came here to post Huang Gai also. some of his special moves invovle actually riding the canoe on top of dudes which fuckin rules.
my favourite non-traditional weapon is two great tastes that taste great together - the humble Sword and the humble Helicopter. i guess in-lore they are actually very traditional, but the gyros in Hammerfight are the fuckin coolest thing on the planet.
you control the game entirely with your mouse, so there is some technical skill to attacking well with these things (or you just jack up your mouse sensitivity). it’s incredibly satisfying. also there’s a ton of different weapons to pick from swords/axes/flails/hammers and they all feel different and let you use different tech.
There are probably tons of others, but the one that jumps out first is the electric guitar from Gungrave: Overdose, wielded by…I don’t even know how to preface this name: Rocketbilly Redcadillac.
Damn, I forgot how many good ones the Souls series has.
I was gonna initially pick the rubber duck explosive from Hitman, BUT I’m gonna go with Doomfist’s offhand. Oh yeah, that’s right. Not even his big, fuck-off gauntlet, I’m talking about the shotgun he has grafted on his knuckles. Understated and ridiculous, but it fills me with glee.
“Paracelsus is a living demon-axe weapon originally named Flament Nagel. This giant living demon-axe is A.B.A’s friend, fighting partner, and spouse in the Guilty Gear games.”
“He dislikes things that oppose him, like Slayer, and doors.”
This is from a game that has characters who fight with: a guitar, a pool cue + billiard balls, magical hair, yo-yos, and a sentient(?) bed.
The Witch Pistol in Enter the Gungeon shoots fast, accurate, fairly high-damage bullets… that have a small chance of turning whatever enemy they hit into a chicken. A literal walking, squawking chicken that bursts into a puff of feathers if you walk through it. Every weapon in that game could more or less be an entry in this thread (my honorable mention goes to the “Bullet,” a gun shaped like a bullet that shoots guns that shoot more bullets), but that one’s definitely my favorite.
Oh, and the Half-Life 2 Gravity Gun. Mere words cannot describe my love for the Gravity Gun.
The Spade in Nuclear Throne. When you level up to increase melee range and improve reload time, I can usually get really far into the game. As great as all the high powered weapons are, the spade is the best.
