It reminds me a comics about a group of heroes being defeated because their shiny brand-new fire sword didn't behaved exactly as wanted. Instead of sheating itself in flames, it asked stupid riddles.
And then you see the wounded heroes going back to the weapon seller and complaining, and it turns out the smith had a speach impediment... Can't translate the pun easily, it would require for English to have a word synonym to game that would sound like "jire" or "vire"... And they bought an
épée de jeu instead of an
épée de feu.
Speaking weapons are a constant source of pain-in-the-
equus-asinus. Like the dreaded Excalibur Junior in these "Grail Quest" game-book where you play Pip the Idiot.
Several examples:
1. The jealous sword. She don't want you to wield any other blade, including a kitchen knife for eating. "Why do you cheat on me with that ridiculous midget?"
2. The jerk greatsword who's constantly insulting its wielder. "You know why this hot-headed moron is proud to wield an impressive 2-handed sword like me? He needs to compensate for his puny 2-legged sword!"
3. The polite sword, constantly complimenting the foe's dodges and excusing herself for the brutality of its wielder, saying all this violence is against its will.
4. The nostalgic veteran sword, always reminding its wielder of how it was when it was wielded by the great heroes of yore, not like these silly ignorant kids of today, and how in the good old time, the monsters were bigger and harsher and so on. (More a talking animal than a talking sword, but look at
Puck the Pookah's drunken rant in Mixed Myth for a good example of what I mean.)
5. The "exotic oriental katana who's better than all other swords because it comes from the land of ninjas and samurais". Constantly talking in phony haiku, approximative japanese, and uttering shallow philosophical saying in Yoda-speech. On the plus side, it's also a bane weapon against pirates. Note that it don't even looks like a katana.
