The Devil’s in the Details

a few weeks back i talked about some minor but important changes in rebirth, one of them being able to empty your pockets by holding the map button… well this extra button has more than a few uses.. but first lets reveal a new item (yet another store exclusive) The Starter Deck.

The Starter Deck allows you to carry 2 cards with you at all times, generates a card on pickup and makes it so from then on pills no longer appear. this item combos well with a few other new items in the game, but really im just using this item as an excuse to show a few new aspects of the game.

In this gif above you can see me generating a 2nd card via the “deck of cards” then using the map button to switch through what active card i’d like to use. the same system is applied to pills as well.

if you pay closer attention youll notice that when i press the map button you will also see my current play time (wip) as well as info on my active card.

Item info was something ive gone back and forth on for awhile while deving rebirth… i had designed isaac to be a mystery, i enjoyed the fact that players had to experiment and remember what items did in order to use them well enough… sadly a large majority of people dont experience the game like this due to the wiki or being spoiled by lets players.

i wanted to make a logical choice with rebirth that acted as some kind of middle ground for people, so ive decided to add “cryptic” info on all items in the game, including cards. at this point there are twice as many items in the game as before and i think it’s pretty illogical for me to expect players to remember them all, i think the added info will hint at what items do before they are used and possibly spark their memories if they find them again in another play through.

hidden aspects of items will remain, as you can see the jokers info is just ??? so dont go in thinking all the mystery will be gone.

oh also heres a little main menu (wip) options tease for those of you who keep asking if we will support XYZ

i think maybe next week its time for some 60fps video… these gifs just aint cutting it anymore.