Ex-Capcom developer releases own 2D fighting game

Kotaku reports that an ex-Capcom employee Tomoaki Sugeno has released Vanguard Princess, a free shareware fighter for the PC platform. The game has not been translated, so all the text and voices will be in Japanese. There is no need to fret since Japanese fighting games have never required a person to understand Japanese.

[Natsu X FairyTail]

the game looks actually pretty good but I tend to hate games with an All girl cast even more when it's a Anime/manga.

[Baka-akaB]

Yeah it's a pity the game features character that generic .
Not to mention it's probably not well balanced , judging by past games of that kind .

But it's indeed a beautiful game , and a perfect tech demo for his resume

[50CALheadshot]

what ever happened to mvc2 w/online battles?

[FamilyGuy]

Why didn't this guy sell the game for as a psn or xbl?
It looks decent enough, some money is better than nothing, even if it IS simply to show something on a resume (as if his las job wasn't good enough).

[killyourfm]

You think this could come to the PS3/PSP or XBLA?

[dagamdagee]

I certainly would like to think so. This is probably one of the best looking indie games I've seen in a long time. Although, I think the market for 2D fighting games is a bit of a niche itself, so who knows how well it would do. Plus this game is beyond an Otaku's wet dream. Don't know how well that could catch on.

[Gue1]

I tried to run the game but nothing happens... Is this compatible with Vista? Anybody?

It seems to work when combined with this:

http://www.mediafire.com/?e...

Now the problem is the sound.... =(

[butterfinger]

that it's free.

[squallsoft]

I downloaded it and gave it go. Its very smooth on my machine and controls great with a Dual Shock. I have a Red Octane adapter to use the PS controller on a PC. And its free so I suggest anyone who is interested enough to read these comments download it NOW! It rocks!

-Squall

[bankai]

seeing this just makes me want atlus to hurry and bring Arcana Heart 2 here more

[noxeven]

I enjoy it quite a bit actually. It would be great to come to xbla but most of all id love the source code to be released so that maybe some kaillera embed netplay could be be added.

[dirthurts]

Anyone have any luck with Vista 64? I run the application after extracting, and nothing happens. Can't right click the program to run in compatiblitiy mode either.

[SuicidalTendencies]

Try this, it worked for me.

http://forums.shoryuken.com...

[KidMakeshift]

I'm guessing this will not work on a mac :(

[JeepGamer]

Arcana Heart, which is a good game if you can get over stigma of cute anime girl fighting games, looks a lot like this. Unfortunately the console version of Arcana Heart 2 is a horrid port of the arcade version...

But you could always play this game instead right?

[bankai]

lol indeed my friend

[TiLL i DiE]

anyone know how to make this work on a vista?

[SuicidalTendencies]

Use the link in my other post. That is how I got it working. I have Vista as well.