PRINCESS MAKER 2 (PC): A Hints & Tips FAQ (C) Loopy 2000 (jjyooi@yahoo.com) =========================================================================== Version 1.0 (Alpha Release) This FAQ is designed to help you, the player understand the game by giving you hints and tips so you provide your daughter with the best upbringing possible. The aim of the PM2 game is to make your daughter into a Princess -- not easy. Remember, PM2 is a STRATEGY game, so there's no walkthrough. This is why I'm writing a Hints & Tips FAQ, rather than a Walkthru FAQ. I have heard that there are around 50 to 55 possible endings, each determined by how you raise your daughter, what education you give her and what jobs she works. I'm making a list of the endings I have reached and am more than willing to add endings that I haven't reached. Give me a tinkle on jjyooi@yahoo.com with details as to what ending you reached that I haven't reached. I'll add it to my next FAQ version. Contents -------- * Background * Guardian Deities * Education * Jobs * Hints & Tips * Endings * Disclaimer * Contacting Me Background ---------- You are a wondering swordsman who happens to stumble across a war between a kingdom of peace-loving humans and an undead army led by the Ruler of The Underworld. The war is going in the undead army's favour so you help by defeating the leader (the Ruler) in one-on-one combat. The King and Queen thank you and offer to give you refuge for a while. They even PAY you to stay with them (count me in!) Anyway, one night, you see a shooting star and you go to investigate. You find a sphere of light and inside lies a young girl. You speak to the guardian deity (spirit) -- I'll detail this later and she/he hands the girl over to you. Your job is to raise the girl from the age of 10 to the age of 18, when she will become an adult and leave the house. The girl is given to you at the age of 9, but you only get control when she is at the age of 10. Guardian Deities ---------------- The deities will vary from game to game depending on which birthdate and star sign you give your daughter. For example, Aquarius (Jan 20 - Feb 19) is ruled by Saturn, so Saturn will be the Guardian. There are several deities in the game. All the planets from Mercury through to Pluto are represented, and the Moon as well. Pluto calls himself Hades weirdly enough. Each deity favours a particular characteristic. Moon favours Sensitivity, Venus favours Charisma and Mars favours Fighting Reputation. Education --------- In order to become a Princess, you must teach your daughter how to act like one. This is where the education comes in. From here, you can teach her the simple things such as doing the Housework or the more complex things like Protocol. There are so many different things to teach, the possibilities are near-endless. The subjects you can have your daughter learn are: Science, Poetry, Theology, Strategy, Fencing, Fighting, Magic, Protocol, Painting and Dancing. Most will increase one thing and decrease another. For example, Science increases Intelligence, but will reduce Faith. Theology increases both, but at a lower rate than Science. You must balance your education carefully. Jobs ---- Sending your daughter off to learn about things is all very well, but where are you going to get the money to pay for it? By making her work as well. Don't worry, you'll get a yearly salary of 500G from the palace so that'll help ease things off a bit. The jobs you can have your daughter do are a bit limiting to start with, but they increase in number and physical demands as your daughter gets older. For example, with Babysitting, her stress at age 10 will increment by 1 each day, but as she gets more experienced and older, it will increment by 3 and sometimes by 4 each day. Age 10: Housework, Babysitting, Inn, Farm, Church, Restaurant (your daughter gets no pay from doing the housework, and her temper does up as well. The Church offers only 1G per day starting rate, but decreases Sin which is useful if you're daughter is hunting a lot.) Age 11: Lumberjack, Salon Age 12: Masonry, Hunter Age 13: Graveyard Age 14: Tutor, Bar Age 15: Sleazy Bar* Age 16: Cabaret* Age 17/18: (Nothing) * If you choose these jobs, they will increase your daughter's Sin level and Cube (the butler) will object to sending her on those jobs. Keep the Sin level down by making your daughter work in the Church. Summer Festival --------------- Every year, when you get your 500G salary, there will be a Summer Festival. During the festival, you can get your daughter to participate in one of several competitions. Cooking, Fighting, Dancing and Art. Cooking sees your daughter create a dish and points are awarded on Sensitivity and Cooking Skill. First prize is the Egg from the Bird of Paradise. If you get your daughter to eat it, it will raise her Constitution. If you don't, it'll hatch after one month and raise her Sensitivity instead. Choose wisely! Fighting pits your daughter against several opponents. Don't bother with this until your daughter is been to some lessons at Fighting, Fencing and Magic. Some fighters rely solely on fighting skills and some rely soley on magic skills. Oh, and make sure your daughter's got some Armour and Weapons or she won't last very long :-P Dancing requires you to have bought a dress beforehand and, in competition, points are awarded on Art, Charisma and Sensitivity. Art is a very easy competition. During your daughter's studies at Painting, the Art Tutor, may invite her to paint a picture at the cost of 200G. Always let her. The picture will be placed on the wall behind your daughter and entered into the Art competition automatically. I recommend you ignore the first picture she draws (unless you've taken advantage of tip 12.) The third picture is usually the best. I've never seen my daughter paint more than 3 pictures in one game. The Art tutor will rate the picture. If you can get more than 100 points, you've got a reasonable chance of winning the Art Contest. Hints & Tips ------------ 1. For a good start, put your daughter on a robust diet and get her to work on the farm (10G) for a few months. She will get a good constitution and build up her strength -- which is useful for a lot of jobs. She'll flunk the first few months until her stats are high enough, so don't worry. 2. Get your daughter to work in the house for a few months to build up her temper (the only way?) 3. If you work on a particular job, you may get a rival. At the moment I only know of four jobs that get rivals: Housework/Restaurant, Magic, Fighting/Fencing and Dancing. 4. If you want to increase your daughter's Art level, have her learn Painting until she gets promoted and then teach her Dancing until she gets promoted here as well. 5. Save often. Obvious? You'd be surprised when you find out how many people don't save and then return to a save game to find that their daughter has lost 7 years. 6. Talk to the Young Officer in the castle during January ONLY. This is the Prince and he'll grant you an audience no matter how low your daughter's Decorum is. The more often you talk to him, the better your relationship with him will be. 7. Study Protocol if you want to talk to people in the castle. The higher the person, the higher your Decorum must be. Each person will boost your popularity depending on your stats. The guard likes Refinement, the Queen likes Temperament, etc. But what about the Jester? Has anyone managed to talk to him? 8. Talk to your daughter a lot and adjust her diet when she says she wants to "Slim Down" or "Grow Taller." 9. If you choose the Weight Loss diet, don't put her on the diet for more than two months at a time. Also, her Constitution drops each month. Counter this by getting her to work on the Farm or as a Mason (Mason if you're desperate.) 10. If your Magic and/or Fighting Reputation is high enough, you'll get challenged in the middle of the street. Always accept. What have you got to lose? 11. During the Summer Fighting Contest, gauge how you use your attacks. If you use Magic a lot and win, your Magic rep will go up 20 points, 10 if you're the runner up. If you use Physical attacks a lot, your Fighting rep will go up 20 or 10 points, again depending on the final outcome of the contest. 12. Painting and Dancing both increase the Art level. Concentrate on Dancing to start with and then, once your daughter gets promoted, concentrate on the Painting. Because both the Art and Sensitivity level have been upped, your daughter will paint a very good picture which can beat the others in the Art Competition at the Summer Festival. 13. Magic is a very expensive educational topic. Leave it until last. E-Mails ------- Here are some e-mails I've received from other people regarding this FAQ From Carl Chavez: > > In the desert adventure area, go to area with the demon's cave in the west. > Camp out in the evening next to the cave, but don't go in. When you camp, > you will be awakened by partying demons. The main demon wants to make some > kind of deal. If you accept, you can increase an attribute really high. > This will increase your Sin a lot, but that's no problem... as you become > more powerful, you will be able to beat lots of creatures and take their > gold. Then you just spend the gold at the temple (100 gold removes 10 > sin). Another cheat: in the southeastern area of the water level is a fairy > mushroom. If you camp there, you can get your cooking skill increased and > your fatigue goes to zero. > > What I like to do is combine these cheats with training: in one month, do > two desert adventures and a water adventure. Get higher attributes in the > desert and remove your fatigue at the fairy mushroom (and get cooking > skill). Beat up whoever you need to for money and don't worry about the Sin > you get from killing creatures. Always make sure to exit the map through > the secondary town gate before the time is up so you get an Attack Skill > bonus. On the next month, pay for two training sessions in (fencing or > fighting for a while, and move to the arts, protocol, and magic later), and > another water adventure. Repeat until you're super-powerful (or bored as > heck). Once you're a great fighter (and artist, and cook!) you can win > practically any Summer Festival and get a great score. There's another thing you can do. On the Winter quest, make your way round to face the God of War and battle him (best do this after you've cranked up your stats first.) Beat him and walk on up. You'll find your Guardian Deity who will further boost your stats. This will only work once (I think.) At the stats your Guardian will raise depends on the Guardian (Mars raises Fighting Skill, Moon raises Sensitivity and Venus Charisma.) If you want to avoid doing this (the message subject was entitled "PM2 cheat like "hell" ;-)", by the way...) try only one adventure a month or one a quarter. > I just remembered another one that I usually try to get before camping at > the fairy mushroom: if you wander around the water adventure in the water, > you may fight some green guys or evil-looking mermaids. Sometimes they'll > give an item (I don't remember what it was; I think it was a "Mermaid's > Tear"). You can pump up your sensitivity by 50 or so by taking a sea > vacation after finding the item. Sensitivity is one attribute that I do not > believe the demon can pump up... kind of makes sense in a way. ;-) You only get the from the Mermaids and yes, they do crank up the Sensitivity by around 50. Endings ------- These are the endings I know of (in no particular order) with smileys to show how good they are. The smileys vary from :-( (bad) to :-) (good) and the more ((((s or ))))s there are, the better or worse the ending. 1. Housewife :-| 2. Dancer :-| 3. Writer :-| 4. Artist :-| 5. Street Performer :-( 6. Criminal :-(( 7. Great Warrior :-) 8. Sorceress :-| 9. Church Worker :-| 10. Farmer :-| 11. Day Care Center Worker (Babysitter) :-| .. .. XX. Princess -- Anyone got this ending yet????? :-)))))..... I've got screen shots of the endings I've encountered on my web site (go into the image gallery section to see them.) Disclaimer ---------- All Copyrights are acknowledged and no infringement has been intended. This FAQ is (C) Loopy 2000 and unauthorised duplication in any form, paper or electronically is prohibited. Contacting Me ------------- If you want to correct or add to this FAQ, e-mail me @ jjyooi@yahoo.com -- if you have something worthy of addition, I'll add it to the next version of the FAQ. **************************************************************************** FAQ (C) Loopy (jjyooi@yahoo.com) All other (C) Copyrights Acknowledged **************************************************************************** ****************************************************************************