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13->''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 head to the battlefield to confront her; not just for the sake of the world, but to pursue their own personal motives and dreams.''
14-->--The English version's game description
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16A {{freeware game|s}} released on June 26th, 2009, ''Vanguard Princess'' is an indie {{fighting game}} created by former Creator/{{Capcom}} employee Sugeno Tomoaki (a.k.a. [=Suge9=]) with Enterbrain's Fighter Maker 2002. While the game's entire cast are female, it does not play like a button-masher like most all-girl fighting games, nor is its gameplay derived from games such as the ''VideoGame/GuiltyGear'' series.
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18Gameplay-wise, the game is more akin to games such as ''VideoGame/StreetFighterII''. However, there is something that makes this fighting game stand out from the rest: It's a "[[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin 2-on-2 fighting game]]". At the start of each game, players can chose one of four support characters to help assist them in battle, and the key to this game is experimenting with different support characters to utilize each characters' abilities effectively. Alone, each of the main characters limitations with their potential in battle; but with the aid of their partners, they can they can assist them in certain situations and perform effective combos.
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20More about the game (and how to run it on your computer) can be found [[http://www.indiegames.com/blog/2009/07/freeware_game_pick_vanguard_pr.html here]]. A complete wiki is available [[http://wiki.mizuumi.net/w/Vanguard_Princess here]].
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22The English version of the game was released in late 2012 via [=GamersGate=] and Amazon Downloads for $10, and the Steam version was released in late 2014. In 2018, [=eigoMANGA=] went on to publish a series of digital comics based on ''Vanguard Princess'', which can be purchased as DLC for the game.
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25!!This game features trope examples of:
26* ACupAngst: Parodied with Yui feeling flat compared to Rikako in [[http://suge9.blog58.fc2.com/blog-entry-167.html this]] [[YonKoma 4koma]] by [=Suge9=].
27* ADayInTheLimelight: A DLC was released for the Steam version focusing on Lilith, featuring some new themed stages, such as a graveyard, and a dark mansion. Another DLC was released, this time focusing on Kurumi.
28* AmbidextrousSprite: Ayane's EyepatchOfPower is naturally on the left side of her eyes, yet it can magically swap to the other.
29%% * AmbiguouslyBrown: Juliet and Kaya.
30* AmbiguouslyChristian: Natalia is described as very religious and her outfit is decorated with Christian crosses, but good luck guessing which sect she belongs to ([[{{Stripperriffic}} though you can probably rule out Pentecostal]]).
31* AmnesiacHero: Kaede, who suffers from amnesia and has no recollection about her past.
32%% * AncestralWeapon: Yui's sword, Sakuya.
33* AssistCharacter:
34** Eko, Sierra, Kanae, Juliet and child-Hilda serve as this, and the gameplay is built with them in mind, as you can combine the skills of your main character with those of your assist to do disaster. Kurumi in particular makes extensive use of them, as her Union Arts allow her to [[FusionDance temporarily fuse with her assist]], and attack her opponent for massive damage.
35** Child Hilda comes with her own friend assists: Maya, an angel girl, and Kaya, a demon girl, who do most of the work for her. They also serve as exclusive assists for Adult Hilda.
36%% * AssKicksYou: Two of Natalia's attacks give the player quite a view given how little she wears down there.
37%% * BarbieDollAnatomy: During the TransformationSequence of Kurumi's Union Art with her assist.
38%% * BeamSpam:
39%% ** Some of Kurumi's Union Arts qualify as this, depending on her assist.
40%% ** Haruka's Crimson line [[LimitBreak Liberty Art]] has you manually input buttons presses to spam her beam attack.
41* BerserkButton: Lilith really hates it when people don't believe her when she says that she's a demon and the daughter of Satan.
42%% * {{BFG}}: Luna has a special move where she uses one.
43%% * BountyHunter: Luna.
44%% * CombatStilettos: Luna and Kaede wears these. Especially Kaede, who has several flying and diving kick moves where she hits an opponent high-heel first.
45%% * CoolSword: Saki's sword.
46%% * CuteGhostGirl: Kanae can summon a ghost girl to curse the opponent. Cute, but malicious.
47* DeclarationOfProtection:
48%% ** Yui does one towards Ayane in the latter's ending [[spoiler:after Ayane noticed that she's slowly being BroughtDownToNormal]].
49** Haruka's ending reveals she promised [[spoiler:[[FinalBoss Hilda]]]] that she will be with her when they first met, prompting her to go on a quest to save her in the game.
50** In Kurumi's ending, she makes one for [[spoiler:the sealed Hilda]] with Eri, saying that they will protect her from the Government if they come for her.
51%% * DefeatMeansFriendship: Kurumi's ending.
52* DownloadableContent: Steam version currently has four: A free uncensoring one and another that adds the (re-balanced) FinalBoss to the playable roster and some other updates. A third DLC which was centered on Lilith, and the fourth one which is centered on Kurumi. There was also talk of a free netplay DLC in the works. A digital comic series was also released as DLC, as well as a digital soundtrack and artbook for the game.
53* DrivenToSuicide: Kaede's ending revealed that [[spoiler:Colonel Miokawa put a contract on herself so that her own daughter would kill her. She never forgave herself for causing her own daughter to lose her memories through the experiments she headed]].
54* DropTheWashtub: Kanae can summon a large metal pan to fall onto her enemies head.
55%% * EpicFlail: Juliet's .
56%% * {{Expy}}: Luna is {{Stripperiffic}}, has long, ponytailed red hair, and uses guns and even pulls out a giant rifle for one of her specials. Yep, the resemblance to [[Anime/TengenToppaGurrenLagann Yoko]] is uncanny.
57%% * EyepatchOfPower: Ayane, who wears one after losing one of her eyes during one of her rigorous training exercises.
58* FamousAncestor: Lilith not just any demon, she's the daughter of Satan.
59* ForeheadOfDoom: Lilith, the daughter of Satan, has a considerably large one.
60* FusionDance: Kurumi's Union Arts has her fuse with her assist character, resulting in a different appearance and attack (although all functionally similar for the move) depending on which assist character you fuse with. Hilde is the only one she can't use this move with.
61%% * GirlishPigtails: Yui, Eri, Eko, and Juliet.
62* GlacierWaif: Lilith has he appearance of an 11-year-old girl, but she's strong enough to lift her opponents above her head with one hand, and slam them hard against the ground. Justified as she's a demon.
63%% * GoingCommando: Luna, though she wears a patch to cover her unmentionables.
64%% * GunKata: Luna's fighting style is based around this.
65* GunsAkimbo: Luna holds a pair of guns, [[DualWielding one on each hand]]. When she empties their magazines, she [[ThrowAwayGuns immediately discards]] them and takes new guns out of nowhere.
66%% * HeirToTheDojo: Haruka was supposed to be this, but she left to become a sorceress. Her younger sister Yui takes her place instead.
67%% * HighlyVisibleNinja: Kaede, who's an assassin fighting out in the open in various public places.
68* GorgeousGaijin: Natalia, a blond and big-breasted foreign soldier who doesn't wear much below.
69* IJustWantToBeSpecial: Unlike most characters, Ayane really loves the powers she received from the MassSuperEmpoweringEvent [[spoiler:and is heart-broken when she notices them disappearing in her ending]].
70* ImprobableAimingSkills: Just how is Ayane able to launch a volley at that close a range anyway? Also, juggling with arrows.
71* ImprobablyFemaleCast: The only male characters in the game are nameless GasMaskMook soldiers who show up the slide pics in the endings.
72%% * {{Joshikousei}}: Saki, Yui, and Rikako.
73%% * KendoTeamCaptain: Saki. As per usual with this trope, she's shown to have several fans and sees herself as a rival to Yui, the HeirToTheDojo of the game.
74* TheLastDance: Ayane is a variation. While she's not dying, she is losing her powers, and her Story Mode involves her going on one final mission and seeking one last match with Yui before she loses them completely.
75* LethalJokeCharacter: At the first glance, Kurumi seems to be a JokeCharacter. Her normal attacks don't do a lot of damage and her health is low. However, she is the only one in the game who can cancel, and her normals can be chained. But her biggest advantage is that her support gauge fills very, very quickly, enabling her to do more stuff with the support characters. It doesn't hurt that her first super move, Union Arts, does ridiculous amounts of damage AND restores some of her life. However, it requires both a full super gauge and a full support gauge.
76* LevelAte: Candyland, one of the stages found in the Kurumi DLC, is entirely made of sweets: It has huge lollipops, cakes as big as mountains, and a river of ice cream in the background.
77%% * LimitBreak: The Liberty Arts.
78%% * LittleMissBadass: Lilith, a self-proclaimed "Child of Satan" who fights her opponents barehanded and has various grappling moves at her disposal.
79%% * LonerTurnedFriend: [[spoiler:Hilda]] was this for Haruka, which is why she chose to stay with her in her ending.
80* MagicalGirl: Kanae fills this trope for the series. She wears a white sailor fuku with a green skirt and yellow bow on her chest. She walks around with a large magical staff, summoning washpans, cartoon dogs, and a CuteGhostGirl to aid her partner.
81%% * MagicSkirt: Juliet, Shiera, and Kanae.
82%% * MagicStaff: Haruka's staff.
83* MassSuperEmpoweringEvent: When the Government realized Hilda's powers, they began to experiment on her. Said experiments triggered a cosmic event known as an "Astral Impact", which gifted many girls with mystical powers.
84* MasterSwordsman: Yui is said to be the best sword fighter in Japan, and Saki specifically seeks her out in her Story Mode to show that she can beat her at swordplay.
85%% * {{Miko}}: One of the stages have a bunch of them in the background. Kurumi's Unison Arts move with Kanae turns them into a gigantic one.
86%% * MsFanservice: While it's true that every woman in the game is one, [[http://i.imgur.com/M0hc7.png Luna]] is Ms. Fanservice ''among'' Ms. Fanservices (NSFW).
87%% * MusclesAreMeaningless: All over the place.
88%% * MultipleEndings: Depending on which character you use.
89* MysteriousPast:
90** Kurumi. [[spoiler:According to Lilith, she was once a demon queen named Frederica who was reborn into a human. Depending on how it went, it may be a DarkAndTroubledPast]].
91** Kaede [[spoiler:turns out to be the daughter of Colonel Miokawa who had volunteered herself for human experimentation. However, something went wrong during the process and she lost her memories]].
92* NamedWeapons: Yui's sword, Sakuya, as well as Saki's sword, Hitohira, and the Kamitsurugi sword which was in possession of The Government.
93* NavelDeepNeckline: Luna, Hilda and Juliet all have outfits with plunging necklines. A little disturbing with the latter, since [[{{NoYay}} she doesn't look older than twelve]].
94* NinjaMaid: Juliet, a maid who fights with an over-sized EpicFlail.
95%% * NoArcInArchery: Possibly [[JustifiedTrope justified]] because Ayane isn't really shooting from far away but at that distance, [[RuleOfCool why bother to use a bow anyway]]?
96* {{Patricide}}: Or to be more accurate, Matricide. In her ending, [[spoiler:Kaede learns that the person she was contracted to kill was her mother Colonel Miokawa, who had put a contract on herself to atone for her sins, which included accidentally brainwashing her own daughter when she experimented on her]].
97* PantyFighter: Almost every girl has an attack that flashes their knickers (the exception to this rule is [[MagicSkirt Yui]], if you don't count her cut-in animation). Some of them don't even have to do that much.
98%% * PileBunker: Natalia's weapon of choice.
99%% * ProfessionalKiller: Kaede, who works as an assassin.
100* PromotedToPlayable:
101** Child Hilda in the English version is a playable AssistCharacter in the Story Mode. Unfortunately, she can't perform a Union Art with Kurumi.
102** A recent DLC allows a balanced Adult Hilda to be playable.
103%% * ProperTightsWithASkirt: Yui.
104* RainOfArrows: One of Ayane's special moves, called "Holy Arrow In The Universe", has her firing three arrows that come raining over her opponent; And her "Black Sky Holy Arrow" Liberty Art is a superpowered version of this move.
105* RazorSharpHand: Kaede, who primarily fights by slashing people with her hands.
106%% * RedOniBlueOni: Kaya and Maya respectively.
107%% * ReligiousBruiser: Natalia is explicitly called very religious in her bio. Naturally, she really hates the resident demon, Lilith.
108%% * SchoolSwimsuit: The pool stage has several women and girls wearing these.
109%% * ScarfOfAsskicking: Ayane wears one.
110* SpiritedCompetitor: Unlike most of the other characters, Saki joins the tournament to test her skills against various fighters, especially against Yui.
111* SNKBoss: In the Japanese version, Adult Hilda is ridiculously overpowered, due to having a powerful assist and a projectile focus that no other characters can reliably counter or even defend against, but this is balanced by her AI being [[AIBreaker easily confused]]. However, the English version combines this with a PerfectPlayAI who can throw lightning-fast projectiles in a way that no human could possibly match, to the point where most characters can hardly get close to her without being pounded by one of her many specials, which she fires off one after another at lightning speed. She doesn't ''cheat'', per se, but with her moveset, she doesn't need to.
112* StanceSystem: The core of Luna's gameplay. Unlike the other characters, she doesn't have a proper forward or back dash; insead of that, tapping forward of back twice makes her enter a stance, where she aims her guns at different angles, and knowing these different stances is key to master Luna's style.
113%% * StatuesqueStunner: Hilda is considerably taller than some of the other characters when she's not [[PowerFloats floating]].
114%% * {{Stripperiffic}}: Luna, Kaede, Natalia, Hilda and Kaya, and Juliet.
115%% * StudentCouncilPresident: Saki's bio mentions that she will be one by the next term.
116%% * SuperDeformed: The characters in the Characters Select menu.
117%% * SuperMovePortraitAttack: Added in v1.08 for more [[{{Fanservice}} eye-candy]].
118* SuperStrongChild: TokenMiniMoe Lilith is the resident grappler of the game, pulling off lots of wrestling type power move on characters that are at least twice her size. Being a demon explains her strength.
119* TelephonePolearm: Newcomer Rikako's weapon of choice happens to be a metal traffic sign that has a symbol for "no tanks".
120%% * TokenMiniMoe: Lilith and the assist characters. [[spoiler:A loli-fied Hilda can also be one too as an assist character.]]
121* TogetherInDeath: [[spoiler:Haruka]]'s Ending has her choosing to stay with [[spoiler:Hilda]] when she AscendsToAHigherPlaneOfExistence so that they [[DisappearsIntoLight disappear]] together, because she doesn't want them to be separated ever again.
122%% * TomboyAndGirlyGirl: Eri and Kurumi, respectively.
123* {{Tuckerization}}: Chapter 2 of the tie-in digital comic reveals the name of Lilith's father, Satan himself, to be Donald Judas Trump.
124* UseYourHead: Two of Lilith's attacks involve her moving forward and headbutting her opponent.
125* WrestlerInAllOfUs: Lilith can perform {{Suplex Finisher}}s and piledrivers, given that's she's this game's equivalent to [[VideoGame/StreetFighterII Zangief]].

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