Posted on: December 13, 2014
johnteee
Verified ownerGames: Reviews: 1
Joyful Game
Like Princess Maker, but more simpler. It's worth playing.
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Long Live the Queen
Description
Being a Princess is not an easy job. Being a Queen is even harder. Especially when you're only fourteen years old, and the reason you've inherited the throne is that your royal mother has just met an untimely end.
Now power is up for grabs. You may be the official heir, but much of the country's nobility would love to steal the throne for themselves. Aggressive neighbors will take advantage of any weakness to enlarge their borders at your expense. And that's not even mentioning the magical dangers which are lying in wait...
Can you survive long enough to reach your coronation?
Now power is up for grabs. You may be the official heir, but much of the country's nobility would love to steal the throne for themselves. Aggressive neighbors will take advantage of any weakness to enlarge their borders at your expense. And that's not even mentioning the magical dangers which are lying in wait...
Can you survive long enough to reach your coronation?
- Deceptively adorable graphics hide a deadly interior. Collect all the ways to die!
- Every decision unlocks further consequences down the line, allowing you to shape the future of your character and her country with the skills you choose to pursue.
- Uncover secret plots, outwit invasions, unlock mystical powers, dodge assassins, and get your enemies before they get you.
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Gaming Nexus
8.5/10
What's my final piece of advice for Long Live the Queen? Shake it off and try again. Is it worth the challenge? Yes. Being successful is gratifying. But having said that, this is a menu game; navigating menus is the core mechanic. There's also plenty of reading that is required, skipping over it makes playing this game almost pointless. The soundtrack is beyond repetitive, nearing an annoyance, but it isn't required to play. Touch controls are fantastic, elevating this to being a great game to sit on the couch and play.
Read full review »Pure Nintendo
8.5/10
Overall, Long Live the Queen puts your strategic thinking to the test in a deceptively simple game with many layers. It’s fun and addictive with a great aesthetic, and is highly recommended for fans of point-and-click adventure games with a visual novel slant.
Read full review »DualShockers
7/10
The subtle and ambient piano music goes well with each scene and it adds another layer of immersion in the princess’s situation. The fictional world doesn’t leave much of a lasting impression, but the characters, their bonds, and their intertwined fates are compelling, making Long Live The Queen an exceptional choice-based game with a depth of possibilities that makes it far more than just your usual ‘princess maker’ game.
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Posted on: June 12, 2016
dragonbeast
Verified ownerGames: 171 Reviews: 2
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Long live the queen Shortly lived the queen
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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
Verified ownerGames: 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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