![]() I have to aim carefully to squarely land my shots on fast-moving enemies, but the arc also offers an opportunity to catch a couple enemies at once, or snare an enemy in my oscillating beam that I didn't quite aim at perfectly. Nuclear Throne's lightning rifle is the rare weapon in gaming that balances precision with fast-paced sloppiness. Shotguns can bounce shells around corners and hit a wider spread of enemies, but they often use more ammo per shot and don't have the same range. Explosive weapons like the grenade and rocket launcher may do more damage, but they only make me more nervous: I’m constantly afraid of blowing myself up with them. It does heavy damage-enough to kill most tough enemies in a couple shots-and it arcs lightning in a long trail that can hit multiple enemies at once. The lightning rifle is, by far, my favorite weapon in Nuclear Throne. And then Nuclear Throne starts to scare the shit out of me. I breeze through the desert, tenaciously crawl my way through the sewers and scrapyard, and arrive in the crystal cave. The desert is just a place to collect as much radiation as possible (the XP pickup that allow Nuclear Throne’s characters to mutate and gain new powers). I breeze through it, confident that I can take anything it throws at me. I'm like a tiny mutant Fremen born for the sand. ![]() Now that I have about 10 hours logged (I had a couple weekends of doing a run, dying, angrily quitting the game, and then relaunching it five minutes later), the desert doesn’t scare me anymore. ![]() Two or three bullets are enough to kill you in Nuclear Throne, so I was constantly on edge. My first couple hours, I barely made it out of the desert, the game’s first few stages, where most enemies stand around in a dazed stupor and stare at you dumbly for five seconds before firing off a couple shots. ![]() It took me hours of playtime to even see a lightning rifle, because it’s one of Nuclear Throne’s more powerful, later-stage weapons. ![]()
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