Repentance · active · #126

Razor Blade

Trades health for a room-long damage boost.

Typeactive
Quality0
Listed pools5
UnlockAchievement #44

In-game pickup line

“Feel my pain”

Mechanics

What Razor Blade does

  • Using it damages Isaac and grants 1.2 damage for the current room.
  • The first use in a room costs one heart; later uses in the same room cost half a heart in Repentance, taking red health first.

From the game files

Recharge

Standard rechargeNo charge bar

The game file specifies zero standard charges. Use conditions can depend on the item or another resource.

Achievement #44

How to unlock it

Defeat Satan as Eve.

In Repentance, Eve can start with Razor Blade after 439 coins are donated to the Greed Donation Machine, even before Satan is defeated as Eve.

Unlocking an item and finding it during a run are separate steps.

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In a run

Practical note

Use it only when the increased damage is worth the immediate loss of health.

Reference

Game data and sources

The item ID, quality and pool listings, icon, game-file tags, and short pickup line come from the extracted Repentance files. This effect explanation is an editorial summary checked against the references below. Repentance+ can differ. Charge and pickup values shown above also come from the extracted items.xml.