The nice thing about the Ebony Blade is that It's not picky at all. You don't have to kill friends or loved ones like it's advertised, just general allies. Meaning you can simply hire a merc and chop them up right then and there. Better yet, it also has a twisted sense of humor, because you don't even need to kill multiple people. If you have the master level Undead Thrall spell then you can just keep reviving and killing the same person over and over. Combine these facts with any other quest that has an ally die in script, and you can keep the population of Skyrim right where it should be.... (low on civilians, and high in bandits)
@@solidmoon8266 I can understand why they included it. Lore wise, it should be totally fucked up and evil. They're just not accounting for poor game design.
@@ReigoVassal Killing one zombie that you barely know repeatedly is more fucked up than murdering several loved ones? The world you live in is a funhouse.
Since any undead Thrall counts as an ally you can just raise a bandit and repeat no need to kill anyone friendly at all. However in concept it's pretty messed up so I'd say still has a place on a list like this.
i love that most of these are like 'ohhh you have to do so much murder, this weapon will drive you to become a being of pure moral degeneracy and violence oh nooooo' and the borderlands one is just: annoying lol
They also completely forgot the fact that the only way to stop the noise is to turn down the volume of the appliance itself. In-game volume doesnt affect it at all.
To be fair, half the acts I commit as Dragonborn I do not condone. It's just that I can't get to all that sweet sweet glitchy content without making stupid decisions
There's actually a way to bypass the Ebony Blade's Curse. Take it along, on quests you know one or more "ally" will betray you, and slay them with it, when the time comes. One example, is the final main Thieves Guild quest. Killing Mercer can count as one of the ten kills, since technically, he was once an ally.
I loved to trick Deadra rules with some experience through P&P devils pacts. I killed the cannibalistic trader in Markath, revived her with the stronges necromancy spell which does not destroy the corpse...and killed her again. Rinse&repeat until the blade is charged up again. And no, i dont tend to dark techniques and arts, what gave you that idea.
Are there ten or more "allies" that betray you? I haven't played the game. If there are, then it sounds like no one is trustworthy here. If there aren't, then you're still gonna have to kill someone decent.
@@wanderlustwarrior It's been a while since I played, so I'm not sure it there are ten people that betray you. Let's see... 1. Mercer Fray 2. Ciciero (I probably spelled his name wrong...but he's the jester guy, with Dark Brotherhood) 3. Accano (Again...probably spelled this name wrong. But he's the end villain in the Wizard School missions.) 4. Leader of Dark Brotherhood (Can recall her name right now.) 5. In one of the crypts, you go in with two explorers, and one betrays both of you, to use you as a sacrifice. 6. There's a guy you help with something, living in the town at the foot of the Throat of the World Mountain. He's then a target for the Dark Brotherhood. If you help him before doing the assassination mission. I could be wrong, but I think this counts too. These are ones I can think of, off the top of my head...but I bet there's more scenarios like this.
@@wanderlustwarrior There’s also an exploit you can do with it that only requires one person to be betrayed. I usually use a follower you can gain from a specific Daedric quest because she’s a cannibal, she kind of sucks as a follower and she has no importance to the game after you finish the quest. So once you kill her, you need to use the power from the ritual stone to resurrect her, then kill her again. Usually you can only use this power once a day, but with the Aetherial crown you can have multiple stones active at once, and removing it and putting it back on lets you get the stone back and its power right away, allowing you to do all 10 revives/murders in a couple minutes. Just be sure to save between resurrections, as if you kill her with a decapitation (which is a random killing blow you can’t control when it happens), it’ll be impossible to resurrect.
I thought with DMC 3 you would have talked about the item that drains your life bar but gives you infinite Devil Trigger. Agni and Rudra are cuties and they can talk as much as they want!
FF6, the cursed shield was the best equipment in the game. Attach a ribbon to that character and get to fighting. No other equipment comes close to the paladin shield, then it teaches it's wielder the Ultima spell as a bonus. Considering the Ultima spell is the most difficult spell to get in the game (or really any FF game), thats huge.
@ChristophBrinkmann do you remember the cursed ring? Same nonsense, but the payout was a hero ring when you can literally buy them for dirt cheap. I had to stop for a while after figuring that one out.
Another thing this video overlooked is that the Paladin Shield is not just "the best shield in the game", it is broken, giving several inmunities and a big boost to defense and evasion.
I actually thought I had the genius idea of equipping a ribbon on anyone with the shield equipped (the GBA version) and then immediately regret it because I accidentally fired an Inferno spell and killed my Cyan, who's my strongest attacker then. (because I do not want to abuse Quick + Valor Knife Locke for damage multipliers)
Yea... i don't think the writer ever USED the shield... It made you absorb almost all elements, block nearly every physical attack and taught you ultima. Combine it with a ribbon and that character was effectively a god. Big payout for some level grinding.
Not to mention the fact the shield is RIDICULOUSLY easy to uncurse by just going to the solitary island where enemies just instantly die before you even get a turn.
@@kalierdarkekd Why even 'grind' to uncurse the shield? Cursed shield + Offering + Safety Bit + heal staff = one hell of an auto medic. Hit them with haste and it makes some of hardest fights way easier.
On the cursed shield from FF6: If you have the patience, in the world of ruin segment, there is an island with an enemy called "Mu" I believe. They have low health and are inflicted by the sap status. Meaning they will die roughly 5 seconds after the battle starts. These make the grind for the paladin shield slightly more bearable.
I just waited until I was max level to equip it, made sure I had a ribbon on, then continued grinding Dinosaur Forest until I had lifted the curse on the shield. With the ribbon the only status my character had was Doom, and that's not an issue if you're so overpowered you one hit everything on the screen. Totally worth it for the paladin shield.
The ebony blade in Skyrim is actually really good and you don't have to kill your besties just anyone who trusts you enough to travel with you so you can hire random mercenaries and then kill them
Definitely one of the best. Deserves to be talked about more but maybe gets overlooked because of its graphics. I loved the story and the characters and its the best post fight music and action. It's amazing. If they really want to re do another one after 7 it should be 6.
You missed the fact that the true curse of the Ebony Blade is that it can’t be improved by smithing. Meaning that without glitches it’s only going to do about a tenth of the damage as any fully improved weapon.
That was actually a bug caused by the Unofficial patch that was then later fixed by an update to the patch in the base game you are SUPPOSED to be allowed to upgrade it with smithing so yeah
I'd add Frostmourne to that list which appeared first in Warcraft 3. That runeblade has the ability to drain the life and soul from it's victim just by touching it, including the wielder. It also controls the wielder as long as the sword is close to him/her. Arthas found the weapon with the intention of saving his people from the Undead Scourge with it but instead Arthas' soul was the first that was claimed by the sword and he became undead. And evil. And Lordaeron fell. Yikes. On top of that, you can hear the Lich King through that sword. At least you are never alone I suppose.
Technically the first souls claimed by it when Arthas grabs it are those of his allies who are with him...... namely the Dwarven Hero, whom I loved to death. Dude has an amazing ultimate
@@johnlucas2838 nope, Frostmoure consumes the Dwarf & any nearby allies, if you watch the cutscene and then look at the surrounding area after you have the blade, the Dwarf is dead... i can't remember his name currently though
@@aaronruf8421 actually Southern Hospitality doesn't have a "hit yourself on miss" effect, just no crits and more fire vulnerability, though if I remember correctly it used to be less damage instead of no crits
Quick correction about Siegfried: he was only Nightmare in Soulcalibur I and II. (and then on VI due to the timeline reboot). In SC III and IV, Nightmare was essentially a sentient Soul Edge controlling a lifeless armour. In SC V, Nightmare was actually Raphael (never stated officially but made clear through plot info & Nightmare's armourless appearance), possessed by the Soul Edge.
Oh, sentient weapons are the *worst* kind of curse. They're prone to having a will of their own, and leading the poor sap that's dumb enough to hold them on a merry chase across the countryside to do *their* quest, and fuck this "saving the world" bollocks the hero was originally doing.
@@mikato2 except, they're just swords. And they're not allowed to talk or they'll be easily replaced by Cerberus, Beowolf or Nevan. So......yeah, they have no power over themselves any longer.
Ac Odyssey: the Falx of Olympos. When you equip it, your damage is up by 100% but your health is capped at 25%. If you so much as stub your toe, you’ll die.
Yeah, I came across that thing by accident and was baffled for a moment why my health did not regenerate. Also maybe not the best moment to square off against a boss.
Nah thats absolutely worth it. That doubles your assassin damage too. So that's the difference between one shotting high level targets and only getting a partial. If you play stealth that plus armor augs can make one wicked build
I equiped it plus increased fire damage. Would do the conquests where I would combo the ignitr weapons move with the stun move which lights up everyone in the vacinity (armor auged for fire and assassin damage plus faux equiped) ares rush straight through the flaming group lighting more people on fire. Then theres to much chaos for you to really take damage if you good at dodging. Faux equiped makes light work of mercenaries when you chain that assassin's damage boost with the hero strike(I rarely ever actually use the faux as a weapon. Mainly attached as secondary to either a heavy hammer auged to convert physical to fire damage or twin blades depending on the situation)
I cannot believe Frostmourne (HUNGERS!) was not mentioned: Pros: Arthas becomes a powerful knight and is able to kill the demon Mal'ganis. Cons: Arthas becomes a powerful *evil* Death Knight, and goes on to make atrocities several times greater than Mal'ganis. Not the best deal ever if you ask me.
@@KozKalanndok So why is Soul Edge in the video then? If anything Frostmourne would be a perfect weapon to have in the video with all the negative things it did to Arthas and the kingdoms in Azeroth
I love the original Warcraft fans.... before WoW ruined the franchise (imo pay-to-play games are insane when you have to buy the game and then pay a subscription to even play the dammed thing)
I like that you brought up the shield in FFVI, but most of the status ailments (sans Doom) can be a non-issue by then as you should have two or three Ribbons at your disposal. It still makes those 256 victories a mindless grind, but at least you can laugh in the face of said curse for the first dozen or so battles before you get bored of it.
I never noticed that Agni and Rudra were talking. Their voices sounded similar enough to standard magic whirlwind sounds that I thought that's all it was.
@@thereub8166 They didn't took away half of the throws. The B+G throws are moved to 6A+G and you need to break them with the appropriate movement (because some chars like Cassandra even has 4A+G throws).
- Agni and Rudra aren't cursed. They're just 'devil arms'; all bosses have weapons for souls (or however that works). - They cannot be combined to form a staff, Dante just holds them awkwardly for style points.
I think they're called devil arms because they are armaments made of demons. Soul sculpting kinda thing. Much easier to do just after you've kicked the heck out that demon.
Agni and Rudra actually being the two swords and not the two bodies wielding them, means that those swords are demons. demons are infernal being. as such, one could quite correctly state that two demons you use as swords/demons in the form of swords, are cursed weapons.
Demon souls are crafted into devil arms. Although in Agni and Rudra's case it came directly from their spines and severed heads. I always figured they were joined at the mouth for the linked attacks
The cursed sword from baulders gate was so powerful, but a total pain to use. Caused the party member with it to go in a rage and kill everything in sight until the fighting was over.
The Soul Reaver got smashed over the head of Raziel, caused it to impale himself, bound itself to him in both realms and only released itself after he caused Kain to stab him. That’s a cursed weapon.
And his ultimate fate? Being TRULY consumed by the Reaver, after purifying Kain, so that his former adversary could finally "see the true enemy." Hell of a sacrifice, but then what else did Raz have left, after everything he had gone through?
@@jaredcrabb Unfortunately, Square Enix owns most of LoK, and doesn't see any financial gain in making anything after Nosgoth Online (which went defunct a few years back, anyways, save for fandom-ran servers).
One really unusual one: In Hyperdimension Neptunia mk2, a parody game about video game consoles, one of the endings involves you finding a cursed sword capable of defeating the final boss. The catch? The sword can only be powered up by brutally murdering half of your entire party, including the protagonist of the previous game. You do get a really nice sword to use on a New Game Plus, though.
Akujiki. The entire plot of PS2 Shinobi, and only weapon you can use, kills you if you don't defeat enemies fast enough. Which gets tough seeing that in the first level, the floor is lava.
Fun fact: the bane can't be silenced by turning down the special effects sound. It's tied to the game "music" and even if you turn that down. It's not a guarantee that it's silent.
What is truly terrifying about the Ebony Blade is finding out you can make better gear with maxed enchanting after you've already maxed the Ebony Blade
Me and my friend play with double sal, he handed me his corrosive bane with my slag and all my friends who watch me stream it on discord fucking hate me while playing it, it’s hilarious though and strong enough to destroy anything that sucks against corrosion, I just can’t move while doing it and at least I can see things unlike my friend who duel wields rocket launchers and can’t see anything through the smoke.
The Bane was always my most favorite weapon. Every time i started a new game, i would bee-line to it whenever i got to the point i unlocked the quest. It was so much fun to use!
Too broad to put on a list feature. They could probably do an interview video where each member talks about their personal favourite video game outfit. That could be fun.
I mean, it's a black suit with a white dress shirt and a red tie. I'm pretty sure that at least half of Congress and 60% of groomsmen have been accidentally cosplaying as Agent 47 for the last 75 years.
I'm so glad "The Darkness" franchise is coming to light now, I loved those games growing up, the first was more of a puzzle and the second is based more on combat
What about the entire cursed set of gear in Golden Sun? Had zero stats, couldn't remove any of it, and the one way to make it useable was to find a special ring towards the end of the game.
What I love most about your channel is that you remember that games existed before 2000 and reference them. Curse of Monkey Island played too big a role shaping my childhood. Thanks for the reference
To be fare, Soul Edge isn’t the only problem. Soul Calibar is just as problematic to hunt down. Not to mention that it’s the reason Nightmare exist independently of Siegfried. And sometimes it turns the heroes to crystal after they defeat Soul Edge! Sophitia had the right idea of destroying both swords, since in her words they’re both a blight on humanity.
Kusanagi is a semi-legendary, semi-real sword that may or may exist (supposedly it still exists and is part of the ceremony to crown a new emperor) and is part of the royal treasures of Japan. According to legend, it was handed down from divine ancestor of the Emperor.
Now, to be fair, the Paladin Shield is not just the best shield in the best Final Fantasy game, it is also one of the few ways outside of espers to learn a spell. Said spell being Ultima.
17:26 ~ Jane spittin' some truth that all of us content creators are very aware of. Also, the cursed belt from the very old school original Dragon Warrior game on the NES. Find it, put it on, and it squeezes you literally to death. Absolutely zero positives of equipping it.
The Lucky Blade in Lufia and The Casey Bat in Earthbound had the same curse: it missed its mark roughly 97% of the time. But the attack boost made you want to believe.
10:06 As a Psychology major, I would like to point out that Freud was a bit of a looney thinker, even during his time. Psychoanalytic theory itself is kind of a looney practice. So, please people take the humans have a death wish thing with a teeny tiny grain of salt.
Not to be too nitpicky (but totally still nitpicky), but Frostmorne was actually from Warcraft 3: Reign of Chaos. It's what turned Arthas from a paladin into a death knight in the first place, long before he became the lich king.
@@Mythlorrr *Thank* you! Everyone forgets that Warcraft used to be a strategy game series first and it really bugs me when people talk about "Thrall/Jaina/Tyrande/Arthas etc from World of Warcraft"! And I'm not even a big Warcraft fan at all, so I wonder why it annoys me so much?
@@Mythlorrr I’m well aware Frostmorne originated from Warcraft 3. I’m a massive Warcraft lore nerd. Shadowmorne and Kingsmorne are from WoW though, so I just said WoW instead of Warcraft. Also Xalatath could fit this list maybe.
Whenever I find a talking weapon, my first thought is "where is the sound coming from?". Which is usually much harder to ascertain in-game than IRL, like in the case of the cursed squirt gun I found in my basement.
@@DGneoseeker1 it's the cursed blade that stole the soul of prince Arthas as he was trying to defeat the undead, binding him to the will of the lich king turning him on his own people he was just fighting so hard to protect and eventually becoming the lick king. Literally one of Warcrafts best storylines. Go play Warcraft 3/ watch Arthas storyline online
In dark souls there is a ring that give you more spell slots but cuts your hp in half. Not sure if it counts as a curse but I thought it was worth mentioning
Why deal with the painful moral dilemmas of the Ebony Blade when you can just use the Wabbajack? No questionable actions there, just turning people into chickens and cheese. Seperate, unrelated question. *Is it cannibalism if I turn a man into cheese then eat the cheese to heal myself in a fight against his mates.*
@@Santisima_Trinidad I *may* have eaten more than one cheeseperson, so I *might possibly* have tasted another human... But hey I'm still better than a vampire, werewolf or Namira worshipper, right? If it wasn't for people like me we wouldn't know that CheeseNords taste of cheddar and that DairyArgonians taste of stilton, so my 'research' is actually helping to further our understanding of the world!
@@Santisima_Trinidad I think the guards can settle this. While for you they'll mention how you smell of death and a wet dog while simultaneously trying to burn you, for me they'll only notice a mild aroma of parmesan. Nobody could possibly know that the smell was not mere cheese, but actually a notorious Redguard bounty hunter by the name of Derek the Rich and Creamy.
@@Spiracle yes, but consider: the guards call you childish given absolutely zero provocative, and so are we really going to listen to them? I think not. And vampires can turn people into health without needing soul gems and the favourable smile of the wabbajack
I love Agni and Rudra. Excellent crowd control and they’ll occasionally complement you for doing really cool moves with them (I don’t remember how that happens).
I used it to torture my cousin into doing side missions (he likes to power through games, I’m a completionist, it was the only way I could gain leverage over him)
Siegfried's hardly a "clean-cut Teutonic knight" before finding Souledge. While his father was away fighting, he'd taken to ambushing knights returning from the Crusade with his mates for fun and profit, until one day he nicks a victim's helmet to discover IT WAS HIS OWN FATHER! At which point he simply can't deal, and goes, "Oh no, SOMEONE has killed my father! I must dedicate my life to hunting them down and seeking vengeance!" So really, he's the perfect vessel for Souledge to wield.
Spooky's jump scare mansion: The axe. Okay, it is not cursed per se, but if you kill anything with it you are forced to become a new specimen in the end instead of dying. Again, no thanks.
More specifically, if you kill too many things with axe that isn't the final boss, you get the bad ending. And that includes the cardboard cutout signs that try and jump scare you.
Dragon Quest has a plethora of cursed items you can get. Some give kind of good bonuses but with permanent status effect, or are just straight up cruel. Heck they even got a little jingle that plays when you wear them, oh and if you wanna unequip them you gotta visit a priest
@@marhawkman303 I seem to vaguely remember a game like that too. I'm sure that it' not Shining Force though because lifting the curse only unequips the item.
@@marhawkman303 yes, it's the Dragon Quest (Warrior) games. Cursed equipment like the Sword of Destruction, Armor of Hades, Noh Mask, and Unlucky Helmet could not be removed from the character except by a Priest's Uncurse spell, which destroyed the item.
On the Ebony Blade (if you don't have the unofficial patch) just grab a companion you don't particularly like, grab the ritual stone blessing, kill, revive, repeat. Since creatures resurrected using the ritual stone don't disintegrate when re-killed, and retain their relationship to you, you can continue doing this until the blade is fully upgraded. Have fun!
For an AD&D game I ran, I had the bad guy have a really cursed weapon. It had some benefits but it was only good if you are getting attacked by a mob of people. One, all your attacks are done at the end of the round... but fortunately all as the same combo-strike and against every single adjacent target. So, if you do three attacks for that round, you do three attacks against each adjacent target. Sounds great? Not quite. Two, you attack every adjacent target... both friend and foe, when you make the attack. All attacks are exactly the same as your first attack's action declaration... so don't make it a beheading attempt or anything like that if you are within reach of friends... or even attack when within reach of them. Three, whenever someone does an attack and they are adjacent to you (no matter who they are attacking), you get an automatic free attack against them. You roll this strike right before they make theirs. If you hit and do damage, not only do you hurt them but their attack automatically misses. Sounds great? It's not, that includes friends adjacent to you attempting to attack someone. Now you are thinking "I can work with this" but wait, there's more. Four, the blade is huge and super-dense, and it magically empowers you to use it and carry it it does so barely, so you always seem to be dragging it around until you swing it in bursts of insane speed and action when it CAN be used. During the time you are carrying it, you weigh 3x your maximum carried weight allowance and are constantly maximumly encumbered in speed. Mechanically, it weighs normal mass for you and allows you to still carry what you can but it does what it does after those calculations. There's a big tree of if-then for that. Its base damage is 5x the damage of the weapon it replicates but that ONLY applies to the base damage (can be cool for Backstab or critical hit if those apply). Side-effect... can be used as a siege weapon akin to a capped and weaponized battering ram. Five, it's a cursed item but only as a willing temptation item, so you CAN be free of the curse but only if you CHOOSE to not carry it for at least a day all the while not needing any weapon in that time. If you need a weapon within 24 hours of leaving it behind, it will teleport to you and be on your person. You need not use it but it's on you. Six, if the weapon is on your person and you are not using it, all of its properties override the weapon(s) you ARE using. That includes cancelling out the initiative-winning aspects of Quickness/Swiftness weapons, speed factor bonuses, the ability to not attack allies, etc. Seven, if you are using a missile weapon while this weapon is on your person, "everyone adjacent" suddenly becomes "anyone within weapons' range". For the sake of your allies, let's hope you run out of ammo fast. If you are using a sling, your ammo is technically infinite (for stones, not sling bullets) so there's that. Eight, it is a coveted weapon, even to those ignorant of its abilities. CHA-based diplomatic efforts in every single way are at -4 and the chances of random hostile encounters are at twice the normal frequency. Even monsters and animals want to grab and run off with the weapon. Nine, it's a Stone-Giant-sized weaponized machete, so it looked like a "normal" weaponized machete (the sword modifications at the handle and below the blade) that the player dragged around that was 3x in every dimension until he seemed to get bursts of action while holding it. Before I was told about the Playstation FF7, I was told about "Cloud's Sword" at the time and bought a PlayStation... Cloud's sword was much smaller and not anything like my cursed weapon. If the one holding it was larger than size M, some of the hindrances were reduced. It was still far more massive (density) than Stone Giant weapons of its size. The if-then tree applies. I designed this weapon as the OP weapon of THE boss enemy, a cursed weapon that makes it clear why he fights alone save for ranged support (archers and spell casters standing far away), and was OP tempting that my players would learn was just not f^cking worth it. You know what every player group that ever got this did? They had fun working around the curse to make one of their guys the OP DPS guy... every single time, every single group. I mean, each group would have done FAR better by not even bringing this weapon but they loved it despite how tactically unsound it always was in all ways.
I have a bit of an obscure one for you: the dagger with an evil aura around it found in the dungeon in the game Swordbreaker. It mind controls you and makes you commit suicide the instant you pick up the dagger.
@@shotgunshells2 sorry, but in classic horror movie fashion, I didn't watch the add. Obviously nothing is going to happen later that's gonna make me regret that.
I'm sure I'm not the only one who isn't bothered by The Bane. I find it comical rather than annoying. 👌👌 That gun is 100% worth it. Also, Agni and Rudra are totally worth it. Then again, I am the guy who listened to the same song on repeat for 4 days straight and I still wasn't sick of hearing it.
Ok, so I thought you said “Diamond-tit Jason Statham” which was an initially strange mental image but I’ve decided that diamond nippled Jason Statham is a great concept for a future action movie
If a weapon having a voice is all it takes to not make it worth it, you forgot two: From Baldur's Gate II: Shadows of Amn: Lilarcor. Not only does it talk, it is an absolute moron who is constantly yammering at you to "Swing harder swing harder swing harder!" during combat and begging you to please go kill something -- ANYTHING! -- when you are not. From Neverwinter Nights: Hordes of the Underdark: Enserric the Longsword. Who spits out a one-liner every single time you attack a certain type of enemy. Which, in a game that takes place in the Underdark, means you are going to hear him shouting "I love the taste of elf blood! Oh yes!" once every three seconds.
Dream Blade from "Shining in the Darkness". Strongest and hardest to get weapon in the game, but you can't use it, because your character falls asleep at the start of every battle.
@@Geheimnis-c2e Yeah, but Dark Sabre is at least usable and it's able to cast desoul. Dream Blade on the other hand, renders the character totally useless. Even if you wake him up via a spell, he falls asleep as soon as it's his turn again... Of all Shining games, SitD has the most fkt up cursed items... Dream Blade is just the tip of the iceberg. Demon Staff and Forbidden Box are fun too.
I think maybe the One-Hit Obliterator would fit into this one, but it would also fit into a list of '7 dangerous weapons in gaming, to both them and you', because it not only kills enemies in one hit, but also keeps you at a constant 1/4 heart. You try to heal and it sucks it right back down too. In a way, that also contributes to the Master Cycle being a '7 items that were questionably worth what we went through to get them', because in order to get it, you have to go through the Obliterator trials, and then other trials, and then fight all the blights again, and then the fifth divine beast and one more fight.
If I remember correctly, in Legacy of Kain: Soul Reaver 2, the Soul Reaver also sucked up all the surrounding health when you had it equipped when you try to suck up souls.
I still recall the Berserker Sword from Baldur's Gate. It was a two-handed sword +3 (really good), but it had the side effects of 1. It could not be unequipped unless somebody cast Remove Curse on you and 2. In combat, you would enter a berserker state and attack everything on the screen until they were dead or you were dead. The berserk state also made you deal extra damage with each swing. It was not worth it to use despite the nice damage.
Curse you all for forgetting the 'Chicken Knife' from Final Fantasy 5!! The cursed weapon that scales attack power with the number of escapes from battle, becoming the strongest weapon of them all.
That one fits more on a list of 'Curses that are totally worth the downsides', honestly. I mean, who DOESN'T use the chicken knife? It's too damn good, and the side effects are easily worked around.
There is one thing i like to add about the cursed Kitetsu sword in Ninja Gaiden. When you had the Armlet of Tranquility, which slowly regenerates Ryu's healthbar, equipped, it would negate the life draining effect of Kitetsu. Its not easy to get that armlet, because you had to give Muramasa 40 golden scarabs for it. But its sure worth the effort.
You forgot to mention that on kitetsu you could wear the bracelet of tranquility to offset the hp leeching. I’m surprised they stripped its negative effects.
the guy is jealous of Dante (a fictional character) because he's a soy boy “13:20 Why doesn’t my body look like that” “15:11 That’s an entirely reasonable response” 19:50 Soy wojak meme in real life
One of my favorite cursed weapons in games is Kiel's Morning Star from Baldur’s Gate. An incredibly powerful weapon that can’t be unequipped unless you cast Remove Curse or a similar effect. It gives whoever wields it the berserk status, which makes them attack whoever is closest, but gives them massive stat buffs in return. If you could manage to keep the rest of your party in range combat, your Kiel’s user could tear enemies up.
