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Kolanaki@pawb.social 2 weeks agoOther than Castlevania itself, when are video game whips actually good? 🤷♂️
AwesomeLowlander@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
Katana314@lemmy.world 1 week ago
There’s a game called Moonlight Pulse that has a Castlevania whip on one character; so you get to decide whether to focus on its use. If you nail the perfect spacing with it and strike with the tip, it does a TON of damage, helping to shred bosses.
The game lampshades it a bit too. The girl who owns the whip laments that she has no natural abilities like the others, and instead relies on a crummy piece of equipment.
PolarKraken@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
Ivy’s whip in the Soulcalibur series is pretty gnar. But that’s not really what ya mean (I assume).
grinning_serpent@lemmy.world 1 week ago
They’re pretty good in Dark Souls 2 and Bloodstained 😭
Kolanaki@pawb.social 1 week ago
They ignore shields in Dark Souls but they are still outclassed by so many other weapons. It’s sad, because it’s a stylish, unconventional weapon but it also makes a run with one a challenge run due to it not being strong or particularly fast (as well as having wonky hitboxes, depending on the whip and game in the series).
mortalblade@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
the threaded cane in bloodborne is an excellent whip weapon. Nothing else comes to mind tho…
Kolanaki@pawb.social 2 weeks ago
That thing turns into a whip? 🤔
I never used it for a whole run.
addie@feddit.uk 2 weeks ago
It’s its trick mode. You can convert it without dropping your attack ‘combo’ on odd-numbered hits, so you can rush up to an enemy, quickly ‘cane hit’ twice to stun, then ‘whip hit’ until you’ve killed it with a bit of AoE coverage that stops any other enemy in front of you from sneaking in. Works great when you need to clear out a large number of mooks; the whip is a bit slow when you’re fighting single high-difficulty enemies.
In fact, might bust Bloodborne out again after I’ve finished Mina, always something more to learn about that game…