The primary gimmick ofDungeon Munchiesis using the various ingredients sourced from the denizens of the underground world (ethically or otherwise) to create all manner of magical meals to enhance your abilities. However, while cooking is the central theme of the game, it’s not the only thing you can do with all of these goopy odds and ends.
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The other half of the equation is weapon creation. With a sturdy hammer and a pinch of necromantic magic, you’re able to forge all kinds of nifty death-dealing devices, from the humble classics like swords and axes to advanced rifles and laser weapons. Out of the many weapons you can craft in this game, however, we feel a particular kinship with these.
10Firefly Lantern
When you’re starting out with only afew weapons to your name, in a hostile dungeon full of plant jerks, you can’t always be picky about your preferred means of self-defense. Sometimes, creating a weapon is as simple as tying a laser-launching firefly to a stick and making it mad.
The Firefly Lantern launches the titular firefly’s laser in a straight line wherever you’re pointing. Besides being a steady source of damage, it’s also automatic. Just get it firing, and you can keep moving and swinging your main weapon. Set it and forget it, to use a cooking-related parlance.
9Grill’s Dragonfire Sword
Prior to her death and subsequent resurrection, Grill was a kind of humanoid known as a dragonborn (no relation tothatotherDragonborn). As you’d expect, this gave her impressive control over the element of fire, particularly in her signature green fire breath. Said green fire breath, as it turns out, makes an excellent sword.
By simply coating a hilt with some of Grill’s pre-death puke, it ignites in a perpetual blade of green fire, setting anything it slashes alight in a glorious show of flares and sparks. As long as you don’t think too hard about the smell, it’s a potent weapon.
8Pump-Action Axe
What’s the most surefire way to make any weapon in any setting cooler? Answer: combine it with another weapon. Thus, we have the Pump-Action Axe, a simple yet elegant combination of a giant hatchet and a pump-action shotgun.
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Every time you swing the Pump-Action Axe, in addition to crushing enemies with its potent size and weight, it has a chance to fire off a spread of bullets. In all likelihood, that’s probably not on purpose; you’re probably just accidentally pulling the trigger. It’s not a safe weapon in the slightest, but hey, you’re already dead, so what’s the worst that could happen?
7Rifle
Okay, we did just say that combining two different weapons makes them cooler, but sometimes, you gotta stick with the classics. The Rifle is… well, a rifle. It’s a big ol' assault rifle with a big ol' bayonet affixed to the front.
Is spear usage the first thing one considers when picking up a rifle? No, and in fact, the in-game description notes that you’re probably using it wrong. But does it still work well as a spear in spite of that? Absolutely, especially when it fires off a piercing round every other stab.
6Portable Execution Device
It’s always kind of amusing to refer to weaponry with euphemistic language. No, it’s not a rapid-fire laser rifle; it’s a “Portable Execution Device.” Totally different; nothing to worry about whatsoever. Unless you’re on the other end of it, of course.
This saucy beam weapon fires off a 30-round magazine of laser shots, piercing through targets like a hot knife through butter. According to its description, it was originally used to “corral video game-addicted youths,” which has some… interesting connotations, but now it is put to a much more noble use.
5Icy Bird Scythe
Every Scythe weapon in Dungeon Munchies has the same general effect: summoning spiritual minions from the remains of your defeated foes. There arelots of different Scythesthat each summon unique followers, but the Icy Bird Scythe is definitely one of the coolest, if you’ll pardon the unintentional pun.
When this weapon kills an enemy, it summons forth a large Icy Bird specter to aid you in combat. Not only can you overrun your enemies with a veritable army of frozen poultry, but their icy attacks slow enemy movements, leaving them helpless as you claim their souls.
4Flaming Halberd
As we’ve covered, creating a sword out of fiery vomit is awesome, but taking things in the opposite direction also makes for an excellent murder implement. The Flaming Halberd is kept perpetually alight by an unknown force, setting anything unlucky enough to get poked by it ablaze.
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On the technical level, the Flaming Halberd counts as both a spear-type and axe-type weapon, which means you can use it to perform either spear techniques or axe techniques, depending on the situation and your preferences.
3Crepuscular Moon
According to a cursory Google search, the word “crepuscular” refers primarily to animals that come out during the twilight hours of the day. Bit of a linguistic deep cut, but when you’re swinging sheathed swords around iaido-style, linguistic deep cuts are kind of a stylistic necessity.
This high-speed sword, originally wielded by the S.U.C. Secret Police, can charge up and deliver swift, precise slashes straight from the hilt. All you need is slicked-back hair and a blue coat, and you’re basically Vergil from Devil May Cry.
2True Light Sword
Speaking of high-speed swords and linguistic style, the True Light Sword has all the trappings of a classic tool of justice. It has an invisible blade that only appears when swung, it has the words “true” and “light” in its name, and it makes a cool “woomp, woomp” sound when you use it.
Even if it didn’t have its stylistic touches, though, the True Light Sword is one of the best practical weapons in the game, as it loses no speed when being swung alongside another weapon. With the right partner weapon, you can deliver an endless storm of slashes.
1Astral Zenith
When you’ve exhausted all other options and reached the limits of human technology and science, all you may do is go even further beyond. Are such forces even safe for mortal hands to wield? Probably not! But who cares, they’re cool, and they’re effective.
Astral Zenith glows with the ethereal light of realms well beyond our own, and those realms are naught but a blade’s edge away. With a powerful swing, the Astral Zenithslices open holesin the fabric of spacetime, inflicting infinite agony upon any unlucky enough to be standing within said holes.
