Little Princess (game)

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

Story
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.

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