Princessed

## Synopsis

A group of girls looking to get into writing have been invited to a new open library in Paris called “Diane Library” where they are all welcomed by a librarian who wishes to promote their work into something bigger and to test their writing skills; she tasks them to write detailed descriptions of a fairy tale-type princess of their own design and when they did the deed she then returned the favour to show them a book she herself is working on but the pages are all blank.

But this was all a trap as the librarian turned out to be a witch named Morgana Beaumont who traps the girl into her book where they find themselves as the princesses they just thought up while also being stuck inside a castle with no way out and their only means of escape is to make sure the other princesses are asleep aside from one. But they have to be quick because one of two things can happen.

Either a prince made for that princess arrives to “save them” and the princess upon seeing them will instantly by magic fall in love the prince and won’t ever want to leave them alone and ditch their old life.

The other being even if they avoided their prince or try to find another way to get out; a book about them is being written and once the book closes they’ll be trapped inside forever with their memories wiped, thinking they are the princesses they created and would go through the same events of their written stories forever and ever.

Only one princess can have a happily ever after in real life, while the others will go through a cursed happily ever after in a loop.

## Gameplay

Princessed is a 2D-Style fighting game with graphics and gameplay similar to that of Blazblue as they are hand drawn sprites as opposed to pixels or 3D graphics in other fighting games.

There are many moves special moves that can cause ground and wall bounces and off the ground attacks but this game is strictly ground base and I mean STRICTLY ground base for a good reason.

But there is a twist, all the girls are of course princesses and therefore are wearing big large dresses which prevents them from doing any kick moves so most if not all their attacks so the only normal attacks are a Light, Medium and Heavy punch attack.

They also cannot jump due to what they are wearing and moving back and forth is quite slow so the gameplay has limited movement hence it being strictly a ground base game.

But thankfully they have special moves that can help them navigate the area fast such as charging attacks or have moves that will give them aerial time but will drop down hard.

In fact if a character lands on top of an opponent; it will ground them due to the weight of the dresses and therefore cause ton of damage, in fact it would take away half of health because of how heavy they are. But since aerial moves can’t be pulled off easily; the players shouldn’t be too worried about being defeated easily and quickly since jumping is impossible.

There are also super moves like most fighting games and of course there is an “Ultimate Attack” which are labelled as “Happily Ever Afters” which is an instant kill finisher.

Also before a fight starts; a princess is allowed to pick a magical item inspired by items from fairy tales that either involve princesses or female heroines that can aid them throughout the whole fight and to activate it they simply need too press B/O/A (depending on what console its on) to use it but the player can only pick ONE item before each match to use.

But all have recharge times after being used once and depending on how useful the item was the longer it will take to charge so these items

**Snow White’s Apple**: A Poison Apple to chuck at the foe with, when they touch it they’ll accidently take a bite out of it and get a poison effect to them for a small period of time.

**Cinderella’s Shoes**: A pair of glass heels that lets a princess suddenly sprint forward to get to the opponent faster and avoid all projectiles until they are either attacked physically or when the player stops manually.

**Sleeping Beauty’s Splinter**: A single splinter of flax the player holds up in front of them, if the opponent physically with this, the splinter will pierce into their body and they go into a crumple state.

**Little Mermaid’s Knife**: A knife to slash at the opponents dress with, if it connects the opponents legs underneath the dress becomes a mermaid tail and forces the opponent to crawl around slowly for a small period of time.

**Mulan’s Whip**: A long ranged whip useful to lash at enemies from far away and it can wrap around the opponent and allows the princess too pull the enemy back towards her.

**Alice’s Potion**: A small vial that allows the user to grow larger for about seven seconds, while it makes them slower, it makes them harder to hit because this means their dress is larger which gives them armor and more defence so less health gets taken away if they get hit. But if the opponent has an item or special move that can have them go upwards to hit their opponent anywhere above the dress, they’ll receive normal amounts of damage.

**Goldilocks’ Chair**: A simple nice looking chair that the player character picks up before slamming it onto the foe which then breaks afterwards, causing a ground bounce. But the pieces are scattered on the level and can be picked up with the same button used to activate this item as long as the character who has this item equipped is standing over them. The pieces can also be tossed at the foe as a projectile with fast speed and great damage but once all pieces are thrown or collected without being thrown; the chair will reform back into one, allowing the player to use the chair slam again.

**Red Riding Hood’s Basket**: Consume some bread from the basket which restores health and the longer a princess stands still while eating, the more health is restored.

**Thumbelina’s Swallow**: Summons a giant blue swallow to help carry a princess into the air for a few seconds which will allow the player to temporary control which direction the bird will go before being dropped automatically, a good item to either avoid attacks or to try and crush the opponent from above.

**Rapunzel’s Hair**: A wig of long strands of hair to hook towards the ceiling and swing it across the stage to hit the opponent with their dress as the character does so, causing a wall bounce.

**Snow Queen’s Mirror**: Summons a glass mirror to float in front of the player for 7 seconds that deflects projectiles but shatters upon being attacked physically. The shards will pierce the opponent afterwards doing great hits of damage and stunning them.