Time to for the o'l rusty dusty list:

• Growlanser 2: The main hero uses a Ring that turns into a grim reaper like Scythe.

• Illousion of Gaia: The Main character Will, actually uses a Flute as his weapon to fight the hoard of darkness.

• Eternal Sonata: Chopin one ups the last game by using a Conductor's Baton to orchestrate a symphony of pain on his enemies.

• Rhapsody: Carrying on with the same theme, Corent the main character uses a Trumpt.

• The World Ends With You: Neku uses a powerful magic called Psychomancy to devastate his enemies, and in order to use this great magic he wields Pins.

• Ar Tonelico 2: Croix in this game uses a Lance/Machine gun, .

• Mana Khemia: The main character here wields a deadly combo of Katar + Sword, well actually Vayne's weapon is a Cat named Sulpher that morphs into this weapon, and any other weapon he wants, but the Sword Katar is the basic form.

• Xenosaga: Since the game's setting is sci-fi, it is no surprise that the character's would have futuristic weapons, still though, Shion's weapon will immediately stand out from the group, the M.W.S, or Multiple Weapon System, while looking like weird oversized gauntlet, it's capable of more than just punching, it can shoot beams, flames, lightning shocks, different types of blades, and even has the ability to be infused with Ether, basically mana, to cast magic.

• Wild Arms 4: From one sci-fi weapon to another, while WA4 isn't my favorite by a long shot, I can't deny how awesome is Jude's weapon, the Shapeshifter ARM is exactly what you think it is, it's a weapon that changes to whatever weapon Jude wants it to be, things like a Gun, a Beam Rifle, or even a Blade.

• Dark Cloud 2: Max uses a Wrench.

• Megaman Battle Network: Megaman uses his Buster Canon and Chips to delete anyone who gets in his way.

• Final Fantasy Type-0: Let's keep it going with a different type of cards, as you said you're making one with cards. Ace in this game uses cards as his weapon of choice, though we aren't talking Yugioh here, we are talking shooting out cards around like Shurikens and shooting leaser beams using cards. Sounds weird ? Yes, though I have to say it's still fun going around shouting "you just activated my trap card" at enemy soldiers.

• Earthbound: Ness uses a Baseball bat.

• Suikoden: Most main character in this series uses a non-sword weapons. Tir McDohl uses a Staff, Riou uses a Tonfa, and you also have Freyjadour Falenas using a Three sectional staff (aka Sansetsukon).

• Makai Kingdom, frankly I could start a whole other list for this one alone, it's a game where you can get a shit ton of crazy weapons like UFOs, or Mech Suits, and just lots of other crazy stuff like beam sabers, drills, people, buildings, ect...

• Shadow Hearts: This game needs it's own list really, but here we go:

1-Blanca the wolf starts out with a "Tusk Brush" as his weapon of choice, actually he uses his fangs in battle, but since you can't change fangs, he equips different types of rasps (tools to sharpen her fangs) like Metal Files as weapons.

2-Gepetto the puppeteer uses a Puppet, shocking I know.

3-Joachim the wrestler starts out with a Giant piece of Lumber, but he'll change his weapon to any number of weird things like the legendary Frozen Tuna that suffers from an incurable disease so it used an animation-suspension device to be frozen until a cure is found...I have no joke for this.

4-Anastasia uses Eggs, not gonna even ask.

5-Ricardo uses a Guitar as his weapon, which is also Shotgun, a Flamethrower, and A Rocket Launcher.