7 Terrible Video Game Weapons That Became ULTIMATE WEAPONS

7. The Wooden Sword - Ninja Gaiden (Xbox)

The legend of the Wooden Sword from Ninja Gaiden on the original Xbox is the stuff of legend, a joke weapon in a video game built from the ground up to laugh at your failures.

Not content with making the game harder than subzero's nipples, the devs gave players the option of wielding the pathetically puny Wooden Sword, which enemies will rightly bat away as they pummel you over and over. Aside from challenging themselves in an already supremely challenging game, what could the point of this weapon even be? Well, it turns out, that the Wooden Sword is actually the most powerful weapon in the game just hiding in plain sight.

In order to turn the Wooden Sword into the Unlabored Flawlessness, the player must upgrade the weapon to its max level, however, in order to get the full power out of this weapon, they're also going to need to do something else.

Take some damage.

For you see the weapon only reaches ultimate status once you drop below 25% health, wherein it dishes out so much punishment it can actually feel like the game is finally on a fair playing field. Still, it does kinda suck that you've gone through all this effort and have to risk being one-shotted yourself to get the most out of this sword. Still, for those willing to run the razor's edge, this is the sword for you.

The only saving grace about this utter face cave of a grind is that at least you don't have to use the Wooden Sword while you're farming for materials to upgrade it, allowing you to use any of the other, much better weapons in order to do battle. Although this point is somewhat diluted when you realize you're still having to use these weapons without upgrades because all your resources have gone into the aforementioned weaksauce broom handle!