These Video Game Weapons Suck! (At First)

3. Wooden Sword - Ninja Gaiden

So I think it's safe to say that nearly all of us and our nans know of the sheer hatred the Ninja Gaiden has for its own fans. While the likes of Deamon's Souls was but a salty twinkle in the eye of FromSoftware, the Ninja Gaiden devs were already decades deep into making those that paid good money for their games regret nearly every life choice they'd ever made.

From endlessly respawning enemies, obtuse level designs, and difficulty spikes so sharp you could impale yourself on, the series does not mess around, until that is when it came to the Xbox version of Ninja Gaiden where it completely messed with players thanks to the Wooden Sword weapon.

In a game where you basically need to be wielding a weapon of ultimate power in order to stand on level footing with basic grunts, giving players a twig sporting the lowest damage rating sure felt like a slap in the face with a spiked mace. To say that it sucked to be endlessly pied off by enemies while using this is an understatement, however, this is also the word to express the untapped brilliance of this weapon.

When leveled up seven times, which itself is a feat that will require a full playthrough of focused purchases to do, the Wooden Sword becomes the might Unlabored Flawlessness a weapon of unimaginable power that will utterly carve through enemies like butter.

However as you might expect with this game, there is still a slight catch.

For you see while the Unlabored Flawlessness can dish out the highest damage in the game, it will only do so when Ryu is at 25% health as the weapon grows in power the lower your health is. Therefore this is a weapon that sucks at the start, kinda sucks when you unlock it, and only turns into the Beatles Greatest Hits when you're at death's door....which also kinda sucks!