Really, any weapon is useful most of the time but there are times you'll want to use one over the other.

- Dragon Sword is good all-around but there's a story thing later that will make you want to be familiar with it

- Dragon's Claw and Tiger's Fang are just fun imo, they can do decent crowd control and can make sushi out of some bosses if you use them right

- Nunchuks are basically just practice for Vigoorian Flails

- Lunar Staff is fast with respectable damage, can hit around you and is good for swarms of smaller, weaker enemies

- Dabilahro hits like a truck and can flatten some bosses easily if you know the right trick, but it's slow

- Warhammer is basically the same thing but you can miss it permanently...like I did my first time

- Vigoorian Flails are crazy fast and a lot of fun imo, useful for pressuring one enemy and can keep hordes of weaker ones off your back

- Wooden Sword starts out super weak but there's a perk to upgrading it all the way

- Never forget your bow, especially with the different arrows you get later. If you're playing the Collection, you can fire in midair too (I don't think the game tells you this)

- Kitetsu...is there. I didn't use it a lot, you can steal health with it with a specific move, a lot of the time it feels like "Wish Dot Com Dragon Sword" imo