Princess Maker 2

Ok, so... It's, on the whole, a Japaaaaaan! sort of game. You raise a daughter from 10 to 18 and how you raise her gives you a different ending, with the endings being how she lives the rest of her life. It's best described as Harvest Moon + RPG + Very minor Hgame elements. You can put your daughter into skimpy clothing and buy pills to increase her bust size. Yeaaaah. I skipped on that.

The game is divided up into months, and you schedule your daughter's activities each month. There's School, Work, Adventuring, and Time Off. School increases stats and skills the quickest, but the cost of each one is kinda prohibitively expensive. Work gets you money and increases stats/skills, but also tends to decrease another stat/skill. Time Off is how you lower your daughter's stress, which accumulates over time from working and school. If her stress raises too high, she'll slack off during work, spend your money without permission, and run away. This is bad.

Adventuring is the most fun element of the game, by far. Adventuring is what triggers all the special events. There are 4 places to adventure to, each with a different set of random encounters and triggerable events. You can play with fairies and elves, talk with the devil, and even kill the God of War and then talk to the God that created everything.

The game does have a few sexist/that's just wrong elements. Your daughter can work at a bar/sleazy bar/cabaret at various ages (IIRC, 14/15/16). She can be 'too fat' to fit into dresses/lingerie ... Where too fat to fit into a dress in my game was 105 lbs and 4'10. ... Wha? And then, finally, there are various spirits that will help you out if you're focusing in a single area of improvement. A spirit that embodies housework came to compliment my daughter on how well her housework was improving. My daughter says she's just doing what 'comes naturally', and the kitchen spirit said that 'not many girls do what comes naturally anymore.' ... Doing housework and cooking is what a girl is naturally supposed to do, eh? ... Riiiiiiiiiight.

It's a quick game to play through, only took me maybe 5 hours or so, and is readily available from Home of the Underdogs. Though, on XP, it has to be played with DOSBox. Pretty fun, if you discount the weirder elements.

Oh! My daughter, by the way, ended up being Commander of the Royal Guard. :3