Getting back into the game, DLC play order?

[Edible]

Hey guys!

I have played Rebirth and a bit of Afterbirth, i got like ~350 hours.
Thing is, the last time i played was like 2018 i think.

So since then, the game got 2 new DLC's (i own them all), and i wanna 100% the game so here is my question:
Should i play with all the DLC's active or should i do it incrementally like:
100% Rebirth -> 100% Afterbirth -> 100% Afterbirth+ -> 100% Repentance

Or maybe a mix like: Rebirth + Afterbirth + Afterbirth+ ---> Repentance

The main reason wondering this is because maybe some achievements that are designed for older expansions will be a lot more harder to obtain with the some of the DLC's active.

For an example "real platinium god" - because of the item pool that got bigger it will be harder to find the items for that original achievement.
Or maybe the "take no damage on floor X", as i've heard the overall difficult of the game got increased.

[Mantosasto]

Whatever you do, unlock Godhead (if you don't already have it) in Afterbirth, so you don't have to deal with the harder bosses to get it. (Or base Rebirth if you're ok with that version of the Lost).

[UwU]

Oprindeligt skrevet af Mantosasto:

Whatever you do, unlock Godhead (if you don't already have it) in Afterbirth, so you don't have to deal with the harder bosses to get it. (Or base Rebirth if you're ok with that version of the Lost).

But whats the difference if he wants to 100% a game? He still needs to beat everything with The Lost either way.

OP, most of the staff doesnt really matter. Even yours examples, real platinum god works different now and you just need to get an amount of items that was in ab+, those items can be even from repentance (and even with that, there's a new 100% achievement now). Or take no damage staff, you're gonna get them in repentance either way cause there's a new character in repentance that dies in one hit and can't get a respawn items (almost).

So I'll recommend to play with repentance. You're also gonna play with a new difficulty from the beginning instead of adapting to it later (which was a big problem for an old players when rep came out)

But if there's some specific items that you want to unlock earlier then its another story. But you'll need to give some examples cause it depends on unlocks itself. Some got easier, some not.

[Mantosasto]

Yeah, but he can have it through the completion process and maybe use it against the bosses that lock it in the DLCs for a little dosage of irony :P