The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth

The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth

Agnis - The Extracorporeal [Rep/Rep+/AB+]
Brief thoughts
I must say, this is an excellent example of what can be accomplished with the modding tools. The concept is smashing, and I love it to bits. That being said... It's hard as hell. XP Though that probably goes without saying. There are a couple ideas I'd like to throw out (maybe for the easy-mode Agnis when and if that becomes a thing) that might smooth out the ridges a little bit.

For one - and I'm not sure if this is intentional or not, but I think it would be a lot more helpful if the Body benifited from Kamikaze immunity as well as the Soul. A few times now, I've had rooms with a BUNCH of enemies that chase you, and my first thought (or my panicked reaction from being cornered) is to bunch them all up, pop out Dark soul and immediately Kamikaze only to kill myself instantly. On this same note, the body sharing immunities in general would be nice, because I've gotten Pyromaniac with Agnis twice as well. The soul is immune to explosions. The body is not.

Another idea that's more steered towards easy Agnis is the souls (holy and dark) recieving either the Isaac's Heart effect, or at least Holy Mantle. One of the first things I tried when I used the mod is to use the soul as a shield and block off enemies from the body, and is something I find myself doing out of instinct every so often as well.

Again, these are just a few ideas of my own. Help yourself to them if you want. All in all though, keep up the good work. Can't wait to see where this and any other mod ideas you might have go in the future. This is certainly one of the best I've seen so far.
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JSG  [developer] 6 Feb, 2017 @ 6:29am 
Thanks for the detailed post and the kind words!, love to see some people are interested enough to make this kind of thing!.I'll try to answer to each of your points, sorry if i forget anything.

About the easy mode, to start, I'm planning on adding a Challenge called "The training of Agnis" (or something among the lines) which will be almost the same as the real thing except the body will take damage normally but you'll lose the soul form when it does (bringing you back to the body like when you use the ghostbook). Nothing is set on stone for the easy-mode but that's what i have in mind.

About immunities, yes, the body is intended to be fragile and die even if you have an item that makes you immune to explosions or if your soul is immune. When the soul leaved the body, it takes all the items (but the active) from the body, so it's implied that there would be no effects on the body.

About the Dark form "panic button", remember that the dark form also refunds bombs...if you are being chased by a huge mob horde, you can always leave a bomb to slow them down and turn Dark just before the bomb explodes (that would still refund the bomb ;) )

I hope you can continue to enjoy the mod and, yes, easy-mode will be a thing for sure, BUT that wont be the focus of the mod, just a plus.
JSG  [developer] 6 Feb, 2017 @ 8:40am 
Update: The easy mod "challenge" should be accesible already if you wanna check it out :)
Tigercup9 9 Feb, 2017 @ 2:51pm 
I think that the body should benefit from things like Pyromaniac. Kind of makes sense, and it would be nice to get some really good synergy items.. But hey, your mod, your call. And great job staying on top of the comments by the way. Looks like you're getting a lot of attention.
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