Interestingly, though, there’s still a distinctly “visual novel” feel to how the game unfolds, since like in adventure-style visual novels we’ve previously seen (with Ring-Out!!, Nocturnal Illusion and Three Sisters’ Story being the best examples) performing the same action multiple times in succession tends to reveal additional information each time, whereas this was not typically part of the western text adventure tradition.
The game unfolds as a text adventure where you type in commands rather than select them from a menu. Kentarou, being a thoroughly decent sort of chap (or, well, so one might believe at the outset of the story) rushes off to rescue Miki and somehow manages to isekai himself right out of Dimension 3E2 (a dimension that is almost, but not exactly the same as our world, particularly modern-day Japan) and onto The Continent, the main setting of the Rance series.įrom there, it’s up to Kentarou to figure out exactly how he’s going to get into Dracula/Gai’s castle, how he’s going to rescue Miki, and perhaps how on Earth the pair can get back to where they came from.
Little Princess begins with Kentarou and Miki out on a nice picnic in the park, when suddenly Dracula (subsequently retconned to the Rance world’s Demon King Gai) snatches Miki away, having determined her to be a suitable successor for his waning Demon King powers. Not only that, but its protagonist Kentarou appears in several Rance games, too, with his most notable appearance coming as part of the strategic title Sengoku Rance.
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Once the Rance series got underway, however, it seemed that the events of Little Princess would make an ideal “prequel” to set up some of Rance’s lore - and so this game in particular is, to this day, considered to be the “origin story” of the Rance world’s current (and rather unwilling) Demon King Miki.