User blog comment:Lord Loss/Discussion of the Week: Sword and Shields/@comment-1712810-20120512145418

I've only used them in Tri, as I find myself preferring Dual Swords in other games. However, I will say that I tend to like the designs of SnS. Generally, the designs of the blade and shield look pretty cool... to me, anyway.

I kinda wish we could just swap between holding a shield, or a second blade (thus choosing SnS or DS) and also mix em up. I mean... you gotta figure, if you have an ice SnS... that little ice shield would be less effective against protecting against fire attacks... so swap it with a fire based shield... Of course, all shields work exactly the same, so this simply isn't necessary... I just find it a bit shallow. You gotta admit though, it'd be fun to swap around swords and shields for random combos, if only for fancy design purposes.