Croixleur Sigma

Croixleur Sigma is a high-speed hack-and-slash game in which four girls wield magic blades against successive waves of monsters. You can combine four weapons to shape your battle style, use character-specific special attacks and customize each character to gain boosts.

The four girls

Story mode follows the friendship between the girls and is fully voiced in Japanese. Lucrezia, nicknamed Luc, is a seventeen-year-old member of the royal family and a genius with magic swords. Her bright, straightforward nature and sense of justice often get her into trouble, but she ultimately makes those around her happy. Her fiery, whirlwind-like fighting style earned her the title Vermilion Whirlwind from the Queen, who had also scolded her for being reckless. Luc began parting her long hair in two at age five, after her childhood friend Fran started looking after her; she keeps secret that the hairstyle was originally Fran’s.

Francesca, or Fran, is Luc’s childhood friend and a student of the knight house Shelta. She is reticent, passive and pure, and is often affectionately called Princess, a name she finds embarrassing. After she and Luc were made to fight in a joint combat trial at the Nito Towers, Fran began speaking to her in prickly tones.

Katerina is the Queen’s younger sister, but she feels out of place in the virtuous, elegant world of nobility. She struggles with light conversation with girls her age and dislikes the sweet candies served in the school dorm, preferring to talk with older people and shamans from other countries. Unaware of her own heroism, she puts herself in danger to protect people she meets on her adventures. She gradually approaches the truth behind a great incident foretold to bring about the end of the Queendom.

Sara-Annika comes from Niyan, an island country far east of the Irance Queendom. Her father teaches swordsmanship and shamanic practices and serves as the Queen’s teacher. Sara-Annika has rare shamanic talents but is barely aware of them. Because she finds it hard to speak with people unlike herself, the other female students regard her as almost mystical, leaving her lonely. When she met seven-year-old Katerina, Katerina treated her as a best friend without seeing her differently, which helped ease that loneliness.

Modes and customization

Alongside Story mode, you can play Score Attack, Challenge mode and Dungeon mode, where you switch weapons, as well as other modes. Accessories such as Cat Ears, Spectacles and Headphones let you customize your characters’ appearance and improve their battle skills.