Got golden god, not sure how though

[Sargoth 01]

I just finished up a run and unlocked golden god unexpectedly. I have all of the achievements except the "I have lost my head too many times" and Spelunker/Dark/Mammas Boy achievements. This run I picked up the Halo which was my second to last item I needed (pinking shears being the last). I assumed you needed all of the items and secrets to achieve golden god but I am missing 1 item and 4 secrets still, even though it says 60/63 secrets found (unless pinking shears isn't a secret).

I am just curious to know if this is some kind of glitch or if maybe it just unlocked prematurely. I am also wondering if I should go ahead and install WotL (a friend advised I should hold off installing it) or if I should keep fighting for the xxx Boy achievements before doing so. Does platinum god require those achievements?

Also any tips for those pesky achievements would be great to. I have been running around with Isaac and the D6 with mixed results, though I have come close to getting each of those achievements on multiple occasions but always seem to screw it up in the end. I know most of it just comes down to luck of the build, but hey anything could help.

I appreciate the advice with this matter, its great and all that I got GG but I want to know that I earned it proper.

[JCM Indeed]

The game only requires that you get all but one of the items to unlock the Golden Boy achievement. I believe it was because the amount of items required to unlock the achievement wasn't updated when the x-mas update came out that added in the Krampus boss and the coal item. Because of that, you can get the lump of coal item and miss one other item to unlock the achievement.

The same thing goes for the secrets. There are technically 64 secrets in the regular game, even though it says there are 63. Unlocking the pinking shears does count as a secret, so your missing that one and the Spelunker/Dark/Mamma's Boy secrets.

I believe the Platinum God achievement works the same way, in that it only requires you to only get all the items that are on the collection screen to unlock it, and that you don't have to get all of the secrets or trinkets.

WotL makes the game easier in my opinion. While the DLC does include harder varieties of enemies and bosses, quite a few of the items are very over powered. Once you get used to the new enemies and bosses, I would imagine it would be easier to get those achievements in WotL rather than in the regular game (although I haven't tried to go for these achievements myself). The XL maps could also make getting these achievements easier too, since both bosses will be right next to each other. You would only have to go through one level instead of two go get to the bosses (although the XL maps can be quite big), or even better just use the Emperor tarot card to warp to the boss and defeat them both in a row to get the achievement.

[Sargoth 01]

Thank you for the clarification JCM, I am a late adopter to BoI and wasn't aware that krampus and the lump of coal were added later to the game. I have been looking at the wiki going through some of the WotL items and I think you're right about a few of them being a little op. I think I am going to go ahead and install WotL now and hope that I will still be able to (eventually) get those achievements.

[HSpthom]

This happened to me with the forget me not.