The Visage

 

Base HP	Stage HP
620	0

Ingame Appearance

Entity ID
903.0

Found In
Boss

Dropped Items
Boss

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The Visage is a boss found in the Gehenna. It is a more difficult version of the Mask of Infamy.

Behavior

Phase 1

The Visage is bound together by a chain and cannot be damaged; the chain must be first destroyed to progress the fight. During this phase, it only has one attack:

• The heart avoids Isaac while the mask charges at Isaac if he approaches it from any cardinal direction. Upon colliding with the wall the mask launches out a spray of rock projectiles.
  • The chain only extends for this attack, it normally is rigid and constrains the mask and the heart to a specific length.

Phase 2

• Once unbound, the mask freely moves around the room, and will occasionally chase Isaac if it sees him in a cardinal direction. A crack appears in the back of the mask and it can only be damaged by being shot from behind.
• The heart continues to avoid Isaac, but also uses a chain to perform a variety of attacks in conjunction with the mask:
  • Launches a chain to the mask. Once attached, it directly pulls the mask in and fires a horizontal helix of Brimstone lasers that pushes both backwards.
  • Launches a chain to the mask. Once attached, it swings the mask in a spiral while also bringing the two closer. The mask periodically fires projectiles while being reeled in. If the mask collides into a wall before it unites with the heart, it will create rock projectiles on impact.
  • Launches a chain to the mask. Once attached, it directly pulls the mask in and launches itself into a jump. Upon landing, it creates a burst of rock projectiles as well as 4 diagonal rock waves.
• If the mask is killed, the heart will use its chain to perform some alternate attacks:
  • Launches a chain to try to hit Isaac and pull him in, dealing contact damage.
  • Launches a chain at a wall (or if it misses Isaac and hits the wall) and pulling itself into the wall, creating a burst of rocks and purple projectiles on impact.
  • Launches a chain to the stationary mask. Once attached, it swings the mask in a spiral while also bringing the two closer. It will keep swinging the mask in a short distance from itself until the mask collides into a wall and creates rock projectiles on impact.
  • Launches a chain to the stationary mask. Once attached, it directly pulls the mask in and tries to hide behind the mask as it blocks Isaac's tears.
  • Launches a chain to the stationary mask. Once attached, it directly pulls the mask in and launches itself into a jump. Upon landing creates a burst of rock projectiles as well as 4 diagonal rock waves.

Phase 3

After the heart takes enough damage its movement becomes quick and erratic and its behaviour completely shifts:

• Starts by launching a slow-moving large energy projectile that bounces off of walls, if this projectile connects with the mask, it fires a Brimstone laser out the back, propelling it in the direction it was facing and creating rock projectiles and a burst of radial tears upon collision with a wall.
  • If the mask is dead, then the energy projectile automatically travel towards it, propelling the mask as well as reviving it in the process. The heart will prioritize reviving the mask.
  • Isaac can push these projectiles back with his tears.
• If there are 3 energy projectiles floating around the room, the heart can absorb them and fire out 4 short-range diagonal Brimstone lasers accompanied by 4 tight rings of fire that travel outwards.
  • The mask dies during this attack regardless of its HP.
• Fires out a ring of 16 purple projectiles.

Once the heart has been killed, the mask dies as well.

Gallery

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  The Visage in-game.

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  The Visage in its second phase.

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  The Visage's heart in its third phase.

Trivia

• The Visage started as a boss versus screen mockup by Antibirth artist NotYourSagittarius in January 2015, alongside Reap Creep and a posthumous version of Dingle who did not make it into the final mod, "The Mass".
• The Visage in Antibirth bore a purple-themed colour palette better suited for the Mausoleum.
  • While the Visage in Repentance has been recoloured red to match the Gehenna chapter, some of it projectiles still remain purple.
• The back of the mask shows many small children being burned while the mask is alive, but when the mask is extinguished, the children aren't burning anymore.
  • This is probably a reference to the fact that in Gehenna, some kings of Judah sacrificed their children by fire.
  • In Antibirth, instead of many children, there was a singular, lifeless Isaac on the back of the mask.
  • This is a reference to the original Mask of Infamy from the Wrath Of The Lamb DLC of the original flash game, as she had a small head peeking through the crack behind the boss
    

Bugs

Bug!	Using the console to spawn the mask by itself (id 903.1) will crash the game. All other parts of the Visage can be spawned safely.