Who is the best Princess?

[BubbleMuffins]

Spoilers, obviously.

Its Thorn. Its pretty obviously Thorn. I am curious to see what others think though. I imagine someone is probably really into Tower though, for example.

Of all the Princesses though, I fell Thorn has the most distinct and developed arc. While most of the other Princesses, like the Adversary/Eye of the Needle or the Spectre/Nightmare have a clear thoroughline of design, they are all pretty linear in how they build on each other. The Princess>Witch>Thorn path more then builds on itself though, there is, like, an actual character arc there. It presents a snippet of real character growth, a back-and-forth dynamic between the player and princess. It more then any other makes me wish the game stretched the loops out more to see more then the fragments of each loop that we do see.

[girlbornafter1993]

I'm desperately waiting for some guides to come out to give me hints on how to progress further! I'm a little over halfway through getting all the achievements, but have no idea how to progress any more. I haven't even seen Tower or the Adversary/Eye of the Needle routes yet. I feel like I've done everything, even making lots of extra saves to backtrack to more routes. Maybe my brain is too smooth, haha.

I did read your post and immediately think of Thorn as being my favorite, though :)
Their story is really beautiful in that story line, and works so well as a parallel to real relationship struggles people face. Easily my favorite so far!

[BubbleMuffins]

I do agree that a guide would be great. I got 70% of achievements, but I'm to lazy to do the legwork of figuring the rest of things out myself. There are a lot of combinations, even with some overlap that lets you bring different sets of voices into the same princess. So maybe there is another princess hiding out there that I may enjoy more.

[CalvinwithaK]

I fully agree, Thorn route is the goat. But Razor has gotta be my easy second pick, ♥♥♥♥ was mad funny and also had some of the best action AND one of the most insane princess designs, absolute fire route through and through. But it just doesn't quite beat out the Thorn route for me, that route just has too much heart not to love it.

[TheAzureRavyn]

duh Thorn

[addrenicedrake]

From those Princesses I saw, definitely Prisoner.

[(Ƨ)ǢƗƝƮ]

Try Princess>Witch>Wild too. All options there are as good as Thorn

[StormyGlormy]

Heavy spoilers for my post, so I recommend playing at least once through to the end to read!

but it was certainly Thorn as well. I'm gonna go into some story backdrop as to why, as I like giving some fun reasoning as to what drew me in to her story in particular.

This game got me emotional; from laughing my ass off when you go The Adversary route and you keep getting the s**t beat out of you but the voice of the competitor( believe that was the voice's name) keeps giving you the option to get back up and keep fighting to the point your face is literally splattered on the wall, to this route in particular that made me genuinely cry quite a lot.

When I first met the entity on the outside and I had a conversation, it was evident to me that both the PC and the entity had known each other for a long time, if not... Well, since the beginning of their existence in their world. The way she spoke, that she spoke of how she knew nothing except us? It was clear that our ties to the princess and this entity went much deeper than us just being some random hero going to slay a princess.

The game literally tells us right at the beginning that it's a love story; it wouldn't tell us this without some purpose in my mind.

So having seen some endings where you're literally trapped after the princess dies, I had a suspicion that we were tied to the princess in almost a literal sense; the yin and yang sort of theory.

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Having said all that, I came across this ending on a mere whim of wanting to try and explore what options you have to bring the princess safely to the entity. The gradual progress of having built up trust, breaking it by attempting to slay her, and then having built that trust back up again through a series of 3 chapters? I don't know. I think when the Thorn allows you to take the blade, that's what really sold it to me that the two characters do truly love each other, despite the f***ed up loop they find themselves in.

I think this princess in particular also offers a soft spot in my heart just due to the fact that it had easily the best character progression arc that I have seen so far in the game. The 3-4 chapter routes have been by far my favorite ones to experience, and I am eagerly hoping all the other routes also lead into 3-4 chapters, depending on your choices.

Almost wish it was possible for every person to see that route prior to reaching the end. (Honestly think the 5 perspectives is much too short for the end imo, but was still very enjoyable nonetheless)

TL;DR: Thorn was by far my favorite princes just solely based on the lore's story that I had gathered so far prior to seeing that route. Really sold the premise and made the ending all the more impactful to me.

[GoldSaiyan]

It's the one that wants to stab you but denies it to an unbelievable amount

[The Tal]

will jump on the Thorn train for the best princess as well in terms of character arc
but she shares first place for me with Apotheosis (princess->tower->apotheosis) cos of design, sheer presense and power. truly the best dommy mommy, if you're into that sort of thing... cos i am

[Guzma]

Thorn for the "romantic" part.

The Nightmare for "creepiness".

Tower for big mommy.

[Jackdaw Mask]

Adversary, Razor and Tower routes/variants(so full razor, Fury/Eye of Needle/Apotheosis) make for really metal interpretation of lovestory involving carnage and violence :'D

But yeah I think my personal favorite is actually knife route normal princess, the prisoner and
the witch are close though. Wild(its kinda sweet whether you stay networked or separate and then help Wounded Wild) and Beast/Den have fun stuff to them too though

[Blacklight]

I dunno, I like Prisoner the most. The sheer balls and trust she has in you to just cut her own head off like it's nothing and then trust you enough to bring her severed head outside speaks a lot to me.

[just.dont.do.it]

Originally posted by girlbornafter1993:

I'm desperately waiting for some guides to come out to give me hints on how to progress further! I'm a little over halfway through getting all the achievements, but have no idea how to progress any more.

The game structure isn't terribly complex, all arcs are the same pattern: pick a route in ch1, enforce that route in ch2, then repeat it all again the next time to progress further along, then repeat it all again but do something else towards the end (obvious from choices presented to you) to finish the arc.

Not to mention there's more than one way to reach certain ch2 outcomes that essentially start the arc; most of it comes from doing things one way in ch1 and then doing them differently in ch2.

[lordgizka]

I think I know what the game is missing. There needs to be an option for Smitten to pop up for every Princess, not just Damsel and Thorn. DLC pls.
Edit: nevermind, I played more of the game.

[JRPG-Guy]

Thorn princess ending was one of the few wholesome ones...if not the only one