What's the best sword?

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Fruitality
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What's the best sword?

When I was young I was obsessed with Tidus's wet Brotherhood sword from Final Fantasy X for some reason. I think it was just the incredible PS2 graphics at the time.




Now I just love to see a classic-ass stubby short sword like the Hero's Sword from Wind Waker:




Honourable mention to the Razor Sword from Majora's Mask - the coolest sword featured on all the key art that nobody ever used:

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Fruitality
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Oh wait shoutout to Ludwig's Holy Blade

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Some good shit right there.
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I do really like the look of that Razor Sword!

Hard to say what's BEST, but I want to give a special shoutout to the Zweihander from Dark Souls. I know it's a meme, but finally getting enough strength to properly use that thing was a revelation. Gaining the ability to straight-up pancake enemies totally changed how I thought about that game's combat. And I've pretty much gravitated towards the Big swords ever sense.
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Soul Edge is quite the piece of work, and Ivy's snake sword was also just plain neat

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My beautiful, my beloved Moonlight Great sword, in all its forms, in all its glory.
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I always loved the Z-Saber, if only for how much smear they animate it with.

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It's an easy choice but I can't help it, it's so iconic
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Fruitality
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Thinkin' about Travis Touchdown's Beam Katana.



I appreciate that they tried to create a somewhat feasible lightsaber. I didn't really appreciate the jack-off recharge motion controls on the Wii though.
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my pick would have to be stormbringer from elric, i mean who doesn't love a demon sword that drinks souls for sport.
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Woah that Stormbringer art goes hard.

I've never heard of Elric. This definitely looks relevant to my interests.

Big fan of the hilt of that sword up top!
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GhostSnacks wrote: 17 Aug 2023, 08:48 my pick would have to be stormbringer from elric, i mean who doesn't love a demon sword that drinks souls for sport.
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Fruitality wrote: 17 Aug 2023, 09:03 Woah that Stormbringer art goes hard.

I've never heard of Elric. This definitely looks relevant to my interests.

Big fan of the hilt of that sword up top!
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It is iconic for a reason, and it is truly one of my favorites...

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I see a few great ones have already been mentioned. MLGS and GUTS. I like the Dragon Buster from Tales of the Abyss based on Dragon Buster. I think the Master Sword deserves a mention. Also Buster Blader's sword from Yu-Gi-Oh! The Covenant swords from Halo are a lot of fun... I'll throw the White Sword into the mix. I know it's not the strongest in Zelda 1, but it's such a difference-maker. And it feels so good to get every time you play once you've cut your teeth with the wooden sword.
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