Hmm, any suggestions which weapon I should craft first with my first 8 bit Coin?
Or should I save the coin?
I'be been looking at stuff for the game leading up to me buying it down the line, and I saw some interesting info about these weapons.
If you want to change which weapon you get for your coin, you can, you just need an alchemy material for breaking up weapons, so no worries!
Anyway, the Gun is pretty powerful for a fun, and can eventually become the most powerful when fully upgraded, but may not be super useful early on. There may be more 8-but coins, so save it for your second. You can buy them, but it's expensive early on.
The Laser sword is pretty powerful, and get's really powerful late game as well, it'll serve you well!
The sword that looks pointy and has the Stone element on it is pretty awesome, as it has a chance of inflicting stone on enemies, which in your case is temporary immobilization, but is actually
Instant Death on enemies that get it. Most enemies are partially resistant, but it'll basically activate more often then not, so it's a super safe bet.
The last two have a bottom quarter circle forward move ( V _| > + Atk) that "unleashes" the weapon's power. For the Laser Sword, it drops a lighting bolt that strikes in front of you but hits quite far above!
The Pointy Sword instead launches a sonic boom that has a very high chance of doing the stone effect, barring enemy resistance negating it.
Both of these also make you jump back, and do tons of damage on contact, so these are both super solid weapons to go for! and if you do the technique enough you unlock it for all sword weapons, so go for it!