The skull special being a free dash is pretty nuts (I just wish the 'auto-pickup range for the spent shells was boosted a little), and the omega special is also really cool with hammer upgrades, but yeah, I don't think I like it much, at least with the baseline aspect - unless you're at shotgun/melee range where you can just keep spamming shells and insta-picking them up, the 'travel time' of the skulls and the auto-aim wonkiness makes aiming it kind of annoying.
They DO bounce (I think I saw a hammer boon that makes a delayed/bouncing shell increase damage significantly IF it hits), but the bounce isn't always predictable either
It feels like combining the worse-feeling part of the exagriff with having to recover Zag's casts, only the 'delay-before-return' timer seems way longer as a baseline.
At least with the bow/shield throw/spear throw it was basically instant, as well as normal exagriff rounds.
Also, the 'aspect power-up' feels....odd, in that giving 5-25 more power per spent shell (so up to 50 power total) feels like it would be more useful with a bigger magazine - meanwhile, the daggers are getting 50% multiplier for backstab damage.
Meanwhile, the torch is definitely a victim of the game's 'sticky' auto-aim causing problems, and even beyond that, it just feels....weird, to me.
