You Can Play This – Sword Girls

So it’s a Yugioh with boobs

I remember being one of the beta testers for Sword Girls. I was FAR from impressed. There were some serious balance issues and the rules were poorly defined. In the second round of beta they made some very minor improvements to the tutorial that made the flow of play ever-so-slightly more understandable, but did little to fix the actual problems with the rules being poorly designed to begin with…one of the flaws with having the game already fully defined and only doing testing for localization purposes. I will admit that it delivers the pretty, but gameplay was ultimately quite shallow, even compared to other MMO or CC games. Many of the pay features offered poor value on what you paid, and yet the game was too difficult to truly progress in any reasonable time-frame without using some form of cash payment. Despite being given what should have been a quite generous allowance to test cash features on, I and most other testers I talked to found that said budget evaporated quite quickly. The result was that the game came across, for lack of a better term, as quite money-grubbing.

Still, if it’s your thing, more power to you. For me, however, looking past the fanservice meant seeing that there wasn’t much entertainment to be had, and the company didn’t seem to care. I actually recall bringing up an issue with a card being worded in such a way as to make it seem useless, when in fact it worked far differently from how it was written. I asked for a minor change to be made to the wording of the card, to correctly define its effect. The response I got was essentially “Close enough”. So, again, like it if you want, but to me it felt like nothing more than a shallow attempt to cash in.