| Vanessa Z. Schneider | |
|---|---|
| P.N.03 character | |
 Vanessa as she appears in P.N.03 | |
| First game | P.N.03 (2003) |
| Created by | Shinji Mikami[1] |
| Designed by | Kenichi Ueda (animation)[1] |
| Voiced by | Jennifer Hale[2] |
Vanessa Z. Schneider (Japanese: ヴァネッサ・Z・シュナイダー) is a character from the 2003 Capcom video game P.N.03. A mercenary working in space, she is tasked with destroying berserk robots, utilizing a high-tech bodysuit that allows her to fire energy blasts from her hands. By the end of the game, she realizes she's a clone. Created by game director Shinji Mikami, Vanessa was designed to be sexy with an emphasis on dancing, with animator Kenichi Ueda creating her animations by hand after studying the movements of female dancers. She is voiced by Jennifer Hale.
Vanessa was mostly well received, with much praise going towards both her sex appeal and her constant motion. Several outlets compared her to characters such as Lara Croft or Samus Aran, though acknowledged she was hampered due to P.N.03's Gamecube exclusivity. Retrospectives further blamed the title's poorly received gameplay as weighing her down, and argued that in any other title the character would have become iconic. Despite this though, arguments have also been made that that very gameplay is in part why she is regarded as well, due to the character's human element.
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