The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth

The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth

The Typing of Isaac!
pread 3 Dec, 2023 @ 6:27pm
feedback!
really, REALLY fun mod. i didn't expect to get as much fun out of it as i did. thanks a lot for making, would highly recommend.

since you asked some other people about balancing in the comments, i figured i'd put my personal two cents about it. i was gonna make this just a comment but then realized i had a lot more to say than i thought. do note that all of my feedback is based on gameplay where the player uses ONLY typing to attack, only reserving tears for things like destroying poops etc.

the biggest hurdle i ran into so far is the mom fight. as of now you can only attack her by typing when the foot appears, and not through her hands or eyes. juggling the enemies she spawns, dodging attacks, and typing 1-2 characters before her foot rises back up makes the fight way harder, and i can only imagine what mausoleum mom is like, lol.

i do like the idea of forcing the player to wait for the foot to do damage in the mom fight though, so i would personally make the foot take WAY more damage from typing to make the fight not last as long while still keeping that idea. i can see some other ways to make that fight easier too, like making the hands/eyes damageable by typing or making the foot stay down for much longer to allow for more letters to get in per attack.

another thing that stood out to me were globins. i absolutely love to hate globins and this mod reinforces that perfectly, though right now it seems like globin's words don't substancially get much shorter the more times you let them reform, unlike their max hp which decreases each time they reform, which has made them a lot more annoying than they may intend to be. since they appear in the mom fight this also makes that harder as well.

mausoleum/gehenna should probably be something looked over in general i think, if you haven't already. i haven't been there much with this mod but i can imagine it can get really bad with the cursed globins, vis versas, whippers/snappers, and mauso mom. also those cursed skulls that prevent you from shooting, idk if it applies to typing too but it should if it doesn't already because that sounds evil and i like that.

finally i found gazing globins and crazy long legs to be perhaps a bit too difficult to deal with. both of them are hyper fast enemies that chase the player down and are supposed to be knocked back with tears normally, though i wouldn't mind if they're unchanged, just something i noticed.

thats about it, thanks for making this mod! i liked it enough to write all of this so im sure that's worth something. have a good one.
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Poondaedalin  [developer] 11 Dec, 2023 @ 3:10pm 
Sorry for taking so long to see this! Steam doesn't ping me when someone makes a new discussion post, so I didn't see this for a few days.

I poked through Gehenna to make sure the enemies weren't too overwhelming, and they're fine... I think? I can't say for certain, since I haven't gone to Gehenna outside of a Beast run in almost two years, but I tested the enemies individually and they seemed fine enough. It's a late-game area, so if nothing else, you could probably use bombs to deal with some of the more problematic enemies without typing, but maybe that's a moot point.

Onto the actual changes based on your feedback, though:
- Mom's doors can now be attacked with typing (the fact that you couldn't before was by accident, to be perfectly honest)
- Typing a word now does a lot more damage to Mom in general
- Globins are now instantly killed by typing, instead of being reduced to goo
- Globins and Crazy Long Legs are now pushed back a little bit more by typing
- Cursed Death's Heads now hide the text, since I agree that it would be funny

Thanks so much for your feedback!
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