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Android Assault: The Revenge of Bari-Arm (1993)

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"Virgin Queen Beauty" is an "enhanced" version of 2000's "Virgin Queen", released in 2003 by Team GrisGris. They were the first "commercial" releases from the team after their now-famous "Corpse Party" (which was originally released for free for the PC-98 back in 1996 with a variant of the "RPG Maker" engine), paving the way for the company. The game is a simple Doujin fighting game developed with the old "Fighter Maker 95" engine. It has a respectable presentation and great music and is about young girls competing to defeat the evil "Virgin Queen Oma-Ru" from wrapping the world in darkness in the year 20XX. One of the game's selling points is its inclusion of nothing but children, as it has no adult characters and is interpreted as a fairly "kawaii" game with some suggestive "girl x girl" themes and mild violence, though this version is more violent than the previous version with the inclusion of the "Witch Queen" (a truly evil version of Puff who loves bloodshed and even eviscerates characters without a care). A sequel was planned but never released.

VQB improves on the original game by tweaking some of the parameters of the existing characters, adds announcer voice-overs, changes the combat HUD a little, removes one of the buggy "Unknown" characters, makes Oma-Ru a proper playable character, adds "Witch Queen" as a playable character with her own story (as expected of a "Game Clear" secret fighter, her attacks are OP), and adds "Milk" as a training character. The game's soundtrack was also changed... but it made me laugh when I heard it, as nearly all the tracks are lifted from Human Entertainment's "Bari-Arm" (or "Android Assault: The Revenge of Bari-Arm"). It honestly doesn't fit as well as the original soundtrack as the tracks are shorter and won't loop properly, and they took out the cool little intro from the original too for whatever reason. There are also a few additions to the stages as well.

Characters each have a few basic special moves and super moves, but the draw to the game is in the form of cancellation techniques, dash-throughs, safe fall, and guard/attack breaks, allowing skilled players to blitz their opponent with a flurry of attacks and confusing mix-ups. Each character also has the ability to "Special Appeal" (Taunt) which affects special gauges in different ways (some charge the gauge, others may lower the opponents, etc.). There are seven playable characters in the main mode (plus two special characters, Unknown and Milk in Versus) and features similar artistry to some of Team GrisGris' other games like their "Thunder ~LOVE!!" games. Characters can also interestingly heal back some health when stationary in fatigued/piyori state. Sadly, these mechanics do not stop easy infinites on the CPU (player versus player should be fine).

The game features audio in Wave format and is of high aural quality, but requires the game CD to loop, which is uncommon among FM games (Burning Angels also has a version which requires CD audio, but Retsuzan made a download-version too) and was put in place to restrict distribution of the game. Most matches can be won before the music stops, where it resets the next round. You can get the game at:

http://www.mediafire.com/file/7fqmzrhljqlo4zb/GrisGris.7z/file

UPDATED 10/22/22 - The game can now be enjoyed with an original, full rip. The game needs to be mounted and the installed to play properly. Each track and sector has been carefully maintained, but the file size is much larger as a result. You can get it at:

https://www.mediafire.com/file/4yb75fcxf5w6stv/VQBT.7z/file

This is a video of the game in action. Enjoy.


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