Stupid Weapon Designs

This scene loses a ton of its impact when you remove the conversation between Shichika and the princess.

You fiend.

This preview and subsequent episode made me fucking mad they didn't show the fight at all. Years later after I watched it and I'm still fucking salty.

It shoots incendiary rounds comparable to real life 12 gauge "dragonsbreath" rounds. FFVIII used the Timed Hits mechanic of Super Mario RPG, but mapped to the R2 button. The idea was that you were pulling the trigger and dousing your enemy in lit fuel while rocket-propelling your sword through them.

That's why the critical hit visual effect is a fireball.

That model is from a recent game that didn't get the licensing to use real guns.

Originally it was an M-16 with the barrel cut to two inches, the rifling filed out, and the stock removed for a pistol grip. It lets its rounds tumble in flight, turning the automatic rifle into a close-quarters "fuck your shit" SMG-proxy firing 5.56. The game calls out that the recoil on that would be bullshit, and it's a testament to the soldier who it was designed for/used it.

The double drum magazine evokes an infinity sign, and its the endgame Infinity +1 weapon that never runs out of ammo.

You know who else was using gunpowder?

The chinese.

This swords were forged with the same modern technic and modern steel quality, of course the heavier sword will win.
If you use steel quality and technic from their respective time, katana > western sword.

quality of european swords have always been vastly superior to the swords produced in japan

europe was producing better quality swords hundreds of years before the katana ever came into existance