Polaroid + Negative at same time? Forget me now ...

[chiya]

So I got Forget me Now in the boss rush - used it, floor re-started. Prior to this, I had picked up Negative. I thought for sure that beating Mom would give a normal item, but it presented me with the choices once again.

Now I'm kinda confused. Does that mean I could have negative + polaroid at the same time and have both of their effects while being free to go with either route?

I want to pick up Polaroid but I'm not sure if it'll ruin the run as I need to beat The Lamb in this run so I can't test it out unfortunately .. Apparently I'll just have two negatives then o.O

[Lital]

It would let you go either way with both options.

[Doniazade]

One small benefit would be having the Polaroid shield effect in Sheol/Dark Room, especially if you are playing ??? or otherwise have no reds. Or the Negative's room damage effect in Catedral/Chest of course.

[Luftwaffle]

It gives both procs and lets you go both ways. The advantage of this is going through sheol/dark room with the polaroid proc.

[chiya]

Thanks for the replies.

I actually found out this myself in a later run where I somehow - again - got Forget me Now in boss rush. The best part of this run was that when I re-did the Depths II, I did it so fast that I was able to enter Boss Rush .. AGAIN, and fight again for new items.

It only got better in the chest when I got Undefined and was able to enter I Am Error room four or five times - where each entry would reset the chest. Needless to say - most op run ever.

[bullex]

I've just had complete polaroid-ception :P My run was going well, I got mom's knife early, the wafer and overall, the ton of good stuff. And then magic happened :)

I got into Necropolis XL. In one of the item rooms I found Forget Me Now. And two rooms later I found reroll room with the number 5 (if you don't know what it does - forget me effect :). I grabbed one of those teleporting cards (the moon) and went to fight mom. I defeated her and I grabbed Polaroid. I teleported away, took Forget Me Now and went to 5 room.

It spawned me in Necropolis 1, so I defeated 2 floors and went to mom again. After killing her I took Negative. Then I used Forget Me Now :P

The third mom kill gave me the same damn options - either polaroid or negative :D So I took polaroid again and I went all the way down to finish the game.

Having both pictures is dope as hell, especially if you have only spirit hearts. It makes it so upon getting hit you gain both effects (polaroid shield + negative black heart damage)

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if you wanna redo it, here's the seed, I played as Cain