TECH. REVIEW (1)
RPG ‘Princess Maker’
To be honest, I do not enjoy the games. The reason that I do not like the games is very simple; I am not a good player of the games. Of course, there are so many genres in the game industry. However, I am not good with all of them. It is not that I have not tried to be familiar with them. I tried to become an excellent gamer when I was young. I have tried to play almost every single game and every time I played the games, it came back to me with anger. So, it is hard to tell people about what my favorite games are and it is also difficult to find out what type of the gamer I am. But there was a game that impressed me so much when it first created- The Princess Maker. The Princess Maker is one of the rearing simulation games that people play on their own PC. (Wikipedia: Princess Maker is a series of Japanese Life Simulation Games by the computer game and anime production company Gainax.) I could never forget the impression that I felt when my best friend first introduced me this game. The fancy background picture and pretty girl character captivated my sight, and it was so beautifully colorful. The rule of this game was so simple to play; all I have to do is just raise the character as well as I can. There were no win or lose. While playing this game, I felt like I was a grown up, like a mother who has kids. The future of the character is depends on how well the gamer raise the girl. There was no violence or battle in the game. To me, who were so tired from being dead or killed from the enemies in the games, this Princess Maker was a perfect serene girl-type game. Almost every girl in my class played and became a big fan of the game. I think the main concept of this game was the maturity, which stimulates people’s responsibility and sympathy. This novel idea brought a great change in the game industry. Plenty of games were created under the genre of the rearing simulation. However, when I think about its social effects, I do not think it gave a good lesson to its player. To play the game, people should have spent the long time with their own PC, while being isolated them from the society. Even though the fantasy world in the Princess Maker was not brutal at all to bring the negative effects in the real society, the isolation brought negative effects to its players and some related issues to the society. Yet, the isolation from the real society or world is one of the problems that the game industry should have solved.
Source From: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Princess_maker
