Mom's VA does vocals (and violins!) (you can hear her doing both in Ultra Death's fight too!) on some of the mewgenics songs and she is sooooo good. I'd like to imagine in-game mom shares this talent. Imagine her going crazy in the gospel choir
MEWGENICS SPOILER FREE, I'm talking about stuff from the trailer that came out 10 months ago. This is an Isaac theory post no kitties here
The trailer that has the little reference "in other ghastly news, the mother of that child that went missing a few years back is also missing." has been fucking me up since the day it came out and I should've written this down way earlier to get it out of my brain but MAN.
Isaac is considered missing? Not dead? What does this mean... i mean the lil dude is dead as hell we know this but the authorities don't know?
Did mom genuinely think he was just missing? How long did it take for her to find his body? Was she trying that hard to find him? Oh my sweet little deplorable woman... you were trying.......
There's tons of missing posters of Isaac in mewgenics... It's hard to tell what's just Edmund being referential sometimes though. None of Mag which I think is pretty funny though lmao fuck her nobody gaf but THE SEARCH FOR ISAAC IS STILL ONGOING? THE PUBLIC STILL BELIEVE HE'S OUT THERE OR DON'T KNOW WHAT HAPPENED?
The ending where mom finds and opens the chest to find isaacs skeleton... + In the beast ending too he's a skeleton at that point... I'm going to assume that it's real and she really did take that long, long enough for it to COMPLETELY DECOMPOSE, to find him so he could easily have been "missing" for a really long time. But even after that, he is still officially missing? She didn't tell anyone what she found
Enter, THE FORGOTTEN. You unlock it with mom's shovel right??? MOM'S. this bitch hid the evidence. She buried him herself without telling anyone. I am thinking so many thoughts about this. Was she being selfish and worried she would be blamed because her neglect and abuse would come to light? Could she not accept it and hid it from her own sight so she could keep believing he was out there, actively encouraging others to keep searching if there's still posters years later in mewgenics' time? Was the burial out of love for him? Was she simply too distraught to admit it to the world? ...is his dad still out there wondering what happened to his son?
Of course all the stuff in tboi is in his head so it's kinda hard to say what's real but. Yknow. How does Isaac know this would happen in the future to know about the shovel? Ummmmmmmmm. Edmunds games simultaneously have some of the greatest stories yet make no sense at all don't ask me.
My poor awful piece of shit human being. maggy i hate u but they could never make me not love you. 💞💞💞💞💞💞💞💞
I need to make a mewgenics blog before I start rambling too hard on here about a separate game. I will try my best to stfu but I got like a bunch of shit spoiled (which I will not say, keep reading don't worry) from the dreaded short form content world and my brain is going into overdrive is all I can say. I'm mad at people making no attempt to give spoiler warnings but also I doubt I would've had the restraint to play what's going to easily be a 500hr game for me (only tactics game I've played is pmd and I had to rely on save states to win. I just also don't particularly enjoy the genre but my play time disagrees) without peeking at spoilers. also I need to look at fanart to live I was going to come across something eventually
Also giggling really hard at some people's hcs and ocs oh you are going to be SO disappointed by the credits.
But also how the fuck did people immediately get to the credits how cracked are you
most hated tboi item, and how would you change it?
3 dollar bill: Grants 2 random tear effects that change every 2-3 seconds. Sounds pretty good, but it is the wiz in fruit cake's clothing. Just remove Wiz.
I kind of got carried away so that is the TLDR. I'm hiding the rest of this under a cut. Long post alert
I absolutely despise 3 dollar bill because every time I see it I am naive enough to give it a second chance. It is so deceiving. I go, oh, random tears, this will be fun ! :D then I get hit with the wiz-ification beam in the worst room you have ever seen and die miserably because I can't fend off the 20 million spiders chasing me.
But doesn't that make the Wiz a worse item you say? No. I can tactfully take Wiz on the rare runs where it combos nicely with something else (tech 0, or since it's basically a 2x fire rate its good with homing which negates the downside, also genuinely AMAZING with csection) and leave it every other time. Same goes for all the other deliberately bad items. I can ignore them on the 99% of runs that they suck on. But 3 dollar bill isn't like that, it is worse because it is JUST good enough for me to pick it up despite the fact I know it will screw me over. I CAN'T ignore it when I see it. It always draws me back in. The next time I see it I will ignorantly pick it up, hesitating a little because I remember what happened last time, but stubbornly believe that just this once it'll be fine. But it won't be. It will always come back to bite me in the ass. It cunningly lies in wait; Waiting for THAT room to Wiz me and strip me of my foolish glory. 3 seconds of pure helplessness and it's all over. And on the runs where I get all the good synergies that negate the occasional Wiz of pain and suffering the upsides of this item dont even make that much of a difference overall. Its not even that good.
All it needs to be good is for the wiz effect to be removed from effect pool it pulls from. Please.
Also... I don't have nearly as many but I have some choice words for Odd Mushroom (thin) +1.7 tears. +0.3 speed. -0.4 damage. ×0.9 damage multiplier. It can quickly get you off to a powerful start at the beginning of a run but by the time you get to the end you've usually hit the tears cap several times over and are still getting tears up items, but that damage multiplier sticks around and it HURTS. I mostly hate it just because it shows up constantly and wastes space for what could have a good item because I never take it. Change the tears up to a fire rate up or multiplier, boom, fixed
I hate a lot of boring familiars and those lame mom themed stat ups (PLEASE I DON'T NEED RANGE), there are just too many and they saturate item pools. They don't need to be individually improved there just needs to be less of them. The issue isn't the items themselves it's just the number of them that is. Unless I'm playing Lilith in which case yes please give me brother bobby I'll gladly take him. But like seriously familiars take up a CRAZY amount of items. I also think there are a bit too many shitty active items for only being allowed to take one. If half of them vanished I wouldn't even notice because I end up with the same 10 objectively better actives at the end of all my runs. Especially when half the characters start with actives you aren't gonna drop for goddamn decap attack
As for items I don't know how to fix... Almond milk (soy is great) and pill baggy.
Almond milk is just. What. Good for tractor beam I guess? But otherwise none of those tears are hitting no matter what crazy other item you have. Not even homing can save it. A singular one item synergy isn't enough to call it good because you know you're not getting that specific item out of hundreds of others. I think getting good use out of this item just takes way too many lucky synergies for it to be good
As for pill baggy when is holding 2 pills ever worth it? Maybe bringing BOTH percs and drowsy into the same room would be really neat but I don't feel like pills are more worth it than cards. With phd or luck foot the only worthwhile stat ups are health and tears and it doesn't take long to hit the cap for either. Only synergies I can imagine that would be good with this item are libra or false PhD but that feels way too few to be worth it and you still get pills if you don't take pill baggy so even then I don't think it's worth losing out on good cards. Even being able to hold like 2 other kind of non pill pickups (runes or weird ones like cracked key or emergency contact) doesn't feel worth giving up cards.
I also feel like this is a good post to say a good chunk of planetarium items suck ass or are just not that great so the room in general is rarely worth skipping treasure rooms for. I think i only like a quarter of the items.
Honourable mentions:
Strange attractor. Makes everything unpredictable and I constantly mistake it for two items I like a lot more: magneto and lodestone. I keep dragging Vis' line of fire into me.
zodiac. only ever gives me Jupiter so I can't stand it.
Isaac's heart. It's Isaac's heart. If there's a good synergy it's either rare or has been patched. I'd like to try it with melee builds like the forgotten or tmaggy especially or spirit sword but I feel like when you back away the heart would go into the enemy anyways nullifying the damage you just avoided
I genuinely find it easier to defend funny bad items; they have very niche uses that can go incredibly hard
- The Wiz: see above, with homing it just acts as a 2x fire rate multiplier
- Curse of the tower: there are pretty obvious matchups like pyromaniac or host hat, this thing SHREDS rooms. But I had a tmaggy run with the blind rage trinket (doubles length of i-frames) every time I hugged I took damage, spawning them, and with the trinket in most cases I had JUST enough iframes to avoid the fallout. I think even without the trinket tmaggy is a pretty hilarious combo. I'm sorry to the online co-op lobby who experienced it second hand. Oh also this thing synergises with your bomb effects making it even more insane if you get a way to nullify the damage or can dodge well. But it still does suck a lot, it is a shame it shows up so often, it's annoying, but I guess that's kind of the point as with a lot of the "curse" items.
Other chaotic explosive stuff like kamikaze gets the pass for the same reasons.
- Cursed eye: pretty cool if you can negate the downside, so on lost runs since mantle breaks don't count or with black candle. Otherwise like with curse of the tower it's reroll fodder most of the time. But then when you get super high tears it actually ends up making your build worse, so still one of the shittiest of the shitty items. Actually I regret adding this paragraph this item does suck
I spent actual hours typing this what the hell. God I hate 3 dollar bill.
Got placenta during the ultra hard challenge. The run is at 2hrs because I've been waiting on it to heal me every time I get hit. I'm outside the mega satan door now. This is my final achievement for dead god. We are getting it tonight my guys
can we get an eve pretty please (specifically the whore of babylon eve)
lots of spooky blood... ooauu
oof oof ouch my bloopd...
had a lot of fun with this one, tried going lineless/painting on one layer
I left playing tainted eve until last and I honestly didn't know she had a WoB form until like a week ago. It's a shame that if you see the WoB form you're probably cooked but hey at least she looks cool
this post made Tumblr give me the "is everything ok" popup what ?
