It's me or the game is harder in repentance ?

[Overtek]

So i'm "new" to Isaac (I only have 42 hours). I start Isaac a long time ago but recently go into the game when I bought the two dlc. It was fine and I could beat It Lives easily and access to the church and sheol with almost all my hearts and I beat the run a few time.
But with repentance I can't win. After Uteros I can't find red heart, soul heart or even black heart (only pieces but tf I can't do anything with that) so I die.
I know I need to not get hurt but I never find any hearts (or HP up) so it's hard.

I don't feel a progression for myself. Perhaps i'm very bad but when I bit It Lives the game become not funny at all.
I don't know what can I do, if the game is harder than ever or if my destiny is to die

[WitchAmy]

Yes, the game is harder, as it should be. The difficulty of AB+ was at laughable state. I suggest playing on normal mode, because in Repentance the difference between normal and hard is actually noticeable. If you can't make progress even on normal mode, maybe this DLC isn't for you yet (at least until your skill gets better).

[Cryten]

I must suck because I found the low heart droprate of hard in afterbirth inhibiting. But then I found delirium to be over whelming in bullet spam.

[11clock]

Normal Mode is the same difficulty as before as of the 4.0.1 patch. Hard Mode received some significant buffs in difficulty.

I recommend moving back down to Normal Mode to build up experience.

Or don’t bother with hard mode at all because it sucks and isn’t worth the few meaningful unlocks it has.

[V4.Skunk]

Yes there are far less good items in a run.

[Bansheebutt]

Harder, but a hell of a lot more consistent and fair.

Hard Mode itself is also distinctly harder than Normal now because of increased projectile speed.

The only changes to red hearts is that they no longer have a reduced drop chance in Hard Mode.

[Man of Culture]

Yeah all the HP related changes were adjusted back to what it was before the DLC came out. You may have just had bad luck. But yes the game is harder now. Only takes a few dozen runs to adjust though.

[Ayaguna]

I would say its better balanced and improved, sure its harder but many items got reworks and are better too.