Разработчик: Tomoaki Sugeno
Описание
Government experiments on a young girl triggered a cosmic shock wave that gifted many young girls with mystical powers. She re-emerges into the world and vows to destroy all of mankind in an act of revenge. A brave group of girls who embraced their powers heads to the battlefield to confront her; not just for the sake of the world, but to pursue their own personal motives and dreams.
- Choose from ten girls with unique fighting skills and pair them with a powerful partner to form an unstoppable team.
- Navigate the adventures of a Vanguard Princess in the Story Mode or engage in head-to-head battles in the Versus Mode.
Поддерживаемые языки: english
Системные требования
Windows
- OS *: Windows 10, 8.1, 8, 7, XP, 2000
- Processor: Pentium III 400MHz, 128MB RAM
- Memory: 1 GB RAM
- Graphics: Graphics card with 32MB Video RAM
- Storage: 470 MB available space
- Additional Notes: DirectPlay must be installed for Windows 10 PCs
Mac
- OS: OSX 10.8 or later
- Processor: 2 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo
- Memory: 1 GB RAM
- Storage: 840 MB available space
- Additional Notes: 4-button game controller (Optional)
Linux
- OS: Ubuntu 14.04 / SteamOS
- Processor: Intel Core 2 Duo
- Memory: 1 GB RAM
- Storage: 750 MB available space
- Additional Notes: 4-button game controller (Optional)
Отзывы пользователей
Choose your waifu fighter!
6.0
ALL GOOD
All you can do is fight each other so choose your waifu wisely. I've been tried all the character and they have different naration and combat mode. For the first time i try, it's really hard to move. Even to beat my enemy, i lose many times. I'm dumb on such this game but as long as you learn you'll get everything you need. The button is complicated but you can setting it as you want. I'm laptop user so i set it as it is. The story it self not really that interesting. It's something you don't need to pass. But the narative they bring is worth to try. This game focused on the characters and mechanism of fighting mode. With that graphic is enough to enjoy the game.
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- BEAUTIFUL WAIFUS
- PRETYY WELL DESIGN
- WELL-BUILD MECHANISM
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- WHAT KIND OF STORY IS THAT?
- LIMITED CHARACTERS
- TEXT TOO FAST
- 500MB DLC FOR ONLY PANTIES!?
Vanguard Princess is a fighting game with a few characters. For me this game is boresome. I can't go further apart play all character on story mode. Maybe it is recomended for fighting game lover. The devs seems focus on mechanism and graphic. Sadly the story is monotone. Thank you for reading and have fun~
i've had this game for like 10 years and i still can't get the game to run properly
[quote]Just saying, but I do have a curator page. If you like my remarks about games, you can find more of them here: https://store.steampowered.com/curator/44130985-TDP%27s-Gaming-Escapades [/quote]
You know... sometimes you really like a game, but cannot bring yourself to recommend it to other people because you feel like it's not the right thing to do. Like, the developer responsible for the game might have done some suspicious, anti-consumer, or similar stuff.
Vanguard Princess is one such game. The game itself is really good, but the publisher for the translated version has done stuff that makes one not want to trust them and instead go for the free, untranslated version.
Hold on... FREE?!
Let me explain the situation here.
Vanguard Princess is a fighting game made by Tomoaki Sugeno (aka Suge9), who was previously an employee at Capcom. The game was released in 2008 for free on their own blog, and was constantly updated until 2011 when Suge9 disappeared from the web after the release of version 1.08e.
Years later, eigoMANGA publishes a paid, but translated version of the game. They have allegedly gotten the rights to the game from Suge9, because the only thing we have is their "trust me bro" statement and we can't get in touch with the dev to confirm it. Then they started updating the game by themselves, allegedly creating glitches and issues that were not in the original, which I can not confirm myself.
And now there's a legal war between eigoMANGA and exA-Arcadia, because both of them claim they can use the IP in absence of the original dev! The former claims they have ownership of the IP, and the latter has used Japanese copyright laws to get permission. Quite a messy situation, huh? It will get messier later... just wait a bit.
Finally, some good fucking food...
Despite everything that was and is going on, the game itself is great. The characters look incredible, the animations are smooth, the artstyle is vibrant and colorful, and the music is pleasant to listen to. On top of all these, the gameplay is really fast and fun, and you don't need a ton of fighting game knowledge to enjoy it. This is a masterfully made fighting game, with its only problems being its amount of available content (which we can ignore due to it being free/cheap) and the technical problems created by its engine.
Vanguard Princess is made with Enterbrain's 2D Fighter Maker (2DFM for short), and 2DFM is a pretty old engine that defies death. While it is still used to make jawdropping fighting games, including this game which pushes the engine to its absolute limits, 2DFM is pretty limited in terms of what it offers and is not up to par with the technlogical advances of today.
For example, the games need to be manually patched by the devs or they won't run on non-Japanese system locales, the fullscreen mode can be absolutely broken, there is no online functionality unless you use third-party apps, or the keybinding is a nightmare since you are never explicitly told which button does what. People who play doujin fighting games are used to all this, but the average consumer is not and these might be dealbreakers to them.
Still, if the game interests you, I highly recommend trying it. But I do not recommend you to get it on Steam if possible. As for the reason for this request, we need to get DEEP into what has happened with this game under eigoMANGA, and check the DLCs...
Did... did I just get ripped off by buying all of the DLCs?
Do me a favor and take a look at DLC depots for this game on SteamDB. Or if you have them on Steam, open the DLC menu. Notice how every DLC has outrageous sizes for a purely 2D game, from 563 MB to 1.43 GB. Installing all of these DLCs in addition to the main game should take about 6 GB on your PC. Yet it doesn't. The game with all of its DLCs checked for installation only takes 1.55 GB of your disk space. And the reason is...
With the exception of art book and OST, every single piece of DLC contains a different version of the game that overwrites the others!
From a preservation point of view, this is actually amazing. But from a consumer's point of view, this has caused the game to have one of the most unnecessarily convoluted DLC structures in a game EVER.
Okay this is getting bad...
I guess "bad" is still an understatement, considering the highly questionable handling of the DLCs. Let me clarify what each DLC has:
- Director's Cut: Literally the free version, includes Lilith and Kurumi, but is translated.
- Lilith: Alternate story texts, exclusive new backgrounds, exclusive new music. No new character. Turned obsolete by Kurumi DLC.
- Hilda Rize: Playable boss character, alternate story texts, exclusive new backgrounds, exclusive new music. Turned obsolete by Kurumi DLC.
- Kurumi: Hilda Rize character, alternate story texts, exclusive new backgrounds, exclusive new music, removes difficulty options in favor of new modes. No new character.
[*]Online Deluxe: Alternate story texts, all contents of Kurumi DLC but without the extra modes, brings back difficulty options. No new character.
So, the publisher is pulling a Street Fighter 2 type of release with the DLCs, without providing anything actually significant in them and even taking things away while going from one to the other. They took a free game, translated it, added exactly one character to it, and then sold multiple versions of the said game with slightly different contents through confusing DLCs that have deceptive-looking names.
Apparently the ads were more important...
I can't believe how incompetent the publisher was at handling this mess. While now there's no trace of them, possibly because of legal issues, every single store page for this game used to have ads for pre-paid debit cards and the mobile version. Just use Wayback Machine to see that I'm not lying. The publisher would constantly use Steam's news feature to bother us whenever the mobile version got 10 more followers on kickstarter. There's also a comic series with Donald Trump in it. And despite all this, they never had the time to clean up the DLC pages and make things easier to understand?!
No, just saying "An updated version of Vanguard Princess" is not enough. That's vague at worst, and at best implies a version upgrade like GGXrd Rev2 or Koihime Enbu RyoRaiRai Version 3. If there's not going to be a definitive version, they should at least be clear about DLC contents and clarify that each DLC contains a different game version that overwrites the others. Because many would try to buy everything to have the full package by instinct. Unless the intent IS to make people believe the DLCs work like other fighters. Then it's another story...
And no, cheap price doesn't justify this either. If you knew only one of these DLCs contains the nearly-full experience AND ALSO allows you to go online, would you have bought the rest? If you knew about Lilithport, a FREE matchmaking app for 2DFM games to play online, or the fact every version of the game has online support already included, would you have BOUGHT the Online Deluxe edition? And don't you dare bring up balance patches and competitive gaming for a niche game.
With all that said, I can't recommend the Steam version in good faith. I am not against paying for a translation and I know how hard it is to faithfully translate something from the source, but the incredibly incompetent handling of the DLC, alongside the publisher's primary focus seemingly being elsewhere instead of the game itself... it just makes me not want to trust them.
Just get the original, free version of the game and activate online play with lilithport. You won't miss a lot.
TL;DR
A fantastic and very fun, yet technologically dated fighting game. However, the publisher's questionable decisions and preferences make it hard to recommend the paid version over the free version
While this is certainly a nice game, I would not recommend this version. The original creator Sugeno has moved on from the project and it has been in the hands of a western company eigoManga for some time now, who are the publishers of the Steam release. They have heavily mishandled the ip, not only when it comes to the game being broken with many issues, but have also used it to publish a political propaganda comic. If you want to play this, see if you can get the original freeware version. Don't support this scum company.
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-- Please Read --
The copy of vanguard princess on steam is not from the original creator. This person uploaded the game, replaced the easy mode with a bot that does not move (still dies) and released the unplayable boss character as playable (sort of) as well as introducing bugs because of that. Check the mizumi wiki for details. Also some other reviews for this game have given more of an explanation on this.
Дополнительная информация
| Разработчик | Tomoaki Sugeno |
| Платформы | Windows, Mac, Linux |
| Ограничение возраста | Нет |
| Дата релиза | 24.11.2024 |
| Отзывы пользователей | 67% положительных (792) |