The best part of the game(s) was learning all the ways to cheese them, like guard-cancelling with broadswords(you can do it with any weapon type but it's the most busted with broadswords), combine that with the doppelganger sword you can grab within the first half an hour of Vol 2 and things get really funny. Though I don't recommend using them until endgame as they make most other weapons in the game irrelevant, mostly because of their effects, because the multiplier forgable weapons get make them a decent chunk stronger.