Infinity+1 Sword/Playing With

Basic Trope: The best equipment in the game requires considerable effort on the part of the player to acquire.
 * Straight: To get the Ultimate Sword, Ultimate Spear, Ultimate Rod, Ultimate Staff, and Ultimate Shield for your Five-Man Band, you need to get to the final dungeon.
 * Exaggerated: The items for them are Randomly Drops from the Bonus Boss at the end of the Bonus Dungeon that you can only get to if you speak to a particular NPC in the third town the sidequest to get them won't start, and the other NPCs wont' talk... and they're too late, being outclassed by the Double-edged Bonecleaver.
 * Justified: They show Character Development.
 * Inverted: Starter Equipment.
 * Subverted: They're considerably weaker than the other weapons.
 * Double Subverted: ...Until you grind their stats a bunch, at which point they're hands down the best weapons.
 * Parodied: Their compendium info says "Their power can only be wielded by five true heroes... who have way too much time on their hands. Come on, guys."
 * Deconstructed: Their stats aren't high enough to justify the amount of time and effort needed to obtain them, meaning most players don't even bother. Was It Really Worth It??
 * By the time you have the ability to obtain it, you've pretty much beaten the game and thus proven you don't need it.
 * Reconstructed: The initial parts of the sidequest are made intentionally tedious or obscure to discourage players who aren't really focused on Hundred Percent Completion from wasting their time. Instead, those players just finish the game and move on, and everyone's satisfied.
 * The game has a New Game Plus, meaning that if you put the time and effort to get the Diamond-Edged Atomcleaver with it's boosts, you get to experience the joy of mopping the floor with That One Boss's ugly face with them.
 * Zig Zagged: The items have the best boost to your Attack stat, but the Double-edged Bonecleaver or the Sword of the Ancients is better in some situations for whatever reason. However, once you obtain their unique Combination Attack, there's no contest.
 * Averted: There is no sidequest for an ultimate weapon. The best weapon in the game can be purchased or obtained through story progression.
 * "Best weapon" is a fan designation based on highest boosts - there's no Ultimate anything.
 * Enforced: Ultimate weapons of this type are generally recognized as a common element in the games they show up in.
 * Lampshaded: "We could have used the time you spend getting that sword on, you know, SAVING THE FRICKING WORLD!"
 * Invoked: It's common knowledge among the game's characters that a diamond-edged sword would be pretty much the most powerful thing ever- it's often said that such a sword could cleave even atoms in half, but it's also commonly thought to be impossible to gather the materials needed to make one.
 * Defied: Screw the sidequest, I'll just go level grind if I need to.
 * Discussed: That better be the ultimate sword. Look what we did to get it.
 * Conversed: Couldn't you have just beaten the game already?
 * Played for Laughs: The strongest monster in the game is the GIGASPOON, which hits the damage cap with every swing.
 * "At last, now I can Beat Chuck Norris."
 * Played for Drama: The weapons were awakened by the soul of The Hero's Dead Little Sister, who was killed by the Mooks.

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