Let's Talk about Final Fantasy Weapons in Real Life...
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 4 ก.ค. 2024
- Yes, the series even has "fantasy" in its title, so not exactly aiming for down to earth realism or anything, but it's fun to handle reproductions (some downscaled) and get a feel for what they might be like in real life. So here's some nerdy over-thinking for your entertainment.
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Conan's Atlantean & the Kurgan Sword: How Realistic are They?
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Over-Thinking Fantasy: Keyblade, Frostmourne, Dante's Rebellion, Etc
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An Overly Pragmatic Hands-On "Review" of Anime Swords
• An Overly Pragmatic Ha...
A Fun Chat with the Owner of a Sword Shop
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Such a shame it isn't either 9 or 16 hours.
Laura mentioned those as in i could talk 9/16 about this with you. 😇😉
Funny thing about super strength Skall, the things you said a person with super strength would *also* need, the ability to anchor yourself, & super durability, are kinda assumed to come *packaged in* with super strength, otherwise it'd be completely *useless* .
Also, I'd absolutely LOVE to go to a Fire & Steel place & handle a lot of these pieces for myself; even if I don't get to swing them around because there's no designated area for it, it'd be cool to even just *hold* weapons from some of my favorite anime!
That thing would be great on horseback
Ecchi?
That long sword at the beginning, is a Anti-Calvary Weapon, Nodachi/Odachi, whatever it is called, they were designed for ETHER, cutting the head off of a horse, or dismounting the rider... If I recall right.
Granted, Sephiroth never has his sword sheathed. He's always carrying it unsheathed
If I was Sepiroth, I would probably carry the sword without the scabbard to. Imagine trying to fight with that long ass scabbard on your back, let alone on the hip.
Besides, carrying that sword by hand won't be an issue to someone like Sepiroth, that sword probably weighs like a feather to him.
That is why Sephiroth on the sex offender's register.
Walking around with his 'weapon' on display like that.
Also the fact Sephiroth during his actual life was explicitly superhuman when compared to already superhuman SOLDIERs who use Buster Swords as standard issue. Magic is also scientific fact and material component so it is not implausible that materia has been used to alloy his sword to be supersteel durable as well. When you are superhuman compared to superhumans and armed with sword that can keeps it's shape after cutting through steel there is no need for sheath.
Also, he can fly and his sword isn't really intended for fighting other swordsmen.
Doesn't he summon the sword to his hand? IIRC, his blade vanishes when he's not fighting.
After so many gamers and bookworms the lady is so happy to have found an actual fellow sword nerd. ;)
yea, she seems to have warmed up to him since part one.
My thoughts exactly, so many self proclaimed know-it-alls too lol
@@stresslevel1009 uhm, ackshually the katana is only truly capable of supersonic slashing if it is heated in pure magma! If not then it can't handle the strain.
She was gasping at one point.
She almost appeared to be fan girling in earlier
'one inch longer means one inch stronger'.. words to live by
😳
Not for penises.
That's why Samurai used ranged weapons/polearms first, and the katana as a sidearm.
Yup 🧐
Lmao indeed.
I love how the CEO is geeking out with Skall haha
IIRC she said she’s watched several of his videos so not only is she geeking out with him, but with us too.
I like that. A lot.
I did once create a comedic character who had a squire specifically to help him draw/sheath his stupidly long sword.
i mean this would be real life as well. i imagine a large nodachi or tsukamaki would be very hard to unsheath by yourself. at least quickly, i imagine someone would have pulled the sheath for them in the battle field
I agree, I could see a warrior who pays someone just to carry his sword( after all, what are squires and equarries for). We do have spear carriers in history, so I could see a "weapon caddy". And IIRC, in W40K some of the models do have extra figures that hold their weapons
"Hans, bring me the zweihander! No, the other one!"
this was a thing IRL btw
odachi did actually get long enough that people need to be on the battlefield for the pure reason of helping others sheathe and unsheathe their swords
and then there were performers that would draw swords that long on their own since it is just impressive to see
That's what a squire or retainer is FOR
I can see that squire bowing away as to unsheathe the sword.
That ending note is a perfect example of the whole "treat all weapons as if they're real and ready to kill". Knowing that Cerberus there is a foam replica, good to see the finger still stays off the trigger and the feeling of even pointing it towards the camera feels wrong. That's good
I've been dabbling in prop making and safety is a always a concern. Whenever I come up with a cool gimmick, I have to consider how safe it is if handed to someone who does treat it right. If mishandled, it could take out an eye or even set someone on fire. :)
Cough, Rust, cough. Even excluding that, general firearms safety prevents expensive accidents. Trigger discipline exists for a reason.
For the katana unsheathing, LetsaskShogo actually did a video on how to unsheathe a katana and he said to always push against the tsuba from the side. Not directing above the blade because of the issue people have had with cutting their thumb. Or just to squeeze just below the tsuba so the very edge of your hand will break the seal of the katana and sheathe. It was a pretty interesting video
also keeping the thumb on the side holding the tsuba if it's sheathed, so it doesn't accidentally slip out, you react trying to grab it and cut yourself
Or just make the sword shoot out of the sheath like Sam's katana from Metal Gear Rising
This is also an issue of difference between katana and tachi
With tachi, since you carry your sword edge down, it's not an issue to thumb draw
@@andreashansen5313 that was the most ridonkulous and amazing thing of all time
I don't know, you just have to be careful. I've been breaking the seal of my katana and sheathing it when my thumb over the blade for years and never cut myself. I think the problem would come in when you try to go too fast too quickly. We had a saying in the Marines, fast is slow, slow is fast, meaning, start slow and get it right and speed will come with time. When I was learning Iaido we started very slow at first, not to mention with aluminum blades that wouldn't really cut you, and as said before, speed came with time. You build up the muscle memory and then it's not an issue.
I think I speak for quite a few people when I say: Don't feel too bad for interrupting Skall, we love to hear you geek out about swords :)
Also, "Like a snow shovel that's full of snow" is probably the most Canadian comparison I've ever heard XD
Especially since we know the other sort of youtube creators you have to deal with. We do not mind the added information.
Came here to say that as well. Love hearing Skall talk(obviously) but also love hearing the back and forth between fellow nerds.
Yep.
Nodachi don’t get to quite as ridiculous lengths as final fantasy, but they are often long enough that sheathing and unsheathing is actually a two man job or has to be done touching the blade, seki sensei did a video on that a while back :)
depends on era and maker some got longer than seen in fantasy.
Exactly he LITERALLY demoed you CAN TOTALLY effectively use, sheath an unsheath a Nodachi/Sephoroth sword.. an do so safely too. Contrary that these 2 claim an say.. cuz they from 2 totally different style backgrounds BUT he's probably a WAY BETTER swordsmen then either since he basically has done it ALL his life an it's what he's known for
@@robertagu5533 The nodachi in that video with Seki Sensei is somewhat shorter than the 7ft one here. But yeah, Japanese swords close to that length did exist & perform well in combat. Overall, though, few swords for fighting exceeded the wielder's height. It's quite challenging to make a blade that handles well beyond that size.
@@robertagu5533 he didn’t demonstrate the solo sheathing as effectively using the sword, that’s basically a show trick, not something you would want to use in a fight :P
@@99Hatman you must not watch his channel much. He basically ALWAYS explains everything round it. An ALWAYS seems to start from the sheath or a drawn guard position, but MOST from a sheathed draw. Then into an attack an back into a sheath. As probably taught in just about every style of it usually.
Funny you mention it, the leverage bit on Sephiroth's sword was a lesson he learned the hard way in Crisis Core. 😂
Aaay that's true. Good shit.
and it surprised him so hard that he didn't think to... ya know.. LET GO OF THE SWORD
sry to go full "umm akshually", but thats not crisis core specific, that scene is from the og game(unless you're referring to a nibelheim unrelated masamune lever issue)
@@randomredshirt5274 ooh interesting. I believe op is referring to 1 of 2 things in crisis core. Those being the training session against Angeal and poetry bo- I mean Genesis, or the fight with Zack.
In the modern military, we called weapons that required more than one person to operate a “crew-served weapon.” One example was the M-240B machine gun. Sephiroth’s Masamune is now what I call a crew-served sword 🤣
16:30 - props to Skall using good trigger discipline even though he was just told it’s incapable of firing; the fact that he does it instinctually means you can trust him around actual working firearms.
Some of his earlier videos show him shooting his personal firearms, so he's definitely familiar with them.
@@kutter_ttl6786 There's no context, but I'd assume that's where the real firearm footage here came from.
Would be awesome to get a selection of coloured glass balls to fit in the Buster Sword.
For those interested, these 3 barreled guns are inspired by actual portuguese guns used back in the time of the Spice Trade.
They were single shots with a rotating axle (3 shots in total).
What I find fascinating about this gun is that, not only did they took the asthetic, they took the concept as well.
Evolving it into a 3 revolvered barrel.
Fascinating!
That may be a real world example of multiple barrels, and you can see many stupidly multi-barreled designs in the House on the Rock collection, I believe the Cerberus design is simply inspired by Cerberus having three heads and I haven't seen any design documents saying otherwise.
@@rievenailo Cerberus is just a fitting name overall.
The cherry on the top!
Thou there are many stupid designs of multi-barrelled guns, this is not one of them.
They were master pieces of engeneering. So much so, that the existing pieces in the museum (I don't remember which) in Portugal, are still functional today.
There is a pistol variant as well.
People in the west usually don't care about my country's History.
Not only that, there is a tendency to misinform about it.
So I get it, that you can't fathom that Portugal was the USA of the time.
e.g. : We didn't invent the organ gun. That's an example of a shitty multi-barreled gun. Nor did we used it.
But we did like the concept and invented an improved, functional and more accurate gun similar to it: the Ribaldequim.
People in the East usually care about my country's History.
That's why this sort of gun tends to appear in stuff made by asians. Specially by the japanese.
I've seen it in other games.
@@TheMokaKiller Yeah I didn't mean I had any doubts about Portugal's gun history, just haven't seen any mention of Portuguese weaponry in any of the design notes from any of the final fantasy 7 games; they've only mentioned Cerberus.
@@rievenailo No sweat.
Like I said I've seen it in other games, so it's possible they've seen it in other games as well, took the idea and improved on it.
Doesn't get less fascinating because of it.
In fact, if they evolved the concept without knowing anything about it, only makes it even more fascinating.
The Italians still make 3 barrel shotguns. Apparently most of the country doesn't require a gun license for breechloading shotguns.
i really like the dialogue format here, it's cool seeing two people who know their shit going back and forth
I'm really enjoying Lauren's input and perspectives in this series. I would love to see her in more of your videos - even a video chat conversation about more fantasy weapons in the future.
agreed!
Yes please! She's awesome!!
she really gets into her work ... totally geeking out
What I always liked about the weapons of Final Fantasy 7 is how they all seem like a quick fix to deal with living in a world full of monsters and robots, especially when you consider how many people of that world look poor, living in post-supply chain type villages, implying there was some huge disaster quite some time before the game takes place. The oversized swords, the guns that have to make due with whatever ammunition is around, and other outlandish weaponry. The world building of that game was really something.
You may find interesting thigns in Zenozoik, the world where the Zeno Clash series takes place.
The inhabitants are all monsters and freaks, there is but one single city, there is no central authority or government spare for a few gang and there is no written language or even currency. All the inhabitants put whatever they like onto themselves and their houses.
The same philosophy applies to their weaponry. There's hammers made of decorated small anvils stuck on a big stick, rudimentary powder guns with a spinal column for the barrel, grenade launchers with a cow skull's snout part for a "visor", club swords made from pelvises and bones tied to (yet again) a thick stick, it goes on and on.
It's a fascinating world. Inspirations range from Hieronymus Bosch paintings to more obscure prehistoric creatures like the Platybelodon, Entelodont and Deinotherium, but there's influences from Greek art and statues too.
The most recent game, Clash: Artifacts of Chaos from 2023, is a prequel and doesn't even have firearms yet. But it still has a singular law. That being that, prior to a fist fight, you can challenge the opponent to a short game of dice. The winner gets to enforce a condition upon the ensuing fight using a titular Artifact they have. Stuff like the loser having to drink a poison, or slather themselves in something that attracts bees, or placing bait that attracts a common but dangerous aerial predator.
Can warmly recommend Clash: AoC, and Zeno Clash as a whole has cool stuff to offer.
it's basically the monster hunter problem.
"we have over sized super animals murdering us, what do?"
"creat big ass weapons to murder the smaller ones...."
"uh-huuuh...."
"then from their corpses we make even bigger weapons to murder larger monsters"
"okay"
"and keep doing that. forever. till we cant make anything larger cause we killed everything"
"AWESOME!"
FF7's world was probs in an arms race against the monsters, they eventually won leaving a tonne of stupidly large weapons around that very few could legit handle. like why the fck does a random village in the forest carry a sword larger than a human? oh for that fcking triceratops-tank fusion over there? got ya, understood.
I always had the inverse view of FF7. That it is behind us technologically, and even the futuristic stuff seems kind of...retro-looking-ish? You see scrapped tanks in the first part of Remake, and they all look like WWI to Interwar stuff.
@@LeonheartDelta The original game also has an F-14 and mobile phones in it, so they at least made it to our modern times in their world. It's like they had to rediscover engineering after some world changing event pushed them back to the 1800s, when they could really be in the 2200s.
@@frost8077 funny enough that's a weirdly good descriptor of the state of the world in all the post-OG FF7 parts of the compilation...
they can't use Mako power very much anymore because of Meteor/Holy using up a ton of it, so they have to rely on other energy sources... including a weird new one they discover in one of the books called... 'gasoline'
I’m disappointed that the most ridiculous Final Fantasy weapon doesn’t show up more often, Vanille’s collapsible moose antler whip stick
Sounds like something I could order at a hipster restaurant
I mean to be fair that weapon isn't made for fighting, its made to help capture and hijack Wyverns so its more of a hunting implement like a high tech net or somesuch.
@@yammoto148 so? Plenty of characters in the series use non-weapons as weapons.
Edward uses a harp
The geomancer in 5 uses a bell
Edgar having a camera flash and fart gun
Relm uses a paintbrush
Red XIII uses collars and hairclips
Cait Sith uses a megaphone
Quina uses a giant spork
Wakka uses a blitzball
And Snow uses a gavity tech infused duster
It’s all strange, but nothing stands out as much as the whip stick
The less people talk of FF13, the better, tbh. A blight on our history.
@@pillarsofsnow7940 *Edward, not Edgar.
Regarding the issue with the length of Sepiroth's sword and how it can be a leverage to be used against you. Sepiroth impaled Cloud and lifts him high in the air with one hand while cloud was still holding the buster Sword. For someone like Sepiroth with God levels of power that won't be an issue.
The Reason why anime or fantasy weapons will never work IRL is because most characters that weild them are never normal humans.
Also the opposite. That tip swinging has lots of energy coming towards on very narrow area. Stereotyping all weapons of anime with these is sloppy. Is piece of steel cable with nuts placed at end "unrealistic anime weapon" despite appearing in anime?
To swing an overweight weapon you need not only the super strength, but also the super body weight. Otherwise the inertia of that weapon will just throw you off the ground. Some nerd calculated that Cloud must weight at least 400kg to wave around a sword like that.
@@BarafuAlbino Super Strength via magic literally being pumped into your blood and alien god cells being bonded to yours allows you to supercede physics.
@@BarafuAlbino The buster sword is not even close to being 400kg. Even Guts' dragonslayer is only 200kg, and that thing is probably the most massive blade in all of fiction. The buster sword is really not that heavy, probably more like 30kg on average. Both Tifa and that one guy in corneo's mansion lifted the buster sword without visibly straining themselves, and they don't have Cloud's enhanced strength.
@@Da1337Man Real examples have varying weights, but even heaviest I have seen was about 40 kg and it was solid steel. For sword-like object it is ludicrously heavy, but not at all impossible for normal person to move. Moving it gracefully is whole another story.
In Rebirth, while walking through the mines i believe, Barret talks about how Shinra developed stronger lighter metals that make those fantasy weapons possible
And you see a normal soldier handling Cloud's sword so it's not as heavy as steel
It's probably not as heavy as one may think, which is probably why Cloud fashioned his sword in advent children to be progressively heavier as he stacks more and more swords into it until it eventually turn into a buster sword-like shape.
The teaser for the "Falchion" from Fire Emblem: Awakening has me so hyped for the next analysis
I believe it's an old video
@maffewhodges9364 I meant the hands-on analysis, I've seen the visual one
I’m hoping for the blades like Ragnell or some of the Three Houses weapons.
@paladinslash4721 the Three Houses Armorslayer is pretty much an estoc, which is pretty neat, but yeah, the relic weapons would be interesting to see his thoughts on
Her enthusiasm is amazing
My inner child is really loving this series.
To be fair Sephiroth swings his Masamune with one hand like its a toothpick. And he cuts entire buildings in half with it.
Not to mention in his left hand.
He's basically a god though.
He also other 2m tall, with really long limbs so, it is not so ridiculous for him.
Uuh to be fair to be fair i know final fantasy really well i am really a final fantaser 🤓
Japanese games don't deal in physics, you can see schoolgirls wielding 300 kilo hammers like it's cotton candy
Love seeing her eyes light up when one blade nerd gets to talk to another blade nerd (without the internet expert "un acktually" type) I love when I get to talk blades with someone who knows their stuff. It is genuine and love to see it.
Skall: "it's too big"
Shop keeper: "it's scaled down"
I'm always happy when it's you and the wife getting into shinnanigans together.
That's his spouse at the start
@@Efreeti Yes? That's what they were referring to.
@@arthurmoore9488 Someone deleted their comment, seemingly thinking the original commenter was talking about the lady from Fire and Steel
0:55 the same exact thing happened in Crisis Core, as Sephiroth stabbed Cloud and tried to lift him by the blade, dude had a big idea and decided to take control of the leverage while having the sword stabbed in him lmao
I always find it weird. Why don't sephiroth let go of the sword instead of being thrown into lifestream?? But maybe it's so expensive he just won't let it go.
@@Archontasil "I DON'T CARE IF I DIE, I AM NOT LETTING GO OF THIS SWORD! IT COST ME 4 MILLION GIL!"
Skallagrim: "This is a No-dachi, it's length is perfectly fine"
Me: "I wouldn't know, it's still too long to fit in the frame"
funnily enough, in a lot of FF7 scenes, they often mask how he handles the blade through camera cuts. one time he stabbed someone off camera and it cut to him having already stabbed the guy, for instance.
Or in the ff7 remake when cloud was seeing sephiroth he tried to pull out the buster sword to swing it and it hit the top of the door cause it was so big
Cerberus is basically a hand gun volley gun hybrid
Delightful young lady. Thanks for introducing her to us. I'll probably never get to Canada again, but if I do I will get off the highway in Mississauga and visit Fire and Steel.
Digging these videos of you at this prop shop. Hope you get to chat more with them, the expert on cam with you shared some great insights.
Sephiroth also primarily wields it one-handed for even more ridiculousness.
15:12 - I like how you carefully put that little plastic point cap on that massive buster sword. I thought, "Oh. Yup, now it's safe!" and chuckled a bit.
I like those axes in background
Haven’t watched this channel in a while. Always fun here
Love when she's so excited to talk she interrupts and then feels bad about it.
Passion is always good for videos
I love the image of your wife holding a sword twice as long as she is.
They use they/them I'm pretty sure
@@Efreetiwhen?
@@Eagle-eye-pie you mean since when? Years ago now. If you've noticed at all, their youtube account when they respond in the comments is called Devan the Rat, not Cara the Rat anymore. I don't know if they are okay with she/her pronouns or the name Cara anymore, I've never seen them announce anything about it, but that might be because they prefer not talking about it or prefer being private, not necessarily because they are okay with being referred to as she/her or Cara.
I mean, when does she use them?
@@Eagle-eye-pie That question makes no sense. All the time? It's not a part time thing, except maybe for some genderfluid people. Do you not understand what pronouns are?
Lovin' the fantasy swords videos
shoutout to that one image of sephiroth where his sword peaks out of the other side of the canvas
All that said, historical (n)odachi were sometimes extremely long so something like 180cm isn't unheard of. The thing is, it's a purely battlefield weapon(hence you don't need to worry about drawing it quickly), you wouldn't carry it on you in everyday life like you would a katana. It is debatable how useful such extremely long blades really are, but if you look up "Enshin Ryu", you'll find footage of people practicing with swords that are as tall or sometimes taller than the wielder(women too by the way). So saying that extremely long nodachi is impractical at all is wrong. It's all the matter of training and usage cases. Like, there are human height European swords too, and it's known for certain they were used historically too
The Nodachi was primarily intended as a weapon to defeat light cavalry, the length and weight could be used to kill a horse or its rider as they ride past you. The longer it is, the less practical it becomes for fighting other infantry though, since the extreme leverage makes it hard to fight and threaten someone without just tiring yourself out.
@@SethAbercromby the "leverage" works both ways though. the longer a radii is the higher the sfpm (speed) will be with the same angle changes. yeah if you get in a bind youd be at a disadvantage but it would also be much easier to blow through guards. just try to avoid binds in the first place you should have a significant reach advantage in most cases
also dunno what you mean by it being less threatening due to the leverage. as with all long reaching weapons its harder to close the gap and get into an attacking range because of its long reach which makes them very threatening by default. Spears are a perfect example of this. they have alot of leverage against you but are still very threatening
Yeah, it's not like they were meant for fencing or anything.
Swords longer than the wielder is tall definitely existed & saw combat, but appear to have been relatively rare. It is challenging to make a blade that holds up & handles well at that length.
@@dom7899 I didn't say it being less threatening, I said threatning the enemy over the duration of a fight. Yes you can spin the sword around to threaten an opponent without wasting too much excess energy, but you know what an opponent with a somewhat shorter sword can do to threaten you? Hold it point forward and just say out of your circle.
You and I would be hampered by that sword. Sephiroth not only effortlessly held two people locking up at the same time who were also Soldier first class, he was holding Masamune one-handed.
0:31 You've heard of two-handed swords, now get ready for: two-wieldered swords!
four-handed swords
As a certain japanese candy commercial put it, that nodachi is loooong, loooong, maaaaaaaaan!
0:37 here we see the beginning of crew served weapons.
I saw that Fire Emblem Falchion at the end! Hope we get to see a bit of that!
This series has been really fun. I'm glad you did this.
Nice video, i hope theres more content about this store
There is. :)
Oh boy Fire Emblem weapons. I kind of want a video of Skall reacting to some of Engage’s absolutely horrendous weapon designs. He would have a field day.
Been waiting a video like this for a loooong time
Came back here to say a channel called just a bug did a response video to your take on sephiroths sword
This was just wonderful god tier nerding out. Loved it.
this is weird of me to say but im so happy that you and cara are still together. i remember watching your videos like 10 years ago and it's so rare that people just find their perfect match. and it seems like that's what you found lol.
I’m loving these videos, Skall! Also I hope they have guys sword from berserk.
The OG hardedge was much smaller than the buster sword. It was closer in size (length, not width or thickness) to a proper sword. Its width near the end was also a bit less exaggerated. FF7R saw its size increased to nearly that of the buster sword. The one you held in the video was in all probability about right for the original.
These are good fun videos. Vincent's Cerberus is such a neat and clean reproduction, even though it is a prop, I really want one.
The other half of the Chinese quote "One inch longer, one inch stronger," is "One inch shorter, three inches riskier."
I love these videos! Ya gotta visit more blade stores!!!
Well they are super humans with super swords
perfectly makes sence
Demolition Ranch did a version of the Buster sword and had a strongman attempt to wield it. Good vid.
Thank you Skall for trigger discipline
You two made for a fun combo to watch.
Vicent Valentine's gun, in this case the Advent Children version, has always been one of my favourite FF weapon designs. The remake version is much more practical looking though; a proper semi-auto that comes with materia slots.
For some historical context on the Odachi style sword that you guys were drawing. Those were typically used in field battles and unsheathed BEFORE the battle started, usually with the aid of a retainer.
Love to see trigger discipline even on prop weapons.
Yup. Would have solved a lot of problems if the villain from Team America had used proper firearm handling discipline recently
Oh, nice to see more of those
With all of Vincent’s guns I can’t help but think of the recoil too with all 3 chambers firing simultaneously. His rifle, the hydra, is the same way. His machine gun, the gryphon, also has 3 barrels but I can’t remember if they fire simultaneously or rotate.
With a long and flexible enough sword you can just slap the enemy with the side of the blade behind their shield, make them baffled, confused, puzzled, bewildered, disoriented, perplexed, discombobulated and quite possibly bamboozled, opening them for a more direct strike
Absolutely loved this video. I always get a wealth of knowledge and its awesome seeing someone nerd out just like I would about swords. Especially ridiculously sized video game swords. 😂
i was just in the medieval depot today and picked up a couple wall hangers. really nice people there
One of the things that Remake and Rebirth have done with Cloud is have him use the size and weight of his swords in his attacks. He doesn't swing them around like they are weightless. He uses the momentum. They even have a little joke about how impractical it is in Remake when he tries to draw his sword off his back and hits a doorframe.
She looks ever so slightly nervous as you're playing around with a giant katana blade near all her prized collectibles
0:32 That, I guess, is a crew-served sword.
Really loving the conversation between the both of you. She can "interrupt" as much as she wants lol.
very long blades are always interesting to try and consider how you'd carry it around or use it.
Whether it's a 2-hander or a nodachi.
Watching a practioner zip one of those free from its sheath and swing is neat.
As for the sephiroth masamune... every time I think about it from a construction standpoint, I keep thinking it needs to be crazy stiff for it to not flop around. The fact that it doesn't shatter upon impact is just as impressive as Cloud's buster sword being picked up.
You could see Skall's eyes light up when he was holding the Cerberus revolver. You just know he was thinking..."Go ahead punk; make my day!'
odachi/nodachi were actually a thing starting about the 12thc in Japan, primarily used by foot soldiers to fight mounted opponents, but they really didn't reach a peak until about the 14thc
Sephiroth is so iconic. Great video.
A swords worth of "the weak of the sword" at the end lol
I once made a buster sword 1/1 scale sized out of wood. It was so damn heavy that I pulled muscles messing around with it. As a 30 year martial artist I figured out techniques that would allow me to use it to some capacity. But seriously, it was totally impractical except for a Viking berserker to swing it through opponents, basically just smashing through the enemies weapon and the enemy at the same time. And it was wood.
I've been loving these videos so far, it looks like you're really enjoying yourself and I just noticed I missed that, you having fun was why I started following you waaaay back in 2014!
I hope that whatever content you plan on making, historical/HEMA-adjacent or not, you keep having as much fun! Also, is there a way for viewers from other countries to support this store? I can't exactly import a buster sword, but maybe sharing their media...
I love how they keep calling it the Sephiroth sword. The level of respect for a fictional character is mind blowing. Sephiroth and his sword will forever be legendary
I was waiting for Skall to go for the Meet the Robinsons joke: "Why aren't you sheathing the sword? Because it's a long sword and I have little arms, and I don't know how well this plan was thought through." LOL! Great video Skall.
A few notes on the physics of using swords and any other long lever: When you lift an object upward, you do so by exerting a force against gravity so that the net force on the object points upward. Force due to gravity is given by the formula Fgrav = (Newton's gravitational constant)(mass of object 1)(Mass of object 2) / (radial distance between both objects)^2 and will point radially from one object to the other. From mechanical advantage (leverage), we know that Force out = (Force in)(mechanical advantage) where mechanical advantage is some coefficient. When you hold a sword by its handle straight forward with no motion, the mechanical advantage coefficient will be greater than one due to the blade acting as a lever. This results in the gravitational force acting on each part of the blade increasing the further down the blade you travel causing you to need to exert more force against gravity to hold the item in this position: hence, the weapon feels heavier than what you would expect from measuring its weight using a scale. This is also why you block lower down on a sword. Blocking higher results in the force exerted by the attacker's weapon being multiplied by a larger mechanical advantage coefficient. When you swing a sword, the weapon moves in an arc. This is due to torque, also known as angular force, causing the weapon to accelerate radially. Torque is given by the cross product between the sword's radius vector and the applied force vector. What this means is that the direction of torque can be found by finding a direction perpendicular to both a line drawn from the point of motion to your hands (point of force application) and the direction of applied force. Torque will then cause the sword to rotate along an axis located along the direction of torque. Since swinging a sword is a lever connected at only one end instead of two points as with a wrench, the linear applied force exerted by your body will also cause the sword to be accelerated in a linear direction.
The inspiration for the Buster Sword is obvious, when you consider it was designed by Yoshitaka Amano, a man known for his fine arts prints.
It looks exactly like a print shop paper guillotine blade, even the holes near the guard are like the threaded screw holes used to affix the maintenance handles.
Great vidz lately
Sephiroths masamune actually has the same hilt size as the average katana. The odachi is more for battling calvary, it is drawn opposite to a katana where instead of drawing the blade from the scabbard, you draw back the scabbard instead.
The foam wall hangers would be great!
I remember making a foam sword from Warhammer and someone commented it wasn't big enough, but Warhammer has pretty substantial hero scale in its miniatures (unless you believe that humans have larger hands, faces, and weapons than IRL). I don't remember what my point was when I started typing this
Vincent's revolver - Cerberus would be perfect if it was operational
you don't have to worry about unsheathing if you just loosen it and then swing it forward, throwing the scabbard towards your opponent. now there's a diversion tactic
A cool detail I liked in the FF7 Remake, was that in combat the Buster Sword basically pulls Cloud around with it's momentum. Essentially the way Cloud moves, he starts with a big first swing and then just redirects the momentum during the combo attacks. It's very reminiscent of how Guts fights in Berserk, totally impractical and only doable because of his strength.
Loving this series.
15:30 That trigger discipline.
What a lovely cast.
I'd also note that Sephiroth is like 6'7". So aside from the superhuman (jenova) strength, his body to weapon size ratio is different from us. But as someone else mentioned, his weapon would require a special non-earthian material. Thats where Gaia comes in xD
Love Fire and Steel! I have a few items from them! I met her! She is awesome!