I was playing Okami earlier today, and I'm on a quest to locate all the stray beads. In the course of doing this, I've had to fight monsters I've never seen before! Same ol', same ol'. But then my hand slipped on the controller and hit a button besides the attack button and something flew across the battlefield and hit a baddie... And I was sitting there going 'uhm... did Ammy just spit? or what happened?!"

Apparently, I've played this game through twice without knowing about this handy little alternative firing button, which uses your secondary weapon as a backup. Previously, I thought wielding two weapons just generally made you stronger when attacking but... nope! So now my combinations are varying wildly from just using the rosaries. (Quick attack weapon, like a whip that sticks.) Apparently, using Reflectors as a primary will have Ammy throw them like a... frisbee, I guess. As secondary, they act as a shield. Rosaries are quick whips as primary, and fire beads like bullet as secondary (which is what I was using when I thought she was spitting). Glaives as primary are, of course, big ol' slow swinging blades, but as secondary, you can launch yourself at a target when you're in the air.

Bwahaha... Fighting just got a whole lot more fun! Guess I need to shoot for a third time through! Go for the collectables and all the awesome demon slaying combat action I've been missing!