Secret of Mana SNES & iPhone

[TomGuycott]

One exception is the claw, which is invisible.

So could you not just equip the claw and then capture all the sprites weaponless? Or does it make the attack sprites change?

(I haven't played this game, so forgive me if I'm being ignorant)

Unfortunately every weapon utilizes different arrangements of animation, and to make it even worse every weapon has 8 special moves that sometimes have unique animations and frames of their own.

Also worth noting that several of the Claw animations make visible effects, like a Hadoken style fireball. There's also more elaborate frames like a spinning kick.