The strangest weapon

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Wakka's Blitzball is definitely odd. (I always wondered how somebody who wasn't very good at Blitzball was that good with a Blitzball ...) As is the gunblade -- I ran into somebody on the internet once who was claiming that he was a United States Army weapons specialist, and that when he went into combat, the Army let him make his own weapon, so he made a gunblade out of an AK47. Of course, any mention of a "gunblade" being a practical weapon told me that this guy was full of shit, and with him going on to describe how he, through the Army, made these changes to this rifle, it was hilarious. Needless to say, I helped everybody that was listening to him realize how much of a dumbass he was. The first questions were simple -- like, what size round does the AK47 fire -- and he couldn't even get those.

And then ... Rinoa's little wrist-thing. First, it always came back to her, somehow. And second, some of her Limit Breaks involved having her dog on her little contraption, then being launched with it. How in the hell does something on her wrist have enough power to launch a dog that probably weighs as much as she does?

Cait Sith's megaphone was pretty weird. What, damage enemies by yelling obscenities at them?

And, of course, you have two of the stupidest weapons ever -- the Buster Sword and the Masamune, both from Final Fantasy VII. I'm sure most non-fanboys can realize that a sword that weighs forty pounds, or a sword that is seven feet long, is horribly impractical. Which makes them both just stupid.

But to take the cake, we have guns. Whether it be an assault rifle, a shotgun, or a contraption that attaches to a man's arm (and strangely, even though there are only two people with a gun for an arm in the world, is sold everywhere), the more recent Final Fantasy games have had supposedly modern firearms, yet amazingly, getting shot in the face does no more damage than getting cut by a sword, or getting clubbed by a staff, or getting punched. Tell you what -- you punch me, I'll shoot you, and we'll see who walks away.