The thing that truly bothers me about the gunblades is the the sheer ridiculousness of their tacked-on "vibrioweapon" explanation. In both Final Fantasy VIII with Squall and in Parasite Eve II with the shotgun variant, they took the time to actually engineer the gunblade so that the muzzle of the firearm terminated about eight to ten inches before the point of the blade in such a manner that should the tip of the blade be in contact with a target, there wouldn't be an explosive compression of gasses that could stovepipe the barrel. They were literally designed so that yes, you can slash something with the blade AND put a .45 ACP round in it at the same time. Hell. The design itself even seems to permit using it firearm-only with the only disadvantage being the weight of the weapon itself. In Parasite Eve II, the gunblade was actually a shotgun that was used for this very purpose. No doubt it was extremely dangerous to use, but we can all guess the results of burying a 12-gauge shotgun-machete into the side of a fleshy target and to top it off—the backside of the blade had a foregrip that allowed you to actually use it like a classic scattergun.
But no. That's not cool enough.
VIBRIOWEAPON, GAIZ.
Edit: Typos.
But no. That's not cool enough.
VIBRIOWEAPON, GAIZ.
Edit: Typos.
