Well, if you think about it, there are no guns. It's like in... call of cthulu, even though guns aren't that common players will do ANYTHING to justify having a gun. Likewise here everyone will do anything to justify having a blade, but here is something else you have to take into consideration, in call of cthulu having a gun makes you feel safe, but doesn't do anything in the long run. Same principle here. Even though we have a blade, will it help us? Possibly not. Unlike the walking dead series, here we have pokemon. Steel types, rock types, huge pokemon like Gyrados, flying pokemon like Pidgeot. Let me ask you... against a flock of zombie birds... will that blade do anything? In the long run, will it really help? Sure, at the beginning everyone will feel safe, but in the end no matter what weapon you have, you won't be safe.