[review]Be My Princess for GREE (iPhone/Android)

Title : Be My Princess for GREE

Publisher : Voltage Inc.

Genre : Otome, Dating Sim

Platform : iPhone | Android

Released :  

[JPN] 14 March 2012 

[ENG] 06 June2012

Download :

iPhone | Android 

Official Site :  Voltage Inc.

Be My Princess is a game with sweet story-line where you as the Main Character (MC) meet princes from different kingdoms and end up become Prince's Private Fashion Designer. It's like a dream to live with a prince in the castle and be treated as a princess. ( yeah it's a dream, wake up ! )

Story :
So, the story began with you who always got rejected for every jobs that you applied. But miraculously ; or maybe i should say ridiculously, a famous fashion designer's company decided to hire you. You fly to Charles Kingdom to meet up with the chief, Monsieur Pierre.

After you met Monsieur Pierre, you told that he make clothes for famous people, including the princes. Your first job working at Jean Pierre was to deliver a dress to a model, Cynthia. But she refused to attend the ball and she asked you to go in place of her. Before you could complain, she run away. So, you had to go to the ball and met with the 6 princes. You enjoyed the ball while meeting the princes without realizing that one of the bewitched prince fall for you.

After your meeting with the princes, several accidents comes to strike you down but actually it gives you something bigger. The accident starts because of someone in the company stole the sketches for upcoming fashion show, so you are given charge from Monsieur Pierre to designs some clothes to replace it. After the Fashion Show end up successfully,  Monsieur Pierre accused did something bad and it end up with the company closed and you become unemployed again. At that time you receive a letter from a prince which  has an eye for you to become his private fashion designer. Here's where your life with a your charming prince begin!


Game Play :
-. Love Pass : Love Pass used to continue your romance story with the prince. You get 5 Love Pass per day.
-. Strength : Strength in here also can be thought as energy. You have 100 strength to play the Royal Party. Usually to play Royal Party, you will use 25 strength. But when it's Lucky 24 hours time, you will use 30 strength. For every 3 minutes it will replenished 1 strength.
-. Royal Party : You can increase your royal factors to continue the story by attending the Royal Party alone or with your mate. The bigger your charm is, the bigger chance you have to win the Royal Party. Once you win, you will obtain Royal Factor, Cruz and Gacha Point.
-. Royal Factors : You need the Royal Factors to continue the story.
-. Charm : Sometimes you need to buy clothes, accessory, shoes, or hairstyle from Beauty Shop for the mission using Cruz or coin, but sometimes you also get those from event gift. Besides the beauty things, you also can increase your charm with the interiors. There are many ways to get the interior, first you buy it from the Interior shops, second you play Princess Gacha, and the last you get it from the event gift. All of those items provide charms for you as a power to win the Royal Party. You also can decorate your own character and rooms as charming as you want.
-. Mission  : While you having fun with the story, once a while there will be a mission as an challenge. The Mission could be to get enough Royal Factors or buy clothes. Some mission also let you to choose the normal route or the sweet route of the story.
-. Princess Mates : One of a must in GREE game is to have a mate. If you go to Royal Party with your mate, it will total your charm and your mate's. So it will be easier for you to win the Royal Party.
-. Gacha Point : Gacha Point used to play Princess Gacha. You can get Gacha Points from winning the Royal Party, Greet your mates, leave message to your friends or gift from the story or event.
-. Princess Gacha : Play the Princess Gacha to increase your Royal Status. Usually for each Gacha, it has 3 categories ( Normal, Rare, Premium ) interior items that you will get for completing the list of sheet. This Gacha thing is purely based on luck.
-. Royal Status : Your Royal Status will increase for each completion of gacha items.
-. Cruz : Currency that used in this game.
-. Coins : You can purchase the coin using your real money. Coins usually used to buy love pass, strength, etc
-. Lucky 24 Hours : event to get more Royal Factors, Cruz and Gacha point. Because if you win the Royal party you'll get all of those twice or triplet than the usual.


Special Feature :
-. Decorate your room with the Prince's favorite and he'll visit your room.
-. Renovate your room's wall, floor, etc with special home renovation gacha.
-. Play the Sweet Route for the main story, it requires more expensive clothes though.
-. More events with your beloved Princes ! besides you also will get an item from each Princes plus CG for completing their Happy Ending Story.


Screenshots :

                         Style your character                                                    Princess Gacha

                 decorate your room !                                       Prince may come !

Review :
I know that from my description above, this game is quite complicated ( I just realize it). What i like about this game besides sweet  fairy tale story is the visual, CG, backgrounds and the each prince's personality ( i enjoy observing each characters ). Another thing that i like is Voltage provide a side stories ( Events ) that occurs at certain dates. Although there's no music at all, i still feel entertained with the charming princes and the story itself.  I'm okay with the love pass system because i know that i should be grateful that Voltage create the GREE version instead keep tempting me to buy the non-GREE version. But still, i felt like being fooled because Voltage also released events that tempted me to buy the coins. Okay, i am fooled.

While playing GREE games, having mates (correction : a mates with the high charm) is a must. It happened that i lost 4 times straight in the Party of the Valentine event because i don't have high charm, so i ask my mates to help me. I'm sure that i will lose half of the Royal Party or else if i don't. and it's sure waste my time to wait for the strength re-charge again. Things that annoying of this game system for most people is the spamming. Yes, you spam your friend by greetings and messages to get extra gacha point. But the hell guys, it doesn't even hurt you or stab you until you bleeding. What's the problem with that ? it even doesn't matter if you don't read it. and also it's NOT A MUST for you to spam people too, so it's your choice. ( sometimes i don't get what people're thinking.. )

But i'm quite annoyed with the missions system. I had to waste several days ( even weeks ) to collect the Cruz or to get enough Royal Factors. I'm very pleased if Voltage give Lucky 24 hours every week. About the English translation, it's not bad. at least it's understandable. I would like to thank Voltage to made this game playable by lots of people who can't read Japanese.

Overall this game is really fun and it's entertaining with their wonderful story-line. So, I recommend you to play the game to feel how to be a princess once in a life time, lol. But you have to be patient while playing this game though. Anyway, this game is free but you also can purchase coins with your money, and it needs internet connection to play.

My Score  :

Story : 4/5

Graphic :5/5

Music & Sound :0/5

Control : 4/5

Gameplay :3/5

Overall : 3.2/5

Challenge : Medium

Completion Time : -

Tips :
-. If you think you're choosing the wrong answer after you see his reaction, you can reset the stage again by quitting your game before you end the stage. Quit your game then go to Task Manager to exit the application. After that you can re-play the stage again. Remember, you have to close the application before you end the stage ! 
-. Every 3 minutes it will replenished 1 strength. So for 1 hour you will get 20 strength and it takes 5 hours to refill your strength until full. So per day you can do Royal Party maximum 19 times. If it's Lucky 24 hours time, you can play maximum 16 times per day.
-. Don't use all Gacha Point and Cruz you have, because sometimes Voltage will launch Events where you need to use Cruz to complete the missions and you need Gacha Point to get the event items ( since you only can get it at that time, you won't see event's Gacha items at shop )
-. Be friend with the Princess who has high charm, so there's a higher chance for you to win the Royal Party.

The Princes :

Wilfred A. Spencer 

Crown Prince of the Kingdom of Philip

'The Cool Prince'
Nickname : Will

Age : 25 years

Blood type : A
Height : 178 cm
Weight : 61 kg

Birthday : 5th of April
Charm Points : Blue eyes
Personality : Calm and gentlemanly
Hobby : Reading books
Treasure : The potted flower
Butler : Claude
Walkthrough

Keith Alford
Crown Prince of the Kingdom of Liberty

'The Hot-Blooded Prince'
Nickname : Keithster

Age : 22 years

Blood type : B
Height : 180 cm
Weight : 66 kg

Birthday :  22 of February
Charm Points : Abdominal Muscles
Personality : Genius and Tough
Hobby : Sports
Treasure : Loved Person
Butler : Luke
Walkthrough

Roberto Button
Crown Prince of the Kingdom of Altaria

'The Playful Prince'
Nickname : Rob

Age : 25 years

Blood type : AB
Height : 178 cm
Weight : 60 kg

Birthday :  23 of October
Charm Points : His hair
Personality : Playful and Ladies-man
Hobby : Playing(?)
Treasure : Picture Book from Mother
Butler : Alberto
Walkthrough

Glenn J. Casiraghi
Crown Prince of the Kingdom of Oriens

'The Tsundere Prince'
Nickname : Glenny-poo

Age : 18 years

Blood type : A
Height : 181 cm
Weight : 63 kg

Birthday :  10 of July
Charm Points : Cat Eye
Personality : Tsundere and Loving
Hobby : Take a nap
Treasure : Fountain Pen
Butler : Yuu
Walkthrough

Joshua Lieben
Crown Prince of the Kingdom of Dres Van

'The Serious Prince'
Nickname : Josh

Age : 24 years

Blood type : A
Height : 180 cm
Weight : 64 kg

Birthday :  31 of January
Charm Points : Bangs
Personality : Serious and Reserved
Hobby : Learning
Treasure : Time with MC
Butler : Jean
Walkthrough

Edward = Levaincois
Crown Prince of the Kingdom of Charles

'The Warm Prince'
Nickname : Ed

Age : 23 years

Blood type : 0
Height : 182 cm
Weight : 65 kg

Birthday :  15 of May
Charm Points : Drooping eyes
Personality : Friendly and Mature
Hobby : Gardening
Treasure : Secret Garden
Butler : Louis
Walkthrough

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