History VideoGame / SwordOfRapier

''Sword of Rapier'' is a {{fantasy|VideoGames}} {{doujin soft}} created by Ikumo [=vDog=]. The game was developed for the Platform/Xbox360 using the XNA Game Studio framework and released through the (now-defunct) [[Platform/XboxLive Xbox LIVE Indie Games]] service on August 26, 2010. It has been subsequently re-released on Windows Phone in 2012, ported to the [=PlayStation=] Mobile framework for Platform/PlayStationVita and [=PlayStation=] TV in 2013, remastered for Platform/{{Android|Games}} (through Google Play Store and Amazon Appstore) and UsefulNotes/{{iOS|Games}} devices in 2015 using the UsefulNotes/{{Unity}} engine, and finally ported to UsefulNotes/{{Windows|Games}} [[Platform/IBMPersonalComputer PC]] [[https://store.steampowered.com/app/933430/Sword_of_Rapier/ through]] Platform/{{Steam}} in 2018.

''Sword of Rapier'' is a {{fantasy|VideoGames}} {{doujin soft}} created by Ikumo [=vDog=]. The game was developed for the UsefulNotes/Xbox360 using the XNA Game Studio framework and released through the (now-defunct) [[UsefulNotes/XboxLive Xbox LIVE Indie Games]] service on August 26, 2010. It has been subsequently re-released on Windows Phone in 2012, ported to the [=PlayStation=] Mobile framework for UsefulNotes/PlayStationVita and [=PlayStation=] TV in 2013, remastered for UsefulNotes/{{Android|Games}} (through Google Play Store and Amazon Appstore) and UsefulNotes/{{iOS|Games}} devices in 2015 using the UsefulNotes/{{Unity}} engine, and finally ported to UsefulNotes/{{Windows|Games}} [[UsefulNotes/IBMPersonalComputer PC]] [[https://store.steampowered.com/app/933430/Sword_of_Rapier/ through]] UsefulNotes/{{Steam}} in 2018.

* KnifeNut: The Goblin enemies wield a large knife and they are also nimble enough to evade Katharine's attacks by cartwheeling around her.

%% If a lot of the terminology and names sounds off to English speakers, that's because the game was translated by someone named "Henry" in the game's credits who has a lack of understand of English.

* AttackOfTheFiftyFootWhatever: Some of the bosses in the game are gigantic compared to Katharine, such as the Gel, Assault Beast, the Ancient Guard, and Earth Shaker.

* BearsAreBadNews: The game's second boss, the Assault Beast, is a gigantic blood-thirsty bear armed with sharp metal claws and battle armor.

* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler:Although Katharine was able to banish Eldlars once and for all, reunite with her long lost mother, and regain her lost memories, but without Eldlars's powers to keep the Floating Continent afloat, the place began to collapse and fall, and Katharine used so much of her magic powers from earlier that she wasn't able to create a portal to leave with her mother in tow. Queen Angelina instead used what was left of her magic powers to create a portal for Katharine to save her daughter. The game ends with not only leaving Denise and Ares without their adoptive stepmother, but also Katharine and Jasmine without their parents.]]

* {{Combos}}: Players can launch enemies into the air by Slashing them or using spells with launching properties like Ice Wall or Tornado, then string to together a chain of Stab attacks with other spells to keep enemies airborne as long as possible and finally striking them back down with a Thrust.

* EscapeRope: Roc's Feather allows the player to escape a dungeon or field areas to the nearest recovery point.

* InASingleBound: After launching an enemy upwards with a Slash or casting certain spells, Katharine can chase after launched foes to attack them repeatedly with her rapier and spells.

* LauncherMove: Katharine's Slash attacks will launch enemies high into the air where she can pursue them to attack them with her rapier and magic spells. Some spells like Ice Wall, Thunder Volt, and Tornado can also launch enemies upwards.

* MirrorBoss: The boss battle with Jasmine is this as she can use many of the same fencing tricks and magic spells as you do. [[spoiler:Justified as she's also Katharine's older sister, was also raised as a fencer, possesses the other magic bracelet that allows her to cast magic, and under the control of Eldlars.]]

* [[MrExposition Ms. Exposition]]: Sara plays this part as she reveals some of the game's critical plot points towards the later half of the game's story. [[spoiler:She divulges how she witnessed Katharine killing the King, and after being freed from imprisonment by a possessed Jasmine, explains the history of the war between the Empire and Eldlars to Katharine, Denise, and Ares, as well as who Queen Angelina is towards the end of the game.]]

[[caption-width-right:350:[[{{Tagline}} Soar high in the sky, a new style of Action RPG arrives!]]]]

* BigBad: Eldlars is a powerful demon lord who once reign terror upon the Heristal Empire with an army of demons, but he was eventually sealed away by the Queen at the end of the war. [[spoiler:He was however sealed within a pair of magical bracelets along with Queen Angelina, which where then locked away in the Regnia Ruins, but ten years later, the seal began to weakened and use the opportunity to possess Katharine who was gifted one of the bracelets that Eldlars was sealed in to make her kill the King, stolen her memories, and then hopped into Jasmine's body through her bracelet while ruling over the Empire under his control and manipulated Sara into killing Katharine. He was eventual forced out of Jasmine's body and finally banished for good by the hands of Katharine.]]
* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler:Although Katharine was able to banish Eldlars once and for all, reunite with her long lost mother, and regain her stolen memories, but without Eldlars's powers to keep the Floating Continent afloat, the place began to collapse and fall, and Katharine used so much of her magic powers from earlier that she wasn't able to create a portal to leave with her mother in tow. Queen Angelina instead gave her own life to save Katharine's life by using what was left of her magic powers to save her instead, leaving not only Denise and Ares without their adoptive stepmother, but also Katharine and Jasmine without their parents.]]

* BossGame: The mobile versions have a special BossRush version of the game where players can battle against the game's bosses for the fastest time. The [=PlayStation=] Vita and PC versions have the Boss Rush mode as an unlockable for beating the game for the first time. In the Boss Rush mode, players have 10 Potions they can use, and in between bosses, players can choose up to four of the available spells and they increase in level with each fight.
* CheckpointStarvation: Averted. Players are free to save at almost any point, even in the middle of a battle as long as they're not dead. The game also has an auto-save checkpoint when entering areas or before boss battles.
* {{Combos}}: Players can launch enemies into the air by Slashing them or using launching spells like Ice Wall, then string to together a chain of Stab attacks with other spells to keep enemies airborne as long as possible and finally striking them back down with a Thrust.

* DemonicPossession: [[spoiler:Eldlars possessed Katharine and used her to kill her father, the King of Heristal, then stole her memories when she was being pursued by Sara as he jumped to possess Jasmine through her magic bracelet. Upon meeting possessed Jasmine, he tried to use her to kill Katharine for good, but manages to snap her sister out of Eldlars's control.]]

* {{Magitek}}: The Ancient Guard is a autonomous battle mech that is powered by ancient magic.

* MissingMom: Ten years prior to the events of the game, two orphaned children, Denise and Ares, were adopted by a woman who raised them as her own. A few years afterwards, she was drafted to take part in a war for the Empire, and while she helped to win the war for the Empire with her ability to use magic, she died at the end of the war. [[spoiler:The adoptive stepmother turns out to be Queen Angelina, who once tried to adopt Denise and Ares in the castle, but the King refused to accept them, so Angelina went her separate ways and lived a life outside of the kingdom to raise them. Unfortunately, Angelina didn't return home after being freed from Eldlars, and instead gave her own life to save Katharine in the finale.]]

* {{Remaster}}: The 2015 mobile versions of the game and onward were rebuilt with the Unity engine under the moniker of "''Sword of Rapier HD''". The game's graphics was updated with higher resolution textures, added environmental details and foliage, an improved lighting system, and depth of field effects.

* SuperTitle64Advance: The later mobile versions of the game were given the moniker "''Sword of Rapier'' '''''HD'''''" due to being ported to the Unity engine and having its graphics updated in the process, even moreso in the Steam version despite not having the "''HD''" suffix in its title.

* UnlockableContent: The game has an unlockable Nightmare difficulty level after beating the game for the first time, and in some versions, also includes a Boss Rush mode.
* UpdatedRerelease: After the Xbox 360 and [=PlayStation=] Vita/TV versions, the later mobile and Steam ports of the game were rebuilt using the Unity engine. Along with the engine changes, the game received some visual enhancements compared the previous releases, especially in the Steam version. The post-Xbox 360 versions of the game also support for other languages.[[note]]The original Xbox 360 version did not have translated text for the dialogue, only for the in-game manual.[[/note]]

%% If a lot of the terminology and names sounds off to English speakers, that's because the game was likely self- or machine-translated by the game's own author who is a native Japanese speaker with limited understanding of the English language.

[[caption-width-right:350:Soar high in the sky, a new style of Action RPG arrives!]]

''Sword of Rapier'' is a {{fantasy|VideoGames}} {{doujin soft}} created by [=vDog=] Ikumo. The game was developed for the UsefulNotes/Xbox360 using the XNA Game Studio framework and released through the (now-defunct) [[UsefulNotes/XboxLive Xbox LIVE Indie Games]] service on August 26, 2010. It has been subsequently re-released on Windows Phone in 2012, ported to the [=PlayStation=] Mobile framework for UsefulNotes/PlayStationVita and [=PlayStation=] TV in 2013, remastered for UsefulNotes/{{Android|Games}} (through Google Play Store and Amazon Appstore) and UsefulNotes/{{iOS|Games}} devices in 2015 using the UsefulNotes/{{Unity}} engine, and finally ported to UsefulNotes/{{Windows|Games}} [[UsefulNotes/IBMPersonalComputer PC]] [[https://store.steampowered.com/app/933430/Sword_of_Rapier/ through]] UsefulNotes/{{Steam}} in 2018.

* AmnesiacHero: The protagonist, Katharine, has amnesia and cannot recall who she is or where did she came from.

* AttackOfTheFiftyFootWhatever: Some of the bosses in the game are gigantic compared to Katharine, such as the Gel, Assault Beast, and the Ancient Guard.

* BlindIdiotTranslation: The game's text in the post-Xbox 360 versions of the game was likely translated by another person, which resulted in many instances of typos, poor sentence structure, hokey dialogue, and poor grammar due to the translator's lack of understanding of the English language.

* BossGame: The mobile versions have a special BossRush version of the game where players can battle against the game's bosses for the fastest time. The [=PlayStation=] Vita version have the Boss Rush as an unlockable for beating the game for the first time.

* MirrorMatch: The boss battle with Jasmine is this as she can use many of the same fencing tricks and magic attacks as you do. [[spoiler:Justified as she's also Katharine's older sister, was also raised as a fencer, and possesses the other magic bracelet that allows her to cast magic.]]
* MissingMom: Ten years prior to the events of the game, two orphaned children, Denise and Ares, where adopted by a woman who raised them as her own. A few years afterwards, she was drafted to take part in a war for the Empire, and while she helped to win the war for the Empire with her ability to use magic, she died at the end of the war.
* RedIsHeroic: Katharine is a redhead (in the cover art; in-game, she's considered as a blonde) clad in a red dress and stilettos; in later versions of the game, she dons a similarly colored battle dress and cape after the introduction area.

* RoyalRapier: The princesses of the royal of family ruling over the Heristal Empire each received a specially crafted sword known as the Eris Rapier, and only two have ever been forged. One is used by Jasmine [[spoiler:and the other by Katharine]].

* UpdatedRerelease: After the Xbox 360 and [=PlayStation=] Vita/TV versions, the later mobile and Steam ports of the game were rebuilt using the Unity engine. Along with the engine changes, the game received some visual enhancements compared the previous releases. The post-Xbox 360 versions of the game also support for other languages.[[note]]The original Xbox 360 version did not have translated text for the dialogue, only for the in-game manual.[[/note]]

[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/swordofrapier_6.png]]

* BlindIdiotTranslation: The game's text in the post-Xbox 360 versions of the game was likely translated by the game's developer, which resulted in many instances of typos, poor sentence structure, hokey dialogue, and poor grammar due to the developer's lack of understanding of the English language.

* RedIsHeroic: Katharine is a redhead clad in a red dress and stilettos; in later versions of the game, she dons a similarly colored battle dress and cape after the introduction area.

''Sword of Rapier'' is a {{fantasy|VideoGames}} {{doujin soft}} created by [=vDog=] Ikumo. The game was developed for the UsefulNotes/Xbox360 using the XNA Game Studio framework and released through the (now-defunct) [[UsefulNotes/XboxLive Xbox LIVE Indie Games]] service on August 26, 2010. It has been subsequently re-released on Windows Phone in 2012, ported to the [=PlayStation=] Mobile framework for UsefulNotes/PlayStationVita and [=PlayStation=] TV in 2013, remastered for UsefulNotes/{{Android|Games}} (through Google Play Store and Amazon Appstore) and UsefulNotes/{{iOS|Games}} devices in 2015 using the UsefulNotes/{{Unity}} engine, and finally ported to UsefulNotes/{{Windows|Games}} [[UsefulNotes/IBMPersonalComputer PC]] through UsefulNotes/{{Steam}} in 2018.

* EscapeRope: Roc's Feather allows the player to escape a dungeon or field areas to the nearest save point.

* EvolvingAttack: Spells not only become stronger as the player levels them up, they also gain enhanced properties such as extra projectiles for Fire Ball, a extra ice pillars with Ice Wall, and launching enemies higher with Tornado.

* HarderThanHard: On Nightmare difficulty, enemies are not only even stronger than ever, but players also cannot regain MP anymore from using rapier attacks while airborne or block enemy attacks from simply guarding and instead must parry them. On the upside, [[HardModePerks their MP gauge is doubled]].

* Magicsoldier: Katharine is not only a skilled fencer, she is capable of using powerful magic to attack enemies from afar, pull them into her, or launch them into the air.
* MeteorMove: The crux of the game's combat revolves around launching enemies as high into the air as possible and then finishing a combo off with a Thrust attack that slams launched enemies into back into the ground, exploding on impact and damaging other surrounding enemies. The damage it deals is calculated based on the amount of hits landed and the height of the Thrust.

* SlippySlideyIceWorld: The La Moonyo Mountains area, is a snowy mountain region.

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''Sword of Rapier'' is a {{fantasy|VideoGames}} {{doujin soft}} created by [=vDog=] Ikumo. The game was developed for the UsefulNotes/Xbox360 using the XNA Game Studio framework and released through the (now-defunct) [[UsefulNotes/XboxLive Xbox LIVE Indie Games]] service on August 26, 2010. It was later remade using the UsefulNotes/{{Unity}} engine and has been subsequently re-released for Windows Phone in 2012, UsefulNotes/PlayStationVita through the [=PlayStation=] Mobile service in 2013, UsefulNotes/{{Android|Games}} and UsefulNotes/{{iOS|Games}} devices in 2015, and finally UsefulNotes/{{Windows|Games}} [[UsefulNotes/IBMPersonalComputer PC]] through UsefulNotes/{{Steam}} in 2018.

The story centers around Katharine, an amnesiac woman who finds herself waking up in the middle of a forest with no recollection of her past or her identity. Lost and confused, Katharine soon finds a shocking discovery as she found a bloodstained rapier in her hands. Amidst her confusion and panic, she was suddenly ambushed by soldiers from the Heristal Empire whom threatened to arrest her. Out of desperation, Katharine frantically arms herself with the rapier and fought back against the knights. She fled to a ravine beyond the forest after the fending off wild monsters, but moments before she could escape for safety, she was quickly surrounded once again by the soldiers along with their commander, a Heristian knight named Sara who knows something about Katharine and harbors a grudge against her. Katharine tries to defend herself from Sara as she tries to get some answers from her, but as they crossed swords, Sara pulls out a gun and shoots her, leaving her for dead as she fell off the cliff and into the river below. A few days later, Katharine reawakens in the house belonging to a girl named Denise and her older brother Ares, whom looked after her and threated her injuries after discovering her washing up by the valley. With their help, Katharine explores the vast world of the Heristal Empire in search of her lost memories.

* BossGame: The mobile versions have a special BossRush version of the game where players can battle against the game's bosses for the fastest time.
* CheckpointStarvation: Averted. Players are free to save at almost any point, even in the middle of a battle as long as they're not dead.

* FireIceLightning: Three of Katharine's starting elemental affinities are Fire, Ice, and Lightning.

* MagicKnight: Katharine is not only a skilled fencer, she is capable of using powerful magic to attack enemies from afar, pull them into her, or launch them into the air.

* MissingMom: Ten years prior to the events of the game, two orphaned children, Denise and Ares, where adopted by a woman who raised them as her own. A few years afterwards, she was drafted to take part in a war for the Empire, and while she helped win the war for the Empire with her ability to use magic, she died at the end of the war.

* UpdatedRerelease: After the Xbox 360 version, the mobile and Steam ports of the game were rebuilt using the Unity engine. Along with the engine changes, the post-Xbox 360 releases features visual enhancements such as higher resolution textures, redone lighting, added depth of field effects, and support for other languages.[[note]]The original Xbox 360 version did not have translated text for the dialogue, only for the in-game manual.[[/note]]

* MissingMom: Ten years prior to the events of the game, two orphaned children, Denise and Ares, where adopted by a woman who, years later, mysteriously disappeared.

The story centers around Katharine, an amnesiac woman who finds herself waking up in the middle of a forest with no recollection of her past or her identity. Lost and confused, Katharine soon finds a shocking discovery as she found a bloodstained rapier in her hands. Amidst her confusion and panic, she was suddenly ambushed by soldiers from the Heristal Empire whom threatened to arrest her. Out of desperation, Katharine frantically arms herself with the rapier and fought back against the knights. She fled to a ravine beyond the forest after the fending off the wild fauna, but moments before she could escape for safety, she was quickly surrounded once again by the soldiers along with their commander, a Heristian knight named Sara who knows something about Katharine and harbors a grudge against her. Katharine tries to defend herself from Sara as she tries to get some answers from her, but as they crossed swords, Sara pulls out a gun and shoots her, leaving her for dead as she fell off the cliff and into the river below. A few days later, Katharine reawakens in the house belonging to a girl named Denise and her older brother Ares, whom looked after her and threated her injuries after discovering her washing up by the valley. With their help, Katharine explores the vast world of the Heristal Empire in search of her lost memories.

Gameplay-wise, it is described as a "Sky High" ActionRPG where the player can use Katharine's rapier and a variety of magical spells that she can learn to fight against her enemies, but rather then using a straightforward combat system, ''Sword of Rapier''[='=]s gimmick revolves around launching enemies in the air and stringing combos together while airborne. The game not only encourages players to juggle enemies high into the sky as possible, but also mixing up their attacks to raise their hit counter before culminating with a Thrust attack in order to maximize damage when striking launched foes back to the ground, which also rewards a larger bonus of experience points upon their defeat. For defense, players can block to reduce damage taken, however, the player can perform a block the moment before their opponent's attack connects, the attack will be a parried instead, not only nullifying the damage, but also recovers a portion of MP and potentially exposes enemies for a counterattack.

* BlindIdiotTranslation: The story dialogue in the post-Xbox 360 versions of the game was likely translated by the game's own author, which resulted in many instances of poor sentence structure, hokey dialogue, and poor grammar due to the author's lack of understanding of the English language.

* EmergencyEnergyTank: The Potions, Ether, and Elixir items serve as this. Potion, Hi-Potion, and X-Potion respectively recovers 20%, 50%, and 100% HP, Ether recovers 100% MP, and Elixir fully recovers both HP and MP.

* FeatheredFiend: The Desert Eagle enemies introduced in the Izaki Desert area of the game.

* InsistentTerminology: In the game, "SP" not only refers to the player's own mana pool to cast magic, but it's also used to refer to another kind of SP in the Skills menu that can be used learn or upgrade spells.

* MeteorMove: The crux of the game's combat revolves around launching enemies as high into the air as possible and then finishing a combo off with a Thrust attack that strikes launched enemies into back into the ground, exploding on impact and damaging other surrounding enemies. The damage it deals is calculated based on the amount of hits landed and the height of the Thrust.

* RuinsForRuinsSake: The aptly-named Regina Ruins, an ancient underground ruins.

* SavePoint: Represented as a magical rune with a glowing green aura around it. Entering within a Save Point also fully heals Katharine's HP but not her MP.

* ShiftingSandLand: The Izaki Desert, a barren desert with an oasis further into the area.

* ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill: The game not only encourages players to dish out as much pain to their enemies with aerial combos, but they are also rewarded with extra experience points if they can defeat enemies with devastating Thrust attack.

* FeatheredFiend: The Eagle enemies introduced in the desert area of the game.

* RedIsHeroic: Katharine is a redhead clad in a red dress and stilettos; in later versions of the game, she dons a similarly colored PimpedOutDress with a battle cape after the introduction area.

* SpinAttack: One of the attacks used by the Ancient Guard.

%% If a lot of the terminology and names sounds off to English speakers, that's because the game was likely self- or machine-translated by the game's own author who is a native Japanese speaker with limited understanding of the English language.
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Gameplay-wise, it is described as a "Sky High" ActionRPG where the player can use Katharine's rapier and a variety of magical spells that she can learn to fight against her enemies, but rather then using a straightforward combat system, ''Sword of Rapier''[='=]s gimmick revolves around launching enemies in the air and stringing combos together while airborne. The game not only encourages players to juggle enemies high into the sky as possible, but also mixing up their attacks to raise their hit counter before culminating with a Thrust attack to maximize damage when striking launched foes back to the ground while rewarding earn extra experience points. For defense, players can block to reduce damage taken from enemies, but if the player perform a block before their opponent's attack connects, they can perform a parry instead that will not only nullifies damage, but also recovers a portion of MP, deflect projectiles back at the attacker, and expose enemies for a counterattack.

* AttackReflector: By equipping the Monocle, some ranged projectiles can be reflected back at the attacker with a a well-timed parry.

* ImplausibleFencingPowers: Katharine is not only capable of launching enemies of varying sizes high into the sky, but she can also deflect various projectiles such as such missiles from a mech and send it right back at it by parrying it.

%% If a lot of the terminology and names sounds off to English speakers, that's because the game was likely self- or machine-translated by the game's own author.

Gameplay-wise, it is described as a "sky high" ActionRPG where the player can use Katharine's rapier and a variety of magical spells that she can learn to fight against her enemies, but rather then using a straightforward combat system, ''Sword of Rapier''[='=]s gimmick revolves around launching enemies in the air and stringing combos together while airborne. The game not only encourages players to juggle enemies high into the sky as possible, but also mixing up their attacks to raise their hit counter before culminating with a Thrust attack to maximize damage when striking launched foes back to the ground while rewarding earn extra experience points. For defense, players can block to reduce damage taken from enemies, but if the player perform a block before their opponent's attack connects, they can perform a parry instead that will not only nullifies damage, but also recovers a portion of MP, deflect projectiles back at the attacker, and expose enemies for a counterattack.

* AsteroidsMonster: The first boss, Gel, is a gigantic slime that breaks up into smaller Slimes as the player damages it.
* AttackOfTheFiftyFootWhatever: Some of the bosses in the game are gigantic compared to Katharine, such the Giant Slime, Assault Beast, and a quadruped mech.
* AttackReflector: Some ranged projectiles can be reflected back at the attacker with a a well-timed parry.

* ElementalPowers: As the player level up in the game, they can spend points to unlock elemental magic that Katharine can use in battle. By default, Katharine has access to Fire, Ice, Lighting, and Wind magic. Light and Dark magic can be unlocked by purchasing their respective spellbooks from the merchant.

** CastingAShadow: [[GravitySucks Abyss Fall]].
** AnIcePerson: Ice Wall and Freeze Lancer.
** LightEmUp: [[StarPower Twinscle Star]] and [[{{Lunacy}} Crescent Moon]].

** ShockAndAwe: Thunder Volt and Plasma Sphere.

* InsistentTerminology: In the game, "SP" not only refers to the player's own mana pool to cast magic, but it's also used to refer to another kind of SP that can be used learn or upgrade spells.
* InstantRunes: Magical runes can be seen beneath the caster when casting a spell.

* MissingMom: 10 years prior to the events of the game, two orphaned children, Denise and Ares, where adopted by a woman who, years later, mysteriously disappeared.

* InsistentTerminology: In the game, SP not only refers to the player's own mana pool to cast magic, but it's also used to refer to another kind of SP that can be used learn or upgrade spells.

* UpdatedRerelease: After the Xbox 360 version, the mobile and Steam ports of the game were rebuilt using the Unity engine. Along with the engine changes, they featured updated graphics and visual improvements such higher resolution textures, depth of field, redone lighting effects, and support for other languages.[[note]]The original Xbox 360 version did not have translated text for the dialogue, only for the in-game manual.[[/note]]

Gameplay-wise, it is described as a "sky high" {{action|Game}} {{R|olePlayingGame}}PG where the player can use Katharine's rapier and a variety of magical spells that she can learn to fight against her enemies, but rather then using a straightforward combat system, ''Sword of Rapier''[='=]s gimmick revolves around launching enemies in the air and stringing combos together while airborne. The game not only encourages players to juggle enemies high into the sky as possible, but also mixing up their attacks to raise their hit counter before culminating with a Thrust attack to maximize damage when striking launched foes back to the ground while rewarding earn extra experience points. For defense, players can block to reduce damage taken from enemies, but if the player perform a block before their opponent's attack connects, they can perform a parry instead that will not only nullifies damage, but also recovers a portion of MP, deflect projectiles back at the attacker, and expose enemies for a counterattack.