Bloody Mary

[RZA]

Is this challenge suppose to be creative and not frustrating? All the challenges I played so far (Scat man, Isaac's Awakening, Seeing Double, Cattripped!) all had some form of creativity or purpose to them. Scat man, Cantripped!, and Isaac's Awakening show off new concepts to the game. While Seeing Double gives the player the disadvantage of double enemies, but the advantage of 20/20 and free secret rooms. BUT BLOODY MARY DOESN'T DO ANY OF THIS. It gives the player no item rooms and only gives you boss items/deal items. It damages the player on the beginning of each floor, down to only half a red heart. The benefit of extra damage from the challenge item doesn't help either, since it will not stop you dying. Overall, I think this challenge is pretty out of place compared to the other ones. Idk maybe I'm just bad at the game.

[Myst3ry X]

it's purist, but harder
simple

[orian34]

Originally posted by Myst3ry:

it's purist, but harder
simple

Except you get stupidly high damage output

[jayhena]

and a ton of procs of "on hit received" items every floor, old bandage, fanny pack and such give back some red hearts on new floors etc

[orian34]

Originally posted by jayhena:

and a ton of procs of "on hit received" items every floor, old bandage, fanny pack and such give back some red hearts on new floors etc

Just do not take curse of the tower, for the love of mary

[Amble]

I found it pretty interesting, the whole gimmick of gathering up HP to get a huge damage bonus on the next floor and trying to find a heart as quickly as possible at the start of every floor. It was fun and intense even if not as creative as the others.

[BreakMan]

I see a lot of people complaining about this challenge. for me it was fun because I beated it on my first try. I guess that if you don't want to start every floor as the t.lost try to find hematemesis, temperance, the sun or this heart container spacebar thing that I don't remember

[MerseyRockoff]

Originally posted by orian34:

Just do not take curse of the tower, for the love of mary

Do the bombs stack for every red heart container taken? lol

[orian34]

Originally posted by MerseyRockoff:

Originally posted by orian34:

Just do not take curse of the tower, for the love of mary

Do the bombs stack for every red heart container taken? lol

Yes it does...

[kone]

Just reset until you get Old Bandage from the first boss room if it's too much. I think starting each floor with some beefy damage and tension is more fun than most challenges.

[orian34]

Originally posted by kitten exterminator:

Just reset until you get Old Bandage from the first boss room if it's too much. I think starting each floor with some beefy damage and tension is more fun than most challenges.

An easier lost, basically

[Calamity Heart]

The challenge is supposed to be a challenge, is my assumption.

Some challenges are creative and weird, some are funny and easy, and some are just challenging. This one is clearly the latter.

[jayhena]

Originally posted by Calamity Heart:

The challenge is supposed to be a challenge, is my assumption.

Some challenges are creative and weird, some are funny and easy, and some are just challenging. This one is clearly the latter.

red redemption had a way better balance between gimicky and challenging, this one is pretty limited by what the game gives you, sometime, even with the heart trinket, you just barely get any hp drops, and next floor you just lose all your damage, something more reliable like isaac's fork, or something like maggy's faith to help you build max hp would be better imo