u/ZarroRaptor

Life-hack for getting better at the game: start your next run right before you hop off for the night

Life-hack for getting better at the game: start your next run right before you hop off for the night

If you’re too Binding of Isaac-brained like me, try doing this to frame the game to be even more of a skill-based casino rogue-like adventure.

Are you about to take a break for the day?

Hold on for just a minute - assemble your team, select a chapter, then save and quit.

Later, the next time you boot up the game, look at your team comp and recall what exactly your intended win condition was the last time you played the game.

Imagine your understanding of the game’s mechanics and challenges as a muscle that needs to grow.

Reviewing your team again with a fresh mind will allow your brain to exercise how quickly you can identify what win conditions fit the run.

This has helped me sharpen my understanding and confidence in the game, especially in knowing just how well-equipped my cats are for a chapter.

Especially for when I ran into the Crazy/Impossible mode difficulty spike.

I hope this simple practice can be beneficial to you, whether you have 10 hours or 500 hours.

Edit: sorry, now that I think about it I consider including the name of chapter 3 in the pic to technically be a spoiler.

Edit 2: here’s one more thought I had that I think is relevant to this post.

We can give each other advice all we like, but each player should acknowledge that every run is wildly different.

Every situation, every cat, every different team composition. It all reinforces the reality that this game is much more complicated and nuanced than we’d like to think.

And so, even though if I had my way I’d give every player the answer to every problem, know that, when given what options you have when considering the state of your household, and in considering how it will affect your household’s mutations and item economy, the solution will ultimately be up to you.

Only you will know best for yourself. And that is a great thing.

u/ZarroRaptor — 6 hours ago
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If I want to see my kitty cat again I’ll just close my eyes and dream 🎺🎶

I’ll dream he’s holding me in his big kitty arms

Keeping me away from all of life’s potential harms

u/ZarroRaptor — 1 day ago
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“Wait what my healers can’t keep up! What are you two doing?!”

Yoinked the background from a screenshot of a post on here from a month ago, anyone know the owner of the og post? Sorry in advance.

u/ZarroRaptor — 1 day ago
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Oppressing my rich ass neighbor once he’s sufficiently terrified of the horrors I inflict upon cats

u/ZarroRaptor — 1 day ago

Druid worried his heals can’t keep up with the greedy Necromancer’s multiple status effect build

u/ZarroRaptor — 2 days ago

2036 chillin with your family but you remember losing to last boss on Impossible due to a misclick

(even though you were lowkey cooking him in the first half)

u/ZarroRaptor — 2 days ago

My jam’s on but I go somewhere on the map and it changes to this so I lowkey have a panic attack

All credit goes to u/maniaman1993 for the original post

u/ZarroRaptor — 3 days ago

No I didn’t stun him. It’s gonna have to be you. They’ve got me slowed and they’re going to kill me-

FIGHTER DO IT NOW

DO IT

DO IT FAST

DO IT FIGHTER

DO IT

u/ZarroRaptor — 3 days ago
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My Cleric when I consider using my damage carry as healer instead of him on my way to the Desert

“Tell me. When a cat moves to a tile adjacent to Gein, he uses his meat cleaver and inflicts them with…what debuff exactly? Because I forget. And if a downed cat were zombified by Morana, then how can we purify it when your only cleanse is Transcend? Because I forgot.”

“Come on, help me out, PROFESSOR!”

u/ZarroRaptor — 3 days ago
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Edmund letting controller players access the inventory menu during Level Up but not Events or Shop

Insane mode already been dog walking me damn near every day of the month. Lemme double check to see if my trinkets and items suck ass so I can replace them.

How tf do I forget what they’re wearing as soon as they pull up to a no menu area.

Edmund, you little fucker.

Edit: it’s all players, not just controllers.

I will become back my money.

u/ZarroRaptor — 4 days ago
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Realizing I can’t win on the last turn of Round 1 but can win on the first turn of Round 2

u/ZarroRaptor — 4 days ago