H-Scene Count- 7
Created by Pulltop, published by Peach Princess(owned by J-ast)
Length- 15-30 hours
I have to think of this game every time I think of Fate/Stay Night. Princess Waltz did a few things I wish Fate/Stay Night did, but with a weaker plot and a more or less completely linear game.
I’ll start with the comparisons. Blond, man-ish girl main heroine who is royalty. A tournament that only happens every x amount of years that the general human populace have no idea about. 6 fighters with magic and special attacks all fighting to obtain one thing, just instead of a wish its the Prince/King’s hand in marriage which will empower their countries(all the fighters are princesses from different countries fighting for the hand of the prince). Flashy action scenes with big attacks. This is the one annual tournaments that breaks the cycle. Magical artifact that will only appear when their is only one left standing. It’s hard not to draw at least a few connections.
Unlike Fate, Princess Waltz has an all female fighting crew. It also has fusion so the male lead can fight, and a RPG card battle system which I wish Fate had something similar. The fights are also flashier with more varied effects. It also is mainly linear, with the one real set of choices not effecting the ending at all, just the final fight and who the lead sleeps with.
Story
The story is you play as an average high schooler who is in the kendo club who’s school has a transfer student. The student being a beautiful blond person. Within a few days you end up being attacked by a monster with that student and to save both your lives that student uses a set of rings that fuse you together to fight as a magical sword girl. Through a series of events you become the student’s partner as they try to win the tournament for their own goals. But this is the one tournament where things won’t end that easily. Even when the game shows the credits, its not over. The game has a second game mode which continues the story from where it ended off, which I guess is the creator’s going for an episodic style.
The story is weaker then Fate’s but has a few nice twists and turns to keep it interesting. All the females have very different personalities so the fights between them can be amusing.
Gameplay
The gameplay is one of two things I prefer this game over Fate for. About 6-7 years ago when I played Fate/Stay Night I wished their was some system to allow me to feel like I was involved in the battles. This game gave me something for that, a strange RPG card battle system.
The player and the enemy take turns picking cards out of their hands to either deal damage or defend, switching off after an action. The cards each have a number value and your goal is to beat their total. There are three colors of cards of which certain characters are better with certain colors, and you combo by using several of one color for an attack/defend. You gain experience after battles depending on speed, remaining health, and the amount you overkilled the opponent by. You use this experience as a kind of money to buy better stats or skills for fights. You have attack, defense, agility as your stats plus a stat for each card color. The higher the color stat the higher the average value of that card in battle will be. When certain stats are high enough you can purchase skills, which are one use per an ingame day for a powerful effect, like 4 times damage.
This system becomes a bit complicated when you learn that your stats will change. For the first three fights your stats will be constant but after that your stats drop, and suddenly the costs of your stats have gone down, which is the best time to upgrade as they carry over to when your stats go up again. In the second episode of the game your stats will change several times due fusing with the other heroines. This is also a good time to bring up stats as each heroine has a strength and a weakness that makes things cheaper and more expensive. This is useful to know due to the game having no chances to grind. Their are about 4 optional fights but that’s it.
The thing is, the hardest fight in the game is the third one due to starting with low health against an attack focused character. After winning that only a few fights are close to challenging so the above strategy may not be all that important to some.
H Scenes and other stuff
The first 2 h-scenes happen during the first part of the game with the blond character, the other five are where the game has its only split. At one point in the second part you can choose which girl to fuse with, and you have three of these choices between 4 girls(or split your choice for the 5). Whichever one you chose the most will be who you fight the final boss with and who you will see the sex scene of. But that’s really all the “routes” are, after the boss the game is essentially exactly the same regardless of who you chose. You do need to do all the routes to get a final ending thing that’s not worth it at all. So the game does have an unlockable thing.
H scenes themselves are fairly good. They stay varied and far enough apart that you won’t be tired of them. The art is good and the writing is alright, and they are fairly long. But overall they are nothing special. All of them are vanilla and all but one scene is taking their virginities. They will get old quick if you are reloading to do all of the routes since after the split there is only about an hour left of the game on replay.
The game is fun, and if you want something similar to Fate this is a good game for that. The RPG parts are kind of far apart so don’t expect a lot of gameplay, but what is there is interesting and can be fun.
I would say it is something people should play, especially if they like fights like you would see in Naruto and Bleach, with a lot of special moves and powering up. Play this for the Vn part though, as the gameplay only takes up about 1-2 hours of the playtime. Also, doing all the heroines is not really worth it, so just play it once unless you have to unlock everything.
Save contains all replayable, all cgs, all title screen emblems(show which routes you have done), and the bonus ending which you need to beat the game again to see. Also a save at where the game splits, and another one which is somewhere(I don’t remember).
Princess Waltz
http://www.mediafire.com/download/ba54ty9v0y5wlo7/P.W.rar
http://www.4shared.com/rar/26wxXn3wba/PW_online.html