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TopicQuinton ranks user-nominated Final Fantasy stuff
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11/09/19 7:41:53 PM
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05. Buster Sword
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It's an open secret that I included the citizenry of the French city of Paris during the making of this list. The French are a very opinionated people. I wanted to include their insight. JRPGs are huge over there. Great, great people, the French. But as I said, opinionated. So when I told the Prime Minister that I was going to list the Buster Sword sixth, he threatened to have my diplomatic credentials revoked. He and his constituents were determined to push the Buster Sword to #1, but we settled on 5th with the concession that swordz not reach the top 5. swordz is, naturally, not well-received among the French people.

The Buster Sword is quite possibly the single most memorable weapon in Final Fantasy. That is, if you ask the proletariat. But I am an elite. I understand things that you'll soon come to appreciate. Was the Buster Sword wielded by the legendary Cloud Strife? Check. Is it on the cover of the most popular non-Pokemon JRPG of all time? Check. Is it excellent? Check. Is it the best? No. Checkmate, atheists.

But I've grumbled enough. The Buster Sword plays a nice role in the hit 1997 video game Final Fantasy VII as Cloud's ever-present blade. Even when he gets better blades. Which actually happens rather often. The Buster Sword was Zack Fair's, you see, and he passed it on to Cloud like a blind man passes exquisite curry to a prince destined to die. It's a heartfelt scene and a powerful plot beat to remember. Unfortunately, every appearance since FFVII has kind of sucked. Gilgamesh's FFXII Buster Sword is fake; all it does in Final Fantasy Tactics Advance is teach the Wyrmtamer ability; it forgets to do even that much in Final Fantasy XII. It's a dummied-out weapon for Tidus in Final Fantasy X, which is a dummy move and then some. And its legacy is somewhat tarnished by its existence in Compilation of Final Fantasy VII, because everything that exists in Compilation of Final Fantasy VII is somewhat tarnished by proxy.

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