Gunblades, Final Fantasy series
When you think of combining a gun and a sword, I imagine something more along the lines of a bayonet. But Square Enix blew my expectations up with the gunblade, a reoccurring weapon in the Final Fantasy series that first appeared in 1999’s Final Fantasy VIII
While I’m an utter simp for katanas, when I first laid eyes on Seifer Almasy and Squall Leonhart’s iconic gunblades, I forgot about my beloved Japanese blades. With its sharp edge and revolver-like hilt, the gunblade is one of the sickest weapons to come from the mind of FF character designer Tetsuya Nomura. — Levi Winslow, staff writer
