Angelique (video game series) explained

Angelique
Angelique
Ja Kanji:アンジェリーク
Ja Romaji:Anjeri-ku
Genre:Otome, strategy, simulation
Angelique
Developer:Ruby Party
Publisher:KOEI, NEC Home Electronics
Genre:Otome, dating sim, visual novel
Platforms:Super Famicom,
Angelique Voice Fantasy
Developer:Ruby Party
Publisher:KOEI, NEC Home Electronics
Genre:Otome, dating sim, visual novel
Platforms:Super Famicom,
Angelique Special
Developer:Ruby Party
Publisher:KOEI
Genre:Otome, dating sim, visual novel
Platforms:NEC PC-FX, PC, Sega Saturn, PlayStation
Angelique Special 2
Developer:Ruby Party
Publisher:KOEI
Genre:Otome, dating sim, visual novel
Platforms:NEC PC-FX, PC, Sega Saturn, PlayStation
Angelique Duet
Developer:Ruby Party
Publisher:KOEI
Genre:Otome, dating sim, visual novel
Platforms:PlayStation, Sega Saturn, Nintendo DS
Angelique Trois
Developer:Ruby Party
Publisher:KOEI
Genre:Otome, dating sim, visual novel
Angelique Etoile
Developer:Ruby Party
Publisher:KOEI
Genre:Otome, dating sim, visual novel
Angelique: Tenkuu no Requiem
Developer:Ruby Party
Publisher:KOEI
Genre:Otome, RPG
Platforms:PlayStation, Sega Saturn, NEC PC-FX
Sweet Ange
Developer:Ruby Party
Publisher:KOEI
Genre:Otome, simulation
Platforms:Game Boy Color
Fushigi no Kuni no Angelique
Developer:Ruby Party
Publisher:KOEI
Genre:Otome, board game, dating sim
Platforms:NEC PC-FX, PC, Sega Saturn, Sony PlayStation, Game Boy Advance
Angelique: Maren no Roku Kishi
Developer:Ruby Party
Publisher:Idea Factory
Genre:Otome, dating sim, visual novel
Platforms:PlayStation Portable
Angelique Retour
Developer:Ruby Party
Publisher:Koei Tecmo
Genre:Otome, dating sim, visual novel
Platforms:PlayStation Portable, PlayStation Vita
Angelique Luminarise
Developer:Ruby Party
Publisher:Koei Tecmo
Genre:Otome, dating sim, visual novel
Platforms:Nintendo Switch

is a Japanese otome game series and media franchise. There are various OVAs, Drama CDs, Music CDs and Anime series, developed along with the base game, or broadcast on TV channels, etc. The series began in 1994 and has continued since. The latest entry in the series is Angelique Luminarise, released in 2021.

The first game was released in 1994 on Super Famicom. This is the first otome game (dating sim for women) known in the world.[1] Angelique series is also the first otome game series of the Neo Romance series by Ruby Party. Currently, the games in this series are only published in Japanese.

Plot

The basic lore of the series is built around a Queen who fairly and wisely rules a Universe. By balancing elemental forces with the help of nine Guardians, she keeps the various planets in her domain stable and her people content. However, the powers of the Queen and the Guardians fade over time, and successors must be appointed. In the first game Angelique, the protagonist is a 17-year-old girl named Angelique Limoges who has been chosen by the current Queen and her aide Dia as one of two candidates from the Royal Smallney Girls' Academy to become the next Queen. She is transported to the Flying City to begin her final examination.

Each of the candidates is given a land to populate. Whoever finishes populating their land first wins and becomes the next Queen. It is done with the help of nine Guardians who use their powers to make the people of the candidate's land happy, or to devastate their rival's lands. Along the way, the candidates become friends with the Guardians and can fall in love. If they choose love, they forfeit their chance to become Queen, but will live happily ever after.

The story expands in later titles, but most entries in the series feature a girl named Angelique or a variant thereof (Enju or Ange) as the protagonist, with ever larger casts of characters. The roster of potential love interests swells to 19 characters in later titles (in Angelique Trois and Angelique Etoile).

Gameplay

Through the Angelique series games, the story begins with some crisis of the Universe, or some troubles in the Universe. To resolve a crisis or troubles, one girl is selected to become a savior of these crisis or troubles.

The player takes on the role of this girl. In the first game, Angelique, the player becomes a candidate for the new queen who will be the savior of the universal crisis. The player is asked to complete her mission or task during the course of the game. If the player completes her mission in the scheduled period, before her rival candidate completes the mission, the player will win and become the new queen.

But while trying to complete the given mission or task, the player necessarily needs some help from the nine guardians, who know and control the spiritual powers of the universe. The player needs to win their favor. If they do not favor a player, they will not provide assistance to that player. To win favor from the guardians, the player should properly work in her mission. Thus, the guardians may favor her.

And when the player wins favor of the guardians and the male characters, she will be able to better perform her task, and at the same time, she is capable of establishing romantic relations with some of the male characters. At this point, there are two options for her. Working best in her mission with the help of the guardians, she can defeat her rival, and become the new queen. The other option is for her to fall in love with one of her favourite male characters. If her love is fulfilled, her rival will become the new queen instead, but she may win the love.

These are two main types of endings to this game.

  1. Queen ending
  2. Love ending

In the other games of this series, there is no rival, and the player should perform her mission alone. While trying to complete her mission or task, the same situations take place. To perform her task, the player needs the help of the guardians and other male characters, and she should win their favor. In this case, there are typically two endings, as in the first game:

  1. Mission complete ending
  2. Love fulfilled ending
  3. Other ending

There are many candidates for romance. Typically, the nine guardians are all possible targets of the player's love. There are at least ten main endings, but there are other endings as well, where the mission and/or the romance may be broken. The number of endings ranges between 10 and 30.

The most interesting and difficult points of this game series are that there are many combinations of how to win favor from the guardians and how to complete the task. Sometimes the former and the latter are contradictory, yet the player needs them both to achieve good endings.

Characters

The major characters appeared in the otome games: Angelique 1994,[2] 1995 (Special),[3] Angelique Special 2 1995,[4] [5] Angelique Trois 2000,[6] [7] Angelique Etoile 2003,[8] [9] [10] and Angelique Luminarise (Anmina) 2021.[11]

Legend:

Name Version Position Role Universe Age Voiced by
Angelique Limoges
(Japanese: アンジェリーク・リモージュ) 		Angelique Protagonist Candidate for 256th queen Original 17 (no voice)
Special 2 - 256th Queen of the universe Yuri Shiratori
3rd Trois -
4th Etoile+ - 256th Queen of the Shinchō Shinchō
Rosalia de Catargena
(Japanese: ロザリア・デ・カタルヘナ) 		Angelique Rival Candidate for 256th queen Original 17 Kotono Mitsuishi
Special 2 - Aide of the queen Limoges
3rd Trois -
4th Etoile+ - Shinchō
Julious
(Japanese: ジュリアス) 		Angelique Target Guardian of the light Original 25 Shō Hayami
Special 2
3rd Trois
4th Etoile+ Shinchō
Clavis
(Japanese: クラヴィス) 		Angelique Target Guardian of the darkness Original 25 Kaneto Shiozawa
Special 2
3rd Trois
4th Etoile+ Shinchō
Luva
(Japanese: ルヴァ) 		Angelique Target Guardian of the earth Original 26 Toshihiko Seki
Special 2
3rd Trois
4th Etoile+ Shinchō
Oscar
(Japanese: オスカー) 		Angelique Target Guardian of the fire Original 22 Kenyū Horiuchi
Special 2
3rd Trois
4th Etoile+ Shinchō
Lumiale
(Japanese: リュミエール) 		Angelique Target Guardian of the water Original 21 Nobuo Tobita
Special 2
3rd Trois
4th Etoile Shinchō
Olivie
(Japanese: オリヴィエ) 		Angelique Target Guardian of the dream Original 22 Takehito Koyasu
Special 2
3rd Trois
4th Etoile+ Shinchō
Randy
(Japanese: ランディ) 		Angelique Target Guardian of the wind Original 18 Nobutoshi Canna
Special 2
3rd Trois
4th Etoile+ Shinchō
Zephel
(Japanese: ゼフェル) 		Angelique Target Guardian of the steel Original 17 Mitsuo Iwata
Special 2
3rd Trois
4th Etoile+ Shinchō
Marcel
(Japanese: マルセル) 		Angelique Target Guardian of the green Original 14 Hiro Yūki
Special 2
3rd Trois
4th Etoile+ Shinchō
Angelique
(Japanese: アンジェリーク) 		Angelique - 255th Queen of the universe Original 21 Masako Katsuki
Dia
(Japanese: ディア) 		Angelique - Aide of the queen Angelique Original 21 Atsuko Tanaka
Name Version Position Role Universe Age Voiced by
Angelique Collet
(Japanese: アンジェリーク・コレット) 		Special 2 Protagonist Candidate for new universe queen Original 17 (no voice)
3rd Trois Protagonist 1st Queen of new universe (no voice)
4th Etoile+ - 1st Queen of the Seijū Seijū Yoko Asada
Rachel Hart
(Japanese: レイチェル・ハート) 		Special 2 Rival Candidate for new universe queen Original 16 Miki Nagasawa
3rd Trois - Aide of the queen Collet
4th Etoile+ - Seijū
Alphonsia
(Japanese: アルフォンシア) 		Special 2 - The will of new universe New universe - -
3rd Trois (Mysterious Elda)
Etoile [12] (Male form spirit) Seijū 16 Mitsuru Miyamoto[13]
Elda
(Japanese: エルダ) 		3rd Trois - The missed one
(Sealed spirit) [14] 		New universe - -
Leonard
(Japanese: レオナード) 		4th Etoile+ Target Guardian of the light Seijū 27 Rikiya Koyama
Francis
(Japanese: フランシス) 		4th Etoile+ Target Guardian of the darkness Seijū 23 Tomokazu Sugita
Victor
(Japanese: ヴィクトール) 		Special 2 Target Tutor of the spirit Original 31 Fumihiko Tachiki
3rd Trois 34
4th Etoile+ Guardian of the earth Seijū 34
Charlie Won
(Japanese: チャーリー) 		Special 2 Target Collaborator Original 23 Mitsuaki Madono
3rd Trois 26
4th Etoile+ Guardian of the fire Seijū 26
Timka
(Japanese: ティムカ) 		Special 2 Target Tutor of the dignity Original 13 Atsushi Kisaichi
3rd Trois 16
4th Etoile+ Guardian of the water Seijū 16
Mel
(Japanese: メル) 		Special 2 Target Collaborator Original 15 Yumi Tōma
3rd Trois 18
4th Etoile+ Guardian of the dream Seijū 18
Heuye
(Japanese: ユーイ) 		4th Etoile+ Target Guardian of the wind Seijū 17 Daisuke Namikawa
Ernst
(Japanese: エルンスト) 		Special 2 Target Collaborator Original 27 Toshiyuki Morikawa
3rd Trois 30
4th Etoile+ Guardian of the steel Seijū 30
Sei-lan
(Japanese: セイラン) 		Special 2 Target Tutor of the sensibility Original 19 Tetsuya Iwanaga
3rd Trois 22
4th Etoile+ Guardian of the green Seijū 22
Arios
(Japanese: アリオス) 		3rd Trois Target Mysterious man Original 28 Ken Narita
4th Etoile+ Shadow of the queen (Collet) Unknown
Name Version Position Role Universe Age Voiced by
Ange (Enju)
Sakaki
(Japanese: エンジュ・サカキ) 		4th Etoile Protagonist Legendary Etoile Both universes 17 (no voice)
Etoile_anim Yōko Honna
Constantan
(Japanese: タンタン) 		4th Etoile+ - Spirit of the monolith Both universes ? -
Conrad
(Japanese: コンラッド) 		4th Etoile - Captain of space-ship Seijū 46 -
Sacrea no seirei
(Japanese: サクリアの精霊) 		Etoile_anim - Spirit of the sacrea Seijū ? Akimitsu Takase
/ Eri Ōno
Moira
(Japanese: モイラ) 		Etoile_anim - Cosmic mind of Ange Seijū ? Yōko Honna
Name Version Position Role Universe Age Voiced by
Ange
(Japanese: アンジュ) 		Anmina Protagonist Candidate for new queen Reikyō 25 (no voice)
Reina
(Japanese: レイナ) 		Anmina Rival Candidate for new queen Reikyō 25 Ryōko Shiraishi
Yue
(Japanese: ユエ) 		Anmina Target Guaridian of the light Reikyō 25 Shimba Tsuchiya
Noah
(Japanese: ノア) 		Anmina Target Guardian of the darkness Reikyō 22 Hiroki Nanami
Lorenzo
(Japanese: ロレンツォ) 		Anmina Target Guaridian of the earth Reikyō 30 Ryōta Takeuchi
Shuri
(Japanese: シュリ) 		Anmina Target Guardian of the fire Reikyō 27 Takuya Satō
Kanata
(Japanese: カナタ) 		Anmina Target Guardian of the water Reikyō 18 Takeo Ōtsuka
Felix
(Japanese: フェリクス) 		Anmina Target Guardian of the dream Reikyō 25 Yūto Uemura
Vergil
(Japanese: ヴァージル) 		Anmina Target Guardian of the wind Reikyō 27 Yu Miyazaki
Xeno
(Japanese: ゼノ) 		Anmina Target Guardian of the steel Reikyō 19 Nobunaga Shimazaki
Milan
(Japanese: ミラン) 		Anmina Target Guardian of the green Reikyō 26 Shōhei Komatsu
Cyrus
(Japanese: サイラス) 		Anmina - Butler Reikyō - 28 Yūki Ono
Taira
(Japanese: タイラー) 		Anmina - Chief of Royal Institute Reikyō 25 Fumiya Imai

Titles

Main series

Spin-offs

A traditional role-playing video game with dating sim events and multiple endings. Angelique Collet is the heroine. The universe which Angelique Limoges rules is under attack from a mysterious figure called the "emperor", and Angelique Collet must come to the rescue.

Games in non-Japanese language

As of May 2022, the game series has been released exclusively in Japanese, except for a Chinese PC version of the first game in 1994. Although KOEI is not opposed to releasing the games in other language(s) than Japanese, in order for such translations to be produced, the existence of enough demand must be shown.

Related media

Software

OVA

Manga

Anime, OVA series

There are 4 OVA series:

  1. OVA 1 - (2000; 2 episodes) - sequel to game events
  2. OVA 2 - (2001; 3 episodes)
  3. OVA 3 - (2002; 8 episodes)
  4. OVA 4 - (2004; 3 episodes) - based on video game; first series chronologically, prequel to Shiroi Tsubasa no Memoire

Angelique Limoges and Rosalia de Catargena have been chosen as candidates in a Queen Examination - a test to see who is better qualified to be the next Queen of the universe. For this special examination, both girls are given their own continent on a planet. The girls must raise the continents into thriving civilizations and environments. Nine Guardians (who control various spiritual elements, such as fire, wind, and water) have been chosen to help the girls raise their continents during the Queen Examination.

Anime, Television series spin-offs

There was a Koi Suru Tenshi Angelique series (25 episodes) from 2006 to 2007.

  1. (13 eps) 2006 spinoff of the OVAs
  2. (12 eps) 2007 sequel to 2006 series

CDs

Vocal and soundtrack CDs

Drama CDs

Gaiden Drama series

Reception

Keiko Erikawa established the woman-based game developing team in the mid-1980s. This resulted in the birth of team Ruby Party and the first otome game Angelique in 1994.[32] [33] [34]

The Angelique series greatly promoted and produced the development of otome games and their franchise markets.

The Angelique games sold over 850,000 copies in 2020.[35] Koei-Tecmo has reported sales of the 2021 game Angelique Luminarise in the 30,000s in Japan and Asia in the first quarter of 2021 (April to June).[36] According to Teitengame.com, the sales ranking of Angelique Luminarise is 132nd, and its total sales in 2021 were 14,506.[37]

Related game series

Neo Romance series

Neo Romance series is the otome game series developed by the women-based group Ruby Party in KOEI.[38]

  1. Angelique series (The otome game series in this article).
  2. Harukanaru Toki no Naka de - Second game series of the Neo Romance.
  3. Kin'iro no Corda - Third game series of the Neo Romance.
  4. Neo Angelique - Fourth game series. This is totally different game from the series Angelique. Neither sequel nor spin-off. According to Ruby Party, the world of the series Angelique is the distant past of the Neo Angelique.[39] Therefore, a bit similar gadgets appear, such that the stage of Neo Angelique is the continent Arcadia, which was the stage of Angelique Trois.

Bibliography

External links

Notes and References

  1. (ja) Famitsu-news 190914
  2. (ja) Angelique, Memorial book pp.8-32
  3. (ja) Angelique Special, Sweet guide pp.10-80.
  4. (ja) Angelique Special 2, Sweet guide pp.14-44.
  5. (ja) Angelique Special 2, Memorial book pp.6-47
  6. (ja) Angelique Trois, Sweet guide pp.10-46.
  7. (ja) Angelique Trois, Memorial book I pp.6-44
  8. (ja) Angelique Etoile, Official guide pp.3-48.
  9. (ja) Angelique Etoile, Memorial book pp.9-95
  10. (ja) Angelique Etoile, Handbook.
  11. (ja) Gamecity, Luminarise: Ange (retrieved 5 March 2022).
  12. (ja) Angelique Etoile, Memorial book, p.92
  13. (ja) Angelique Trois, Memorial book I pp.44 and p.103
  14. (ja) Angelique Trois, Memorial book II, Event movie pp.12-15
  15. (ja) Angelique Special 2, Sweet guide, p.2 prestory
  16. (ja) Angelique Special 2, Memorial book p.46. The seijū appears in different form for Collet and Hart. It looks like a pink small animal for Collet (she calls it Alphonsia). And a blue small animal for Hart (she calls it Rutis). There are two Wills in the new universe. If Collet becomes a queen, Alphonsia will be the only Will. and vice versa.
  17. (ja) 4gamer.net, 520 (retrieved 14 May 2022)
  18. (ja) Famitsu-news 210923 (retrieved 2 March 2022)
  19. (ja) Web site: ゲーム  - アンジェリークSpecial . Games  - Angelique Special . . Media Arts Database . July 14, 2015 . Japan . ja . July 14, 2015 . https://web.archive.org/web/20150714075551/http://mediaarts-db.jp/gm/syosai.php?id=392109200218&kbn=c12 . dead .
  20. Web site: Koei Brings Love to the DS. Gantayat. Anoop. 18 November 2005. IGN. 17 June 2014.
  21. Web site: New Angelique Retour Trailer Revealed. 12 November 2015.
  22. Web site: Angelique Retour Adds a Pair of Dapper Twins to the Dating Sim. 23 June 2015.
  23. News: Angelique Retour Arrives in Japan on December 17. Handheld Players . 2 September 2015.
  24. (ja) Web site: Angelique Luminarise (Anmina).
  25. (ja) famitsu-news-210520
  26. (ja) bs-log-210519
  27. (ja) famitsu-news-210420
  28. (ja) famitsu-news-190914
  29. The former game is Angelique Etoile 2003. After 18 years since 2003, the new game Luminarise has been released.
  30. Web site: Famitsu . 『戦国アンジェリーク』『ラブφサミット』ネオロマンス ２大新連載 . 2010-05-17 . 2022-12-31 . ja.
  31. https://www.gamecity.ne.jp/anmina/beginner/world.html anmina for beginners
  32. (ja) Interview to Keiko Erikawa (retrieved 14 May 2022)
  33. (ja) Den-faminico-gamer.com (retrieved 14 May 2022)
  34. (ja) bs-log 1804-23 (retrieved 14 May 2022)
  35. (ja) 4Gamer.net 20-0722 anmina (retrieved 14 May 2022)
  36. (ja) Koei-Tecmo report (retrieved 14 May 2022)
  37. (ja) Teitengemae.com 2021 (retrieved 14 May 2022)
  38. (ja) Official Neo Romance website: About (retrieved 25 March 2022).
  39. (ja) Neo Angelique, Memorial book, 2008, p.111, q3 .

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