whether you made her get a job, made her practise certain hobbies, paid for certain lessons, if she met certain people… Princess Maker 2 is, honestly, very hard. Her destiny is based on your decisions e.g.
You set your adoptive daughter to different tasks throughout her life that will, at the end, determine said fate. You must raise this baby girl to the age of 18, at which point her fate is decided. One night a god appears to you and gives you a child. In this one, you’re a hero living off a special state pension after vanquishing Lucifon the Prince of Darkness ( geddit?).
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The Princess Maker series is currently on number 5, but not all of them have been translated, and PM2 holds a special place in my heart from the collaborative playthroughs done on a fan fiction forum I was on in the early 00s (do not ask for further glimpses of my sordid past). Hold onto your butt, Brendan, if that even is your real name, because I’m coming out violently swinging with Princess Maker 2. I basically considered this an act of preemptive war on his part. When I sat down to do my first of these Have You Playeds, I was really annoyed because Brendy had done a bunch of the games I wanted to do - ‘cos I thought they were niche and would make me look cool. One a day, every day, perhaps for all time. You can read the very interesting (albeit unfortunate) story of the English version in the Related Link section below.Have You Played? is an endless stream of game retrospectives.
The contract expired in 2002, so hopefully someone will release the game as shareware or freeware in the future. The game was never released because publisher Intracorp went bankrupt. This beta version is created as part of a three-way contract between SoftEgg, who did the English translation, Gainax, and IntraCorp. Therefore, there are gaps in translation, and missing text in some endings. Note: This is the English translation that was never officially released. With many factors that affect your daughter?s character, the game?s replayability is astounding, and the 70+ endings will keep you hooked for months on end. There are many surprises and random events to ensure that no two games are alike. Then you will decide on a detailed routine of her daily life, from schooling and hobbies, to how you want her to react to different people she will meet throughout the game. You first choose your daughter?s name, your age, both birthdates, and her blood type. Although you are limited to raising her from age 10 to 18, everything you do will influence how the child will grow up. 74 Unique endings.Ī very different kind of game." What makes Princess Maker 2 a lot of fun is the sheer amount of options and actions you can do, which result in seemingly unlimited range of personalities your (adopted) daughter grows up to be. You can have her enter school, seek adventure in the wilderness, get a part-time job, break into high society, or any of many other possibilities. Your actions determine whether she will live or die, and what she will become. One of the most unique and compelling games ever made, Princess Maker 2 is an excellent ?life simulation? from Gainax, and the only game in the Princess Maker series to have been translated into English.Īs to what the game is exactly, MobyGames says it better than I could: "Raise a daughter from childhood into adulthood.