Hammer Time

Happy 810NICLE Day, all! To celebrate, here's a highlight reel of weird firestaff/hammer interactions.

There are a few things going on here. One is that you can pick up and throw any enemy stunned by Vakama's Firestaff. You can even damage enemies by throwing them into each other! If you're skilled enough (I'm not), you could probably beat the Onu-Wahi Vatuka by stunning its rock familiars and throwing them at it. This is 100% intended, and it's a wonder that the game never tells you to do it at any point.

The second thing is that the hammer's coding does not distinguish between objects Takua can lift over his head. If it can be lifted, the hammer can smash it into rocks. Since everything you can pick up after getting the hammer (except the lightning bug) is a rock to begin with, this isn't a problem in normal gameplay... but if you use the item swapping trick from last post, you can absolutely destroy Nokama. I can only assume this behavior was not intended.

Finally: yes, you can stun the lightning bugs with the firestaff! I kinda like that the firestaff is useful outside of Onu-Wahi, though I question the logic of the spark gap Rahi being blinded by a flash of light. 

Unfortunately, throwing the bugs off a cliff causes the only game crash I know of. Why? Well, it's complicated, and gets into some other stuff unrelated to the topic at hand, so I'll save that for tomorrow's post. Watch this space!