Vanguard Princess

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DevelopersTomoaki Sugeno
exA-Arcadia (R)
EngineFighter Maker 2nd
PlatformsMicrosoft Windows, Linux, Cloud (OnLive), Arcade
ReleaseMicrosoft Windows
June 26, 2009
Cloud (OnLive)
April 10, 2013[1]
Arcade
TBA
GenreFighting
ModesSingle-player, multiplayer

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 dōjin 2D fighting game for Windows and Linux.[2] Developed by a single programmer and illustrator, Tomoaki Sugeno (nicknamed Suge9),[3] the game was created using Fighter Maker 2nd[4] and was released for PC on June 26, 2009,[5] and April 10, 2013, for OnLive. The publishing rights for Vanguard Princess have been granted to exA-Arcadia as of 2024 by the Government of Japan's Agency of Cultural Affairs.[6]

Gameplay

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Vanguard Princess is a 2D fighting game featuring an all-female cast. The player selects both a fighter and a support character, who follows the fighter and can assist her.

Plot

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A mysterious woman with supernatural powers (the game's boss) is captured by the government. Her powers are accidentally unleashed, bestowing various young women with magical powers.

Development and release

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Vanguard Princess was fully developed by Tomoaki Sugeno (or Suge9), an ex-Capcom sprite designer who worked in games like Resident Evil 3: Nemesis and made character sprites for The King of Fighters EX: Neo Blood.[7] Sugeno uses Fighter Maker 2nd for his work, a popular graphic engine for Windows by ASCII. Sugeno designed and illustrated the game by himself, but the music was taken from "nash music library", a royalty-free library of songs.[8] Sugeno also used voice actors to record the voices for all the characters. Sugeno planned a future update called Vanguard Princess Prime which would introduce a new character named Rikako but has since ceased development on it.[citation needed]

An English version was released by eigoMANGA in February 2013 on Amazon.com to North America and Europe.[9] The following month, they released a cloud version of the game on the Onlive game service.[10] A notable difference in the English version is that the game edits the explicit content in the original Japanese version. The English version also unlocks Hilda as a playable support character. A downloadable PC version of the game was released via Steam on March 3, 2014, after being Greenlit by the community. This version comes with the original English release, plus a free, optional Director's Cut add-on, which returns previously removed content to the game.

At Evo Japan 2024, exA-Arcadia announced an updated arcade version called Vanguard Princess R.[11] The publishing rights for Vanguard Princess have been granted to exA-Arcadia as of 2024 by the Government of Japan's Agency of Cultural Affairs.[6]

Reception

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After the official release, Vanguard Princess was initially picked up on by video game websites such as Daiken,[12] Kotaku[13] and Siliconera,[7] and later by Famitsu[14] and IT+Media.[15]

See also

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References

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