I was working on a bossfight based on Undyne from Undertale, and was having trouble making the held spear (the shield).
There’s an image I made remaking it based on a (very bad) screenshot:
Basically, you can give the player 4 gadgets, each corresponding to the different directions.
Using this: How to make custom keybinds(2,3,4,5) 5/10 🟨 you can make the keybinds with each gadget
each direction activates a barrier, blocking the projectiles