Code of Princess

Buy this game if you want to deal with: 1) Trolls that can bounce you in the air with laser beam explosions until you die 2) Bosses that can one-shot you and require very careful footwork (but spear users with cheat-level attacks respawn behind you over and over to mess up that said footwork) 3) Epic grinding the same level for hours on end so that you can deal with the above problems. Oh, and if you think that the pixelated version of this game won't be hard enough for you, buy the EX version instead. In the EX version, you will deal with: 1) Monsters that clobber you while you are in the middle of combos 2) Bosses that get god-level hacks they can abuse over and over during the fight 3) Even more epic grinding than you will face in the pixelated version of the game. If you are like me and you don't like overly difficult games, buy Blade Strangers and enjoy Princess Solange and Ali in that game. Done.

NOTE TO FUTURE COMPLETIONISTS: THIS GAME REQUIRES ONLINE CO-OP TO 100%, EXPECT TO HAVE TO FORM A PRIVATE LOBBY WITH OTHERS AND PLAY FOR ABOUT 4-6 HOURS TO COMPLETE. This has been an interesting experience, not because I was astounded, but because this is SUCH a mixed bag. It's a 3DS game originally, and this is a PC Port of it. The game itself is alright, it's VERY short at about 3 hours to finish the main story, most of that playing out with a visual novel style narrative that is broken up by combat segments. For combat, you play in a long corridor that is on three rails (Top, middle, or bottom) and you either have to defeat all enemies or defeat a boss, with most combat encounters taking 2 minutes or less to beat. You can play it with the other protagonists to have a unique mission or two when they are outside Solange's party (and to grind money), but I had issues when using the L/R Buttons to try and skip scenes where every so often doing that would freeze the game requiring a restart. The combat sections are not long enough to enjoy the move list and flow of combat, the narrative is simplistic and the characters forgettable, and the upgrade system is basic where everyone can share/use almost every equipment you receive, and there are no real unique or interesting equipment or effects. As for a port, it seems lackluster and functional (which is about the nicest I could manage to say about it), not really taking advantage of playing on PC. It plays fine on the steam deck and windowed, however since this was a 3DS game originally, this was designed with a bottom second screen readily available. You can access this screen by pressing F5, however this shrinks your gameplay window to half to accommodate the simulated bottom screen which will contain stats and your move list. Doing this made the 3d model renders-turned-sprites even more low quality (which was at least passable and decent looking before). I had to just not use this feature for the majority of my playtime to have a modicum of enjoyment at what I was looking at. Overall, this is absolutely NOT worth the $15 price tag. I would be hard-pressed to recommend it even at $5.

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Yes, it couldve done some things better and its not as good as Guardian Heroes. So what? If i would compare every game i play to the very best or one of the best games of all time, i could barely play anything at all anymore. Code of Princess gave me a funtime with its competent combat system, nice soundtrack and colorful artstyle. PC Port is also decent and does its job. Only real bad thing, the Localisation is a joke. The mismatch between japanese voices and english subtitles is quite obvious, even though im still a novice at the japanese language. In the english translation they tried at every turn to inject dumb puns that often dont even make sense. Or just completely changed the meaning from what was said in japanese. Its quite unfortunate and probably didnt help this games reputation among gamers.

[h1] Decent side scrolling fighting game with RPG elements. Plays well on 3DS. [/h1]

Recommend if you liked Guardian Heroes and can deal with some of the one-hit antics.

Для нинтендо 3диэс еще игра сойдет но не для пк.Одинаковое тормознутое закликивание врагов до смерти не весело. Но визуал очень приятный.

randomly found this game at discount not being aware of its history. My first impression i like the quality of the video's and character drawings I Like the concept of the way you brawl, fight. It feels clunky but i assume this is due to the age, like if you play double dragon today :) For me for the price i bought i think its a nice addition to my collection :)

넵튠시리즈보단 할만함..

Единственное что понравилось - это бард лабающий на электрогитаре. Остальное фигня.