The Skeleton Key

[Ghenji]

So, I have beaten the game on easy a few times now, but every time I have been successful it was likely due to the Skeleton Key.

Its gotta be nerfed or something, I loved the fact it carries over to the next areas, maybe this was intended but its hugely OP just due to the fact that it opens ANY lock for free, and that includes the key sacrifice statues.

[Hazard]

this can go into the stupidly OP category along with ALOT of other items

Balancing is not the games strong point :(

[DonBerloni]

Some runs will be way easier than others based on combination of items.
Imo, the whole point of those games is to be able to never lose no matter the RNG ;) (suggested by streaks :shrug: ?)

[Hazard]

Originally posted by _leg0:

Some runs will be way easier than others based on combination of items.
Imo, the whole point of those games is to be able to never lose no matter the RNG ;) (suggested by streaks :shrug: ?)

Yes but when you literally cant lose a game it becomes very boring and having absolutely best in slot Items and game breaking items its not interesting.

[Syraniss]

I mean skeleton key certainly doesn't make a run an instant win, in fact on it's own it does exactly zero to prevent you from dieing.

Maybe I'm just terrible but the lack of invincibility frames means any run is one wrong step from ending no matter how much life and stuff you have.

[Ghenji]

Originally posted by Syraniss:

I mean skeleton key certainly doesn't make a run an instant win, in fact on it's own it does exactly zero to prevent you from dieing.

Maybe I'm just terrible but the lack of invincibility frames means any run is one wrong step from ending no matter how much life and stuff you have.

The reason I beleive it to be broken is because when you get a double treasure room and get Armour from the first one so that you only take 3 damage from the damage wall that you have to walk through to get the other chest, then open it up to get the BFG looking gun, open a few of those 3 luck chests that spawn in the same level and get multiple clip upgrades, open the library door and get raining gold, and then go to the shop and get multiple HP ups due to the extra gold you are accumulating from every room you beat. and even if you do take damage, you are taking half damage at this point. next level in the same run I got vamp health on hit, so from across the map im hitting everything and one shotting it while healing any miniscule damage.

I guess you could call that a god run, but damn looking back at how I got those Items, the skeleton key made that possible.

[Hipnox]

Skeleton key is not that useful on Odr actually considering how little he can actually use.

Also, while it is a powerful item the existence of the slot machine, which have a tendency to spit out keys, make it less useful.

There are a lot of items I'd rather see in a box over the skeleton key to be honest