Vanguard Princess (ヴァンガードプリンセス Vangaado Purinsesu), also known as Vanguard Princess: Senjin no Himegimi (ヴァンガードプリンセス 先陣の姫君) is a Japanese freeware dōjin 2D fighting game for Windows, developed by a single programmer and illustrator called Tomoaki Sugeno, nicknamed Suge9[1] and a supposedly ex-Capcom employee[2]. The game was released on June 26, 2009[3][4] and was created using Fighter Maker 2nd[5]. The latest version of the game is 1.07c, released on June 20, 2010[6].
Development
Vanguard Princess was almost fully developed by Tomoaki Sugeno (or Suge9), an ex-Capcom programmer and sprite designer who worked in games like Resident Evil 3: Nemesis and made character sprites for The King of Fighters EX: Neo Blood[7]. Suge9 uses Fighter Maker 2nd for his work, a popular graphic engine for Windows by ASCII which was already used for make fighting games like Super Cosplay War Ultra, Magical Chaser ~Stardust of Dreams~, Arm Joe, Crimsom Alive or Destruction Desire. Suge9 programmed, illustrated and designed the game by himself, but the music was taken from "nash music library", a GNU library of songs[8]. Suge9 also resorted to seiyuus for recording the voices for all the characters.
Reception
Before the release of the game Suge9 uploaded four official in-game trailers, the latest trailer of the game received widespread acclaim with 325.000 visitors in a month[9], Suge9 after the trailers commented on his blog "Seeing all the comments makes me feel really glad that I made this game"[10]. After the official release, Vanguard Princess has received a lot of positive attention from video game websites, starting in Japan on Daiken [11] and then spreading around the world on sites like Kotaku (USA) [12], Siliconera (USA) [13], Indie Games (USA) [14], DoujinSuki (France) [15] or Gamercafe (Chile) [16]. Later it was also covered on Famitsu[17] and IT+Media[18].
References
- ↑ Sugeno. Vanguard Princess Official Site. Vanguard Princess. Retrieved on 2009-07-06
- ↑ Zepy. Vanguard Princess entry on Canned Dogs. Vanguard Princess. Retrieved on 2009-07-06
- ↑ Hayama Akito. Vanguard Princess Official Thread at Shoryuken.com. Vanguard Princess. Retrieved on 2009-07-06
- ↑ Sugeno. Sugeno entry about Vanguard Princess release. Vanguard Princess. Retrieved on 2009-07-06
- ↑ Sugeno. Sugeno entry about game development. Vanguard Princess. Retrieved on 2009-07-06
- ↑ Sugeno. Vanguard Princess Official Site. Vanguard Princess. Retrieved on 2010-06-20
- ↑ Spencer. Entry about the game on Siliconera. Vanguard Princess. Retrieved on 2009-07-21
- ↑ Sugeno. Vanguard Princess Official Site. Vanguard Princess. Retrieved on 2009-07-21
- ↑ Sugeno. Official trailer at Youtube. Vanguard Princess. Retrieved on 2009-07-21
- ↑ Dakanya. Translation of Vanguard Princess blog. Vanguard Princess. Retrieved on 2009-07-21
- ↑ D-Ken. D-Ken comment about Vanguard Princess. Vanguard Princess. Retrieved on 2009-07-06
- ↑ Kotaku. "Cute, Fighting and Totally Free", entry about the game on Kotaku. Vanguard Princess. Retrieved on 2009-07-06
- ↑ Spencer. Entry about the game on Siliconera. Vanguard Princess. Retrieved on 2009-07-06
- ↑ IndieGames Webblog. Entry about the game on Indie Games. Vanguard Princess. Retrieved on 2009-07-06
- ↑ Doujinsuki. Entry about the game on Doujinsuki. Vanguard Princess. Retrieved on 2009-07-06
- ↑ Gamercafe. Vanguard Princess entry about the game on Gamercafe. Vanguard Princess. Retrieved on 2009-07-06
- ↑ Famitsu. Vanguard Princess article by Famitsu. Vanguard Princess. Retrieved on 2009-07-21
- ↑ Famitsu. Vanguard Princess article by IT+Media. Vanguard Princess. Retrieved on 2009-07-21
Story
Those who want to maintain the status quo, those who want to break the status quo, and conflict around the world, fight, battered, future not far .... Amid war intensified, would have been shot down certain airliner by mistake. Dead is confirmed after the other, but there was a girl who was alone survived intact only. It was she that has grown beautifully over time, but it began to wake up to the uncanny ability as time goes by. Was moved to private research organization at first, but caught the eye of the government forces, the force will be analyzed for military purposes. People called it "Kishirube magic", the power that would even bending the laws of the universe. Her to raise the remarkable veterans in the actual fighting, government forces were allowed to develop into a severe human experimentation to determine the stronger force. However, the magic of her runaway to a certain incident, I would cause "Astral Impact". Shock wave tinged mighty magical power gave the benefit of Kishirube magic girls and many extensively. In the forefront, the figure of the girl who got the magic is to be seen a lot soon. It is referred to as the "Vanguard Princess" from its appearance to fight beautifully, and inspire soldiers. One years have passed, the time when war was also towards the end Astral after impact, to achieve the destruction of the human race that she had been believed to be missing is incarnated as the "enforcer of management". Vanguard Princess is go to the land of fight ... be guided.
Characters
- Yui Kutuna
- Haruka Kutuna
- Ayane Ikuse
- Eri Hasumi
- Natalia Glinka
- Kaede Hiou
