Man Makes Real-Life Buster Sword

The Buster Sword

Massive weapon from Final Fantasy VII put to pallet-chopping use.

Cloud's Buster Sword from Final Fantasy VII is among the most iconic digital weapons in video game history. Now, thanks to one skilled craftsman, it's real and ridiculously huge.

Cloud of Final Fantasy VII

YouTube user MichaelCthulhu posted a video of his built-to-scale Buster Sword in action, as spotted by the people at GeekOSystem. Unfortunately, a demonstration of the sword being unleashed on a wooden pallet proves the Buster Sword should only be handled by heroes, as it weighs fifty-four pounds, distributed along a steel blade roughly six feet long. This goes to show how terribly imbalanced anime weapons are; all the weight is on one end, so it's like holding a sledgehammer by the end of the handle with one hand.


Ironically, Final Fantasy VII hero Cloud comments in the game that despite the Buster Sword's massive size, "it's not that heavy."
Apparently the creator hurt his back messing around with the weapon too much. His dwarven acquaintance revealed that he slipped a disc in his back.

The Buster Sword is one of the most iconic digital weapons in video game history

The moral here: RPG weaponry might be awesome in video games, but in real life it'll only make you slip a disk.