BEST freeware fighting game ever? (Vanguard Princess)
Posted: Mon Jul 06, 2009 5:51 am
Vanguard Princess!
It was recently released by Sugeno Tomoaki, a former Capcom artist. The 2D art is the best I have ever seen in a freeware game. The music is awesome, and it's pretty damn fun to play, too! It has modern 2D fighting game graphics, yet has the sweet old-school fighter gameplay where you couldn't cancel into a Shoryuken and do wicked broken combos.
Free download link! http://www.vector.co.jp/soft/dl/win95/g ... 77052.html
Screenshots!
Videos!
Since this was made with Enterbrain's Fighter Maker, which is nearly 10 years old, and since this is Japanese, it's tough getting it to run on newer and non-Japanese systems. Here are some things people have come up with to run this when they had trouble:
[*]Install Japanese language support.[/*]
[*]Rename the directories, the exe file and the kgt file to names with Latin characters.[/*]
[*]Run the game through Microsoft AppLocale.[/*]
[*]Run the game through this launcher: http://download452.mediafire.com/wb5tcl ... 6_BETA.rar[/*]
(Weird, bullets don't appear to work.)
I got the game to run on Windows 7 and on Wine through combinations of these methods.
Have fun!
It was recently released by Sugeno Tomoaki, a former Capcom artist. The 2D art is the best I have ever seen in a freeware game. The music is awesome, and it's pretty damn fun to play, too! It has modern 2D fighting game graphics, yet has the sweet old-school fighter gameplay where you couldn't cancel into a Shoryuken and do wicked broken combos.
Free download link! http://www.vector.co.jp/soft/dl/win95/g ... 77052.html
Screenshots!
Videos!
Since this was made with Enterbrain's Fighter Maker, which is nearly 10 years old, and since this is Japanese, it's tough getting it to run on newer and non-Japanese systems. Here are some things people have come up with to run this when they had trouble:
[*]Install Japanese language support.[/*]
[*]Rename the directories, the exe file and the kgt file to names with Latin characters.[/*]
[*]Run the game through Microsoft AppLocale.[/*]
[*]Run the game through this launcher: http://download452.mediafire.com/wb5tcl ... 6_BETA.rar[/*]
(Weird, bullets don't appear to work.)
I got the game to run on Windows 7 and on Wine through combinations of these methods.
Have fun!