Lair Land Story: first run thoughts

[stepnix]

Lair Land Story first run complete, our girl became a doctor

there's something really interesting about this version of the raising sim formula

Princess Maker 2 went all-in on emergent narrative. there's random events, some events in the "dungeons" to discover, but most of the endings are determined purely by the numbers. Long Live the Queen, by contrast, is basically navigating a very large dialogue tree with stat gates every so often (that kill you). There's different endings sure but they're slightly(?) less stat-dependent and more reliant on how you navigated the script

Lair Land has a script that forms the spine of the gameplay, but there's also like a million discoverable events. I did a whole sidequest about finding out who invented grape wine. Had to spend the daily time resources to follow that, would have been entirely possible to get through the game and miss it completely. It really made the game feel alive somehow.

I did this first run blind but now i definitely want to see a wiki to figure out what's going on under the hood but information in English is prohibitively rare so i'm going to have to heat up Google Translate for the Chinese guides

Comments

[tresfoyle]

have you played I Was a Teenage Exocolonist? This structure sounds shockingly teenexo-adjacent

[snowynight]

I didn't know that Lair Land Story was remastered! The developer said they were trying to raise fund for a sequel, which sounds promising.

[gullwingdoors]

... but who DID invent grape wine