Mega Man X and Sigma!
Time to get serious, cos Mega Man X is here to take on the basement! X was smart enough to bring some of his old powers along on his trip, but it seems an old enemy has followed him inside…
– MEGA MAN X –
X is designed to harken back to his home series. His individual tears are fairly weak, but they can be shot rapidly and charged up thanks to his X Buster, aka Chocolate Milk.
He also has access to the Playdough Cookie, meaning each individual tear has a randomised effect that can call to mind a bevy of powers from his games, such as Shotgun Ice or Fire Wave.
In addition, X has two active items to assist him in different ways:
– Gravity Well / Black Hole draws in items and foes, and can also destroy objects like rocks. Try it to create space new defensive options for yourself or bust open tinted rocks!
– Ray Splasher / Sprinkler spawns a turret that continually fires random tears just like X, allowing you to augment your damage. With this power as backup, you can cover much more ground!
Since X is designed to start off weak and become more powerful over time, similarly to Isaac, I’ve tried to find a way to make the effect more pronounced without it scaling in a way that’s OP, instead being more visually interesting and leading to stronger synergies as you go!
– TRIAD SIGMA –
Sigma makes his debut in a new body that’s all about accentuating his strength, defense and maneuvarability. Triad Sigma is an original design that I’ve created in order to best work within the sprite confines of the Binding of Isaac Rebirth without losing any of the menace Sigma is known for. Let’s dive into what he can do!
In his Triad form, Sigma is all about corrupting his foes and sowing anarchy amongst the creatures of the basement; his tears are able to both charm and mark enemies as bait, causing groups to quickly turn on one another as if they were going maverick! Their strength shall be your strength…
Offensively, Sigma starts with Inner Eye, allowing him to fire 3 tears at once, a triad of bullets if you will. This allows him to quickly spread chaos within groups and also do extra damage to larger enemies.
On the defensive side you have the Evil Charm to protect you from status effects like fear, as well as two Slipped Ribs, which will circle you and act as bullet shields while you focus on eliminating your foes. Highly devious.
And of course, Sigma has one final trick up his sleeve: the Book of the Dead, with which he can convert fallen foes into new minions or additional shielding! He corrupts the very ground he treads upon!
Sigma is a powerful character for sure, and the focus when designing him was very much more on fun than balance. That being said, he shouldn’t be too overpowered, and if he is I’ll certainly make updates to address this in the future.
– NOTES –
These characters make use of Sanio’s Character Costume Protector! X is the first of my characters to use the February 2022 update!
X’s flight costume is his Hyper form from Command Mission! Sigma’s flight costume may remind you of a certain boss from X2…
Sigma also starts with the Magic Mushroom. This affects his stats of course but that’s been accounted for. The main reason he has it is so he starts off BIG AND SCARY 😀
Where does the "Triad" name come from? Well, I wanted a Sigma who would change colours/forms based on what was happening, and IRL I have 2 partners, making a triad. It seemed a fitting tribute!
These characters are Repentance only to the best of my knowledge, no guarantees for any other version.
– CREDITS –
– CAPCOM
– Manaphoenix, for creating both the character template these robots were made with AND the tutorial to explain it all
– Sanio, for creating the Character Costume Protector and for continued code support
– Catherine, for lua coding support!
Required DLC:
These DLC should be installed in order to use this item.
The Binding of Isaac: Afterbirth
The Binding of Isaac: Afterbirth+
The Binding of Isaac: Repentance
