Princess Maker (at least, the one that I’ve played and is available on Switch) is nowhere near the storytelling experience that this one is. The payoff and reward is a surprisingly involved story.
It’s not too time-consuming to do so – no single run lasts more than a few hours – but repetition on the back of trial-and-error gameplay requires a very particular kind of patient soul to enjoy. get the good ending) is to grab a notebook and actually jot down notes across multiple runs. After one or two runs I realised that my best hope of ever training up a happy and healthy princess so that she can become a good queen (i.e. Many of them have to do with war or courtly intrigue (hence the Game of Thrones reference), and it’s very hard to pick which decisions will result in them. There are plenty of ways that your character can die in Princess Maker. the limits of what a book could really do), and indeed became part of the charm of those things, but it’s far less excusable in Princess Maker. That was an unavoidable consequence of the simplistic and typically binary decision-making system (i.e. A totally arbitrary death that you had no rational way of knowing was coming up.
If you’ve ever played a choose-your-own-adventure game book, you would know that the standard approach for these things is to give you a couple of different decisions at branching paths of the narrative, and for both of those decisions to seem like perfectly rational choices for the situation. I’ll start with the former of those two criticisms, because whether you enjoy Long Live The Queen depends on your tolerance for this feature. This ultra indie game is not without its delights and offers players a decent challenge on their way to guiding their princess to become the best queen the lands have ever known, but what lets it down is a decision system that’s as arbitrary as choose-your-own-adventure game books, and a low standard of presentation that redefines what it is to be humble. Mash them together (after taking the sex out of both), turn the result into a spreadsheet simulation, and you’ve got Long Live The Queen.
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