Masamune!

[Anom]

Originally posted by shock~moredheL
I can't tell anything except that it curves like its facing up and not down.

I'm not seeing a curve in the blade at all unless you're referring to the the very end where it tapers to a point... in which case the sharp "cutting" edge is facing downwards...

Again tho, just like in the other post where "Square should be ashamed", there are a lot of specific details such as this that really need to be overlooked...

Take the Bilbo for instance. A rapier-type sword. Yet I don't see people with this sword in a proper fencing stance/attack manner.

Same goes with staves... How many martial arts are there where a person has a pole strapped to their back? I can really only think of the Ninja Turtles, heh... And when they swing it around, what style are they using? How come I don't see a Wing Chun low-horse stance? Or some other style like Wu-shu? What is this "beat the dog with a broom" technique?

and so on...

Yes, it could have been much more detailed and true to history if they flipped the image of the katana around. But if they wanted everything to be exactly perfectly sound, it might have taken them longer to develop and release the game as a whole due to all the researching of every single weapon/style/etc. I'm sure there are other reasons too.

Getting back to the thread, the Masamune looks bad as hell. Me want. Facing EITHER DIRECTION.

[JexIntrepid]

uh....monks and ninjas should get nunkunchuks. Dragoons should get their mounted calvary (so make Wyverns bigger and mountable), Ninjas should get 1-hit auto kills that have a very low % of acc, but can be very helpful at times. Could be an assassin's backstab or something. There should be a Frog that uses Masamune better than any other fighter in the game, yes, his name would be Frog (Glenn later). Oh no! they forgot to make the blade in sheath! and to make it blade up when not drawn! There are lot of discrepancies in the game, guess they'll have to deal with the thousands of players that pay to play the game and don't really give a damn about those lil' discrepancies. heh. It works both ways, but it's not like Square E didnt listen to the samurai pleas for a main-samurai enhancer. There. I feel better already

[Protoman!]

The game is called final FANTASY. why it has to be true to history, why people have to be using a certain stance with a certain sword or the game is worthless, why the blade HAS TO BE FACING UP yadda yadda yadda and all this other whining is a mystery to me. it's not the real world, it's not meant to be.

Masamune looks awesome.

[EpsilonPhoenix]

If Masamune is in the game, then shouldn't it's counterpart, Murasame, also be in here?

[Xiphoid]

Originally posted by omnigene
He didn't take the pics. I would think that's a GM type person, they can do all types of things like that. I saw one wearing PLD AF body and the rest DRK AF while switching from DRK to PLD

o.o omg that katana's awesome

yeah he is a GM(Sage Sandi!) can equip anything he want.
and under the katana pic was written (‚¨ŽØ‚肵‚Ü‚·)
dunno what that mean.

[replica]

very nice Xiphoid ^^ seen the tachi of trials..? nothing special ; ;
I wonder why these pics are taken.. Isn't there a program that would allow us to view objects in FFXI?

[Viro]

well least that finally answers my question on its existance heh

[OWA_900]

Well it better be the best one. Masamune was the best Swordsmith ever!

[SilentIce]

Blade is facing down-- but that doesn't look like the masamune-- go look at a pic of it-- the masamune has a distinct curve to it.

[Anom]

true, but I'm sure many of the weapons don't look like what they're called... They wanted to set it apart I guess from all the others.

[Nodachi]

It's a strait sword much like the level 65 and 67 Katanas. . . if only the hilt were red =D''' oh wells it's still seksy beyond belief. . . now all i wana see is someone with that frikkin 71 long bow for SAM and RNG. In the graphic pic in the AH it looks like a traditional long bow - massive and black omgoodness with stats to drool over lol.

[Reichou]

wow...awesome

[Toketsu]

Originally posted by Xiphoid


yeah he is a GM(Sage Sandi!) can equip anything he want.
and under the katana pic was written (‚¨ŽØ‚肵‚Ü‚·)
dunno what that mean.

"お借りします" = "I borrowed" or something.

[Serpent]

Originally posted by Nodachi
It's a strait sword much like the level 65 and 67 Katanas. . . if only the hilt were red =D''' oh wells it's still seksy beyond belief. . . now all i wana see is someone with that frikkin 71 long bow for SAM and RNG. In the graphic pic in the AH it looks like a traditional long bow - massive and black omgoodness with stats to drool over lol.

lol I just saw it in the AH today , I am dieing to see the bow and the masamune some day in game and up close = D

[Kalis]

Originally posted by JexIntrepid
uh....monks and ninjas should get nunkunchuks. Dragoons should get their mounted calvary (so make Wyverns bigger and mountable), Ninjas should get 1-hit auto kills that have a very low % of acc, but can be very helpful at times. Could be an assassin's backstab or something. There should be a Frog that uses Masamune better than any other fighter in the game, yes, his name would be Frog (Glenn later). Oh no! they forgot to make the blade in sheath! and to make it blade up when not drawn! There are lot of discrepancies in the game, guess they'll have to deal with the thousands of players that pay to play the game and don't really give a damn about those lil' discrepancies. heh. It works both ways, but it's not like Square E didnt listen to the samurai pleas for a main-samurai enhancer. There. I feel better already

I heard the actual name of Frog's sword is Grandlion. It was just called Masamune in the NA version of Chrono Trigger because nobody is familiar with Grandlion in NA.