Thanks for pointing that out. It seems many here are pre-judging this game based on its presumed nature.

Being an otaku of 15 years who watches anime on Funimation and Crunchyroll with his wife WHO LOVES ANIME AS MUCH AS HE DOES (if not more), this game might be her dream come true for a site that's tailored specifically to games with a western art style.

Things to note for everyone:

1.) This is not hentai. It just has a sense of humor.
2.) Hanako games makes games for girls, primarily. Which is just as unique as this games style: http://www.hanakogames.com/about.shtml , but I imagine many guys have loved it (Judas is a guy, after all...I think O_o), just as many girls have played the titles off of GOG already, even if not tailored to them.
3.) If your reading this and you would at least give the game a shot, there's a free demo on their website: http://www.hanakogames.com/llq.shtml
4.) Some people who are gawking at this probably love Leisure Suit Larry, yet those are probably dirtier than this.
5.) There is absolutely no other game like this here. I would love to see GOG cater to a new crowd, and not throw out that possibility based on negative feelings purely based on an art style and non-existent overtones.
6.) Generalizing this game in a negative, stereotypical fashion is like judging a woman to not be good at anything but raising kids, house chores, and the kitchen (I cook and clean a lot, by the way).
7.) It's an instabuy for me, and I know my wife will love this kind of game.

Thanks for the release GOG and I hope you keep adding games like this.

Uhm, no. That was only the first 20-or-so posts. After Judas made it clear that the game did not in fact contain any of those things, the discussion has been about the presentation. And of course the usual flaming bouts between the pro-manga and anti-manga camps.

:-) Nah, the giveaway is that most child haters don't immediately think "death by octopus" looks like tentacle rape.

Soo, any chance you dark mages of GOG can convince Gainax to release Princess Maker 2 here? :p

Princess Maker! yes we need that!

Huh, I thought that screenshot is about getting offspring, kinda like a stork bringing it, thats what they tell small kids here when they arent old enough to know the disgusting truth.

Whoa Long Live the Queen! here on GOG! Now this is a instabuy. Thanks GOG for getting this here. :)

That also how I saw it.

That's just as a big assumption as saying that people wouldn't think you're a pedo for buying this game.

edit for making my point clearer :p

Judgemental idiot at work.

Okay, let's do a fact check (tm) ;)

The game is released with:

- A 242 word presentation, none of those touching sexual stuff
- A 168 word gamecard, none of those touching sexual stuff
- A 1:37 trailer showing intrigue, diplomacy, murder, and no sexual stuff
- 12 screenshots, of which:
-- 9 show no sexual content at all, but character development and strategic/tactical decisions
-- 1 shows a giant squid killing the princess. Whoever sees "sexual content" there should perhaps look again, and ask him/herself if it's really there, or if it merely happened in his/her mind due to automatically equating "squid" and "anime graphics" with "tentacle hentai".
-- 1 shows a remark about "big breasts" as a result of a [i]failed flattery check[i]. I don't want to live in a world including the word "breast" in a game in that way is offensive - do you?
-- 1 shows a funny remark about an affair, which may or may not have taken place in the game, and which - if you look up other information about the game - could insinuate an "affair" (whatever that might mean exactly) between a 31-year old guy and a 14-year old princess. With the information given, it's impossible to say more about this. If the mere thought is so offputting for you that you won't touch the game for the mere possibility of it containing the stuff that your mind suspects there, that's fine. But given the other information that is available about this game, don't you think that it might warrant a further check?

Anyway. I _can_ see one thing: If you stumble across a forum thread that talks about sexual content in this game, and then, after being primed that way, take a look at some screenshots while not paying much attention to the game's description, other screenshots, and trailer, I can see how one's mind might draw some weird connections about sexual content. So let's not condemn the people who did that.

But after looking at the facts, I really don't see much evidence that that assumed offensive content is actually there.

Ah a princess maker type game. Might be tempted by this for those times when I don't want to dig out the Super Famicom to play Princess Maker...

Now all we need here is Shira Oka. That game deserves more coverage.

Anyone saying that the protagonist "looks 6 years old" is exaggerating and needs to think before they speak.

If this game had a gritty and realistic art style, or perhaps was a big mess of early 1990's pixels, and had less Japanese style humor then it would be getting universally applauded as an intriguing royalty simulator where all your decisions feel like they have real weight to them.


But no, again people are quick to judge a book by it's cover. The breast comment is very obviously meant in jest and not something to be taken seriously. Also it's something being said by the protagonist so it factually can't be a case of pedophilia even if it was serious. The tentacle seen is very clearly a parody or perhaps a thought bubble of some kind, the chibi art style in that scene is a dead give away. And it was literally the every day norm for young girls to be wed at the age of 14 or even younger in the middle ages. But again if the graphics had been less anime then people would say the game "wasn't afraid of pushing some boundaries" and was just "being realistic."


Just a few days ago didn't we have a couple guys getting pissed at the government shutdown sale? And what was everyone's reaction? They told those big babies to calm down. And yet here the tables seem to be turned, and it's yet another case of self-important people trying to stop everyone else from having fun that they deem "offensive" while demanding that they be allowed to have the fun they want regardless of what anyone else thinks.


Really people. Please. At least try to hide your obvious bias and misinformed ignorance.