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

Walkthrough
Took and adapted from: http://web.archive.org/web/20040428171740/http://www2.justnet.ne.jp/~ymurakami/guide/little_p.htm

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
 * 79) Inside the house
 * 80) (There is a girl)
 * 81) Look closet
 * 82) Take doll
 * 83) Look girl
 * 84) Talk girl
 * 85) Talk girl
 * 86) Talk girl
 * 87) Give apple
 * 88) Talk girl
 * 89) Give doll
 * 90) Talk girl
 * 91) Give cross
 * 92) (CG)
 * 93) - Dracula Castle -
 * 94) /-Optional
 * 95) /Look table
 * 96) /Look note
 * 97) Go East
 * 98) Talk slime
 * 99) Talk slime (got "towel")
 * 100) /-Optional
 * 101) /Go north
 * 102) /Look miki
 * 103) /Talk miki (don't know what else to do here)
 * 104) /Go south
 * 105) /Go east
 * 106) /Look book
 * 107) /Look window
 * 108) /Look ink (don't know what else to do here)
 * 109) /Go West
 * 110) Go West
 * 111) /-Optional-
 * 112) /Go West
 * 113) /Fight girl x3 (CG)
 * 114) /Go north
 * 115) /(Encounter daughter of Dracula)
 * 116) /(can give hirara lemon to the girl and recive a perfume, don't as you need the hirara lemon,
 * 117)   and there's seems to be no use for the perfume)
 * 118) /Go South
 * 119) /Fight the girl again
 * 120) /Go North (CG)
 * 121) /Go South
 * 122) /Go East
 * 123) Go North
 * 124) (There is a fireplace here but there seems nothing can be done with it)
 * 125) Go up stairs
 * 126) Go up stairs
 * 127) Go up stairs
 * 128) Go up stairs
 * 129) Talk girl
 * 130) Ask name
 * 131) Use towel
 * 132) Give diamond
 * 133) Give ruby
 * 134) Talk cute (two or more times)
 * 135) Talk girl (she should say that you can go North)
 * 136) Go north (you will pass through the wall)
 * 137) (Corridor)
 * 138) Eat Hirara Lemon (if you don't you can't go north)
 * 139) Go North
 * 140) Move bed
 * 141) Go down stairs
 * 142) Take cross
 * 143) Talk pompom (this is not a mistranslation, use this word)
 * 144) [Ending]
 * 1) (Corridor)
 * 2) Eat Hirara Lemon (if you don't you can't go north)
 * 3) Go North
 * 4) Move bed
 * 5) Go down stairs
 * 6) Take cross
 * 7) Talk pompom (this is not a mistranslation, use this word)
 * 8) [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