10 Final Fantasy swords that are somehow even cooler than Cloud's Buster Sword

Can't save the world without a kickass sword Cloud's Buster Sword is the de facto face of Final Fantasy weapons. Look at the big blade on a tiny stick and the skinny-armed kid twirling it around like it's nothing! God, please. We have looked, for almost 30 years. I'm kidding. It's a neat sword! Square Enix deserves credit for wrapping so many layers of symbolism and storytelling into one weapon, too. But there's a whole bunch of other sick Final Fantasy swords that don't get their time in the sun. This is for them. Final Fantasy has pumped out a lot of cool stuff over the years, but the gunblade has to be one of the best. It's a gun! And a blade! The gun bit doesn't work in Final Fantasy 8, where the weapon made its debut, but it's still a punk-ass piece of kit (and Squall's Leonhart gunblade is one of the most memorable weapon designs in the series). It finally comes into its own in Final Fantasy 13, where Lightning actually uses it as a gun and a sword. But there's also a whole massive chunk of lore attached to the gunblade in FFXIV, first in the Gunbreaker class questline and then, for the more patient, in the very grindy Bozja: Southern Front mode. Gunblades aren't just for loo

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