Princess Maker 2

The Good
1. It looks great, even though it uses only 16 colors! Wow!
2. 74 endings... when I think that PM1 has 30 endings, and even PM3 has only 60 endings...
3. It's really addictive ^^. It means it's really good.
4. A lot of stats desciribing your daughter.
5. Adventure mode is really cool. It's not only walking around, killing monsters and finding treasures, you can also, for example, meet interesting creatures.
6. Ending with your daughter marrying Cube is so cute ^^

The Bad
1. A bit repetitive.
2. English beta doesn't have descriptions of some endings.
3. Why do I have to be the father, and I can't be the mother? It makes me feel a little confused...

The Bottom Line
Great game. What else can I say? Maybe just: you must play it!! ^_^

The Good
You don't see this kind of thing often. For those of you who haven't played it, another appropriate title would be "Sim Daughter". The objective here is to guide the daughter, and then depending on your actions, she will end up in one of several professions.

It's an original concept that is rarely seen anymore, especially in America. Somehow, this thing is strangely addictive, and you'll find yourself replaying, wondering what sort of outcome you'll get.

The Bad
If you're like me, and know little or nothing about Japanese culture, you're going to be exposed to some strangeness.. most apparently in the weight/height ratio of the child. When I played, she turned out to be 17 years old, 5' 7" and 97 pounds. With these statistics she complained about being "too fat" and the game would not allow her to wear some of the fancier clothes. I had to slim her down to 87 pounds to resolve the problem.

There's also the whole Child Pornography issue. Yes, you will see naked cartoon preteen art. At no time are sexual acts depicted, but nudity is not exactly scarce. It's my understanding, though, that the North American versions have been censored, and that the art for that is simply not available.

The Bottom Line
If you want something unique, try it out. It's fun, addictive, and just downright nifty.

The Good
The 256 color anime styled graphics are very good and detailed. There's also a very diverse and colorful group of people to meet throughout the game.

The midi music is fairly well done considering it's in midi

Lots of things to tweak and visit and probe.

Lots of jobs to do.

The Adventuring segment is a very nice touch.

The daughters age and growing up is very convincing.

Those are some of the finer points but one of the things that I don't get is the father. How can he have his daughter work at such a young age? Along with that for being the hero that he is, he is also fairly poor and could be considered The Al Bundy of the game.

It's hilarious that the daughter can grow up to be a hooker or marry the butler. Aim high baby! There's also the perverted dragon

The game is overall pretty well rounded and there's a ton of endings that you can go after! So this game is highly replayable. You'll also miss it when she grows up since all that gameplay seems like a flash and POOF it's over. Though the replay value is sky high so you'll want to play it over and over again and discover everything there is to see in this game which is actually quite a bit if you don't use a walkthrough or faq.

The Bad
While the adventuring aspect was nice it wasn't very deep and could have really been much better with a few more places to adventure in or making the original adventuring spots a lot bigger.

Your daughter is automatically "fat" at 100 lbs and has trouble getting in the more expensive dresses.

If the game went by segments of one week each instead of three turns a month that would have significantly improved gameplay and made it more enjoyable.

The game never actually dwells on the history of the father being the hero or how the butler Cube came to serve the hero.

You can only have one rival in the game. What's up with that? Once you get a rival do other girls just go "I give up?" How's that for realistic?

The Bottom Line
Overall a very fun game that you will play several times through. I give it a 9/10 mainly for small faults. But overall a great game!