Sulfur — the highly successful dungeon crawler roguelite, not the element — has recently had a new update focused on melee weapons. Four new weapons to be exact, which grace our favourite cultist-fighting priest’s hands and can now be found and used throughout the various levels of the game.
The four new weapons in Sulfur include the Katana, Sai, Nunchucks and the Bo Staff, all with various different attacks and blocks to help you navigate your way through Sulfur‘s treacherous levels.
My personal favourite so far has actually been the Bo Staff, with its stun ability being very helpful against charging enemies and its spin deflecting enemy bullets when they’re shot at you. This can really help with some of the more corridor-based fights.
With Sulfur already featuring a wide array of range-based weapons that come in every form imaginable, melee combat is the perfect way to compliment an already well fleshed out combat system.
I found the new katana to be particularly helpful in the sewer level where enemies tend to swim in the water and leap out. The katana was also basically my only defence in the long corridors and sewerways against the cultist gunners that I couldn’t see, making it much easier to traverse without getting my head blown off.
One thing that does appear to be lacking with the melee weapons is the ability to customise and change them. Oils, scrolls and weapon parts are not available, as they are for ranged weapons, however, this is countered by the fact that they have no durability and appear harder to find than other weapons in general.
I would love to try and create a heavy armour build that would allow me to clash sword in hand with the many denizens of Sulfurs world but it is still heavily reliant on its gunplay, with the new melee weapons being seen as more of a compliment towards your current build than the focus of it.
I’ve only managed to come across one boss so far and that boss is entirely ranged focused as I imagine it was designed without the new weapons in mind so, mainly, you do use them for the various goblins and cultists that roam the hallways and caves while on your way to the next area.
Overall, Sulfur‘s new melee weapons add a lot of variety to an already established combat system giving you complete freedom of choice on how you want to kit your character out, all you need to do now is get lucky and find them.
You can find Sulfur on Steam, with the new melee weapons update.
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