Blade Strangers (Windows)

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Solange, Liongate & Kawase have Unused animations of them being wall bounced & front chip KO'd.¹ For Prerelease page
there is a trailer somewhere on YouTube that showed this game was meant to be a Cave Story fighting game (some rumors say this was a going to be a Code of Princess fighting game), there was a trailer for the latter.²
Nicalis has a blogpost talking about the development of the game, and there are some unused faces shown (but are there any in-game equivalents?).³

Blade Strangers is a 2D fighting crossover game that features characters from games such as Cave Story, Azure Striker Gunvolt, and Shovel Knight.

Unused Videos#

Watch on YouTubeThis video named "test" is found alongside the cutscene files and is most likely a dummy.

Internal Character names#

The playable characters in the games have acronyms of there respective file in-game, which can confirm a whole lot of stuff what the acronyms can tell. One example would be that Helen is a Nicalis created character!

The list goes from Japanese to Western-made characters. Characters also start with a bs_ at the start of there file.

internal	Character	Note
cop_sol	Solange	"cop" is an anagram for Code of Princess.
cop_ali	Ali
cop_mas	Master T
cop_lio	Liongate
uhr_kws	Kawase	"uhr" is a snippet of Umihara Kawase. Summer Kawase has "b" in her "bkw", the b could possibly be Bikini? emi_shake is some extra/unfinished animations for Emiko.
uhr_nok	Noko
uhr_emi	Emiko & Shakemaru
uhr_emi_shake	Emiko & Shakemaru
uhr_bkw	Summer Kawase
poy_pia	Piaa	"poy" is a snippet of Doki Doki Poyachio.
ori_lin	Lina	"ori" could possibly be a snippet of Original.
nic_cul	Curly	"nic" is a snippet of Nicalis' name.
nic_quo	Quote
nic_aba	Aban
nic_isa	Isaac
nic_hel	Helen
ycg_sho	Shovel Knight	"ycg" is a snippet of Yatht Club Games' name.
int_gun	Gunvolt	"int" is a snippet of Inti Creates' name.

Unused Videos#

Internal Character names#

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