Sword Girls is a (mostly) free Card Battle Game. It originates from Korea, while its English version is currently in open beta.The game's setting is a world with an Improbably Female Cast. There are four factions: Vita, a high school; the Royal Academy, a private school for aristocrat girls, and their maids; Crux, a theocratic country; and Darklore, a catchall name for dark forces rejected by Crux, including vampires, Heretics and witches. The game's backstory is mostly pieced together from the flavor texts of cards.Its gameplay is also known for being very dependent on the Random Number God. Followers, the cards you use to fight with, are AI-controlled and can sometimes make decisions against the player's wishes.The game is also filled with truckloads of Fanservice.
This game provides examples of:
A-Cup Angst: Espirit, who tells the lore explaining the story. She often mentions Rio's breast, the Crux Knight's assets etc.
Absurdly Powerful Student Council: The Student Council of the Vita Public School as some of its members are very idealistic on justice and will beat anyone who breaks the rules.
Animal Motifs: The 3 factions(except Darklore) has this. The Vita faction is a bird, the Academy is a lion while the Crux Faction is a Pegasus. To make it sense, their guardians are this.
Asleep In Class: And there is even a club whose purpose is to get its members to fall asleep easier. Founded by an insomniac teacher.
Dress Up Change: [(555) 800-8135...! Change! Dress Up! Shatter the chains of fate!]
Cast from Hit Points: Several Darklore spells, such as Sacrifice and Forced Confinement, take some of the player's life as a cost. For followers, there's Dark Magic Plot and Uniform Tweak.
Chekhov's Gunman: Several characters whom appeared with little importance in their debut become later had a bigger importance in the later episodes.
Cute Witch: Several witches in the Darklore faction who simply living normally with their lives, that goes to the older witches.
Darker and Edgier: By the start of EP 3, things gone very grim. Also according the news in the korean site, it's called "Dark Story".
Demoted to Extra: By the 2nd Season, our 4 main heroines are almost not mentioned in the story. Its only minor focus was Iri befriending Sita.
"If destiny exists, the girls will meet again. They have no say in it"
Elegant Gothic Lolita: The style of choice for Darklore girls. Other factions also display it to various degree.
Perky Goth: The younger Darklore girls seems to be both dark and fun-loving. The (physically) older are just plain dark.
The Empire: The Lazion Empire as mention in several parts of the story to out the game's chapters, who is said to posses advance technology capable to defeating all factions mention in this game.
They are very quiet lately due to it's problems regarding the monsters that appeared on the back story.
Face Heel Turn: Vernika becomes a vampire thanks to Iri, which turns her into a power hungry vampire and allows her to defeat the head of the Flina family.
Japanese School Club: Alongside the more usual clubs such as tennis and basketball, Vita also has cooking club that only makes sweets as well as Sleep Club, whose primary activity is... sleeping.
Joshikousei: The Vita Faction's Public School, as the faction itself is only focus on it unlike the other factions.
Kuudere: Sita Vilosa in the Vita Faction and later on Eisenwane in the Crux Faction.
Late for School: There's even a card for this, the Latecomer. Also lampshades the cliche.
Lesbian Vampire: Iri is hopelessly in love with Vernika. Some of the other Darklore cards are chock-full of lesbian subtext as well.
Battle Butler: And if a maid has card representation, she is able to kick serious arses.
Maid Corps: The 3 Pacifica daughters has their own maids according to their clothing. Linia's maids wear Japanese style, Rosa's... Well some of her maids act like witches and lastly Cinia's maids wear in French maid clothing.
Meganekko: All 3 factions (Plus the Neutral one) is flooding with girls with glasses.
Mini Dress Of Power: The Dress-Up which implied it's major importance in the story later on. It is a bit of a crossover between magical girl and sentai.
To be exact all 4 factions(and the neutral one). Maron in Vita, Smartyrain in Crux, A fusion of the twins, Rion and Sion in Darklore and Lucerrie in the Academy.
Linus get her own Dress-Up in EP 11 after finding the truth on what Linia is doing.
The reason of the existence of the Dress-Up is due tremendous amount of injustice and which is occurring in the story itself.
Mismatched Eyes: Master Luna Flina. It's probably related to her vampirism. Iri has this too. Then GS 5th Star.
My Name Is Not Durwood: The maids who never had names except for the "title" of what they do. The 3 most known maids who work for Cinia are New Maid, Mop Maid and Chief Maid. As a matter of fact, these are 3 had other titles.
Also some of the knights in the Crux Faction like New Knight which later her name is revealed in EP10
One Gender School: Vita doesn't seem to have male students. Justified, though: monsters can only be hurt with Talentium, and only women can use Talentium weapons effectively.
Vita Principal: [Boys, be ambitious!] Student [This... is a girl's school.]
Panda-ing To The Audience: Cinia's Pet Panica, the first level boss. You can also gain her as a character, in which case she inexplicably turns into a little girl whose dress is panda motif.
Psycho Lesbian: Iri, after Linia convinces her that turning Vernika is the best way to act on her feelings for her.
Put on a Bus: Many dozen characters for example the heroines and none important characters tend to go this way. Later in some episode some return with an entrance like Asmis or New Knight while some...
School Uniforms are the New Black: Even when they are hunting monsters, the Vita girls wear their uniform. And that passes as normal in this world. Sita wears her standard-issue school swimwear to the beach, even.
Simultaneous Arcs: Apparently lately in the episodes the story of the game goes like this. It is separate into 3 arcs, aside from the Main Story.
The School Story mainly focus in the Vita Highschool and it's daily events.
The Dark Story focus on the more darker story, with lots of spoilers, it interconnects with the Main Arc.
Lastly is the Short Story are focus on other minor characters and their apparent lives.
Seeker Lynn: [I got a double rare martial arts manual from the eastern continent. It turns out that the rumor about the undefeated school of the east was true.]
The illustration for Black Magic Plot looks like Marisa casting a Master Spark.
There are a dozen Kamen Rider shout outs and poses ranging from Student Council Amy who seem to be a fan of it. Also the Dress-Up Ride of Rion and Sion is seem to based from Kamen Rider W.
Trauma Conga Line: Oh, Iri... long story short, not only she doesn't get the girl, but her society turns against her. To make it worse, her downfall is orchestrated by Linia by exploiting her Tragic Flaw. Truly something out of Greek tragedy.
is a (mostly) free Card Battle Game. It originates from Korea, while its English version is currently in open beta.The game's setting is a world with an Improbably Female Cast. There are four factions: Vita, a high school; the Royal Academy, a private school for aristocrat girls, and their maids; Crux, a theocratic country; and Darklore, a catchall name for dark forces rejected by Crux, including vampires, Heretics and witches. The game's backstory is mostly pieced together from the flavor texts of cards.Its gameplay is also known for being very dependent on the Random Number God. Followers, the cards you use to fight with, are AI-controlled and can sometimes make decisions against the player's wishes.The game is also filled with truckloads of Fanservice.
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