Little Princess (game)

Little Princess is a 1987 text adventure made by Alicesoft's former company Championsoft.

Story

Title Screen for Little Princess

From the intro:

"It was a bright and sunny Sunday morning. I was on a date with my girlfriend, Miki. But disaster suddenly struck out of nowhere. The skies turned a foul shade of black. And out of nowhere, clad in the darkest of shadow, Dracula appeared to steal Miki away from me. I desperately pursued that wicked Dracula. And before I knew it, I was in a different world. Miki, I'll definitely save you. Please wait for me."

The game's story features the same Kentarou and Miki from the Rance titles, however Dracula would later be retconned and be replaced with Demon King Gi.

Gameplay

The gameplay is pretty straightforward. The player sees a screen and then has to search around by typing words into a textbox. Most of the time you use 'look', followed by a specific thing like tree, or rock. The goal is to collect all the items you need and use them wherever they are necessary. These aren't particularly straightforward, so it's a lot of trial and error. Your best bet is to save repeatedly before any action and then attempt every option multiple times. This should lead you to the end of the game succesfully.

Starting screen for Little Princess. Most of the game looks like this.

Example of how the textbox works.

Aside from the textbox, the player can also press some of the function keys for some effects, namely:

• F1 - Look inside your bag
• F3 - Saves the game
• F5 - Loads the game

In terms of length it's an incredibly short game. It can be beaten in less than 10 minutes easily, as long as you know what you are doing.

English translation

A full English translation of this game is available here: http://rancetranslation.wordpress.com/2014/10/14/the-surprise-nobody-asked-for-little-princess-release/ It comes with the game pre-patched, so no need to download a separate game. If you feel so inclined to have the original version of the game, you can get that here: http://retropc.net/alice/menu.html

A step-by-step walkthrough of Little Princess can be found here

Walkthrough

Taken and adapted from http://www2.justnet.ne.jp/~ymurakami/guide/little_p.htm

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Guide ----

1. Look grass
2. Look tree
3. Take Hirara Lemon (important item)
4. Look grass
5. Look grass
6. Take bamboo shoot
7. Look grass
8. Take canned tuna
9. Go East
10. Take apple
11. Go South
12. Look rock
13. Look rock
14. Take diamond
15. Look rock
16. Take Ruby
17. Look rock
18. Take sapphire
19. Go North
20. Go East
21. Talk Haniwa
22. Talk Haniwa
23. Give canned tuna
24. Ask hint
25. Ask hint
26. Ask hint
27. Go West
28. Go North
29. (encounter Morimura Hiroko)
30. Ask name
31. Talk girl
32. Talk girl
33. Talk girl
34. Talk girl
35. Look clothes or look tie? (unsure about this one, anyway it's optional)
36. Give sapphire
37. Go North
38. (do not wake girl, you will be sent to starting point, and will have to give hiroko another gem)
39. (There's a CG if you wake her, so you can save and then load)
40. Go West
41. (encounter Keiko-chan)
42. Ask name
43. Talk girl
44. Talk girl
45. Talk girl
46. Rape girl (CG)
47. Ask hint
48. Ask hint
49. Ask hint (get magic word)
50. Give bamboo shoot (got axe)
51. Go West
52. (Before the hut)
53. Open postbox
54. Look postbox
55. Take key
56. (you can enter the house, talk to the girl and give her things, and never get them back, don't know what else you can do there, so it's optional)
57. (there is a lipstick and a wig, but there seems to be no way to take them)
58. Go East
59. Go East
60. Go South
61. Go South
62. Go West
63. Go South
64. (Pond)
65. Throw axe
66. Look lake
67. Look lake
68. Take Gold Axe
69. Look lake
70. Take Silver Axe
71. Look lake
72. Take Cross
73. Go North
74. Go East
75. Go East
76. Use key
77. Open door
78. Enter house
80. ---- Inside the house ----
81. (There is a girl)
82. Look closet
83. Take doll
84. Look girl
85. Talk girl
86. Talk girl
87. Talk girl
88. Give apple
89. Talk girl
90. Give doll
91. Talk girl
92. Give cross
93. (CG)
95. ----- Dracula Castle -----
97. /-Optional
98. /Look table
99. /Look note
101. Go East
102. Talk slime
103. Talk slime (got "towel")
105. /-Optional
106. /Go north
107. /Look miki
108. /Talk miki (don't know what else to do here)
109. /Go south
110. /Go east
111. /Look book
112. /Look window
113. /Look ink (don't know what else to do here)
114. /Go West
116. Go West
118. /-Optional-
119. /Go West
120. /Fight girl x3 (CG)
121. /Go north
122. /(Encounter daughter of Dracula)
123. /(can give hirara lemon to the girl and recive a perfume, don't as you need the hirara lemon,
124.   and there's seems to be no use for the perfume)
125. /Go South
126. /Fight the girl again
127. /Go North (CG)
128. /Go South
129. /Go East (don't have to fight the girl again)
131. Go North
132. (There is a fireplace here but there seems nothing can be done with it)
133. Go up stairs
134. Go up stairs
135. Go up stairs
136. Go up stairs
137. Talk girl
138. Ask name
139. Use towel
140. Give diamond
141. Give ruby
142. Talk cute (two or more times)
143. Talk girl (she should say that you can go North)
144. Go north (you will pass through the wall)
145. (Corridor)
146. Eat Hirara Lemon (if you don't you can't go north)
147. Go North
148. Move bed
149. Go down stairs
150. Take cross
151. Talk pompom (this is not a mistranslation, use this word)
152. [Ending]

--- Post notes ---

-The guide says there is a "Garlic", but it's not needed.

- The Garlic is on the path north of the sleeping girl.

-Mentioned before, Hiroko will ask for a gem every time you want to pass.

-It seems that many of the "talk girl" are optional, but where is the fun in not doing them?

+Never knew why you kill dracula with the word pompon, or where you get that info. (not anymore, thanks /Assault for the info)

-If anyone discovers new content plaese share.

Zero_G