Before it comes up, I know that there is another playthrough of this game here, but the person doing it mentions wanting to see a blind playthrough. Also, that one seems kinda...dead. So lets start. From what I've heard, this game is a brutal shooter/roguelike with a story that punches you straight in the heart, so it sounds right up my alley. The intro gives me hope that this is all true: Never name your kid Isaac, it doesn't end well. That, and don't listen to the voices in your head that demand that you murder your child. After that, we get to the start screen. Poor kid, he's had a rough day. The stat screen has a handy way to keep track of all the times I'll be dying while trying to take screenshots (and not because I suck. Remember that, I'm awesome at everything and none of these deaths will be my fault) and clicking start takes us to a character select screen. Our choices are Isaac and some locked characters with assorted biblical names. Since there's only the one unlocked choice, I go with Isaac and the game begins. Isaac immediately and endlessly begins to weep at the sight of a tutorial. I waited for about 5 minutes and he never stopped crying. You really gotta get over it Isaac, sometimes life hands you lemons and sometimes you escape your homicidal mother by jumping down a trap door in your room straight into hell. That's just the way the world is. I press the right arrow and he apparently attacks by... Flinging his tears at people. That's pretty gross, dude. The minimap says I can go left, down, or up, so I choose left. No matter how many tears he flings at this treasure, it never opens. Screw it, may as well check the upper room. That's...pleasant. Isaac cruelly drowns the abomination in his tears. Perhaps it was a mercy. That golden door looks foreboding, so I decide to check the lower rooms first. Is that a fly? Gross! Unfortunately, I get hit for one heart while fumbling with my screenshots. It's only after this session that I learn how to take pictures without exiting the game. I take back what I said about the golden door. Lets go there instead. Might as well stop by the one room I haven't explored on the way back, though. If ever your tears have been justified, it's now. What's really nice is what happens after I take this screenshot (and lose two hearts in the process): Everything Isaac cries on explodes. Must have been a pain in the ass in the delivery room. Anyway, I finally get back to the golden door and find: A weird fetal ghost named Brother Bobby. He follows Isaac around and cries with him, so I'm going to call this a good thing. As I'm out of unlocked doors, I make my way down to the inviting skull door. I'm greeted by a boss battle screen. Not long after that, I'm greeted by this next screen. Shit. That's one death. Guppy is a rich cat now though, he gets all of Isaac's clothes possessions floating baby brothers. I promptly rush through the first level without screenshots, as I don't particularly want to die twice on the first level. This time, I'm greeted by Monstro rather than Gemini and get a crown of thorns that turns my tears to blood rather than Bobby. Monstro didn't do too well. Might as well save the game and quit while I post this... On second thought, I'll just minimize the screen. I also learned how to take screenshots without leaving the game, so now I have no excuses to rely on! ... ... I may keep using the method that leaves the game.
Lets go the second level of the basement, why not. There's significantly less blood in here than in the room I just left. Things are looking up for Isaac! Time to do some explorin'. Things are looking...less up. The jumping headless enemy thing on the right is trying to outdance Isaac, but Isaac breaks into a scared little jig and then murders everyone with bloody tears. Consider yourself served, jumper. Continuing on, there's this wonderful sight: Green lump takes a while to kill, but the other guys go down pretty quick. So, to the people who have played this before, my current theory is that That door with the swords over it calls to me. A test of combat prowess and strength is exactly what this weeping, innocent child needs right now. Inside I find: Rotten meat. Awesome. Also, three waves of enemies, one of which looked like rotten meat. Yay. Fun fact: That symbol on the machine doesn't mean you can buy hearts for cash. It means that it will pay you for your hearts. I learned the heart way. Ha ha, I'm here all week folks. Anyway, the room to the right leads to a hallway filled with cash. I figure that I may as well use these keys for something and unlock that door. Well, there's one decision that I immediately regret. Although it would be pretty great if every shopkeep in every rpg was this little dude. He's adorable, once you get past the noose and the terror. Isaac continues his explorations and finds An odd mushroom that expands his head and, like, his consciousness, dude. The bottom room turned out to have nothing but death (though it did lead to me realizing I could blow up rocks with bombs and going back to the hallway of cash to grab as much as I could), so I might as well fight the boss. Ever since I first read Dune, I've always wanted to ride a sandworm. Lets do this, Isaac! Okay, this is not going how I imagined it. First off, we're not on Arrakis. Secondly, I don't remember sandworms constantly bleeding and crapping everywhere. Seriously, how do they even have that much blood? Whatever, lets just finish this and gather up the loot it drops. And my broken dreams. O...kay.... That's good? You're looking really snazzy, Isaac. I'm just gonna go ahead and not think about the spiders and lipstick. Instead, I will bravely soldier onwards to the next basement level.
ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING ME Holy shit I love this game. Got Platinum God around six ago. You may want to switch to .jpg images, though, so as to not make this LP crashtastic for people with slow computers.
I was playing just now, I have the window minimized. I would take a screenshot of my Isaac, but if you're going blind it would be a pretty bad idea. Good luck with the momma killing!
Uuu I've been thinking of getting this game, but am afraid I'd not be awesome enough to actually be any good at it. Good luck~ I sure love games that make you feel bad for closing them. I'm fairly sure it's not a big step from programs going "Please don't leave me!" when trying to exit it to humanity getting enslaved by computers. I, for one, welcome our new future robotic overlords.
Apparently level 3 is where the monsters start to get a little disturbing. For example: The maggots unhinge their jaws like the world's slimiest snake and the atrocities in the corners shoot flies from their mouths. Fun fact- My uncle used to catch June bugs, put them in his mouth, and let them fly out at people on Halloween. It was...pretty gross. Isaac almost looks more confused than sad in this picture. Which is fair, because I'm not really sure what the fuck these are. A top of a skull that launches up to expose a blood shooting esophagus, perhaps? We'll never know, because they exploded before I could preserve them for science. Teddy Roosevelt would be ashamed. Anyone else thinking of Kuato from Total Recall right now? Because I am. I always am. ... ... Lets go shopping! You're looking a little down, friend. I bought the compass though, maybe that'll cheer him up. SWEET ZOMBIE JESUS!!! It's smiling at me. I swear to god, it's just standing there...smiling. Lets just go to the mini boss. Unfortunately for Wrath, I'm fucking awesome at Bomberman, and he goes down quick. I even gained some health during his fight! What a chump. Might as well see what the Room of Trials has to offer. Cool! Can I inject my enemies with poison now? No, it turns out I'm just patient zero. Don't use strange syringes, kids. Only non-boss room left is the treasure room, might as well check it out. That looks...useful? Is it a timed explosive? Awesome. I'm now a crying child cancer patient with a suicide vest. This game is just a ray of sunshine, isn't it. Fuck it, boss time. You're not gonna trick me again, worm. I know I can't ride you across the desert landscape, no matter how much I may want to. He's a pretty simple fight, just shoot him and make sure to cull the maggots he spawns every now and again. Loot time! Dude... That's just... There are better places to store that, Isaac. Fuck, man. Let's have some happy time music. Don't you feel a little better now?
I can tell that you're a fan of Team Meat and their offshoot's work, going by your avatar. I love their stuff, the music is always great too :D Also...
DannyB is awesome. AWESOME. I would love to do a SMB LP, but my computer would most likely die and I wouldn't know how to convey it's awesomeness either. :(
The only way to LP SMB would be to record videos of it. It's the only the way to convey the kinetic, frantic and insane nature of that game. And yes, DannyB is AWESOME.
I would recommend to watch FamilyJules7x's medleys of The Binding of Isaac (not to Failure Hero, though, since the music in the medley includes late-game themes and music from the expansion) and Super Meat Boy. It's basically DannyB gone METAL and it's amazing. You're making me want to play SMB again, Ravenholme. And my joystick broke down, so I'd have to go by keyboard. And you still make me want to play it. ;_;
Last update of the day! Alright. I've got 1 1/2 health, 4 doors, and a wire hanger through my head. Lets rock. These guys again. Mere road bumps on the highway to success. "But Failure Hero," you say. "Wouldn't a road bump on a highway be exceedingly dangerous?" Stop ruining my analogies, dick. Honestly, I'd rather have them screaming than smiling. If only I had some bombs to get through the rocks. Turns out that walking on spikes hurts. A lot. Whatever, half a health bar is enough to take out these clowns. What'd I tell you? Easy. 4 year old boy, stop pissing yourself and kill those horrible monsters. Didn't those video games prepare you for this kind of violence? Would've been nice if they dropped any health after I murdered them. Y'know, I've come to a conclusion. Isaac doesn't cry out of cowardice or grief over his situation. He cries for the foolish monsters that are sent in a hopeless battle against him. He weeps for the families of his doomed enemies. He- Shit, I died again. Where was I? Oh ya, Isaac's tears: MANLY AS FUCK.
I'm not going to ask why a the first thing a person would do, when encountering a coat hanger, is to shove it through his head. Maybe insanity does run in the family. Nice LP!
I lost it at the coat hanger. Dead baby comedy at its finest. To everyone who doesn't get the joke: you probably don't want to.
Aaaaaaaah Binding of Isaac! I love this game! I'm terrible at it, but I love it. Am I allowed tell tips or no? Because there is a lot of stuff you can easily miss in this game in this game.
Honestly, I'd prefer you didn't. Sort of defeats the point of a blind playthrough if I'm getting tips. Feel free to put whatever you want in spoilers though, I have self-control.
Let's Bind Isaac: Fashion Show Edition Pulling it off, Isaac. Pulling it off. Unfortunately, I died not long after this picture due to hubris. Also, a giant piss monster. But it's alright, because I find some far more stylish clothes on my next go through: He's gonna look so good. Awwww yeeaaahh. You are just rockin' that extra eye and women's underwear Isaac! The x-ray specs even let him find a couple secrets. Check 'em out: It's our old buddy sack-thing. And this time he isn't hanging from a noose or disemboweled! Things are definitely looking up for him. I'm sure that making a deal with the devil will go well for me. OH SHIT! WHERE DID YOU GO, ISAAC? You're uh...lookin' great man. At least you have a normal amount of eyes now? Let's see what other secrets we can find. Stop gritting your teeth, you'll get major dental problems down the road Crap, the Krampus! It's not even Christmas time, dude, and I'm pretty sure we're not in Austria. Those of you who have played this game before will have noticed that I had an extra life going into that battle. You will also be extremely angry at me for squandering it by rushing right back into the Krampus's dungeon and dying again. But he was so close to dying! So close.
I figure I should probably update this before I go camping on Saturday and forget about the whole thing, so here it goes. Wasn't the main dude in Avatar a spoon bender? I'm gonna be honest, I never watched that show. Homing shots sound fun though. This wasn't a particularly difficult room and I didn't get any item drops from it, but if I have to see a room full of decapitated amputee children then by god, so do you. Hey look, it's Gluttony! Because if there's one thing I think of when I think of eating to excess, it's shooting streams of blood from my stomach. He may be the Duke of Flies, but I'm the Archduke of Death! ... ... Of course, it's pretty hard to hit a guy who shoots out swarms of flies when your homing bullets keep going after his minions rather than him. So I died again. What, is he gonna talk to his dead grandma? Oh. At least he's not constantly crying anymore. Anyway, the boss of this floor was Monstro, and I don't think I've been hit by that cleft lipped jack ass since I started playing this game. He dropped something cool, though. Now Isaac can start a metal band! All he needs is a drummer, a guitarist, and a bassist. Close enough! Sister Maggy can dress as a heavy metal nun and play lead guitar. Later in the dungeon, I find the "number one" item. Let's see what that does. That's not helpful! That's not helpful at all! Sure I shoot faster, but I have to be right next to someone to hit them. This is gonna cripple me on bosses. Plus, you can't outpiss Peep. hooray. Coming up next time, I get to through the first five floors. Maybe. Probably not.
Meh. Once you've seen one room full of decapitated amputee anythings, you've seen them all. I love it how I have no idea how most of the stuff in this game even works, yet I'm still somehow drawn to stare more at the mutilated babies and gore and bodily fluids and and ooh it's almost like being home again~. Do the hanger and lipstick and demon horns etc do something or are they just cosmetic? or am I just too dumb to see the obvious effects they have on the game Also, I keep reading the name of this thread as Let's Blind: Isaac and find that awesome. Pretty sure the little guy would appreciate that in this situation.
