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+, 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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