Synergy issues - Let me complain

[Lockdown]

This game has a MASSIVE pool of items, and it is VERY hard to know every single combination and possible synergy. I wish this game provided more clarity on the implications of taking certain items - some items just straight up cripple you.

I'm doing the Blue Bomber challenge and I come to a devil deal room with Brimstone. I love brimstone! It's my favorite item so naturally I want this. It costs me 3 blue hearts (I have 5) and it takes me down to 2.

It does NOTHING. I affects NOTHING. I can't shoot anything and my attack mechanic hasn't changed at all. WTF???????? This run is now basically forfeit. How the hell am I supposed to know it won't do anything? If I don't look everything up every time there is no way to figure anything out. The items have no descriptions

So ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ annoying

/rant

[Phrixscreoth]

If I recall correctly, in Blue Bomber you can't fire tears. Brimstone is a tear effect. I can understand not knowing how, say, Dr Fetus interacts with dramatic tear altering effect like Mom's Knife or Ludivico Technique and getting burned trying to stack them... but the challenge doesn't let you use tears at all, neighbour.

The game is designed around experimentation- that's why certain items have actual effects with others, why your progress moves the way it does, and why the items descriptions tend to be vague or outright riddles. It's about learning and failing and learning some more until you understand how the game works well enough to get to the end.

[Bite]

It's simple, if you can't shoot, you can't use anything that comes out of your character as a tear.

Also, it's better to experiment things by yourself, you'll eventually learn all the tricks to the game, to the point where you realize that Brimstone + Tammy's head = total destruction in every room even if you're blindfolded.

Honestly, just experiment as you go, the game isn't designed to be beaten in a fast way, you're supposed to take your sweet time, and learn what every item does by yourself, it's wonderful, really. :) Some synergies are just hilariously good/bad/horrible/unexpected.

[EnafAequi]

There is a wiki damit, every single piece of ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ information is on it

[Phrixscreoth]

Originally posted by EnafAequi:

There is a wiki damit, every single piece of ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ information is on it

Part of his rant sepcifies that he doesn't want to have to do this in order to understand how things influence other things.

[Phaper]

I sympathize.

After getting some runs screwed up by really bad items (Soy Milk, Ludovico, Cursed Eye, etc), I took to checking what an item was in the wiki before taking it every single time.

But that's not much fun.

[YipYapYoup (QC)]

Well it's your own fault for taking a tear effect in a blindfolded challenge...

[McKnuckles]

Originally posted by Phrixscreoth:

Originally posted by EnafAequi:

There is a wiki damit, every single piece of ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ information is on it

Part of his rant sepcifies that he doesn't want to have to do this in order to understand how things influence other things.

But if they just took out the description, and just told you exactly what each one did when you picked it up, I think it would sort of take away from the game some. As some of the fun is learning/memorizing what the things do.

[wckowalski]

Originally posted by Bite:

It's simple, if you can't shoot, you can't use anything that comes out of your character as a tear.

There's at least one exception. Epic Fetus overrides being blindfolded.