Growing Up

This game simulates growing up as a child from birth through high-school. About half of the gameplay is a time-management sim, in which you must schedule activities for your day to increase various skills without your Happiness or Parental Approval getting too low. The other half is mostly a mental-connections minigame in which you reveal dots on a board which also increase skills, or give you various options to reveal more dots. In addition to these activities, there is a Visual Novel aspect with a plot and occasional choices, as well as some other minigames and options to raise skills, but this is not the real meat of the game. One run through the game took me 4 or 5 hours, and there seems to be enough replay value to run through it once or twice more. My biggest complaint about the game was that it felt a bit shallow. Despite that, I still had fun with it, and it's a good way to spend some time when you don't want something too deep.

I enjoyed the game, not a bad progression. I noticed you don't really have to focus on your education that much in order to get the full experience of all the random stuff that happens to you. Alex is best girl, obviously. It was weird to see her marrying me though, since I was dating Wendy, but ended up with Alex in the marriage scene. I feel like they should give more turns in between certain stages to enjoy them more. Anyway, it's a fun, quick experience. Played it two times. That's why I'm giving it a 4 star. It provides what it advertised. Is it perfect? Not many things are, and that's alright.

It's a fun game, but just not worth the money. I've beaten it in 5 hours. Princess Maker 4 and 5 have much better stories and offer much more content. And the random elements of the game are very annoying.

The game is not really good, the impact of your choices are very limited, your life is too short and feel rushed, it's end after high school which is stupid considering how fast your character grow up. There is better games elsewhere.