What baffled me almost as much is the gameplay that followed. Somehow, the Wooden Sword can damage the very powerful Heartless in Hollow Bastion, but not the Shadows on Destiny Islands. Sure, it would have to work like that because they player shouldn't have had to totally rely on Beast, but it always seemed weird to me.
It was weird, but i actually was completely fine relying on Beast, I just kind of distracted the Heartless away from him and them he jumped in with his vicious claw. It was just always on my mind if I would actually have to finish the game with the stupid wooden sword. "Begin the game with the sword, end it with the sword" I thought.