While the Switch doesn’t stand toe to toe with the PC, Xbox Series X/S, or PS5 shooter games, it has enough variety to make it a solid choice when playing games of that genre. You’ll find indie shooters on the system, some from AAA third parties, and even one from Nintendo itself. Nintendo was never known for creating consoles that were home to some of the best shooters, but the company has turned that around with Switch games - offering a robust lineup of shooting games in 2D, 3D, first-person, and third-person, with a little something for everyone. There is one thing about the lightning rifle that makes me nervous, though: I like it so much, I’m afraid Vlambeer’s going to nerf it. It's not the flashiest or most powerful weapon in Nuclear Throne, but in a game full of crazy guns, it's the one that feels utterly reliable. I don’t know if it’s overpowered, or if it just perfectly suits my playstyle, but it gives me a fighting chance at making it to the Throne without psyching myself into a stupid death. In a game where death comes as easily as it does in Nuclear Throne, I love having a weapon like the lightning rifle to serve as a life raft. And man, it just feels so good to blast two killer robots to scrap with a single shot. It’s so damage efficient, I’m not even worried about running out of ammo. I always feel a cool wave of relief wash over me as soon as I pick up the weapon. With the rifle, I’m still terrified of Nuclear Throne’s later enemies, but I know that I can stay far away from them, nervously pop around a corner, let fly a trail of arcing blue electricity-ZAP-and then run away. The lightning shotgun makes me more nervous, because I have to get too close to enemies for my liking. Even the other lightning weapons don’t do it for me in quite the same way. If I don’t get the lighting rifle in the crystal cave or the next area, the frozen city, I usually die quickly. The lightning rifle makes me slow down and aim, but without the hit-or-die accuracy necessitated by other weapons like the crossbow. With Nuclear Throne's automatic weapons, I'm just firing haphazardly in all directions as quickly as I can. 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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