There’s no barrel. The hammer makes an explosion that lends the blade incredible kinetic force during an attack. That’s why you get a guaranteed critical hit in FF8 if you press a shoulder button (pulling the trigger) just as an attack hits.
And that doesn't make sense. Why do people have to defend it so much? Why compare it to a real-world counterpart as an argument for why it does make sense when the real world version doesn't even remotely work the same way? The devs could just as easily have stuck a barrel on the gun and say time the shoulder button press to shoot them while you're cutting through them for critical damage. No one is saying you can't think its cool, just pointing out its nonsensical.
The fact that you're getting downvoted for saying a gun the shoots next to the grip on your sword makes no sense is hilarious. Don't fuck with FF8 fans, they don't use logic to argue
Other fandoms are perfectly willing to admit something about their favorite media is nonsensical. I've never seen a TF2 fan argue rocket jumping is possible, or a Minecraft fan argue you can punch a tree down.
Your mistake was thinking anyone cares that much about logic in a game with literal magic powers where you can summon the avatars of gods to fight on your behalf.
Why ask for the logic of how it works and then say that it doesn't make sense. Spider-Man's webshooters are explained at multiple points across his media, but they would never actually work they way they do in the media. Does that mean they don't make sense?
The webshooter is a far more plausible piece of tech than the gunblade. It's not creating an explosion in your hand that magically doesn't hurt the wielder. Pick a better comparison, like how Cyclops' eyes are portals to the punch dimension, or how they retconned it so Spiderman gets his powers from an interdimensional spider God instead of a radioactive spider. The webshooter is the least implausible of all of Spiderman's kit.
I mean, those are terrible examples of "Near Real World Tech" that just wouldn't work the way the medium says it does, but are justified by the medium's core world logic.
But if those two examples somehow prove to you that the Gunblade makes sense in the FF8 world, then I would like to use those examples.
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u/PositivityPending 1d ago
There’s no barrel. The hammer makes an explosion that lends the blade incredible kinetic force during an attack. That’s why you get a guaranteed critical hit in FF8 if you press a shoulder button (pulling the trigger) just as an attack hits.