Princess Maker Series (1991-2007) NOSTALGIA TRIP 

Daughter: I'm think i'm in love with you father! PBG: Well, I'm out!

Each daughter has different backstory PM 1 Your daughter is princess from Fallen Kingdom PM 2 Your daughter is born from the heaven PM 3 Your daughter is the fairy who want to live with the human PM 4 Your daughter is the Hero's daughter PM 5 Your daughter is princess from another world who escape to the modern day Japan

princess maker 5 is so long that i've literally maxed out just about every stat, dated every guy, done just about every job, met the requirements for just about every ending and my daughter is still only 17. but its definitely an in depth raising sim and i love being an involved parent in her life

PM5 is set on modern time? Uh-huh... Now she has to go to school every weekday? Uh-huh... She still has to go to work... Wait, WHAT!? How about the child labor law? Call the child protective service!

I agree, PM5 is way too long. Here's some of my thoughts on it, in no particular order: -It took me over 100 hours to beat the game. It's such a pretty and charming game, and I honestly think the writing is excellent, especially in the highest-level friendship events, as well as most events involving Cube. I just wish the game was 1/4 (or even 1/8) as long as it was. If it was just PM5: High School Years, it would've been so much better. Especially since you have more schedule choices in high school. -One other thing I should mention is that building friendships is as annoying as it is rewarding. The jealously system becomes ridiculous when you have 20-ish friends, not including the secret ones. Some friends don't ever get jealous (emirin), while others want you to give them all your attention (Hiroko). It's a good thing I liked so many of the friend characters and their events, especially the later ones. -One *more* problem is that Princess Maker 5 doesn't let you pursue a career and a marriage, which is perhaps too accurate an emulation of reality in Japan. -Adventuring, while very linear, is saved by it's interesting combat system. You can use a huge variety of skills in combat, and I was able to beat 80% of bosses in the game through the music and dancing skills. -Your daughter can't die in this one, due to the hospital you live nearby, but going too far in debt for too long will force a game over as you attempt to escape the IRS...or Japan's equivalent. Fortunately you earn a LOT adventuring. -In a suprisingly true to life fashion, the people your daughter hangs out with influence her personality. For example, hanging out with the gangster dude makes it very difficult to maintain her already volatile morality stat. I...actually really like this addition. -Again, this game is so pretty. I love the pencil drawing/watercolour feel of everything (except your daughter, who the heck approved her design? Her hair is atrocious.) and I took way more screen shots than I needed for my review of this game on my blog. It makes me sad that there's no hope for a sequel. -This game has big Tokimeki Memorial 2 vibes. It's almost a girl version of that game, with a little less focus on dating and school itself. I could say more but at this point I'm rambling already. Overall, PM5 is hard for me to recommend, but easy for me to love.

Princess Maker 3 actually does give bonuses for jobs, they’re just a lot more obscure than working well. The Daycare job can give you a bonus after working a certain number of times, and the Maid (not Palace) job can give you a hefty bonus if you have a lot of Charm/are in the “Pretty” mood.

In princess maker 3 if you manage to work diligently every day she actually does get a bonus, also in princess maker 2 you can raise charisma through dance class. Sorry to correct just trying to help.

I don't blame you for not liking the Refine versions as much. I have zero nostalgia for the series and only learned about it through a review that Peanut butter gamer did years ago for PM2. It made me want to play it but I was IMMEDIATELY turned off by REFINE's more modern graphics. I like me the pixels and the dithering!

Weirdly enough, the fact that PM5 is long makes it charming to me. I haven't played it (I've just now found out about it accidentally, thank you youtube recommendations for this!) but I enjoy long, time consuming games that are, well, skill builders. There was an app on my phone that was pretty much identical in terms of gameplay to PM and I really enjoyed it (I believe it was Remember Me?). Obviously much shorter, but it got me into these types of raising kids games and now this is here. Thank you for this video as I now have something I want to buy and get into and also showing the pros and cons so that I don't accidentally end up buying a game I don't like.

My only gripe with the translation by CFK is one event in Princess maker 5 that happens on Valentine's day. Cube asks the daughter if she's put any thought into who she will give chocolate and she says "well you should do the least not to get blames." I have no clue what that means.

About the PM2 strategy of farming for the first 2 years... you don't really have to. Switching to a Robust Diet will over time add up to a huge amount of Constitution! Plus, I find just making sure she has at least over 100 Constitution (about a year at the farm, more likely less) allows her to perform well in her jobs with enough consistency to only need a break every 3 monthly 'slots'. Plus, a good tip - in the very beginning of the game, go to the Western Desert, and navigate (to prevent from getting enemy encounters, camp around every 10 seconds) and sleep at the Demon Cave. When you wake up, an event will happen where you can increase whatever stats (out of a list) you like - including Constitution! If you're particularly lucky, it could go up by 30+ points. It's how I ensure I get her Constitution up to 100 in less than a year, with enough time for other classes/jobs, so she can work decently and have enough HP to last in fights when she gets good at combat.

I only played the 2 and I loved my cute daughter Hikari who grow up to follow his dad steps and become a adventurer :'D I couldn't be more proud of her

I was really interested in PM2, but I didn't want to play a game myself after having seen everything about it, I wanted to kind of be surprised and not have my choices be effected by what I knew was the "right" thing to do. So I decided to play PM5. Oh boy, you're right when you say it takes FOREVER. I wanted her to be friendly with everyone, so I devised a Sunday route where she could travel to every available friend and talk to them. You can cheese items to lower stress in the park, if you want to spend an hour clicking as fast as you can. And I felt like she never, ever, EVER got good at her jobs. Even three years in, it'd be about a 60% chance she'd fail. If she wasn't so damn cute I would have given up ages ago. Once she gets into Middle School, even more friends become available, and all their schedules changed, so I would have had to totally reroute all my sundays. I did it a bit, then gave up. Maybe I should go back and play more. It just sounds more like work than a video game haha

That was really interesting~ Well done 👍🏻

PM2 (DOS, uncensored) is the best one. It holds up pretty well, and it gives you a lot more freedom than you'd think. Farm for two years? You can win the cooking contest or even defeat the War God when she's 10.

Thanks for making this video. I was wanting to know more about this franchise since it looked interesting.

A review for princess Maker 4 would be nice regardless

my wife claims this game taught her about life; if you push people too hard they run the fuck away.

Awesome video =D

I first played PM2, then jump to PM5 and YES IT TOOK A LONG LONG PLAYTIME cause i just can compare it with PM2. finished the game in 2 hour VS finished 1 year in 2 hour XD

Honestly, I like Princess Maker 2 but it annoys me that the game never explains how Cube came to work for the player and daughter. Maybe he was so impressed that the player defeated Lucifon that he decided to go with him instead.

I came from jinnytty stream, game looks interesting. ngl

personally. i really love pm5, just not the steam version. the steam version is just..so bad. i suggest the fan translation to anyone curious

Strangely enough when I played PM2, the stress mechanic was based on faith and morals as it’s limit, constitution was easy enough to level due to her patron god being Uranus and I achieved a sword training instructor on my first run. Was pretty poor for money but the wood cutter job helped raise a lot of money, and due to it being late game and her inability to have significant elegance to speak to anyone, I just went down the fighting for that run.

This is a well done retrospective video though I want to clear up 1 misconception I’ve come to grasp. The Father-Daughter Marriage Endings is not the only “questionable” aspect of Princess Maker 2 as that Ending has been carried over in later installments from 3-5. So in retrospect it seems the series as a whole except the 1st one is questionable in the long run with their content. Not that it matters as the aspect of the Father-Daughter Marriage Endings while creepy and weird isn’t that big of a deal nor is it incestuous. It is Questionably Grooming at worst and Wife Husbandry at best I’ll give you that. As for your opinion on Princess Maker 5 it perfectly sums up why I don’t like it nearly as much as the previous installments. The weekly schedule system drags the game to a snail crawl making the whole concept of replayability based on the multiple endings nearly impossible to have the patience finishing the game as a completionist. I personally don’t like the design and aesthetic choices of this one as it was trying too hard to be like the first 2 Princess Maker games while at the same time trying too hard to do its own thing. The Adventuring Feature leaves a lot to be desired as its just simply walking from point A to point B fighting random battles and collecting treasure boxes. No different than drawing a line starting from beginning and reaching it’s end with some obstacles in the way. I’m only playing the True Princess Ending Route and will never look back. To me, this is the worst out of the series.

Anyway looking for a good game of this genre on steam, look up Volcano Princess. It's longer than most PM games (about 10 hours) but has alot of the same gameplay and many different endings. I enjoyed it alot.

... holy crap it’s Petite Princess Yucie....

there is a mobile version of PM2 but with 3d model of your daughter.the storyline is same with PM2 but the game has new endings that the original one never have.currently it has japanese version.

Actually Cabaret is available when she is 16. Avoid the Sleazy Bar like a plague spot! Softegg translators could actually write!

Hey man I like your stuff, you seem to be on a hiatus. Will you be making a return ?

18:16 so does that PM3 steam port also have bad translation? Since he didnt mention anything of that sort. Answers are appreciated!

i really love pm5 and its story it is slow but woth it

I played a lot PM2 and now I am playing PM3. To be totally honest, I dont miss that much the repetitive rpg grinding and no brain battles. And the gold farming... ugh. In the end, to not have to grind gold over and over in PM2 I just cheated the gold (I had at this point a considerable handful of unlocked endings and I wasnt going to put that much more time) In PM3 I think in some way I had more fun. it´s a lighter PM than the 2nd one, but at this point I dont miss the explore mode that much.

You didnt say which princess maker version of 3 you played, cuz there are two on steam, and one on the switch and I cant tell!

It's not nostalgia, but I'd like you to look at Volcano Princess.

Can you make a video for Trauma Center?

Are you talking about the PM2 review on SomethingAwful that categorized it as a hentai game or was it another review?

Taking dancing classes or putting you daughter on a robust diet will also help her constitution but dancing costs money and a robust diet makes her gain weight.

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I really feel like Princess Maker 3 might have better gameplay than 2 but I can't get past the graphics. Like why is she in front view while the room is top down? it makes me feel ill. Why is the interface so cluttered and illegible? I dunno how to get past it.

One of the thing i didint like, was that in princes maker 2 refine, they alter for example, as your daugther get stonger, in the original, she win muscle mass, get biceps and muscles in general, in the refine version, they censor a bit and with the glow effect, you dont notice it

I dont know how to feel about this games. In one hand I adore the concept to take charge of child education and take care about her, looking how she growns up, and start to have hobbies, friends a job... and then we have the "other part" of the game, the Woody Allen part, it just have 0 sense for me, whats the point of this? If you want a sexy forbidden erotic story, ok, fine, go to that, but the game really wants that you make the best choices for her future, and really take care of she, the ero part just... I dont know ruins all the cutec child story vibes for me?

It's the third time I watch this video and only now I got the Uranus joke. Talk about slow.

For me princes majker 3 is mi favorite, then princes maker 2, i see the first one, not call atention and i watch the 5 and o mi lordis so long, and not intrest

Best ending is not marrying the prince... but marrying YOU (the player)!!!