Posted on: November 14, 2013

cyberbunbun

Games: 241 Reviews: 6

Unpolished

The game plays great and has a really good visual aesthetic if you're into this kind of thing, but every other aspect of the presentation (namely, menus, fonts, music, and even animations or transitions) don't look great. for a 10 dollar game I would at least expect better fade effects between screens, it's all I'm saying. If this sounds like nitpicking, it is. The game really has nothing else going for it. That isn't to say it's bad, quite the opposite. It does one thing and it does that thing really well, and that is to be princess maker in visual novel form, which is to say, a heck of a lot more linear. But if you see the game not as an RPG but more of an overly elaborate Visual Novel, and if you like visual novels and this cute aesthetic, it's for you. tl;dr: Mind the lack of polish, and if you're not interested on what you see on the screenshots, your money is better spent elsewhere.

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Posted on: January 9, 2014

Kefke_Wren

Games: 16 Reviews: 2

Long live? Queen? Not likely!

I played this game elsewhere and let me be blunt with this review - Don't waste your time. The mechanics of this game are deliberately set up to make your choices meaningless. At any given point in time, there is one, and only one, right answer. Even if you know what skills you need, you'll fail if you don't train them the right way, or in the right order. Sometimes even though you focused on a skill well before you needed it, arbitrary restrictions will mean you still end up with it too low to pass the check. So your entire game will be filled with failing meaningless choices that amount to nothing...and they do amount to nothing. Often, you'd get the same results with a failure and a choice as with a success. In fact, succeeding checks can even open up new ways to fail rather than making you more likely to succeed. Factor in the princess' personality and ignorance, and...well, if you can get through even a single play session without loathing her and wanting to send her to the headsman yourself, you have more patience than I.

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Posted on: November 14, 2014

kitsuneae

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Games: 236 Reviews: 2

Totally not Princess Maker

No, this is not Princess Maker. The principal looks the same at first: raise a cute girl by selecting her daily schooling and activities. Use this training to handle events and advance the story. This is where the similarity ends. Princess Maker is a HUGE game with many endings, randomization to keep things fresh and a lot more time to work with and grow to care about your little princess. It's also a very complex game bordering on being a sim and lacks much in the way of a linear plot instead being all about shaping the child and how she grows up. Long Live the Queen is short, almost frantic in pace, and has a very linear plot based mostly on what's going on in the kingdom and not your little girl in specific. The lack of randomization really hurts this title the most with the game being able to be played nearly blind once you know the right order to click the buttons in. There are a few different endings, but they are all variations on "Queen, pauper, or dead". It really is more of a visual novel instead of a sim. If Princess Maker is too difficult or you just want a game to play through a couple times, Long Live the Queen is fine. If you're a Princess Maker veteran, however, you may be dissappointed.

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Posted on: October 20, 2013

LemonViper

Verified owner

Games: 53 Reviews: 1

Not Worth $10

It's fun the first time around, but you soon realize how linear the story is. The same events, in the same order, repeat at every playthrough. This means that there's a few combinations of stats that are just plain better than the others, and there's no way of knowing besides trial and error. There's no actual strategy or intrigue to it, just playing over and over until you can see the way through the maze. Compare to Princess Maker 2, which allowed boundless freedom - with failure statuses being very very rare - and multiple, arguably equivalent endings. The setting and characters seem very detailed and carefully planned but there's no point to them, as you can only interact with them when the story allows you to, and even then it's just a stat check. This means that you could beat the game skipping all the dialogue, just hitting the right stats combinations, never even knowing who "the blond guy" is. The graphics are cute and it's a good time waster for an otherwise boring afternoon, but I regret spending $10 on it. Get Princess Maker 2 instead.

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Posted on: December 23, 2013

mowiegand

Games: 375 Reviews: 18

Fun for a short amount of time.

I base this review on the Steam version and when I saw it here on GoG, I was literally shocked. I thought the ame wasn't very good; it is fun for one playthrough, but then I lost the motivation because it is the same all the time. The only real fun thing about this game is to see how your little princess dies, but that also gets boring quite quickly

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