WARMTH LIKE HOME UNAWARES

Again, more notes for myself :) These should be relatively easy; the "hardest" part is the RNG -- you have to have the wandering peddler come to your house BEFORE your daughter turns 16. When I was going for blacksmith, he came when she was only 11, so I bought the two items needed for each of these endings and saved in a separate slot. So I'm going to try to acquire it from that save.

( marrying off my daughter to a furry?! )

So from my fork, I was able to get Southern Kingdom Princess, Rabbit Princess, Empress, and Princess (the true ending). Lots of endings!

Now I'm going to try to get my 20th ending and officially be 1/3 of the way done with all the endings...!

I decided to go for Imp ending... which should be... very easy, as there's only a few requirements.

First, you have to buy the Suit of Darkness and wear it to a vacation. Seems easy enough.

Then you have to clear the game with these stats:

Morality: 100-
Charm: 500-
Trust: 50-

Wandering Monk and Retired Knight, our go-to occupations, start our daughter with relatively high Morality (more than 100 for sure). So it's time to experiment with some of the other jobs, which means experimenting with the other moods...

So I think I'm going to go with Merchant. It starts the game with only 50 Morality and 50 Charm. She'll be Arrogant from the start, but I think it's possible to clear this ending in Arrogant mood, so that shouldn't be too difficult to work around, right? And if it comes to it, I can just buy a bunch of teddies to try to get her out of it, as it doesn't matter what her Attitude is.

The best work is probably going to be Market, which will consistently lower Morality. The problem is we need 80 Vitality to unlock it, which we're going to have to get through House Cleaning, which will also RAISE Morality. But Vitality should raise slightly faster, so we should get to 80 Vitality well before reaching 100 Morality, and then we can lower it with the Market work.

With the Arrogant mood, we're not going to be able to easily raise Vitality through Chat, so we'll have to just ... keep it around 80 and get used to performing badly at work. But it's okay, because Merchant starts with 3000G, and can get pretty big stipends, too. We just need 1500G to buy the Suit of Darkness and then ~500-600G to go on vacation once to meet the devil. So we can do that with the starting money alone.

So it seems like the plan is pretty simple:

Start the game as Merchant, work at House Cleaning until 80 Vitality, then work at Market for the rest of the game. Yes, do this for the. entire. game. Sounds kinda boring tbh. I don't know how you would even get this ending on accident, but actually doing it on purpose is an exercise in patience over tedium.

The hardest part is going to be Trust. Trust raises all the time, so we're going to have to actively try to lower it. This means refusing to give birthday gifts (the only thing we can actually do without relying on luck) and then hoping she asks for things and then denying her them. Hopefully as Arrogant, I can find some way to Chat Trust down or something...? I'm going to be experimenting with the Chat command a lot this run to see what I can figure out.

So, let's go.

Picked Sagittarius since it has the lowest Morality boost.

OK, so far I've been saving/reloading and chatting to try to find all the different possible chats. You get one randomly from a selection of three for each different type of chat. So once I find a new one, I execute another time block and save and try each type of chat hoping to get a new one... anyway, it didn't take long until I discovered all nine patterns for Arrogant mood.

If we GREET, two of the options do nothing at all, but one she'll actually say she wants to work hard, and will get Vitality+10 (nice!)

If we pick GENTLY, two of the patterns will raise Pride (one by 8 and one by 12) and the other version will raise Trust by 1 (which we don't want!!)

If we pick STRICT, one variation lowers Pride by 10 (which would be good for getting OUT of Arrogant mood), another raises Stress by 5 (eep), and a lucky one will lower Stress by 5 and lower Trust by 1, great for this run!

So I'm going to be just choosing Strict and hoping we get the Trust-1 one. But I don't really want the others (I'd rather she STAY Arrogant for now, so I can see how it affects the game, so I don't want Pride to decrease, and I never want Stress to go up).

I guess I could spam Greet and hope to roll the Vitality+10, which will make her better at doing her Market work (she kinda sucks) but it doesn't really matter how good we are at work TBH. We just need the peddler to appear once, and that's it... and I think he appears based on how much money you have, so our starting 3000G should be enough to encourage him to stop by.

Yeah, actually that's probably the move. It's not worth the risk when 2/3 of the options are bad ones, and with Greeting, only 1 of the options even does anything and it's a good thing.

Oh, and Morality DOESN'T lower by working at the Market while Arrogant. I was looking at the chart wrong when I thought that (it lowers for basically every other mood). But the only thing that's happening with Market work is Intelligence is going up and Pride is going down. So maybe we'll fall out of Arrogance eventually from the Pride dropping but...

OK, actually, there's NO way to lower Morality as Arrogant. And we'll be slowly creeping upward every month. So I guess it's best to try to get OUT of arrogance now and lower Morality as much as we can when we get out. The problem is the best way to get out would be buying teddies... but we want to save that money for the peddler.

OK she just stopped being Arrogant from a few Pride drops by working at the Market XD

Now Vitality is increasing as we do the Market work, too, so that'll make her better at the Market work.

...OK she went into Bad Attitude.

This is kind of hard hahaha. Now she can't even do Market work. The only work she can do is House Cleaner and Bar :\ And Bar raises Charm and House Cleaner raises Morality.

Well, after a couple more rounds of bar I got the Peddler to come and bought the Suit of Darkness. Went on vacay and met the devil. Nice. Now to wait out the ending and hope we don't get our stats too high...

OK by messing around, I discovered a bit of a loophole in the game mechanics. If you try to work at Nursery, Farm, or Market while in Bad Attitude, she'll get turned away and just waste the entire time block at home. Unlike CHOOSING time off, this doesn't affect stats in any way (so it doesn't lower stress or anything, either). But it does pass time without affecting stats! So if your stats are how you want them, you can basically stall the entire game away this way!

If you queue multiple of the same in a row and then execute, it won't work (like if you do farm-farm-farm, she'll decide to run off on her own and then it will be as if you gave her free time). But if you queue different ones back-to-back (farm-nursery-farm-nursery for example) she'll repeatedly get rejected and waste away the time blocks. I literally queued three YEARS of conflicting jobs and am just waiting out the game now lol. You do have to intervene and press the A button each half a month (to pass the text of her getting shooed away), as well as turn down the festivals and make a choice about a birthday gift.

Refusing to give a gift lowers Trust, but also increases Stress and lowers other stats. I don't want to risk her getting sick by getting any stress at all (since Vitality and Stamina are very low) so I went to buy her a gift... then I was like "wait I think I'll try just saying no anyway and pay attention to how it affects stats" and well, if you say you'll get her a gift then back out of the store... nothing happens. You don't get the penalty for not giving her a gift, but you don't have to buy a gift. Game keeps going.

So basically you can do LITERALLY NOTHING to change your stats for the entire game as long as you are in Bad Attitude. Of course, if you're trying to do... pretty much anything other than get this Imp ending probably... this wouldn't be helpful, but it is a good way to get this ending at least!

I'm going to see what other low-stat endings I might be able to pick up this way...

It looks like Thief requires a bunch of stuff under 300 with high courage and 20+ Martial Arts training. Shouldn't be too hard to load my save at 14 years old and work through it this way.

Loan Shark also seems to need all-around low stats, with lots of money at the end. Should be able to get that from the 14y/o save as well. Will be kinda annoying to go through all this again, but that's when I met the devil to get the imp ending, so I need to go back that far. I probably could have waited and met the devil later, but I didn't realize I was going to be doing it like this and that other endings would be possible this way... XD

UMMMMMMMMMM AFTER ALL THAT, I GOT MARKET CLERK ENDING...?????????

The devil came and said she "became a human with no fun" and then it took me to the other ending... wtf...

Well I have thanksgiving prep to do so I will mess with this later XD

Time for some more notes! How sick of me are yall?!

So let's marry the handsome beard king. Not as appealing as PM1's king but hey, I'll take a cute old beard king any day.

There are two different ways to get this ending, one you get through doing Etiquette and one you get through doing Dancing as your most attended class. Each one has different stat requirements. The Dancing one seems a little harder to me, so we'll go with the Etiquette one.

Here's what we need:

Pride: 500+
Morality: 400+
Elegance: 500+
Attitude: 700+
Charm: 500+
Trust: 60+

Morality can easily go up through church and Pride should be able to go up through Martial Arts. It might take a while to get to 500, but with the Fallen Noble occupation we'll have good starting stats in general for what we need...? The only bad thing is Attitude (and she'll start off Arrogant, which means she'll need LOTS of attitude to get 'better') but we can get that back with Teddies. Actually that's a horrible idea, because she'll need for Attitude+Morality to be higher than Pride+Elegance, and she'll start off with a combined 325 Pride+Elegance, and a whopping 90 Attitude+Morality. Both of which will be very hard to raise... that's way too many teddies. Looks like it's better to start in that job if we actually DON'T want Attitude.

Wandering Monk and Retired Knight both have about even starting stats for what we need... and Knight has more money that comes in... so I guess we'll start with that one again. Another blood type B as well. The 0.5 Pride per month with O Blood Type is not worth the loss of the -5 Stress a month with B.

I think I'll go with Taurus as the starsign, as it has generally even stat growth, with the only bad ones being Intelligence and Courage which we don't need.

To be honest the boosts from starsign are mostly negligible. You only get like ~1 in each stat every other month, or if it's bad, every 3-4 months lol.

I think the first order of business should be to get Attitude up to try to avoid going into Arrogant mood. This will mean mostly just working and buying teddies. The best place to work will probably be the Nursery, as it takes a low about of Vitality to do OK and we're going to start with 130. We'll also start with 1500G, so that's enough to buy MANY teddies. In fact, it might be enough to buy all the teddies we need... Nursery will lower Pride which is not so good.

But the problem is a LOT of jobs lower pride. Tutor would be a good job, but we'd need 300 Intelligence to unlock it, which is probably not going to happen.

Dang, this opening game is going to be rough.

It sounds like our best bet is going to be working at the Nursery, taking the hit to Pride, until we can buy enough Dancing classes (which should also balance out the loss to Pride) to reach the 100 Stamina needed to open the Bar job. Then we'll be raising Charm and Attitude, but this time lowering Morality and Elegance... maybe that's not such a great idea... I mean we can make both of those up from Church and Etiquette but that's a lot of money. We don't need a TON of Morality so maybe it'll be OK...????????

We're going to need to work on keeping Morality and Elegance up, as well as buying Bouquets to continue to raise Charm. That's... a lot of spending. With not a lot of income. But it seems no matter which job we do, we'll be lowering stats we need, as we need a lot of stats... Morality and Elegance are at least the easiest to raise. We'll probably work on Charm very last once we have a better stream of money because we don't need to buy classes as often.

OK here's my plan:

Buy as many Teddies as possible (until ~500G, so I think 9) and then start working at Nursery, going to Dancing class every time money is >500G. Once Stamina hits 100, start working at the Bar.

Then Bar work while we take Church and Etiquette classes as much as possible.

Once we hit the Elegance and Morality we need, start buying Bouquets. And doing the classes again if the stats lower too much.

Hopefully that's a good enough plan :)

So far nothing goes according to plan, but I'm learning the game quite a bit better, so maybe...

So, I've begun working on a guide site for Princess Maker 3. The name of the site is "faery tales come true" and will hopefully be a better resource than anything that is out there currently. I have a lot of work and discovery ahead of me, though... for example, I still don't even know how to have Lisa work as a hostess. I've gotten the job offered to her before, but it doesn't appear in the job list. Which means there's additional requirements to unlock it...

But anyway, I'm gonna go for the Mole Princess ending, where your daughter marries a mole man. Well, she gives him a kiss and he transforms into a human. I guess he was cursed. But she agrees to marry him BEFORE giving him the kiss, so she must be some kind of weird furry :P

Basically you just need to get Elegance above 500 and charm above 700 then work at the mines constantly until you meet the Mole Prince a few times. Working at the mine decreases Elegance, too, though, so that's going to be a problem. I guess just get it to like 575+ or something then start mining.

To unlock the Mine job, we'll have to have plenty of Vitality, too. And possibly Morality.

Something I learned from Japanese sites is that your starsign actually determines how your stats raise slowly over the course of the game -- every month, you'll get a small boost to every stat, and what boost you get is based on the starsign. Totally different from what English materials were telling me (which even admitted they didn't really know how it worked lmao).

Blood type also does the same, but a little more minor. It still seems best to just always go with blood type B, which decreases Stress every month (by a whopping FIVE, even!)

Lastly, father's occupation does the same kind of thing, but IMO the starting stats and money situation are more important than that. The only two jobs that don't start your daughter out with a bad status are Retired Knight and Wandering Monk. The boost to other stats and extra money could be useful despite the bad status if you were going for other endings, but for this one, we're not going to want that.

So I decided I'll go with the Retired Knight, as it gets a little more money and better overall start to our important stats.

For starsign, we're going to go with Leo. This gives the biggest monthly boost to Elegance as possibly (0.7) which will hopefully help balance out the loss from Mining somewhat. The boost to Vitality and Charm are good, too (0.6). Attitude, though only has a 0.2 growth (the worst growth of anything in the game lol), which will be important to make sure she doesn't become Arrogant. But we can also buy teddies to boost Attitude easily, so it shouldn't be TOO bad, especially with the income from working the Farm (for starting Stamina and money) and Mines.

Money is going to be important, so we're going to go for unlocking the Mines right away.

We'll start out doing House Cleaning to get Vitality up until we unlock both Market and Nursery, at which we'll alternate between to get Vitality and Morality. To get additional boosts to Vitality, we'll take Cooking Class which will also help boost Attitude to keep us out of Arrogant mood.

Once the Mines are unlocked, we'll start working there and pumping up Elegance and Charm through as much Ettiquette Class as we can. Fancy Dress will help with this, too, so we'll pick that up when we can, probably after a stipend comes in.

If needed, we can buy Noble Spring Water (+50 Elegance) and Perfume of Fascination (+50 Charm) from the wandering peddler, though those are kind of expensive.

Charm is going to be the hardest thing to grow, I think.

Then once we get the required stats, just... keep... working at the Mines... and hopefully the Mole Prince appears. I'm not 100% sure how it works but I think if you get the stats and have worked at the Mine 10+ times, he should appear when you next work at the Mine...?

Anyway, that's my goal. Hopefully this should be a fairly easy ending; I'm only really worried about getting the required Charm.

(Also random thing: Princess Maker 2 Regeneration got delayed from December to JUNE. -_- But hey, it gives me more time to work on PM3, I guess!)

So, I didn't really know which ending to work on next... after the father marriage ending I kinda wanted something a little easier. But everything easy seemed TOO easy, so I just kind of randomly decided on trying the Financier ending.

Here's what we need:

Intelligence: 300-899
Pride: 0-499
Morality: 300-999
Attitude: 0-699
Sense: 0-699
Charm: 0-699
Courage: 0-699
Trust: 60-100

And money has to be... at least 3500 or at least 4000 (it says... both... on the same wiki page -_-)

Also we need to do schooling 20+ times, and it needs to be the highest class attendance. Church less than 25 times and no palace maid work.

My guess is it's 3500 because that's the cutoff for most endings. But I could always test it by buying a bunch of books at the end of the game or something.

The hardest part of this ending, it seems, will be keeping the stats DOWN.

Intelligence will be easy to raise going to school 20 times, but that also means Pride, Morality, and Charm will be going up alongside. Morality is fine, but Pride can't be more than 499. Charm SHOULDN'T get to 699 but who knows???

Monk seems like the best profession to start with, as it starts with fairly low Pride and high Intelligence. Virgo seems to be the sign to go with, as it raises Intelligence quickly. It raises Pride at a medium rate, but literally NOTHING raises Pride at a low rate, and most of the +Intelligence signs come with high Stress increase or high Pride incrase (or both...) so we're just gonna go with Virgo.

After that, the PLAN!

I think getting 20 schoolings out of the way first is going to be the way to go, so we can then see how much we need to adjust the other stats. There is no way to lower Charm, so hopefully the Monk's low starting Charm will balance out Virgo's high Charm influence... If we hit 700 Charm I guess it's just game over...? But I can't imagine Charm getting knocked up THAT much from 20 Schools...?

After that we'll probably need more Intelligence. Our only other option for classes is Art, which also raises Sense. Since we're going to have to go less than 20 times, I can't imagine Sense getting higher than 700 either... but who knows.

At first I think we'll start out working at the Market, which increases Intelligence and Vitality (and also needs more Vitality to work well). It also decreases Pride, but Morality as well. If we need to get Morality back up, we can start working at the Nursery which raises Morality and Attitude, while lowering both Pride and Sense which we're going to have to be careful about. Then the problem is worrying about Attitude...

If we end up needing to manage Attitude, there's always Maid which will lower it (but increase Charm), and Carpenter which will lower it, but increase Sense and Courage. Courage shouldn't be a problem since we're not going to raise in any other way, but basically we'll have to choose our Attitude-buster based on which is higher, Charm or Sense, and try not to push that one too far.

Chatting will either raise Vitality or Morality, and will lower Stress sometimes... so it seems like we're safe to Chat as much as we want!

OK LET'S GO FOR IT.

I chose 9/10 (my father's bday) for her birthday to get Virgo. I chose B blood type because it keeps Stress down and increases Vitality... though it also comes with the caveat of increasing Sense... but it seemed the best.

The stipend came up early thanks to the September birthday, so we were able to go to School six times right off the bad. Pride and Charm hardly seem to be increasing, so we should be fine with Schooling for quite a while.

Aaaaaand I've gone to school 21 times! We already have all the stats we need for the ending... now we just need money. And Lisa is only 11 years old...

Working at Farm will cause only Stamina and Morality to increase, while only decreasing Pride and Elegance. Elegance and Stamina don't matter, Morality can get as high as we want, and Pride can get as low as we want. Looks like we'll just be farming until the end of the game...

Kinda...

Farm isn't available as a job yet because we don't have enough Stamina. So we'll have to do House Cleaning until we get enough Stamina. This will also increase Attitude a bit... though it's only 161 now and we just have to keep it under 700, so I think we'll be more than fine to do housework until Farm becomes available.

Well, it only took a few House Cleaners to get Stamina to 100 and unlock Farm. Stats are EASILY within the desired ranges, so we just have to push ahead and see what happens. Stats seem to randomly raise little by little, but I don't think it will be anything strong enough to push us over the limits by the end of the game.

So now it's just... farm and rest. I could make a long schedule, but then we run the risk of getting too fat from all the days off. And we can't just vacay instead, as that will raise Charm and Sense a lot. So we're gonna have to make schedules of like... 4 farms and a time off... and then see what happens. Maybe we could string together two or three of those at once.

But yeah, she's not even 12 and we're already pretty much done with this ending. It's even easier than I thought it was going to be... I might save in a second slot and get Intelligence to 900+ to see what happens. My GUESS is that it will trigger the Palace Professor ending...??? Just from looking at it, it seems you basically just need to school 20 times and have 900+ Intelligence. Plus doing all that School we should get the achievement for becoming Chia's friend.

Well, with that, I'm gonna go to bed and grind out this ending tomorrow morning XD

Soooo I think I'm going to go for the 'father marriage' ending next. While it exists in the English version of the game and has a spot on the endings gallery, there is no achievement for it (making there only 59 ending achievements when there are 60 endings).

This is what we'll need:

Stamina: 600+
Intelligence: 600+
Vitality: 600+
Pride: 600+
Morality: 300-499
Elegance: 600+
Attitude: 800+
Sense: 600+
Charm: 600+
Courage: 600+
Trust: 100

Basically we need huge stats in every way... except Morality we have to keep kind of low...? Is that the 'grooming' stat...?

Also there are a few other requirements; she can't ever have worked as a hostess (why?), and she has to have done housework at least 30 times.

Honestly, keeping Morality balanced seems like it might be the hardest part...?

The first goal will be just to get 30 housekeepings out of the way, I think. I don't think we're going to be able to win any of the festivals since we're going to be doing a lot of housekeeping AND we're going to have to balance all the other stats.

Making enough money to get everything else up is going to be hard, as well. Playing as the knight might make it harder to get the 800 Attitude (it starts at only 30) but will give more money overall, while playing as the monk will make Attitude a little easier to obtain (it starts at 140) but will give quite a bit less money. I think I'm going to go with the knight for the money.

Oh, and we'll start with blood type B, which keeps Stress down as much as possible.

For work, we're probably going to constantly be doing either waitressing or mining, both of which gain a little Attitude and lower Morality a little. Bar raises Charm while Mine raises Courage. So we'll just work on whichever we need the most, I guess?

First order of business should be to get the Stamina to 600+. This will allow more room for Stress before she gets ill. We'll probably be wanting to push Stress to the limits to make sure we're not resting too much and missing out on important time for stat gains. So we'll be dumping all our initial funds into Martial Arts class. The housekeeping should also help with Stamina a bit.

After Stamina is up, the next things will just be working on each individual stat.

Intelligence: We're going to go to School at first, as it's cheaper and boosts Intelligence the most. But it also boosts Morality, so we'll have to be careful. If it gets close to 450 or so, maybe switch over to Art class to get the rest of Intelligence in.

Vitality: We'll have to get this mainly through Cooking Class. If we need to grind more of it out, we can work at the Market for a bit (which also lowers Morality).

Pride: This will come with other stuff -- School and Martial Arts will both raise Pride. Then once we start raising Elegance, we'll use Music Class, which will raise Pride, Elegance, and Sense. Hopefully we'll just get enough Pride through doing these... if necessary we'll have to grind it out at Martial Arts.

Elegance: We'll get this through Music Class along with Sense, and then also some from Etiquette Class... But it will also drop constantly... possibly buy Noble Spring Water if necessary

Attitude: Good luck!!!!!!!!! Buying Combs of the Goddess might help... though it will raise steadily through work.

Sense: Hopefully get this through Music Class as well, might have to go on some vacations as well later in the game if it needs crunching.

Charm: Hopefully after lowering Morality so much we will have enough leeway that we can go to Etiquette Class and raise up what we need of Charm. This also raises Morality but will be the quickest way to up Charm. Wearing the Fancy Dress can give us a little boost, but... we'll have to see how it goes. We'll also be getting this working at the Bar...

Courage: The only real way to raise this is through working at the Mine. Which, looking at that... I guess we'll be mainly working at the mine... Sword of Sword God can help but it costs 550, so... it'll be unlikely we'll be affording it... Aries and Leo will make Courage raise faster, so we might want to go with one of those. Aries raises Stress more than Leo, so Leo sounds good.

SO here is the plan:

Play as knight. Daughter's blood type B and sign Leo.

Start out spending all the cash on Martial Arts class. Buy turkeys when Stress gets to 50-60 instead of resting.

Once cash runs out, start doing housekeeping. Keep maybe around 300-400G just in case.

Once 30 Housekeepings are done, start working on Mining. Go back to Martial Arts every time you can afford it (trying to keep around 300-400G on hand, or maybe more).

Once Stamina reaches 600, start going to Cooking to increase Vitality. This will also help with Mine work.

One Vitality reaches 600, start going to School. If Morality reaches 450 or so, stop School and go with Art.

Next is to work on Elegance, Pride, Charm, and Sense once Intelligence reaches 600. Elegance is going to be hard because Mining will also be decreasing it:

If Charm is lower than Sense, go to Dancing Class. If Sense is lower than Charm, go to Music Class. If Pride hits 600 and Morality is low enough (<450), go to Etiquette Class.

If at any time Courage hits 600, switch over from Mine work to Bar work for the Charm. If Charm and Courage are both 600+, do Mine for better money.

The only things that should be lowering through this track will be Elegance and Morality. Morality is OK to lose for the most part, but Elegance will be tough to keep up on.

At the end, if Morality needs a boost, go to Church. I don't know how bad work is going to tank Morality, but we'll also randomly be gaining it, so...

If Attitude still hasn't hit 800, keep mining and buying Teddies.

As the game goes on, if there's spare money, buy stuff from the peddler if necessary to get stats up. In fact, maybe keep extra money on hand for the peddler just in case.

Stamina: Honey of the Fairies
Intelligence: Fruit of Knowledge
Pride: Fruit of Glory
Morality: Seed of Conduct
Elegance: Noble Spring Water
Attitude: Comb of the Goddess
Sense: Syrup of Illusion
Charm: Perfume of Fascination
Courage: Sword of Sword God

All of these give +50 to their respective stat.

Also the regular shop can increase a few attributes:

Teddy Bear: Attitude +15
Poetry Book: Intelligence +10, Sense +15
Bouquet: Charm +12
Delicious Meal: Stamina +12 (Stress -80)

These also raise trust by 1 (Teddy by 2) if needed at the end.

And some notes on what vacations raise:

Spring: Sense/Stamina
Summer: Charm
Fall: Sense
Winter: Sense/Vitality

That should be enough notes to go for it... but it's 40 minutes past my bedtime now :P So we'll go for it tomorrow.

So Lisa is 14 and I've already gotten everything I need for the ending.

Stamina 569 / 500
Pride 325 / 300
Morality 531 / 500
Elegance 331 / 300
Courage 906 / 500
Trust 65 / 60

So I might save and see if I can go for the next ending up...? At the worst, I'll still get the Knight ending. Here's what I have and what I need for the General ending:

Stamina 569 / 700
Intelligence 120 / 500
Pride 325 / 500
Morality 531 / 500
Elegance 331 / 500
Courage 906 / 700*
Trust 65 / 60

Pride grows pretty slow, but I'm close enough. Morality can be boosted easily by going to church. Elegance... should be able to knock it up to 500 pretty easily.

Courage is supposed to stay under 999. I don't know how to LOWER Courage... lemme go check.

OK there doesn't seem to be any way to actually lower Courage... and I'm already at 906 (with no method to lower it, it's not a surprise it's so high...)

So I have to keep Courage down...

Martial Arts class is the only thing I've been doing that raises Courage, so I just gotta give that up. I still have to raise Pride, though, which I can do through School, while I raise my Intelligence... Stamina I will have to boost up through Farmwork only, which is a little scary, as it barely raises Stamina at all...

Dancing Class can increase Stamina but it also drops Morality. But I already have enough Morality, so I guess that's not terrible. I'll have to try out Dancing if I need Stamina desperately by the end...

I guess next step will be spamming School to see if I can get Intelligence up... take this one thing at a time and see how it goes. Just gotta remember NO MARTIAL ARTS. Well, I might have to do it if I do too much school, because I think I need to keep Martial Arts as my #1 most-visited class?

OK, I got Intell. up to 508. Morality is also at 615 somehow.

Here's what I have left to work on:

Stamina 585 / 700
Pride 390 / 500
Elegance 334 / 500
Courage 916 / 700*

Courage is rising?! I have no idea how. It's not her blood type, so maybe it's my occupation...? Let's hope it doesn't hit 999 by the end of the game... She's still only 14 years old, and it already rose by 10 out of nowhere.

If I have to redo this playthrough for General, I'm going to change over to Type AB blood type, as it gives a boost to Pride, and right now that seems to be the hardest thing to raise. It's barely above Elegance and I've been actively doing things that increase it (though farmwork also DECREASES it, sadly).

Next up is working on Dance class, which raises Stamina, Pride, and Elegance. But I'm not sure how much. We'll probably get decent boosts to Elegance, at least, I'd assume, but not sure how the other two will be affected.

Ah, I also need to check and see if I studied at School more than Martial Arts...

OK, I only went to school 17 times, and I've definitely been to MA 20+ times...

Time to DANCE, baby!!

OK, danced 15 or 16 times and I got my stats up...

Elegance 453 / 500
Courage 926 / 700*

That's all that's left to keep track of...! I should be able to get Elegance up through Etiquette Class... I do have to watch Pride going down because of Farm work, though... maybe I should switch to another job that doesn't lower any of my necessary stats...?

Looks like Tutor only lowers Vitality, which is not important and already high (846) and it raises easily through Chat so...

Time to Tutor and Etiquette...

OK Courage seems to go up 1 per month. It's at 927 now, and she just turned 16... so we have 24 months left to go. Looks like I should be fine.

Alright, a few Etiquettes later and I have all the stats I need. I guess just time to Tutor and Vacation until the ending...? Actually I might try just spamming Free Time... it will make her get fat but I don't think that will a problem for this ending...? I'll save before I try it.

Ah, it seems whatever she chooses to do in her free time will actually continue constantly until you stop it. Thankfully she chose to go for a walk, so stamina just constantly increases and stress decreases (this is literally the best possible random thing that could have happened hahaha). It also doesn't cost any money!

Oh... she randomly started going shopping :) this is weird lol. OK now she's choosing different things regularly. Before she was just walking a lot...? Shopping lowers Morality so that's not good... hopefully she doesn't shop it down too low. It's pretty high (650+) and we just need 500 though...

Shoppping also costs money and we're starting to run out ;;;;; Maybe I should not have just spammed free time hahaha.

OK I barely made it with enough money left, thanks to stipends coming in clutch lol.

And... General Ending Get!!!

So, I finished Princess Maker 3 again. And I got the Soldier ending... again.

I think this is a fairly low ending. And I was trying so hard, too...! I was hoping to get the Mine Boss ending with how much I had been working at the mines, and I had triggered so many scenes at the mines, too. I figured lots of work at the mines + high stats would make me likely to get the Mine Boss ending...? It was my most worked job (60+ times), while I only went to martial arts training like 30 times... I was desperate to get Stamina up because I thought it would matter. But I think going too many times locked me into a military ending...?

When I asked why my daughter was constantly delinquent on the forums, someone warned me that going to church 15+ times will lock you into a church-related ending. So the same is probably true for martial arts class X_x; I had most of key stats above 600, with a couple maxed at 999. The only things I didn't have so high were like... elegance and charm as I didn't think those would matter to a Mine Boss. But I even bothered to study a bunch to get my Intelligence up to 600+.

But uh, even if I was locked into a military ending, why did I only get Soldier, when I had such good all-around stats...?

Soooo IDK. I'm pretty confident in how to use all the systems now, and I don't think there's much else for me to figure out on my own about how the mechanics work... other than to see the ending requirements. But like PM1 happened, I'm worried that this will just make the game too easy. But at the same time, just blindly doing things and then getting completely random endings isn't exactly fun. It is more fun when I actually have a more concrete goal and know what I'm working toward.

One thing I do know is that I'm not really looking forward to another blind playthrough. So I guess I'll look some stuff up. If only the game gave you a little more direction itself...

OK so I looked a little up. First off, the wiki for this game is all kinds of crap. Not only is the formatting all messed up, but there are errors everywhere and contradictory information. One of the endings had a "trivia" section that was like "I don't think this is right because I got this ending w/o doing the things listed" 9_9 So who even knows how reliable this is.

Apparently the Soldier is the lowest of the military endings. There's no indication that you need to go to military training though...? Apparently to get the second lowest military ending, you need Elegance of 500+. I never would have guessed. Also, 500 is a lot?! The other stats seem to require like 700+. I guess all that time I spent studying for the Intelligence wasn't helping though.

Yeah, trial-and-erroring my way through these endings would not have been fun. I would have probably gotten Soldier like 10 more times before stumbling upon anything else and even then still not even realized how I did it.

It seems to get various endings you just need tons of high stats, in addition to working at certain things the most. Also, raising your Pride is not bad (I thought it would be kinda like Sin in PM2) rather it is required for a lot of endings. I was actively trying to keep Pride down on my first playthrough.

Mine Boss doesn't even have a page on the wiki X_X; along with a couple other endings. Guess we'll just be guessing how to get those! Maybe I can look up a Japanese guide...

Oof, even the Japanese guides don't seem very reliable. Well, I could only find one, and it was incomplete. I guess that's part of the woes of playing a niche entry in a niche series.

Ah, I found a list of endings and requirements here. Seeing the stats' names in Japanese make things make a little more sense. (... A little.)

Anyway, some things about PM3 after having 'refreshed' myself with two playthroughs (mostly bad):

- There are a lot of little random events in the form of short little dialogues. This makes things a little more interesting. They also seem to change a little depending on your chosen prior occupation, and there may be unique ones for that as well.
- There is a 'mood' system in the game where you can have your daughter enter certain 'moods.' This is kinda like delinquency from previous games (which is one of the moods in this one) but there are many more. There's a 'worried' mood when you get too poor, an 'arrogant' mood with lots of adverse effects... each one affects what your daughter will/won't do and modifies her stats as she acts, as well.
- No errantry or anything really hurts the game. Especially since it's beneficial to Chat regularly, you're going to be sitting there doing commands one by one and chatting, and it gets VERY repetitive. Moreso than previous games.
- The Switch version is buggy and clunky af. Even on the title screen you have to mash buttons a little bit to get the cursor to appear. Sometimes you have to click on things multiple times before they actually work, too. Once I loaded my game and it locked up on me. And once I started a new game and got an achievement for maxing one of my stats before I even did anything (and the stat was, of course, not maxed). Also sometimes the Chat menu opens again for no reason after you finish chatting (like, it goes back to the main menu, then even sometimes after you move the cursor off of Chat, the Chat menu will open again after a second lol).
- The translation is really bad. There are times money is called "support" and there's a time when Uzu says he's naked?? And like other random dumb stuff. It's like they just machine translated it with a cheap translation engine (not even Google?!) and didn't even bother to check it, even with a non-native speaker.
- The credits roll is in Japanese. Guess they don't care about giving credit to people who can't read it.
- You can switch language on the fly between English, Japanese, Korean, and Chinese. That's pretty cool.

Anyway, idk how to end this so I guess I'll just post now XD