The flamethrower weapons in most of the games are super useful. Great for crowd control and keeping weaker melee enemies away from you. It was especially great in the first game when you couldn't strafe, and the Pyrociter could keep the anklebiters at bay better than the wrench could.
Where those anklebiters are in Aridia, those robots use a form of the Pyrociter.
Very handy in the space level, Metropolis for the blimp, and the final level.
That is a good combo for grouping up enemies for follow up attacks, but I preferred the more direct approach of shoot shoot bang bang. That and the Taunter/Mine Glove combo. The Mine Glove desperately needed the Taunter to be useful for anything that wasn't trying to charge you
Reminds me, there was one gadget in R&C1 where these little balls would surround you and swarm to enemies. I don't think it's the Sonic Summoner; that's a little guy that would fly over you with a turret.
You're thinking of the Drones, a nice buffer if enemies get a little too close and can sorta block attacks, but I never found it useful enough to constantly activate. It's not very good. As for the Suck Cannon, great damage(hit about as hard as Devastator), but yeah since you couldn't suck up crates and had to wait for little minions to spawn it was very situational
I feel that was made for laughs. It would lunge you forward upon use. When you only have four hit points initially, that lunge could propel you into an enemy attack.
Nah, they just fucked up and made a bad weapon that they thought was cool at the time, which I can forgive since it was the first game. Just like how they fucked up with the Meteor Gun because they thought bigger damage number meant better but didn't think about the function.
I completely forgot that was in the game, but from looking at the wiki it was probably because you could mod it and they were trying to balance it out.
Size Matters tried to be like R&C1, but executed it poorly.
You know, I can't really think of any weapons from the first game that I hated. Disliked yes, had a more preferred weapon, yes, but nothing really stands out to me as actually hated. Not like other ones like the meteor gun I regret upgrading.
I liked how if you had a save file from the trilogy, you could rebuy those weapons.
Did any R&C1 levels start out life as designed for Spyro the Dragon? I remember as a kid when I first played it how I immediately recognized sound effects from Spyro in the game, like how small toad-looking enemy on the first planet has the same croak as the frogs from Spyro in some levels that you kill to replenish health.
That was the only diaroma I saw. For some reason, YouTube is recommending me with R&C beta content on YouTube. It'll give me an opportunity to give life in this thread.
I always thought that was meant to be a nerf to make you stick with the new weapons and not have powerful shit from the first game given to you for free just because you had a save file from R&C1 on your memory card. It's kind of disappointing too since the Tesla Claw is such a cool weapon and one of my favorites from the first game.