Malcufious
10-06-2011, 12:46 PM
I've been trying multiple runs with Magdaline, and yet I've never beaten the game with 'her', because I simply can't damage enemies fast enough before her speed lets her down and she gets killed via contact damage, or can't kill a tough enemy before it kills me.
In each playthrough with the character, I have yet to find more than one single damage boost for the Tears. No chocolate milk, no Pentagram, no Belial book, nor damage-boosting pills, anything I seem to find is either increasing tears, or their range. Any passives or activated items are questionably useful (Lemon Mishap, Teleport!, Battery etc).
If the boss isn't one of the Horseman, it's a heart container item such as the <3 or Breakfast, increasing Magdaline's life. It allowed me to take a liberty with Baphomet and get a Lucky Foot in one instance, but this didn't help much, I got pennies, bombs and keys sure, but yet no actual damage-boosting anything. The merchants have been useless in playthroughs with Maggy as well. Such as giving me Soul Hearts or keys and bombs when there was plenty already in my inventory, or a Map when I already had XRay specs to find the secrets.
Beggar Children take a good 20 Pennies before giving me anything, and it's much more cost effective for me to just blow them up, as well as the Arcade junk as it'll be a source of hearts and such.
So I'm asking, is Magdaline supposed to be low-speed and low-damage, with lots of life to survive, or is this simply the game going out of the way to spite me? It feels like spite, as I eventually got to the last level, only to die one room before the boss because of the sheer number of everything ever.
I've played through with Isaac, Judas and Cain, and it was a whole lot easier, Cain in particular...Who I'm using now instead of Magdaline, as getting repeated runs with lack of damage to keep up with the increase in colored alternates and later bosses is quite a problem. I just died to Monstro II in The Depths 1 because of it.
In each playthrough with the character, I have yet to find more than one single damage boost for the Tears. No chocolate milk, no Pentagram, no Belial book, nor damage-boosting pills, anything I seem to find is either increasing tears, or their range. Any passives or activated items are questionably useful (Lemon Mishap, Teleport!, Battery etc).
If the boss isn't one of the Horseman, it's a heart container item such as the <3 or Breakfast, increasing Magdaline's life. It allowed me to take a liberty with Baphomet and get a Lucky Foot in one instance, but this didn't help much, I got pennies, bombs and keys sure, but yet no actual damage-boosting anything. The merchants have been useless in playthroughs with Maggy as well. Such as giving me Soul Hearts or keys and bombs when there was plenty already in my inventory, or a Map when I already had XRay specs to find the secrets.
Beggar Children take a good 20 Pennies before giving me anything, and it's much more cost effective for me to just blow them up, as well as the Arcade junk as it'll be a source of hearts and such.
So I'm asking, is Magdaline supposed to be low-speed and low-damage, with lots of life to survive, or is this simply the game going out of the way to spite me? It feels like spite, as I eventually got to the last level, only to die one room before the boss because of the sheer number of everything ever.
I've played through with Isaac, Judas and Cain, and it was a whole lot easier, Cain in particular...Who I'm using now instead of Magdaline, as getting repeated runs with lack of damage to keep up with the increase in colored alternates and later bosses is quite a problem. I just died to Monstro II in The Depths 1 because of it.