Switching Weapons?

[Ashande]

The game gives a tutorial message about switching weapons, instructing you to press R1 to do so. I did. Nothing happened. Nothing continued to happen until I got to the sequence where the swamp dweller wants you to go kill “a pair of Satans,” at which point it let me have a scythe, and it switched between that and the sword… until I finished the level.

 

Since then, I’ve gotten to level 14, spent gold to buy the “Sharp Scythe” and “Whip” upgrades in the store, and it still doesn’t do anything when I press R1… except once. After dying for about the twentieth time, it randomly selected the scythe again… only for it to go away the second I got hit, and once again R1 did nothing.

 

Is the game that broken, am I doing something wrong, or do I need to replace my controller?