Gunblades confuse me

[Erdrick Holmes]

I'll bet you one of these days somebody is gonna make an actual working Gunblade.

*Runs to a toolshed


Im gonna be rich.

[Big D]

[Erdrick Holmes]

Technically thats not a gunblade. Its just a knife with a trigger finger holder thingy. It don't fire bullets.

[Spatvark]

If that's a gunblade, then so are those knuckleduster knife thingies as well =P

[DJZen]

that's a beautiful knife, but yeah, no trigger, no chamber.

There's still no way to account for the aiming though. A lot of people don't really think about this, but you don't really try to cut through something with a slashing weapon, that's a good way to lose your sword. Instead, you try to cut along it. Cutting along cuts more flesh, while cutting through will get the blade stuck inside the flesh. I don't know if this holds true for bigger, heavier weapons, but think about it. You'd have to either cut all the way through or you'd be screwed. The angle that Squall slashes at would require him to slash through not only flesh, but a LOT of bone. Then again, magic *shrug*.

[Dazlar Bynon]

During the installation of my PC-version a bitmap file was shown and saved to a temp-folder I zipped and included it! It shows perfectly how it works, there's even a bullet, whith shouldn't be there since it's being fired and the way he holds the blade!

[Kimera 726]

it's merely an emblem engraved onto Squall's gunblade. He's not really firing it.


Nice Griever.

[DJZen]

Actually, this is a VERY good pic, but it shows something confusing..... Not only is there no barrel, there's no hole for the bullet to emerge from..... Okay, maybe we're looking at this all wrong? Maybe the bullet does something other than get fired out? Maybe...... Ah hell, I'm out of ideas.....

[Dazlar Bynon]

You're right there's no chamber there. It should be a little higher, but I don't think the pic would look as nice, now would it?

[Dazlar Bynon]

I don't get it, with renzokuken I've had a number of times that I got the message '7 HIT' but there are only six chambers, That's weird too!

[Big D]

The Revolver Gunblade holds eight bullets. It's far larger than any six-shooter.

[DJZen]

6 bullets, check the pic. There's still no explanation of how the bullets get fired though.... I'd personally like to ask Mr. Nomura.

[Big D]

Strange... in the Gunblade's case in the pre-opening FMV, there's a row of eight spare bullets.

[Kimera 726]

I just wanna say for the record that FF8 is a merge of magic and technology and what technology can't be explained magic could.

Perhaps it needs no burrels. Perhaps it fires right out of its stock revolver case w/the help of magic and there is a special location where it fires (left or right, it doesn't matter), so that kinda serves the purpose of the trigger cocking mechanism.

Who can say really? This is kinda a good explanation of the gunblade working thinamajig IMO.

[DJZen]

See? Just like I've been saying all along! Magic! It's the only explanation that makes sense.