YMMV / Princess Maker 2

• Complacent Gaming Syndrome: Most experienced players who aren't specifically going for a low-rep ending (and some who are) rush the art festival in the first or second year, to provide the necessary income stream to train their daughter for whatever ending they're planning.
• Germans Love David Hasselhoff: The franchise is very popular in South Korea, that there were quite a few fan games and even a region-exclusive spinoff mobile game. Hell, the Steam port was even handled by a Korean company.
  • It's also popular in Taiwan and China
• Esoteric Happy Ending: Inverted: the Princess of Darkness ending is regarded as terrible stats-wise and the Gods will seriously scold the player... but the fandom considers it as a good ending story-wise since the Daughter achieves it by killing Lucifon with her own hands and ends up getting lots of power in return.
• So Bad, It Was Better: The original SoftEgg translation of PM2 was kinda bad and incredibly Narmy. The Refine translation is better and more faithful, but it loses out on the Narm Charm. Wendy drawing a distinction between magicians and "Magician Girls!" is enjoyable nonsense, while making one between magicians and Magical Girls is just pedantic.
• What Do You Mean, It's Not for Little Girls?: Just because it has the word "princess" in the title and you get to play as a girl does not mean that this franchise was made with girls in mind, especially the earlier installments that had a surprising amount of sexual content and fanservice. However, that didn't stop it from gaining a female fanbase and even an anime and manga adaptation aimed at young girls
• Values Dissonance: Considering that this a Japanese video game from 90s that is aimed at men, it's to be expected.
  • If Olive loses the Combat Tournament in the Harvest Festival, Cube will comment how girls are cuter when they aren't tough, which comes off as awfully sexist by Western standards. Even weirder considering how the game itself can let her become a fighter without consequence.
  • Then there's the end goal of the game, which is to have Olive be married, and it is treated as the worst thing ever if she doesn't, even if she does have a successful career. This message hasn't even aged well in its native Japan, considering a lot of people are beginning to reject marriage due to a multitude of reasons.
  • A lot of Western players found the weight standards to be ridiculous at best, and downright unhealthy at worse. Olive can be considered overweight for being a few kilos above threshold set in the game, when in reality she could be considered average or even downright underweight.