It's already bad enough that I have to graze to earn energy for slow and bullets, why would you make the grazing field a blinking one instead of a constant field?
Don't bother with any weapon but staves. There's no other way to touch the boss safely nor any of the giant enemies. And with his teleportation avalanche and fire torando can barely touch him in time.
What's the point of flamethrower? It's range is short, it's attack is weak, it has a long reload time, it slows you down. There's nothing redeeming about this thing
It can be a glitch or something like that. What level you are talking about? And by the way, try to reload the game.