Blade Strangers (Windows)

Blade Strangers
Developer: Studio Saizensen Publisher: Nicalis Platform: Windows Released in JP: August 30, 2018 Released in US: August 28, 2018 Released in EU: August 28, 2018 This game has unused cinematics.

To do: Solange, Liongate & Kawase have Unused animations of them being wall bounced & front chip KO'd. 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. 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?).

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

This 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
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.