Princess Maker 5: Parenting for Otaku!
PRINCESS MAKER 5 (PC, Single player) Before we begin: I've always liked the idea of a game that would follow a character from childhood through adulthood - sort of like The Sims , but with more indirect control over how one grows up - in The Sims, a lot of the gameplay directly revolves around shaping your Sims into the kind of people you want them to be - for example, an evil scientist or a flirtatious astronaut, not quite with as much power as God, but instead as some sort of omnipotent leader, guardian angel, architect, or demon, depending on how you play. While I'm a big fan of that series, I sort of wished to play a game where, while influencing how a humanoid character matures, you played the role of a guardian rather than some omnipotent, unseen puppetmaster . However, up until about last year, I never knew such a game existed - but lo and behold, it did - or rather, they did. Introducing, the Princess Maker series, or the game I'll be reviewing...