Unbreakable Weapons: Difference between revisions

In a bizarre dichotomy, if video games don't have [[Breakable Weapons]], they very likely have the exact opposite: [['''Unbreakable Weapons]]'''. No matter how many times you rapidly fire that gun in full-auto mode, it never malfunctions nor does it ever require any sort of maintenance. Swords never break no matter how many times you foolishly use it to strike armored enemies. Unless, of course, [[Gameplay and Story Segregation|the plot calls for it]].

* Every ''[[The Legend of Zelda]]'' game (until ''Breath of the Wild''). ''Ocarina of Time'' had the breakable Giant's Knife, and wooden shields can be incinerated in all of the 3D games, but this trope applies to almost all the standard items and equipment in the games. A certain enemy throughout the series can often eat your shields, but that's not exactly breaking them. In fact, in later games they'll drop them intact if they're defeated quickly enough.

* ''[[Rise of the Kasai|Mark of Kri and Rise of the Kasai]]'' play this straight. You can bash your sword against armor, other swords, and stone walls-- youwalls—you can block a heavy axe swung by a [[Mighty Glacier]] with a pair of knives, but your weapons will never break. Not even the wooden ones.

* Most of the games in the ''[[Legacy of Kain]]'' series play this straight; in ''Blood Omen'', none of the weapons can be broken. In the ''Soul Reaver'' games(I could be wrong on this one) none of the weapons you pick up-- manyup—many of which are ceremonial or even decorative-- willdecorative—will break, though you'll lose them. ''Defiance'' also features an unbreakble sword in the form of Kain's Reaver. ''Blood Omen 2'' is the only game to feature breakable weapons, and even then, they're only breakable when ''you're'' using them; enemies can block your(superhumanly strong) attacks infinitely without them breaking. However, even this game features an unbreakable weapon in the form of the Soul Reaver itself, which is obtained in the last bossfight or by a cheat code. Being unbreakable is a plot point for the Soul Reaver, however, it's also the only weapon that is broken as part of the plot, whenever it strikes itself(time travel), one version will break.

* ''[[Drakengard]]'s'' weapons are [[Unbreakable Weapons]]. Kind of funny in that some of the weapons themselves are broken, but won't break further.

* ''[[RunescapeRuneScape]]'' weaponry is unusually resilient, for example an axe will continue to fell trees after breaking a thousand steel platebodies to bits. Barrows Armor, however, is extremely old (thousands of years) and will break and decay after fifteen hours of solid use, until it needs to be repaired for hundreds of thousands of coins.

** ''[[Valkyrie Profile: Silmeria|Silmeria]]'' does this unless a specific Sealstone is used, and ''[[Valkyrie Profile: Covenant of the Plume|Covenant]]'' is like this regardless... which is confusing, since both are ''prequels''.

* ''[[Star Wars]]: [[Knights of the Old Republic]]''. Most physical melee weapons are coated in a supposedly-rare [[Unobtainium]] to keep enemy lightsabers from cutting through them like butter. Firearms of all sorts have infinite amounts of the appropriate ammo. Lightsabers... are about as indestructible as you'd expect. They're still [[Game Breaker|Game Breakers]]s.