Over the this past summer I've been hooked on an older Japanese title called Princess Maker 2. Its a child rearing sim with a few RPG elements.
Apparently you (the player) were sort of great war hero who saved a kingdom from the forces of evil. On a starry night the gods entrust you to raise a child of the heavens to raise a child from age ten to eighteen. From then you choose out your family name, your birthday, your daughter's name, her birthday, and her blood type. All this decides her personality and temperament.
To help you to rear your child is a little demon called Cube. Basically he's a butler who just wants whats best for your daughter. At the beginning of each month you have to set up a schedule for you child to follow. You can have your daughter go to school and learn the art of painting, dance, protocol, poetry, science, theology, fencing, strategy, fighting, magic. In order to pay for that fancy schooling she has to take part time jobs. Both of these increase or decrease your daughter's stats in Cooking, Cleaning, Strength, Morals, Faith, Magic, Conversation, Charisma, Sin and etc. If you work her too hard she will begin to rebel or become ill. All these stats are important to determine you daughter's future.
Once a year there is a harvest festival. Around this time you get your yearly pay and chose what compition to enter your duaghter in. The four contests are Combat, Exibition, Dance Party, and Cook-off. Depending on what stats you focused your daughter in will determin how well she fairs in each event.
Another feature is the RPG Adventures you can send your duaghter on. You take controle of your duaghter and have her explore for several days. There are four areas to explore: Forest, Desert, Glacier, and Lake. On this little outing your duaghter can find items and have battles with the local creatures. Most of the battles are random encounters. Just like a regular RPG your duaghter will need armor, weapons, some magic skill and a few potions to fend off the badies. Your daughter never dies if she does happen to get defeated. She will simply get knocked out and your faithful butler, Cube, will sweep in and bring your darling daughter home.
The major thing I love about this game are all the mutliple endings. If you try hard enough your daughter can become queen of the kingdom or queen of the underworld. Its all up to you!
I have mostly fond memoires playing through this game. I found the Advenure element entertaining and cute. Intrestgly enough, I found out that if your duaghter has high enough charisma or refinement monsters don't attack you. My greatest acheivement playing through was when my duaghter ended up as a Bondage Queen and then married Saten. My only major problem with the game was the fact my daughter kept running away. Even when I made shure she was happy and all her stats were up she would run away randomly and that would totally screw up my sceduale. That was majorly anoying. Other than that flaw I found this tittle to be and entertaining game.
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