The last sword is more of a superpower than a curse

Obviously I’m picking the back pain sword, tho the book sword is a close second pick for me.

Book sword seems an easy pick assuming the scaling of the power ups is remotely similar - if you're an educated adult you should already have a decent power level, its strength isn't going to vary wildly on you (lies would be particularly bad for this), you can have a strong sword without living in pain, and if you need extra power you can just smash through a bunch of childrens books in a few hours.

In terms of the curse sword smells from the future seems the pick. Changing every third word would cause a lot of communication annoyances and seeing only through other people's eyes would make you blind a significant amount of the time.

How is smelling smells three minutes into the future a curse?

I mean if it works similar to other time powers like seeing into the future, that future would be preventable.

Smelling the future and acting to it seems like pretty awesome, and three minutes is pretty long... You have enough time to act and escape you death maybe, if you suddenly don't smell anything anymore... Or you can make sure that you only eat the best food available... Since tasting food is mostly about smells... You could become an awesome cook... you just have to deal with the five tongue senses...

The only see through eye that can see you curse can be a blessing. Ask any blind / nearly blind person.

The seeing through someone else’s eyes would make you a poker god.

Dual-wield book and back pain sword. My back hurts from hunching over too many books.

3: worthless because home is where I am.

4 though...

I'm fucking OP with the traveller's sword.

If you're homeless does that make sword #3 insanely powerful or insanely weak?

Gimme the first sword and I'll do god-tier damage.

do audiobooks count at all for the brain sword?

As a mechanic, this is an easy one.

Sun Tzu hates the #2.

I threw my back out last night so I'll take that 4th one right now. Normally I'd take the 1st though.

Edit: on reflection I'll take the "books read" one anyway because no sword in the world is awesome enough that I'm gonna be swinging it in combat with crippling back pain.

At least two of the cursed swords look mildly pleasurable

I grew up with the internet, and even tho i read a lot, i am very sure that the sword of lies would be the most powerful, especially since my back pain that i had since i was a teenager is currently gone thanks to a very motivated physiotherapist.

Book sword and buy bulk books and a storage space.

I'd go with the eye thing if you can choose which view you want to see.

The first one is anything that scales off INT in a Fromsoft game.

I think the second has the most potential. But I don't need a sword to be honest.

I could probably carry out an assassination with that second sword but I'm probably going to get more utility out of the back pain sword.

As for curses, smells is probably least harmful and easier to game but I'm pretty sure it'd annoy me a lot while I'm cooking.

I think I'm going to genie interpret that second curse about seeing through eyes... as in, your onlookers eyes lose opacity the longer they're watching you. Sure, it'll feel a bit like the unpatched release of Assassin's Creed Unity, but I'd get used to it and it'll let me know who's giving me a glance.