Long Range Weapons

Long Range Weapons are ranged weapons the main characters can use. They vary from guns and gatling guns to ray guns and bazookas. Eliot has access to 8 long range weapons, while Dogs has access to 4.

Most long range weapons can be acquired throughout the map or purchased from vending machines. All long range weapons require ammunition specific to each weapon, which can also be acquired throughout the map or bought from vending machines.

Their main advantage over short range weapons is their ability to reach faraway targets or targets moving in on your location. Long range weapons are very helpful when you're low on health, not only because most non-boss enemies only have a melee attack, but because weapons with notable splash (such as the Super Bazooka and Napalm Launcher) don't damage you. It should also be noted that long ranged weapons have auto-targeting, making them effective weapons against agile and flying enemies.

Their main disadvantage is that they require ammo to fire, which can become expensive, and may encourage players to grind for money so they're stocked up. Additionally, the only way to reload is by firing an empty clip, which can sometimes force you to waste ammo, or enter potentially dangerous situations unprepared. Similar to consuming food, reloading makes you vulnerable to enemy attacks, so it's best to reload when you're away from enemies.

Eliot
*The Laser Gun can shoot a single laser, or held to shoot a stream of laser.

**The Ray Gun is always out of stock, and can only be unlocked if you beat the game in under 4 hours.

Dogs
* The Gatling Gun can shoot a single bullet, or held to shoot a stream of bullets.

Tips
It's best to save up money for the different sushi/pasta/steak plates found in the Hello Market Secret Shop until both character's health has maxed out before purchasing new weapons. Many effective and useful weapons, both short and long range, are found throughout the game without buying them, so grinding and saving up money for them can be a waste of time.

Throughout the game, Eliot is the more useful of the two main characters, not only due to his faster movement speed, but his ability to equip both a long and short range weapon. Many of Eliot's weapons stun approaching enemies, and the handgun does enough damage to most enemies for the majority of the game. In addition, handgun ammo is inexpensive is found frequently throughout Dinosaur Island, and is financially efficient when killing humanoid monsters, as it usually takes less than a clip to kill one, and each monster gives you around $60-$200 upon death.

However, Dogs shouldn't be completely ignored, as most of his long range weapons deal generally more damage, and very effective against bosses. His rail gun is particularly useful against later enemies with heftier health, as it deals ample damage and pushes many enemies back.

While you can use Dogs' gatling gun throughout the game and against bosses, it's very important to make sure you've got plenty of gatling gun ammo before commencing the endgame "Wave Tower" mission where you have to get Janine to the top of the tower so she can shoot an emergency release valve to allow Nephilim to destroy Jascony.

At one point, she needs 3 minutes and 45 seconds to set up her rifle and shoot the valve. At the same time, two indestructible humanoid creatures are approaching Janine and trying to kill her. The gatling gun is the best weapon against these two creatures, as it constantly keeps pushing them back and away from Janine, and can be continuously shooting without having to fuss with aiming. 450 bullets constantly shot buys you around 2 minutes of time, so you can beat this normally difficult part if you have at least 900 bullets.

If you don't have that many bullets or don't get the gatling gun, the rail gun is a good alternative weapon.