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10 Hard-To-Get Weapons & Items That Absolutely Were Not Worth Unlocking

November 3, 2020 by Kevin Thielenhaus

When all your hard work just doesn’t pay off. Here’s some of the weapons, items, and armor we regret earning.

A genius rigs his PS2 controller with a servo to complete this challenge.

Onion Knight [Final Fantasy X]

Getting the ultimate weapons for your party is a rite of passage in Final Fantasy games — before facing the final boss, you’ll usually have a chance to explore and hunt down the best weapons in the game. It isn’t meant to be easy, but sometimes these games go way too far. Case in point, the Onion Knight weapon.

The Onion Knight is the Celestial Weapon for Lulu, the black mage of your party. To unlock it, you’ll need to follow a quest-line that involves one of the most annoying, aggravating, hair-pulling activities in the game. You have to dodge 200 bolts of lightning in a row. You can’t save, and you can’t leave or you’ll reset the count. If you lose count, you’re screwed — there’s no in-game counter, so most guides suggest actually completing MORE than 200 consecutive dodges incase you counted wrong. And dodging lightning is already hard enough as is! This is one challenge most of us just flat-out refused.


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The Excalibur II [Final Fantasy IX]

We’re going from one absurd Final Fantasy super-weapon to another. To get your big knight Steiner’s best weapon, the Excalibur II, you’ll need to reach the final dungeon of the game in 12 hours or less. This is a game that typically takes 40 hours to complete for a normal player. And this isn’t a couple of hours run like unlocking weapons like in Resident Evil 2 — this is still 12 hours of game time! You’ll have to speed through every conversation, skip cutscenes, blaze through battles, and you still might not reach the end in time to claim this sword.

Say what you want about dodging 200 lightning bolts, but at least that challenge is waiting for you at the end of the game, whenever you’re ready. To get the Excalibur II, you have to forego everything else — ignore all side-quests, story beats, and atmosphere. You can’t just grab this weapon when you’re ready, you’ve got to be prepared before putting in Disc 1. That makes this one of the most ridiculous — and completely not-worth-it weapons in the entire series.


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