Galaxy Princess Zorana

A extremely worthy sequel to long live the queen

every time i open the game i lose 6 hours of my life. thank u

I had a fantastic time with this game. I did about 7 complete runs playing around with the different options, seeing different endings with different characters, and collecting all the achievements. It's a great successor to LLTQ and a creative and fun game. I love how much more involved the gameplay is rather than just being linear. I had a great time!! Definitely recommended! (I don't know why the Steam clock says I played 1.8 hours. I think it's actually like 18 hours if I had a guess?)

Galaxy Princess Zorana is both a raising sim and a political sim, and very good at both. It takes aspects of the visual novel, but has so much more to offer than your average VN. As a successor to Long Live The Queen, I think it succeeds in every way. You take the place of a young girl who is the heiress of an evil emperor, as part of an evil empire, but it is an elective monarchy, so you still have to win the majority of the 30 elector nobles. The setting is in many ways a very generic, low-seriousness, somewhat odd anime science fantasy, but there are a few interesting things that stand out about it. The gameplay mainly involves jetting around the empire from planet to planet attempting to curry favor with various unreasonable nobles, trying not to die in the process, all the while uncovering multiple conspiracies and machinations behind the scenes. Gameplay is very good in this. You have a vast array of potential skills, and while some obviously matter more than others, all of them are important and come up with surprising frequency. Managing the electorate is engaging and requires both strategic thinking and the ability to read them interpersonally. Unfortunately, maybe realistically, some people simply cannot be changed or swayed, while some are just well-mannered and will support you on sight, but the vast majority fall in the middle. You can do quests or use blackmail to get them to commit votes to you, but in the end, there will actually likely be many uncommitted voters who will swing one way or another based on your general actions and demeanor, with a relatively sophisticated system behind it all. There is a complex system surrounding managing her moods, which have effects both on the skills you can learn as well as occasionally affecting dialogue, even quest progression. I find it significantly more fun than Long Live The Queen's mood management system. There isn't very much in the way of "kingdom management", mainly because you aren't actually empress until after the game ends (if you're lucky enough to win). You will sometimes be prompted to make ruler-like decisions, but these are quite limited, even moreso than Long Live The Queen. As for the writing, there are many interesting and memorable characters, but I wouldn't say there's very much in the way of interpersonal relationships, it's mostly based on intrigue, worldbuilding, and political maneuvering. The majority of characters you will only ever meet once, and like in Long Live The Queen, this applies to most of your romance options as well. You have basically one option if you want to marry for love, and you will talk to said love interest maybe five times in the entire playthrough. Ultimately I'd give this game VERY high marks, it's a favorite of mine and not even just in the limited niche realms of raising sims or political sims. Highly recommended.

This is another brilliant princess sim game from Hanako Games. Much like Long Live the Queen, this game is pretty short, but no less engaging. The point is to make multiple playthroughs feel distinct enough that you're willing to start back up from day one again. And you will need to restart. Choices and skill checks can be unforgiving, so get used to seeing a dozen failed skill checks in a row. In a way, it almost feels unfair. But that's the charm of these types of games, so go forth and die a handful of times!

It's nice to see them try new game systems in this genre and I'm glad to have more Long live the Queen!, but it left me wanting more. Especially the main story is a bit anti-climactic, compared to the original. Probably just down to budget, the writing is competent and all the systems have their place, it just needs more of all of it.

hanako games comes in once again with a crash and a bang to redefine excellence in stat raisers with this sequel to everyone's favorite princess management sim LONG LIVE THE QUEEN, the previous GOLD STANDARD of stat raiser ADVs. in the distant science fantasy space opera future, PRINCESS ZORANA was minding her own business organizing her shoe collection when all of a sudden her EVIL EMPEROR FATHER very literally DISAPPEARED INTO THIN AIR, leaving her as his sole heir. problem is, zorana was until very recently the SPARE TO THE THRONE, IGNORED BY HER FAMILY and TOTALLY UNPREPARED FOR POLITICS. while zorana is unceremoniously dumped into stewardship for the whole EVIL GALACTIC EMPIRE the same as her ancient forerunner ELODIE, the future turns out to be an OLIGARCHIC MONARCHY, and in order to actually KEEP her seat on the throne zorana must win the majority vote in the looming IMPERIAL ELECTION!!! can she manage to impress/trade favors/blackmail enough of the broad range of electors across the stars, while also not dying on any of their ridiculous quests OR getting assassinated?! can she solve the MYSTERY of her WEIRD FAMILY PROBLEMS?!! can she find a SUITABLE CONSORT from among the empire's VARIOUS ELIGIBLE BACHELORS & BACHELORETTES?!?!?!?! ...IN ONLY 35 TURNS?!?!?!?!?!?!!! hanako games could easily have simply turned out Long Live The Queen... IN SPACE!!!!1! and people would have happily flocked to add to cart, but instead they have implemented on their original winning formula to make galaxy princess zorana its own beast. while the basics remain the same (choose stats to grind to build skills to maybe pass enough checks to not die/otherwise land yourself in hot water), zorana puts limits on how freely you can alter your princess' mood to max out your studies... and additionally allows you to outsource certain political stats to your advisers, whom you can recruit out of the various oligarchs. but be wary--if you manage to piss them off badly enough they might betray you! assassins in zorana are a bit easier to avoid than they were for elodie, and if you manage to defeat one whoever sent them will stop being a problem for you, but in exchange for the various Ridiculous Death Bottlenecks of lltq the final test of zorana is more complicated to pass. in order to schmooze with the empire's various politicians you will have to travel the galaxy board game style to visit them; each has their own political agenda and opinion of zorana, and your ability to persuade them will depend heavily on your policy choices And the skills you've chosen to build. this vast web of characters you can get to know and the huge range of potential interactions you can have with each of them, plus the vast array of locales and all of the sneaky secret things happening behind the scenes for you to discover, gives zorana a sense of greater broadness and depth that more than makes up for its shorter turn count compared to lltq. you will be delighted and astounded by the variety of trouble you can get your princess into. if you loved lltq then galaxy princess zorana is For You. if you love space operas and/or political intrigue then galaxy princess zorana is For You. if you love literally anything that is on offer then galaxy princess zorana is For You. and if you have never tried a stat raiser before, let hanako games persuade you as to how enjoyable they can be! and as with lltq i highly recommend zorana as a party game where your friends/chat/whomstever shares control over playthrough choices. is a great recipe for highly enjoyable chaos and discovering new ways to preemptively end your run. tl;dr one million out of ten gaming experience. would pause in my election grind to read a sidebar on fanfiction tropes in the science fantasy future again, and probably will, because there are probably So many more secrets i have not yet discovered. zorana does not disappoint.

Addicting gameplay loop just like their previous title "Long Live The Queen". It's also a good game to play if your attention doesn't need to be entirely on it. Not that I play this while I'm at work, or anything. Nope...