@dudeglove said:
how the hell can they squeeze more out of the flash port original? I thought Ed specifically said in that gamasutra interview that the game became highly unstable after a certain file size.
Also, no. Personally I thought WotL ruined the "original" Isaac. Adding anything more to that would be annoying.
Yeah, it kinda did ruin it. Or at least, it wasn't a great addition. Trinkets still seem lame and poorly implemented even in Rebirth, requiring you to keep platinumgod.co.uk open at all times. It's still poor design that a lot of the trinket effects are not immediately obvious and the game still gives poor hints as to what they do (even in Rebirth). I don't even understand why Cursed Skull and Umbilical Cord exist. Even in Rebirth, every Trinket is pretty meh, except some of the money ones are good, and then Cancer or Callus are OP as fuck.
Wrath of the Lamb diluted the boss item pool to the point that it's a joke. Yeah, thanks game, but Pageant Boy (here, have 6 coins) totally fucking sucks as a boss reward. It used to be that "range up" was a bad reward, but now there's all kinds of stupid garbage in there (mostly Pageant Boy and Box, though I still don't give a shit about "shot speed" as a stat so fuck every item that boosts that pointless attribute).
And the final bosses of the Cathedral and the Chest in Wrath of the Lamb ARE THE WORST BOSSES IN THE GAME. There is no interesting strategy to fight them, they're just autowin if you have a full fly shield, or they're slightly more annoying if you don't. Also the Cellar isn't even remotely balanced, because a room full of RNG dash spiders is like impossible to deal with quickly when you still have starting DPS, so hey, hope you like taking damage.
The free Halloween update that added Sheol and Satan into the original game was totally legit (and also added items like Brimstone, so that's awesome), but Wrath of the Lamb was so much more disappointing. With the release of Rebirth they fixed some of the glaring problems with Wrath of the Lamb, but I still think a lot of the game design work from Wrath of the Lamb is atrocious.
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