance and 100% would recommend it to new players
I started in hard mode with repentance. A dead god later and i recomend it
"No matter what you try it won't open" Sharp Key opens the mom heart door tho, sure it costs a key, but still also dad's key also works
I was originally annoyed and fairly baffled about a lot of the balance changes to the items and such but after playing a lot more I honestly really like most of them. The shop changes are still dogshit generally, but I feel like the game is a far more consistent experience now, and I really like that. There are very few really broken items that carry a run on their own, and it’s led to more focus on synergies, having fewer spikes and dips in the experience of playing different runs, and a heavier focus on items that change the feel and play style rather than just stacking bonuses and multipliers. Especially with more items generally available on average, through means like the alt path, you have more choice and freedom in items and get more of them, making runs that are fun even if you aren’t stupidly broken or crashing your game every time you hit the fire button
The alt floors are such a good addition man. There's so many clever ways to use them, like getting an extra item room out of mausoleum 2, alternating main/alt path to force boss challenge rooms, using the extra floor of downpour 2 for another boss item and extra pickups, there's so many options for how to take a run and them being easy to access/switch to means your path will be different for each character and first floor item set
this one of da best issac videos ive seen.
hope you had fun on tainted jacob :D
I very recently got mega satan on him……….
As someone who has done no hit runs as tainted lost and liked rebirth lost……..
:(
46:17 Tyrone slander let's goooooo
But now we have to use 5% of our brain power instead of 0.0001% to win with Brimstone. The game is truly trash now 😔
TRUE
Smh Edmund truly is egotistical 😔😔😔
9 Months late BUUT, i loved isaac and havent played it since OG, (i dont know what version i only remember play some kind of isaac in my school PC with friends) and finally decided to get into it again AND HOLY MOLY repentences kicked my aaasss.... and loved it, i dont know i REALLY respect a game that doesnt pull punches from new players and allows them to fuck up and make very complex plays even in the very begining.
First run got to kill moms heart, also got to kill Satan. That was Epic
Man, what an amazing video. This is, imo, the best DLC of any game ever. The amount of content we got for 15 dollars (well, I got it for like 3 dollars because of regional prices lmao) is astounding. The tainted characters, with 2 glaring exceptions, are super fun to play and innovative; the new bosses are incredible; the enemies; the items... I love it.
What 2? I'm guessing tainted Lazarus and eden
@@itsmeok6205 Lazarus and Jacob. Eden is fun when playing casually.
@@limonero8757 how about tlaz and jacob now, since esau invincible and laz double nonboss items
@@art-cs6us I love T. Jacob now, and T. Lazarus is at least playable, but super boring.
There’s a mod that I adore which is called “the binding of Isaac: Epiphany” which adds a c-side set of characters but right now it’s just the first 4
Yeah but it needs to stay as a mod
also keeper
This is so reminiscent of Foekoe's editing style except it's almost 50 minutes long. Love it. Catch me rewatching this for the 9th time
Foekoe mentioned
I honestly think..
The week the repentance update dropped, was one of the best weeks of my entire life.
Following isaac for so many years, and then seeing such an incredible dlc, made me realise: the binding of isaac is my favorite game of all time.
yeah
Bro, when I first watched ur AB+ vid all the way back in 2019, I rlly considered it the best vid criticizing that very expansion, and now here in 2022, I'm enjoying it again but instead with one of the best game expansions to date. Thank you for all the laughs and enjoyment!
guess what, they added rooms to the second knife piece this game is officially perfect now
I’m actually so glad they reevaluated the existing items for the sake of item balance. There was a large effort to reduce the amount of soul hearts which is why they nerfed dark bum. I hate the notion that nerfs are only needed in online games. Item balance is important in every game. The game breaks in AB+ aren’t as rare as you made it sound. The ease of breaking runs made me start to play less. I don’t like every run being broken, I want it to be a rarity. It needs to feel special.
For real I felt like every 4th or 5th run was a steam sale restock iv bag run
i agree, breaking runs are very very very boring if they happen often
yeah item balance matter, but some gamers don't care about it.
@@gabrielandy9272 Then they can use mods, seeds, or cheats to have crazy runs everytime. That way, both camps can be happy without ruining the experience for vanilla players.
@@MarioMan392 yes people that want unbalance the game can do it just fine besides I do wish the game had more cheat options for these people as well, not much cheat inside the game, and there's many good mods that add amazing items some are cool And op as well on workshop, but vanilla game should be balanced 100%
Awesome video after all the delays. Repentance really does feel like the perfect compromise between flash and Rebirth. Now if only we can get those important patches in the next decade.
As someone who has followed this game for years and years without the chance to actually play it, this video reminded me of Isaac and got me to buy it when I realized it was on the Xbox store, good ass video too.
So I just got into Isaac about 4-5 months ago, and just finished all major story points if AB+ (still trying to do Delirium because he's exhausting). I was contemplating downloading Repentance for a while now, but wanted to first get to know my way around AB+ and I was a bit intimidated by the size of Repentance. This video was a great breakdown of the differences, I think I'll just go for it!
how does anybody support this man where he insults you every few minutes
This is the most underrated gaming video I have seen, amazing video dude! Great editing, great sense of humour and kept me entertained all the way to the end.
It was only a matter of time. Btw, I heard Superstar Saga, Yoshi's Island, Twilight Princess, Xenoblade, Super Metroid and probably something else I don't remember. Great music choices my guy and great video!
Ridiculon really needs to remake all the old tracks with their newfound skills tbh
The random ffx soundtrack around the 42 minute mark threw me off.
The binding of Isaac doesn’t need a video addressing g its greatness, everyone already knows.
This is worth the lost months.
Thank you so fucking much for this.
Dogma is my favorite boss of all time, I love the way it is, the aesthetic, the noises and the preaching in the background
Man i was so excited to see this video pop up i loved your afterbirth + one i do feel a little bad about the other tainteds though so i guess i'll do some heavy lifting
Tainted maggy: your health drains but you have the best hearth type in the game oh also every time you take you do deal 3x your dmg in melee and killing with it gives you health back.. become a masochist
Tainted samson: you get redder the more dmg you take or deal acquire maximum redness to go Berzerk and become the forgotten but stronger... also you don't die if your health reaches 0 while mad
Tainted ???: No more Bombs you now Have Shit with superpowers you can really control which shit you get but they easily make him the strongest base char due to Creep and holy poop alone
Tainted lazarus:like Jacob e esau but instead if at once you switch between them every room...wait for his rework
Tainted azzazel:no wings you have full brimstone and it deals 60% dmg but if you sneeze on enemies by releasing your charge before complete you deal knock them back and applies a debuff that allows for you to deal max dmg
Tainted eden:it's like regular EDEN but you reroll every time you get hit..shenanigans ensue
Tainted lost:no Holy Mantle but useless items don't appear..neither does degensive ones
Tainted kepper:back to 2 health but quad shot,shop are always open and WAY better, enemies drop coins on death and all items cost money no matter what
Tainted apollyon:instead of succing items for random stats get a permanent FLY you also gains special ones if you succ good items
Tainted bone boi:the body and soul are always active and The body can't move but the soul can and the soul can pick up and yeet the body so you can deal dmg
Tainted Bethany:red hearts are the counter now and instead of active item fires you get purple fires that while they're alive give you the effect of passive items
Tainted Jacob e Esau: your just jacov and esau is the goddamn devil after you it's like the Chase in Mines 2 but everytine you get hit by it you become the lost for the floor also you have Chains that prioritize Esau to help you survive him and he deals ALOT of dmg to enemies too so Become a beast tamer
You become lost when you kill dark esau not when he hits you
@@itsmeok6205 it’s both though now it is only when being hit by Esau since you can’t kill him yourself.
The problem with afterbirth was that it wasn't balanced. An experienced player such as myself could use exploits to break 8/10 runs and an inexperienced one would be quite underpowered a lot of the time.
However, now in Repentance game balance works significantly better. Its not either No power or All the power its usually just a balanced experience and broken runs feel rare and special again
That being said J&E is torture and I hate them, still completed the character but it was so awful...
And how did it go with the Tainted Jacob Experience?
This video is so good that I come back to it every now and then, pretty much always after taking a long break from TBoI, love ya man!
I can't believe that such a great video hanging with 1300 views
27:55 I just started playing isaac about a month ago and I think the game is freakin awesome. I wouldn't have anything to compare the game's balance to anyways cause I have limited experience
Every single time I hear you say "spirit heart" it hurts
Its literally a synonym to soul it doesnt change anything
Oversensitive
Calling jacob and esau amazing is literally blasphemous
Its been 4 years already? Woooow...
33:30 Yeah haha hes so funy, only killed so many of my runs and all that haha :)
Holy crap it’s finally here.
this is one of the most rewatchable videos on youtube for me, ive whatched this all the way through like 5 times. great stuff
"This is when you have to fight the umbilical cord and the angel that comes out of the TV."
...
You know, I'm not going to question it.
This video, was really damn good. Can't wait for the repentance console release
the shop change is a good mechanic its cool to have it be random how many items will be available to you it add variation, and in a roguelike variation like that is cool, its better than before.
even the nerf changes are good, the blank card did not make sense to work with runes before so even the nerf is good game design/improving the game. besides all the items buffed also needed the buff its just perfect.
Bro couldn’t resist the need to say the word “fucking” every 10 seconds 💀
Not funny didnt laugh
I like the nerfs.
I feel the same way on a-lot in this video. I don’t think you mentioned it but i also like how when you play as lost for the first knife piece, not only is the map in reverse but the music plays in reverse as well. Its the little details.
Now time for “Why Four Souls-Plus was a disappointment” and “Why Four Souls-Requiem is Fantastic”.
What a great Video - I really enjoyed every minute of it, even when I already knew all the content.
The last part was the best - And I really loved your forenshadowing to it.
Your live reaction to the tainted characters where such amazing.
In case you need a new video idea: I would love to see your opinion to all tainted characters once you unlocked them. I don't care if this take another few month. :D
The best part of Repentance is hearing isaac's voice. That was so precious 🥺
Finally, I'm not the only one thinking that Tainted Judas is Vergil, I mean, cutting through a cluster of proyectiles and watching each individual cut reminds me of most of Vergil's attacks and how much dopamine it gives, damn, it's a judgement cut end.
Oh, and btw, there's a new charge bar in the game settings (also, smaller item icons for your inventory) and helps a lot with T. Eve, since the blood clots don't come out over time, those come out over time AS LONG as you keep shooting, there's a charge bar for that, just a tip.
Nerfs are often good for games, full-stop. I see a lot of this sentiment of "why can't you just bring up weaker items to a new standard?" and not only is that not feasible, it's also not healthy. It's power creep, and most often things that need nerfs aren't simple numbers. There was absolutely no need for maw - one of the most damaging items in the game by an almost goofy margin - also needed to generate black hearts and give a damage up. Now this is coming from the perspective of the huge amount of post-launch support that Repentance got (it's so much, I feel like there should be a part 2 to the video), but if you're trying to revamp the entire game so items are as a whole better, then some will need to catch nerfs.
I only have 1 complaint about repentence, I cant play it for the first time again
Vinny: *shitting on afterbirth+ in the middle of the video again*
Me: pleaseee stopp he is already deaaddd 😭😭😭😭
25:36 why the enemies making out
This is one of the best videos on UA-cam about the binding of isaac repentance 😀👍
Underrated channel. vid, editing, and comedic timing were all great. Definitely gonna re watch this in like a week while playing repentance in the background
21:13 I do really like how Jacob & Esau work in the base game, cause it can lead to some really fun gameplay, but I also really like the one mod I found that makes Jacob be controlled with wasd and Esau with the arrow keys with having their shooting being done either manually with the mouse, or automatically tracking and shooting at any enemy (it also meshes really well with the WaterJacob and FireEsau mod turning htem into fireboy and water girl respectively cause the controls are the same as the fire&water flash games, making the thought process easier for me cause I spent a lot of time playing those games)
this is like the 4th time i’ve rewatched this video. Idk i can sometimes get bored and fall out of playing issac and then i watch this and then i’m hooked again lol. thanks for brainwashing me
fun fact: in antibirth there were 3 knife pieces and the mausoleum one looked like this: find a room with working and not working teleporters then find a room full of fires and then extinguish the fires that are on the place that a disabled teleporters are in the teleporter room after you didit you get the third knife piece
I love this video. Come back and listen every couple months.
Also... imagine *THIS GAME* having a happy ending
I like the void because I enjoy how chaotic it feels, even if it feels bullshit, because it is a like a fun kind of bullshit when you are fighting an overpowered unpredictable boss when you are overpowered yourself.
This video legitimately got me back into issac. I was all but burned out of repentance. But this video got me hype for it again.
each and every one of your videos are precious.
I understand what you mean by the neft. The dark numb one, I actually like the most. Sucks yes but is one that should be.
But how the neft serpent kiss and virus? That is too much. If you have black bomb runner, lower the chance of getting a black heart. Not just take it way
Omfg... There's too much content in this game for how bad I am at it. It's so complex. I just got repentance on my Switch. Gahd I'm gonna be playing this for a while lol.
My current favorites from the Tainted list (I haven't unlocked even half of em yet, haha):
- Isaac; I adore RPGs that have tight inventory management mechanics (Etrian Odyssey, Legend of Grimrock, and Pokemon Mystery Dungeon to name a few), so Tainted Isaac taps into that in a really cool way
- Judas; Mr. Connect the Dots out here, nuff said
- Maggy; Masochism, _goooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo_
Also as a fun addendum to the Tainted characters topic, there's a fan-made set of "Tarnished" characters in the works that plays with the cast's core playstyles even more
From what I know, only Isaac and Maggy have their Tarnished versions implemented right now but it'll be interesting to see where the mod goes with the rest of the cast
I love how he’s talking about mother and in the background you can faintly see the true Final boss Battle
Its so weird to think back to flash isaac and the og community remix mod. Now thats a journey not a lot of games can survive
the only thing I could even remotelly disappoint me about repentance is the fact they didnt port Edith over from Antibirth. I loved playing as em :(
"Tainted Loss is fun..."
Excuse me, WHAT?!
He is though, hard but very powerful
This needs more views… I laughed more at this review than I normally do watching content 😹✨
I really hope bony boys riding corpse eaters get added again. Loved those guys
I wish he talked a little about all Tainteds
i honestly love how dogma gose fuck you amd just pulls out the old brimstone glitch from the flash version of the origonal
good video, got literal chills when dogma showed up
the pure energy of "THERES SO MUCH MORE!!! HOLY SHIT!!!!!!"
I'm hearing all this cool shit about repentance, meanwhile I just got into Isaac rebirth two days ago and spent six hours trying to get to the womb again and failed miserably because I'm garbanzo
That was all of us in the beginning. Give it another 6 or 700 hours and you be fine
13/10 review amazing enthusiasm and I can tell u fr got love for the game n know your shit and how you explain and structured your vids
Hey, Soon if they ever make another DLC, they're probably gonna get the mod developers of revelations and fiend folio to give us an even better game. But it's unlikely as Edmund did say this would be his last DLC in the works.
40:59 - The best part is the tinted characters are almost always more unique than the original. They all play very differently than base isaac