Sword Girls

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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 Fundamentally 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 Fan Service.

Tropes used in Sword Girls include:

"If destiny exists, the girls will meet again. They have no say in it"

Esprit: "Whenever someone is torn on what to do, Linia is there."

    • She brainwashes Jaina into going a full assault in attack the land of the vampires, with resulting casualties in both sides.
    • She "helps" Iri by telling her how to get close to Vernika, which leads to Iri turning Vernika into a vampire. Things get worse from there.
  • Meido: The Academy faction is a good source for maids.
    • French Maid Outfit
    • Battle Butler
    • Maid Corps: The three Pacifica daughters have 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 the factions have girls with glasses, like Esprit and Vernika.
  • Mini-Dress of Power: The Dress-Up [dead link] girls, crosses between magical girl and sentai.
    • To be exact all 4 factions (and the neutral one). Maron [dead link] in Vita, Smartyrain in Crux, A fusion of the twins, Rion and Sion in Darklore and Lucerrie in the Academy.
    • Linus gets her own Dress-Up form in EP11 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 [dead link].
  • My Rules Are Not Your Rules: The computer's decks often flat-out ignore card limits.
  • 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 [dead link], 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 [dead link]
  • 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.]

New Knight: "I'm no newbie, girl! No newbie!"