Vanguard Princess
Vanguard Princess is a freeware 2D fighting game made in 2D fighting game maker by Sugeno Tomoaki, a video of the game in action can be viewed here (youtube)
This sure came out of nowhere! The game art style is modern moe style but the actual game system is closer to old fighting game style instead of the easy-combo game style that these kinds of games have become associated with. This game is way too good in all aspects for a freeware game.
There doesn’t seem to be a full list of credits listed aside from the creator Sugeno Tomoaki, who is supposedly an ex-capcom employee as according to what people have managed to dug up about him.
The official site is here and the game can be downloaded here.
July 2nd, 2009 at 12:02 pm
sure is interesting…gonna try it..thanks
July 2nd, 2009 at 12:27 pm
I was waiting for this post.
This game is unique as hell.
First off, almost no chains.
Mashing ABC will fail to combo with everyone, a few characters have target combos but that’s it.
Almost NO two in ones either (normal canceled into a special)
Like C into hadoken?
Not happening.
You need your assists to cover the gaps for you, they are essential to comboing anything.
Not using your assist is like having only a jab button in an SF game.
There’s two characters who are the exception to this, Waitress and Tonfa both have normals into specials that combo from standing.
Interestingly enough they are the two characters with rekkas.
Anyway, time for shameless plug video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TGoReEhxDag
July 2nd, 2009 at 2:53 pm
Grrrr I want to try this so bad but it doesnt seem to want to run on vista64
July 2nd, 2009 at 3:45 pm
Definately a fan of this. It’s very well done, and a free download? The hell?
I would not be surprised to learn that he did indeed work at Capcom. It certainly feels like it in a lot of places.
July 2nd, 2009 at 4:22 pm
Anyone have a list of all the combos?
July 2nd, 2009 at 7:04 pm
Can someone help me get it running? Thanks
July 2nd, 2009 at 8:39 pm
I had to use applocale to run it.
July 3rd, 2009 at 2:24 am
http://forums.shoryuken.com/showpost.php?p=7007096&postcount=347
Check out my post,it should help a bit.
July 3rd, 2009 at 2:19 pm
How do you activate the special from the blue haired loli girl with the teddy bear.
I only seem to get headbutt from pressin BC
July 3rd, 2009 at 2:36 pm
And there is another special move from her that i don’t understand.The thing is it’s only written in japanese so i don’t understand it.It doesn’t show any D-pad arrows there.
July 3rd, 2009 at 3:00 pm
Gaahh! I just can’t get this game to work!
July 3rd, 2009 at 3:26 pm
For working with AppLocale(without regional settings change) you needs:
1. Path to game must contain only Latin chars.
2. Rename folder ヴァンガードプリンセス to anything else (”vanpri” for example)
3. Rename ヴァンガードプリンセス.exe to vanpri.exe
4. Rename ヴァンガードプリンセス.kgt to vanpri.kgt
5. Use AppLocale, now it works
….
X. Profit
July 3rd, 2009 at 7:37 pm
>> Fonzer
That’s her 360 grab. You can do it with A,B or C, and her super is the same motion
July 3rd, 2009 at 11:11 pm
Anyone else having sound problems? I tried running it using the NTLEA program and I direct sound error message at the start.
July 5th, 2009 at 2:06 am
downloading this, but I’m playing Blazblue right now and from what i’m seeing here, the two don’t match in style at all, so I’m just going to have more fun with Blazblue for now.
July 5th, 2009 at 6:05 am
For working with AppLocale(without regional settings change) you needs:
1. Path to game must contain only Latin chars.
2. Rename folder ヴァンガードプリンセス to anything else (”vanpri” for example)
3. Rename ヴァンガードプリンセス.exe to vanpri.exe
4. Rename ヴァンガードプリンセス.kgt to vanpri.kgt
5. Use AppLocale, now it works
I followed the steps. When I start the game I get this error: GameDemo Open Error
July 5th, 2009 at 10:50 am
…*coughanyoneheardofMUGENgeezcough*
July 5th, 2009 at 3:29 pm
the stuff Rikimtasu said after you follow the the link in the post has a virus. FUCK THAT!
July 5th, 2009 at 6:09 pm
awesome 2d games are nice for laptops when I’m bore =D
July 5th, 2009 at 10:37 pm
LOL
Some the stuff that i posted have virus
…and why those people which got the stuff working still didn’t have any major problem with it yet?
https://www.virustotal.com/analisis/a9451e54e45739dc5ccb9a88c4c257b1
Most are just too senstive about it.
July 5th, 2009 at 11:26 pm
its a kew name hecka worth your time n dl
These are the doujin games that is a S Rank in my book ;D
lotsa fun, good graphics, nice artwork, fun fighting, and funny assist characters xD
July 7th, 2009 at 12:52 pm
>> …*coughanyoneheardofMUGENgeezcough*
Real men dont play Mugen.
July 8th, 2009 at 2:36 pm
Any way to extract the player sprites?
I tried using Fighter Maker 2nd to check out the .player files but it can’t read them…
July 10th, 2009 at 1:50 am
You might need a good ver of FM2D for opening the file,or:
ttp://www.hongfire.com/forum/showpost.php?p=1929751&postcount=21
….There is reason for deleting at “h” for me.
July 19th, 2009 at 7:40 pm
This game is awesome!
Wish there was support for Network Battles.
That would really kick ass!
July 21st, 2009 at 12:09 am
Actually, there is an unofficial netplay patch being developed (though it does work right now):
http://vaginapoverty.mizuumi.net/index.php/Lunaport
September 17th, 2009 at 11:47 am
does anyone have the flippin password for the 7z zip file thing to this game. ive tried multiple ways to open the file and it doesnt work. help please