The Binding of Isaac: Difference between revisions

* [[Evolving Weapon]]: The Cube of Meat, an item that only drops from The Harbinger bosses. Every cube you get increases how effective the powerup is. It also reminds one of [[Meat Boy|a certain skinless boy]] after the second cube.

* [[Exploding Barrels]]: Wooden barrel variety.

* [[Gainax Ending]]: All the endings except the first, "Epilogue". The general format is: Isaac beats Mom, goes {{spoiler|inside her womb}} for two more levels, and kills {{spoiler|Mom's Heart}}, which drops a giant chest. Isaac opens this chest and finds an item which will be available next game, which he is unduly excited about, and optionally something bad happens to him. Especially notable for [[Mind Screw]] is the "Everything's Terrible!" ending, where {{spoiler|Mom's arm pops out of a chest and drags him in. Yes, her arm popped out of a chest ''in her own womb.''}} No resolution of the plot from the introduction actually occurs. For that matter, the intro plot and normal ending combined make up a story that doesn't really fit with the rest of the game.

** The "final" ending from the update turns this [[Up to Eleven]].

*** ''Wrath of the Lamb'' introduces the Prayer Card, which is the Book of Revelations on steroids. Instead of soul hearts, it gives eternal hearts, a new heart type introduced in the expansion. What do eternal hearts do? They're similar to soul hearts, except you can only have one-half of an eternal heart at a time... because if you get two halves of an eternal heart, or complete a level with half an eternal heart, it becomes ''a new [[Heart Container]]''. Prayer Card and the Battery can let you break the game wide open.

*** Another WOTL blatant game buster is the Nun's Habit. It charges up your current item by 50% when you suffer damage, giving you a new use every two hits received. Sounds nice and all, but then you pick Maggy's Yum Heart, which restores a whole heart, or the Book of Revelations, and you become virtually inmortal all the way to the {{spoiler|Womb}}, since most hits drain a half of a heart. Add the Wafer item on top of that, which reduces all damage to 1/2 heart, and you have legitimately enabled godmode.

** This ultimately culminates in an episode with [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i2cN4DkEQEE co-commentary] by [[Word of God|Edmund McMillen]]

* [[Losing Your Head]]:

*** [[Fridge Horror|They could be]] {{spoiler|stillbirths which Issac's mom kept and gave names. This is something that really happens and it's every bit as horrible as it sounds.}}

** The other characters being alter-egos of Isaac -- he is so lonely he has to make them up in the first place.

* [[X Meets Y]]: ''[[The Legend of Zelda (video game)|The Legend of Zelda]]'' meets ''Super Meat Boy'' meets ''[[The Bible]]''... In [[Roguelike]] style!

** Alternatively, ''[[The Legend of Zelda]]'' meets ''[[Diablo]]'' meets ''[[Invader Zim]]''.