Overview
This guide will discuss the different upgrades in the game and will suggest the order in which you should invent in them.
Introduction
When I started the game I was somewhat lost with all the different upgrades you can get. This Guide contains information about all the possible upgrades and a recommended upgrade order.
This guide is SPOILER FREE. Everything here is available to you right after beating the prologue.
Upgrade Overview
- Charged Sword. After a brief charge time you will hit all enemies around you for 5 damage.
- Bullet Deflection. Slashing incoming bullets with your sword will send them flying back in the direction of your enemies.
- Penetrating Dash Attack (X+A). You will preform a dash moving through and damaging all the enemies in your path.
- Chain Dash. Allows you to string multiple dashes one after another in quick succesion. The timing can be tricky and takes a while getting used to.
- Dash Absorbs Bullets. You can immune to bullets while dashing.
- Pushing Dash Attack (A+X). You will preform a dash move, stopping at the first enemy you hit damaging and pushing it back.
Throughout the game you will unlock multiple guns. I won’t show or discuss these to avoid spoilers. You will have to upgrade each gun individually. Each gun has a one single upgrade that increase its ammo capacity, allowing you to fire more shots before having to resort to melee combat.
- Allows you to carry 4 health kits.
- Allows you to carry 5 health kits.
- Unlocks the ability to use the bomb. The bomb is a cooldown based ability with unlimited ammo that allows you to throw a bomb that deals 3 damage to everything in a large radius.
- Allows you to carry a second bomb. This means you can throw two bombs in a quick succession before having to wait for it recharging.
Recommended Order
The upgrades are divided to 3 categories based on their importance. You should definitely pick all the high priority upgrades before getting the medium ones, and all the medium ones before the low ones. I will also recommend an order inside each category but feel free to ignore it.
- Bomb
- Charged Slash
- Chain Dash
- Bullet Absorbing Dash
The first bomb upgrade costs only 2 gearbits and gives you great area control. The charged slash is really good against bosses because it increases your damage output significantly. The chain dash gives you great mobility and is required for some of the trickier rooms but can be delayed a bit because a single dash will be enough in the beginning. Lastly the bullet absorption makes you immune to bullets while you’re moving – something that you want to do anyway.
- 4th Health pack
- Ammo upgrade for your favorite gun
- 2nd bomb
- Reflecting bullets
- Ammo upgrade for your second favorite gun
- 5th Health pack
The first Health upgrade will give you some breathing room so the second one can be delayed. Reflecting bullets can be useful in some situations but normally isn’t as necessary if you already got the more consistent Bullet absorbing dash. I won’t get into comparison of the different guns both because it is outside the scope of this guide and could be considered a spoiler. All the gun upgrades only increase you ammo capacity so you can easily try them and decide which one do you like. You can only use two guns at a time so upgrading more than two is not a priority. The ability to carry a second bomb isn’t as critical as you first one, but it is nice to be able to depend on it twice per fight instead of only once.
- Penetrating Dash Attack
- Pushing Dash Attack
- Ammo upgrades for the other guns
Leave these until the end. The dashing attacks just aren’t as useful as the other skills and you can only carry two guns on you at the same time.