Vanillaware

Vanillaware is a game company led by the artist George Kamitani. Its games are renowned for their extremely detailed 2D artwork. It frequently works together with Basiscape for the soundtracks -- in fact, thus far, every single released OST for a Vanillaware game has been effectively a vehicle for the newer artists of Basiscape.

Games by Vanillaware:

• Princess Crown
• Odin Sphere
• Grim Grimoire
• Kumatanchi
• Muramasa the Demon Blade
• Grand Knights History (Japan: September 2011, USA: ???)
• Dragon's Crown (announced for spring 2013)

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Vanillaware provides examples of the following tropes:

• Author Appeal: George Kamitani's fetishes appear to be as follows:
  • Amazonian Beauty (Gwendolyn, Raijin, the Amazon)
  • Buxom Is Better
  • Zettai Ryouiki: (Gwendolyn, Velvet, Raijin, Elf)
• Doing It for the Art: It takes a ton of work to produce 2D graphics lavish enough to strain a contemporary game system.
• Food Porn
• Medieval European Fantasy: Five out of seven games.
• Scenery Porn: To the point where many promotional images are the raw artwork for the backgrounds.
• Spiritual Successor: Princess Crown --> Odin Sphere --> Muramasa. In fact, during development, the games were respectively referred to as Princess Crown 2 and Princess Crown 3. Dragon's Crown is instead a successor to Dungeons & Dragons: Tower Of Doom.