Discovery Channel’s ‘Master of Arms’ May Have Them Running The Arms Race

This may be a weird way to start off a review, but have you ever played Soul Calibur? Arguably, one of the best fighting games of all time? Stay with me. It’s a game where a bunch of characters from early on in history fight one another using different types of weapons. Bow staff, nunchucks, short sword, shield, those type of weapons. You get the idea? Sounds flames right. Of course, it does. Why? Simple, because weapons are fucking cool. Guns in action movies? Cool. When the hero picks up a weapon and beats a room full of people in a martial arts movie? Fun. Weapons are cool. There so many types of weapons and ways they can be used. I’m a real nerd for finding how things work. Luckily enough, so does Discovery Channel with their show Master of Arms. Not to get all second amendment, the right to bear arms is understandable. I get it. But me? I’m all for taking it back to the days of bow and arrows, katanas, axes, and short spears, man. Weapons that take some finesse to use. That’s always been interesting to me. These combat tools that require a certain skill to wield. I never really took the time to think about the skill it takes to craft them, or the process and how long that takes. That’s the big take away for Master of Arms. We have contestants that are blacksmiths and gunsmiths creating full-fledged era-specific weapons from different points in history. I’m fucking with this. This is my kinda Chopped competition right here. Master of Arms: “This ain’t a scene, it’s a Bast…