#let it be known the shadow tendril part 100% came from watching a video on the backrooms yesterday

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had a dream about a new Isaac sidequest mechanic around like, Unlocking a Mega Satan, But Harder route like ig sorta similar to the forgotten unlock mechanic. For starters the requirement seemed to be “playing specifically blue baby and azazel on co-op” so if you don’t have friends or play on steam fuck you.

But I remember it veered between like genuinely horrifying with new enemies the route introduced and just kinda silly or strange

(i specifically remember like, pitch black tendrils/spindly limbs that peeked around corners, and their Bigger Forms which were just these big pitch black creatures that would chase you and spout text on the screen in like weird symbols about how it’s impossible for mere humans to understand their language (but it was still like pretty easy to decipher on sight, i think the implication being that being on this route kinda slowly turns you into one of em, like azazel specifically gets an item near the end of the route that’s just The Tendrils But Friendly, Also You Get Your Own Shadow Demon (that basically controlled like an op abel))

the big stretch of the sidequest takes place in the womb and i specifically remember getting as far as… This sidequest’s way of getting the key pieces, which instead of fighting angels in Angel rooms was by fighting One specific new boss simply called the Beefy Angel and it was just one of the angels but with big cartoon muscles that struck poses and did like impossible touhou-ass attack patterns with fire everywhere and i don’t know where the quest went from there because the beefy angel fight just obliterated the players so hard that I woke up

i think the tone whiplash there of You Become Driven Mad By Eldritch Knowledge On This Forbidden Path And Also Fight A Funny Big Swole Angel is so perfect for this game actually. Hire me killburn