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The deities of the Zelda universe are like Oprah-”YOU GET A MASTER SWORD!” “YOU GET A MASTER SWORD!” “YOU ALL GET MASTER SWOOOOOOOOOORDS!!!!!”-and so every single Link has one. It is the hallmark of the Legend of Zelda series. Would this list be complete without the legendary Master Sword? I think not. The Master Sword (image credit: Nintendo) I’d die from being exposed to so much raw coolness. He only has to fight in wide open spaces, and God help you it you meet him in an open space. But what happens if Sephiroth has to fight in a narrow hallway? Doesn’t matter. BUT this Final Fantasy sword is made of fantasy metal and therefore remains straight. It would be embarrassing for ol’ Seph and everyone watching. It would be like swinging a metal noodle around. The blade is so long that the sword would actually collapse under its own weight. Sephiroth’s sword should be great at that, right? Wrong. Swords need to be light enough to wield and long enough to stick the pointy end in someone from a reasonably safe distance. This marvel of metalworking allows the sword to be more durable, as a brittle sword would shatter after a few uses. You can actually bend the blade of a historical sword quite far to the left or right. For one, the metal of swords has to be flexible. That’s the most impractical length possible. The two handed katana is over seven feet long. Masamune, meanwhile, is a skinny little thing but it makes up for it in length. I’d like to see a silly lil’ falchion do that. And the Buster Sword is cool as they come. But we don’t care about well engineered weapons, we care about cool weapons. But if the whole sword was bigger it would be too heavy to wield properly and would tire the user out. The blade of the falchion becomes thicker at the top so the sword can gather more momentum in its swing and have an impact more similar to an axe. There’s a historical weapon called a falchion that does just this. You don’t need to make the whole sword bigger to increase the cutting power, just the top of it. Cloud Strife can wield it because he’s super strong, but even for a character with super strength it’s wildly impractical. First off, no human being could possibly wield this sword. The Buster Sword is ridiculously impractical, and gets extra points because of it. And these two big swords from Final Fantasy 7 are (arguably) the best around.

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But one thing the Final Fantasy series does best is big swords. It’s got gunblades, fancy staves, and even weaponized beach balls. The Final Fantasy series is lousy with cool weapons. The Buster Sword and Masamune (image credit: Square Enix) So put some more tassels on that sword, friends, cause here are the coolest weapons of all time. In my book, videogame weapons get points for style, especially if they are so stylish that they become totally impractical. Now, I’m not judging simply by effectiveness here. So, I got to thinking, what are the very best videogame weapons (the ones that you’d absolutely HAVE to have in the likely case of a zombie apocalypse)? They tend to have the weapons that are, without a doubt, the very best to have in your arsenal. Videogames, in particular, have extremely creative weapons. Weapons come in all shapes and sizes, and vary in strength from “irritating” to “world ending.” Human beings have been trying to kill each other with everything we can get our hands on since we first crawled out of the primordial slime and learned to walk upright. In the right hands, anything can be a weapon.