Vanguard Princess was the best game I have bought in the last hour. I have found it to be both noisy and brightly colored. It will occasionally react to keyboard input, although it is crucially missing the "Just dispense the tradng cards already" button. Rumor has it that that will be in the next DLC.

In combat, you must choose the direction of attack and movement (presumably combined because moving in one direction and attacking in the other would weaken the dimensional infrastructure), and the type of attack (Weak, Normal, Strong). My personal favorite is "Weak" - because really, why bother with an attack unless it's a really weak one.

Character selection screen needs some work, as you can't get a really good feel for the interpersonal relationships between the primary fighter and her assistant or cosmetologist or whatever the second girl is supposed to be for. I mean sure, Kaede can use "Godspeed Bloodbath" (actual in-game move name, BTW), but is Hilda really down with that? She really strikes me more as a "heavy on the bloodbath part, ease off on the Godspeed", so you know, maybe some ideological differences down the road there.

I would recommend this to anyone who enjoys pressing the attack key quite often. Also if you feel that the current crop of games have too many pants-wearing characters. Because they don't have that in this game. Overall, a good design choice, as the money that could have been spent on pants went instead to some stellar voice acting talent. When they grunt with exertion or make a surprised exclamation, it's like you are actually there. More to the point, it's like real life because there are no apparent audio controls.

Finally as a service to those who were looking a "how anime is it"? breakdown: It is slightly more chibi than Skyrim, somewhere between Farming SImulator and Payday 2 in kawaii and moe, and more loli and ecchi than DOTA.

Bottom line: If you DO like anime and DON'T like pants, you'll like this game.