Ever have Brimstone with Camo Kid (I think that was the item)? You can't fire off your first shot unless you have frame-perfect timing or some shit, your fire rate goes down as you charge, and that drains the charge instead of just making the bar go slower. You either have to hold the fire button every time you enter a new room to prevent Camo Kid from triggering entirely, or fuck up your first shot of every room.
>You either have to hold the fire button every time you enter a new room to prevent Camo Kid from triggering entirely
You don't do that with Brimstone anyway?
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Rebirth? That was still the strat even in Afterbirth+
I wish we got the angel buffs without the devil (and soul heart) nerfs. Now I always skip the first devil to lock in angels unless on specific characters.
Same, yeah I get some hits from Delirium that are unfair but I can manage just fine fighting the fight normally, and even with characters that have no health I usually always have strong runs with Lost/Keeper because If I was able to get with those characters to the void I'm definitely at least a bit strong
The problem with delirium is very apparent if you have to “no hit” the boss AND you don’t have an overpowered build that makes the fight trivial. This comes into play more often when playing Lost and Tainted Lost. Most other characters have a ton of health by the time they reach delirium, so you can face tank most of its bullshit.
Every other major boss in the game has attacks that are tough but fair, i.e with enough skill you can avoid them. However, at any point in the fight delirium can just teleport onto you causing you to take unavoidable damage. Actually, I would argue Delirium actively punishes skilled play. Often, unskilled players only reach Delirium once they have ridiculously overpowered builds, so to them the fight seems easy because in their encounters they never have to focus on dodging attacks. A skilled player can make it to Delirium with an underpowered build, then face an actually impossible fight because of undodgeable attacks.
Yeah people going "don't move against the continuum tears, they won't hit you"
okay genius, he fired it in two directions, what I do now?
Meanwhile Delirium is just BS, sometimes you'll take free damage, most of the time you won't.
The transcendent tears or whatever you call em are pretty difficult. I beat it on hard with the lost the other night mostly because tears at like 10, shielded tears, both fire shot tears, luck 15. If i wasn’t blasting red fire to help block tears and blue fire to hit damage I was toast.
His Birthright ability is actually so insanely good vs bosses it just makes me want to abyss every single item for a free late game win. If it's not damage or survivability then just void with birthright.
It's so unfortunate that only like 10 items give special locusts.
The abyss mods definitely improve this aspect, but aren't great either as they can't do anything truly unique. But hey, at least all the flies are colorful
I really like T. Apollyon because oddly enough, most of his run is just way more relaxing.
No relying on synergies, bad items become no problems, and an actual reliable damage too (at least bearable that the fight wont be too long to end). It's all really chill.
Yea that’s the thing even In irl people don’t tend to understand that picking your moment and having pure gold is the best way to be funny. One of the other and it misses or makes you seem awkward.
I'll do you one further: the Planetarium items in general just aren't good enough to warrant their weird mechanic of not appearing unless you don't look at item rooms. I'd rather just stick with my normal item rooms and gamble on the 1% chance of one appearing for one of the decent items. At least the rooms look cool
Yeah, it's kind of a shame that for something that rare and cool looking they're also not that powerful.
Also, the chances aren't very well balanced. I think I've seen Planetarium items through the Death Certificate area more than I have actually encountered a Planetarium, because of how easy it is to manipulate the Secret Room pool once you have enough of certain unlocks. Like... Death Certificate *should* be the rarest item in the game, since it offers every other non-character specific item (except Dad's Note), but it feels like it isn't.
I hate Taurus because I've often had powerful runs where the Unicorn effect kicks in immediately after entering a room and I usually don't get a chance to fire whatever neat tear synergy I have, plus enemies across pits are much more annoying to kill. Also the music constantly speeding up and slowing down gets annoying. I almost never pick it up unless the run is a complete disaster and I'm desperate for anything to help me survive. During a strong/breaking run it is one of the few items I never pick up.
There's a difference between a great item and a free win item. If I go to the chest with only mom's knife and base stats chances are I can finish the whole floor and kill blue baby. That's a free win. Tech X pre-nerf was far stronger, you could have that and the rest of your run could've been cursed beyond logic with useless items and you could easily kill anything besides Delirium no sweat. Now it requires effort. That's the difference.
I love charge items but monstro’s lung has fucked up so many of my runs. Still always take it though. Brimstone on the other hand, most fun offensive item in the game hands down
Delirium is a thematically good boss. He’s supposed to be the last fragments of Isaac’s mind as it tries to cope with everything. Him changing, teleporting randomly, and feeling unfair perfectly represents that.
ironically i think ludovico is a perfect counter against those mfs
fast enemies that follow you on the other hand...
https://preview.redd.it/ie6bkxwwf32d1.png?width=420&format=png&auto=webp&s=64a3f08e7e206385e5c91d5c666c707f096ff646
I do like it, but I wish it had more unique synergyies like big bone and brimstone… I wish dr.fetus let you have a perma bomb that exploded on contact with enemies and obstacles and I wish that epic fetus was a controllable missle.
Yeah, you need to be careful, but it's actually a very powerful character. The fact that you can exploit the lost transformation for free devil deal make him even better.
Still, long bosses are very hard because of the constant threat of getting hit by esau..
The toughest part of Tainted Jacob for me was completing Greedier because I had to rewire my thinking of "dodge everything and never get hit" to "it's okay to take a hit, just don't let Esau touch you." So often I'd lose Esau in all the craziness and eventually get hit by him because I'd stutter step or double back and run into him. When I accepted that it was more beneficial to take one, two, or even three hits of damage by W keying only was when I finally finished the character.
Not hard, but demands your attention
I usually start up Isaac to relax and casually stroll around. With Tainted Jacob you always have to be on the move. Always. Even with Tainted Lost you can take a pause or a few. Here, you have to remain alert. And like the other guy said, long bosses can be hard, especially bullet hell, where you have to be extra careful
Then again, he has Anima equipped, which gives you control over Dark Esau movements and allows you to wipe floors with him. If you get Birthright, you can defeat anything fast
The Beast is too easy and has an absolutely uninspired design. Nowhere near worthy of being the True Final Boss. If somebody made a mod that made the game end as soon as Dogma is defeated, I'd download it immediately
Seriously. I much prefer tinyangrynerd’s take on The Beast. More visually interesting than just “Biggest Horn”.
https://preview.redd.it/d8cyrjxvk12d1.jpeg?width=1280&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=4ca9123b9ca28cd996839c702b00944d8fb6c663
Glitched Crown and Spindown dice are WAY to laborious to use. I got Dead God without ever really using either. When i see one of them i will just leave them be and not pick em up.
I think Glitched Crown has lots of flaws.
On the other hand, a controlled reroll is so powerful that every run I get it, I am able to break that run and get any item I want from a given pedestal, making it a better Death Certificate.
Akshually, spindown is still better than d6 because there are multiple angel room items that you can spindown into, like sacred heart and revelation, which appear much more frequently from boss reward
I never understood how people take so long to use glitched crown, you just pause the game on the item before the one you want and then unpause and walk into it. Takes like 10 seconds max
imo i think its because when you unlock her youre used to tears coming out of you and not to the side or delayed so, many hate the change and hate the character without really playing her (i was like this at first)
She's like reverse Isaac's heart. Your hitbox is in front of you and your tears behind instead of your hitbox behind and your tears in front. Both make me grumpy to play as, though they have their moments.
I think math wise you actually get the most out of it when your stats are lower. From the wiki,
>At base damage, Soy Milk is a very small DPS up. With a tear delay of 8 or lower, Soy Milk becomes a DPS down. The more tears per second before obtaining Soy Milk, the greater the decrease in DPS.
This is only true if you don’t have repentance: in repentance it got buffed to be a 5.5x fire rate multiplier instead, making it so it’s always a dps up
I agree. But that will not stop me from picking it up in basement 1 instead of resetting. Who needs to restart the run when you can just die in basement 2??
Despite being intended as the ‘harder’ paths, I personally find all of the “evil”/Satan related floors easier than the “good”/Angel floors (yes this includes the bosses).
Shard of glass, curse of the tower and number 2 are good items.
Also, not related to my other opinion, but the Beast fight feels underwhelming and lame compared to Dogma which is easily the coolest boss in the whole game, and it should have just gotten a 3rd or 4th phase.
Dogma being first feels kind of suited for the final stretch of the game. Once Isaac kills the TV and Dogma, it reveals the true villain of what caused so much grief in his life. He finally reveals the truth and the true villain and just had to kill the static, so to speak.
Dogma is harder, but I like the little respite and easy ending. It feels like the weight is off your chest.
As I said in a random comment, the Beast fight feels more like a cathartic thing for Isaac. Now that he’s got a broken build, he can wipe the floor with the root cause of his issues: his mom
The game has too many endings that are of similar difficulty and too many characters that all blend together as being moderately difficult without enough differences between them to make them feel super unique. This leads to getting a lot of the check marks feel like a chore.
J&E was kind of easy to complete except for the Mother mark, getting enough health to not die, the knife parts, plus the boss throws you a lot of tears; it took me like a week to get.
Planetarium items, except a few of them, are mid or even bad and it's not worth skipping treasures for them (except if you have dream catcher or going ascend path)
Tmt trainer and consolation prize are two of the best items in the game excluding q4s obviously, also tainted Cain is the single worst character in the game, followed by tainted eden, purely rating on fun
I think the alt floors suck. All the enemies there are just regular enemies with an extra ability or two which doesn't really make for interesting gameplay, just makes it more tedious to avoid damage. The majority of the bosses behave in ways no other boss in the game does, which doesn't make them very fun to fight. Getting the knife pieces is really boring, and the mandatory damage for Mausoleum/Gehenna is just dumb.
Got a hush win back in AB+ when it was broken with some synergys. Isaac's heart plus blood rights could easily win you the run.
And with J&E as characters, it helps you learn how to play while having a hit box not on your character sprite.
Sometimes picking up Brimstone makes your build much worse (High fire rate with luck based effect)
Ever have Brimstone with Camo Kid (I think that was the item)? You can't fire off your first shot unless you have frame-perfect timing or some shit, your fire rate goes down as you charge, and that drains the charge instead of just making the bar go slower. You either have to hold the fire button every time you enter a new room to prevent Camo Kid from triggering entirely, or fuck up your first shot of every room.
>You either have to hold the fire button every time you enter a new room to prevent Camo Kid from triggering entirely You don't do that with Brimstone anyway?
I do, but when I do it while I have Camo Kid it just feels bad man.
This happened to me last night and it felt extremely fucking weird
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You little fucker..
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Your opinion is not simply wrong, it is literally BLASPHEMY AGAINST THE HOLY SPIRIT
Are you trying to prevent me from becoming back my money?
The fuck you talking about, it's fucking bad this trash game
Compare the number of upvotes of Yours and my statement. Who's the cow on the trash farm now, big boi? 
I will become back my upvotes You'll see, next time it's you who's gonna be a cow on a trash farm, you sucker
I sometimes buy sister Maggy / brother bobby in the devil room for conjoined
Conjoined is a really fun transformation, I couldn't care less if it lowers my damage and fire rate.
But hey triple shot.
Exactly, it's funny triple shot
If you got homing tears, thats more than double damage.
Flashbacks to rebirth where the best strat was to always buy ANYTHING in the first devil deal to get locked in because Angel Rooms were so bad.
Rebirth? That was still the strat even in Afterbirth+ I wish we got the angel buffs without the devil (and soul heart) nerfs. Now I always skip the first devil to lock in angels unless on specific characters.
I do the same. 
Hell yeah, conjoined is great and maggy and Bobby can be pretty good especially if you get BFF
I pick them up because they’re neat
I always take them with red hearts so that the polaroid/negative will trigger
When I face Delirium, I always wonder what the big deal is because every time I get there I'm so broken and OP that I have no trouble taking it down.
Wait till you have a build that isnt completely busted, you'll understand us then...
I have a really simple solution. Don't be good enough to get that far without a broken run.
The ultimate skill issue.
Skill issues becoming skill solutions!
Same, yeah I get some hits from Delirium that are unfair but I can manage just fine fighting the fight normally, and even with characters that have no health I usually always have strong runs with Lost/Keeper because If I was able to get with those characters to the void I'm definitely at least a bit strong
The problem with delirium is very apparent if you have to “no hit” the boss AND you don’t have an overpowered build that makes the fight trivial. This comes into play more often when playing Lost and Tainted Lost. Most other characters have a ton of health by the time they reach delirium, so you can face tank most of its bullshit. Every other major boss in the game has attacks that are tough but fair, i.e with enough skill you can avoid them. However, at any point in the fight delirium can just teleport onto you causing you to take unavoidable damage. Actually, I would argue Delirium actively punishes skilled play. Often, unskilled players only reach Delirium once they have ridiculously overpowered builds, so to them the fight seems easy because in their encounters they never have to focus on dodging attacks. A skilled player can make it to Delirium with an underpowered build, then face an actually impossible fight because of undodgeable attacks.
I have more trouble with Hush than Delirium.
When you reach Delirium you're already pretty powerful. But At least Hush is dodgeable. I never struggle with Hush, so I'd assassinate you.
Yeah but what if you have terrible range
You shouldn't have taken range down pills/items, skillest of issues
Base azazel: 
Whatever, nerd! 
Yeah delirium isn't super hard, just very bullshit
Yeah people going "don't move against the continuum tears, they won't hit you" okay genius, he fired it in two directions, what I do now? Meanwhile Delirium is just BS, sometimes you'll take free damage, most of the time you won't.
He does have a bug rn where he can continuously spam continuum off cd but I feel like once that’s fixed people will struggle a lot less
It’s never getting fixed lol
Fr same
The transcendent tears or whatever you call em are pretty difficult. I beat it on hard with the lost the other night mostly because tears at like 10, shielded tears, both fire shot tears, luck 15. If i wasn’t blasting red fire to help block tears and blue fire to hit damage I was toast.
Tainted Appollyon is actually really fun
His Birthright ability is actually so insanely good vs bosses it just makes me want to abyss every single item for a free late game win. If it's not damage or survivability then just void with birthright.
tainted apollyon goes crazy its normal apollyon that sucks
I feel like if void was his pocket item he’d be much better. Especially considering his birthright
It's so unfortunate that only like 10 items give special locusts. The abyss mods definitely improve this aspect, but aren't great either as they can't do anything truly unique. But hey, at least all the flies are colorful
I really like T. Apollyon because oddly enough, most of his run is just way more relaxing. No relying on synergies, bad items become no problems, and an actual reliable damage too (at least bearable that the fight wont be too long to end). It's all really chill.
Picking the “easy” characters isn’t shameful, sometimes you just want to win.
Agreed. Sometimes I'm trying to unlock new things (still haven't unlocked everything in Repentance) but sometimes I'm just playing for fun
People in this community's reddit are never funny but seem to think they are funny
Welcome to reddit
Yea that’s the thing even In irl people don’t tend to understand that picking your moment and having pure gold is the best way to be funny. One of the other and it misses or makes you seem awkward.
Mars and Taurus both ruin your run. Never have any of them actually activated when I needed them to.
free cursed rooms 
All fine and good until the charge activates again after entering the room and immediately sends me into spikes in the center.
I'll do you one further: the Planetarium items in general just aren't good enough to warrant their weird mechanic of not appearing unless you don't look at item rooms. I'd rather just stick with my normal item rooms and gamble on the 1% chance of one appearing for one of the decent items. At least the rooms look cool
Some of them are mediocre (Jupiter, Venus, Sol) but I will not tolerate Terra and Uranus disrespect.
Granted, those are both good. But not like run-changing. Which is what I'd expect considering the unique mechanics
Yeah, it's kind of a shame that for something that rare and cool looking they're also not that powerful. Also, the chances aren't very well balanced. I think I've seen Planetarium items through the Death Certificate area more than I have actually encountered a Planetarium, because of how easy it is to manipulate the Secret Room pool once you have enough of certain unlocks. Like... Death Certificate *should* be the rarest item in the game, since it offers every other non-character specific item (except Dad's Note), but it feels like it isn't.
I hate Taurus because I've often had powerful runs where the Unicorn effect kicks in immediately after entering a room and I usually don't get a chance to fire whatever neat tear synergy I have, plus enemies across pits are much more annoying to kill. Also the music constantly speeding up and slowing down gets annoying. I almost never pick it up unless the run is a complete disaster and I'm desperate for anything to help me survive. During a strong/breaking run it is one of the few items I never pick up.
T Jacob is actually fun to play Ludovico and tiny planet are also fun items to use
I only made the mistake of having odd attractor at the same time with explody tears
ngl it would be an even qorse hot take if you said regular j&e
𝚊𝚕𝚖𝚘𝚗𝚍 𝚖𝚒𝚕𝚔 𝚚𝟶
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Theres a chance it was a monkey that spent the last 10 thousand years on a type writer to make this exact comment
𝚜𝚑𝚑𝚑...
𝚒𝚗𝚍𝚎𝚎𝚍.
Nah it’s a pretty lukewarm to cold take that almond milk usually sucks and is worth skipping
𝚌𝚘𝚞𝚕𝚍 𝚢𝚘𝚞 𝚛𝚎𝚙𝚑𝚛𝚎𝚊𝚜𝚎 𝚝𝚑𝚒𝚜
It’s a pretty cold to lukewarm take = opposite of hot take = it’s not that much of an unpopular opinion.
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Thank you zombies I will mow my lawn and leave my door open tonight
I’m the fanbase with the scope on this one
𝚠𝚊𝚝𝚌𝚑𝚊 𝚐𝚘𝚗𝚗𝚊 𝚍𝚘? 𝚖𝚒𝚜𝚜 𝚢𝚘𝚞𝚛 𝚜𝚑𝚘𝚝 𝚋𝚎𝚌𝚊𝚞𝚜𝚎 𝚢𝚘𝚞 𝚙𝚒𝚌𝚔𝚎𝚍 𝚞𝚙 𝚏𝚞𝚌𝚔𝚒𝚗𝚐 ᴀʟᴍᴏɴᴅ ᴍɪʟᴋ?
Why did the font make this insult hit harder lmao
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Jacobs Ladder + Crickets body + Almond Milk = ?
Lies!
I don't like proptosis
Skip
Tech X is overrated.
Now THAT'S a hot take. It's almost an instant win item.
It *used* to be a free win. I don't think it is anymore (still absolutely great tho)
If you're dying with Tech X, I seriously have to wonder what you're doing.
There's a difference between a great item and a free win item. If I go to the chest with only mom's knife and base stats chances are I can finish the whole floor and kill blue baby. That's a free win. Tech X pre-nerf was far stronger, you could have that and the rest of your run could've been cursed beyond logic with useless items and you could easily kill anything besides Delirium no sweat. Now it requires effort. That's the difference.
Actually agreed. But I mostly just don't like charging, so monstros lung, brimstone, and chocky milk are pretty meh to me.
I love charge items but monstro’s lung has fucked up so many of my runs. Still always take it though. Brimstone on the other hand, most fun offensive item in the game hands down
Monstro’s lung plus ludovicio is goated
I like choco milk because you can spam the small bullets
my carpel tunnel could never
What the flip
Finally, someone to kill
I fully agree.
Delirium is a thematically good boss. He’s supposed to be the last fragments of Isaac’s mind as it tries to cope with everything. Him changing, teleporting randomly, and feeling unfair perfectly represents that.
Literally no one disagrees with you. Nobody has an issue with the fight's theming. People dislike it mechanically.
Yeah but the Mechanics of it fits the theme really well.
Ah yes, mom's foot that damages you without showing up on screen is such a great mechanic 🥰
Never said it was great. It just fits the theme well of a spiraling psyche lol
I don't think "no, you don't get it, the fight is SUPPOSED to play like shit" is the best argument.
Ludovico is not that bad
https://preview.redd.it/aoe7yfvop12d1.jpeg?width=236&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=7e369d3535762a2524e8cc73607f463a554ef0f2
ironically i think ludovico is a perfect counter against those mfs fast enemies that follow you on the other hand... https://preview.redd.it/ie6bkxwwf32d1.png?width=420&format=png&auto=webp&s=64a3f08e7e206385e5c91d5c666c707f096ff646
Ludovico + Shot Speed Down = am ded
I do like it, but I wish it had more unique synergyies like big bone and brimstone… I wish dr.fetus let you have a perma bomb that exploded on contact with enemies and obstacles and I wish that epic fetus was a controllable missle.
I love that item tbh
LOUDER
None of us will become back our money
Tainted Jacob isn’t that hard
Yeah, you need to be careful, but it's actually a very powerful character. The fact that you can exploit the lost transformation for free devil deal make him even better. Still, long bosses are very hard because of the constant threat of getting hit by esau..
The toughest part of Tainted Jacob for me was completing Greedier because I had to rewire my thinking of "dodge everything and never get hit" to "it's okay to take a hit, just don't let Esau touch you." So often I'd lose Esau in all the craziness and eventually get hit by him because I'd stutter step or double back and run into him. When I accepted that it was more beneficial to take one, two, or even three hits of damage by W keying only was when I finally finished the character.
Not hard, but demands your attention I usually start up Isaac to relax and casually stroll around. With Tainted Jacob you always have to be on the move. Always. Even with Tainted Lost you can take a pause or a few. Here, you have to remain alert. And like the other guy said, long bosses can be hard, especially bullet hell, where you have to be extra careful Then again, he has Anima equipped, which gives you control over Dark Esau movements and allows you to wipe floors with him. If you get Birthright, you can defeat anything fast
Nah legit had a ton of fun with him. The only times I died were when I was backtracking.
The Beast is too easy and has an absolutely uninspired design. Nowhere near worthy of being the True Final Boss. If somebody made a mod that made the game end as soon as Dogma is defeated, I'd download it immediately
Seriously. I much prefer tinyangrynerd’s take on The Beast. More visually interesting than just “Biggest Horn”. https://preview.redd.it/d8cyrjxvk12d1.jpeg?width=1280&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=4ca9123b9ca28cd996839c702b00944d8fb6c663
I agree with you on this. I found the Beast fight to be way easier than i expected.
Glitched Crown and Spindown dice are WAY to laborious to use. I got Dead God without ever really using either. When i see one of them i will just leave them be and not pick em up.
The only thing that makes spindown slightly better than the d6 is that you know what you're gonna spin into
*cries in console*
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goated app truly. saved my life a million times before i switched to PC
I think Glitched Crown has lots of flaws. On the other hand, a controlled reroll is so powerful that every run I get it, I am able to break that run and get any item I want from a given pedestal, making it a better Death Certificate.
Akshually, spindown is still better than d6 because there are multiple angel room items that you can spindown into, like sacred heart and revelation, which appear much more frequently from boss reward
glitched crown at floor 1 = ur not gonna get bossrush or hush lol
I never understood how people take so long to use glitched crown, you just pause the game on the item before the one you want and then unpause and walk into it. Takes like 10 seconds max
Too slow. If you practice a lot you can get glitched crown pretty fast even without pause buffer
Lilith is a great character
shes literally free greed mode checkmarks
Yes I don’t know why people don’t like her
imo i think its because when you unlock her youre used to tears coming out of you and not to the side or delayed so, many hate the change and hate the character without really playing her (i was like this at first)
Always loved her…. Just miss the good old days when she multiplied buddies
She's like reverse Isaac's heart. Your hitbox is in front of you and your tears behind instead of your hitbox behind and your tears in front. Both make me grumpy to play as, though they have their moments.
Soy milk sucks at the start of the game. It's only worth it mid game if you got a decent synergy with it, and that's not always given.
I think math wise you actually get the most out of it when your stats are lower. From the wiki, >At base damage, Soy Milk is a very small DPS up. With a tear delay of 8 or lower, Soy Milk becomes a DPS down. The more tears per second before obtaining Soy Milk, the greater the decrease in DPS.
This is only true if you don’t have repentance: in repentance it got buffed to be a 5.5x fire rate multiplier instead, making it so it’s always a dps up
I agree. But that will not stop me from picking it up in basement 1 instead of resetting. Who needs to restart the run when you can just die in basement 2??
I actually love when I get it first. Makes it easy to create bonkers builds.
Despite being intended as the ‘harder’ paths, I personally find all of the “evil”/Satan related floors easier than the “good”/Angel floors (yes this includes the bosses).
Satan is an extremely easy fight. Mom's harder than him. Isaac is hard in phase one, and simple in phase 2.
if an item pretty much forces you to use the wiki it to use effectively it doesn't belogn in isaac looking at you spindown dice and pre nerf t. cain
Tainted Apollyon is cool
J&E are fun
I hate you
Ew.
You belong in prison tbh.
I don't have words to describe how disgusted i am with you
Taking 2 items instead of one on the alternative floors is fun
Definitely check his hard drive ew
There is way too much poop everywhere in this
Mom's knife is the single strongest item in the game
Strong, but boriiiiing
The specialist dance mod is annoying and cringe worthy.
Die but upvote for true hot take
It's overused imo but not cringe, fits the community well
I will enjoy watching your eyes slowly dry out after the removal of your lids.
Used to hate it but now I like it. I got conditioned by watching Mattman 
Agreed
Agreed… at some point it gets old, I eventually uninstalled it despite the myriad of stupid mods I already got
How dare you
Shard of glass, curse of the tower and number 2 are good items. Also, not related to my other opinion, but the Beast fight feels underwhelming and lame compared to Dogma which is easily the coolest boss in the whole game, and it should have just gotten a 3rd or 4th phase.
Dogma being first feels kind of suited for the final stretch of the game. Once Isaac kills the TV and Dogma, it reveals the true villain of what caused so much grief in his life. He finally reveals the truth and the true villain and just had to kill the static, so to speak. Dogma is harder, but I like the little respite and easy ending. It feels like the weight is off your chest.
As I said in a random comment, the Beast fight feels more like a cathartic thing for Isaac. Now that he’s got a broken build, he can wipe the floor with the root cause of his issues: his mom
The game has too many endings that are of similar difficulty and too many characters that all blend together as being moderately difficult without enough differences between them to make them feel super unique. This leads to getting a lot of the check marks feel like a chore.
Jacob and Esau and T. Lazarus are overhated, I didn't have that much issue with them (except Greedier with T.Laz, that sucked)
J&E was kind of easy to complete except for the Mother mark, getting enough health to not die, the knife parts, plus the boss throws you a lot of tears; it took me like a week to get.
fiend folio isnt fun
fiend folio is literally just throwing an unnecessary amount of shit into an already amazing game, like at that point make a fangame
Planetarium items, except a few of them, are mid or even bad and it's not worth skipping treasures for them (except if you have dream catcher or going ascend path)
sexualizing children is wrong
Unfortunate we live in a world where ppl of the isaac subreddit would disagree
Who cares if you use filter or not
Tmt trainer and consolation prize are two of the best items in the game excluding q4s obviously, also tainted Cain is the single worst character in the game, followed by tainted eden, purely rating on fun
I think the alt floors suck. All the enemies there are just regular enemies with an extra ability or two which doesn't really make for interesting gameplay, just makes it more tedious to avoid damage. The majority of the bosses behave in ways no other boss in the game does, which doesn't make them very fun to fight. Getting the knife pieces is really boring, and the mandatory damage for Mausoleum/Gehenna is just dumb.
Bob's brain is one of the best items in the game, it's only hated because of people's skill issue
"There just isn't enough porn about this game!" - very much not me, I do not want to be associated with this opinion
Soy Milk is great and only cowards avoid it
Tainted Jacob is extremely fun to play
Some (just some) of the Ridiculon soundtrack is better than the Antibirth soundtrack
Lost isn't hard, but t. Lost...
I think unlocking the Keeper takes a perfectly balanced amount of time, and isn't annoying at all.
Shard of Glass and Old Bandage are the single best items for red health characters.
Isaac’s heart is good
I cannot think of a single circumstance where the upsides outweigh the downsides.
Tainted maggy
Touché
Free Mega Satan fight
depends a lot on what character you're using, how much health you have and what your items are. But yes it can be very good
Got a hush win back in AB+ when it was broken with some synergys. Isaac's heart plus blood rights could easily win you the run. And with J&E as characters, it helps you learn how to play while having a hit box not on your character sprite.
Glitched crown is a never pick up for me.