Classes raise some stats and lower others, but cost money.

So every month you select a number of activities for her to participate in and she carries them out. Depending on how you go about it, you can get all kinds of marriage and job-related endings, ranging from positive (Queen, Princess, etc) to meh (barmaid, freeter) to not so positive (sleazy barmaid, etc). This time she’s the daughter of your ex-partner Isabel and you have to raise her from age 10 to 18. Well, obviously not okay since I’m still complaining.Īnyway, let’s back up a bit: if anyone hasn’t played a Princess Maker game before, the story usually goes that you’re an ex-hero of some sort who somehow finds yourself raising a little girl. But this is a 100% raising sim, not a hybrid RPG, so once I readjusted my frame of mind, I was okay. It’s an insult to any gamer, working to raise your stats like crazy then only getting to fight once a year. For example I won the festival battle for two years, but that was the only use I ever got out of my battle stats and equipment. It makes some of the festivals a little meaningless. PM2 also had a dizzying array of stats to raise and classes to take, many of which have been combined or removed completely in Princess Maker 4. A lot of the elements I saw in the PM2 walkthrough are present in this game, but the parts I really got excited about – the battles, the special events, fairies, mermaids, adventuring, etc, have been almost entirely eliminated. It’s essentially a severely dumbed-down remake with all the humorous content, fighting and adventuring removed. Unfortunately Princess Maker 4 is a real disappointment compared to PM2.

I tried to download the English PM2 and run it, but my computer wouldn’t play along, so it’s taken me this long for me to find a version and a format I can easily handle. It was and still is one of the funniest game-related things I have ever read in my life, and it made me really, really, really want to play the game. My first exposure came in the form of a Princess Maker 2 Let’s Play I read last year. It’s not my first exposure to the Princess Maker series though. This is my first time playing a Princess Maker game and I didn’t use a FAQ, so I haven’t done too badly for myself. That’s the Soldier, Magician, Marriage to a Minor Noble, Prime Minister and Ordinary Marriage endings, if I recall correctly. I’m done with Tokimeki Memorial 4, but I haven’t had enough of stat-raising sims yet, so I dived straight into this one, Princess Maker 4 for the Nintendo DS.Īt present, I’ve finished this five times with Endings No.

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