nishka and glaurung, or anyone else that wants to comment, I'm curious what you personally rate the difficulty
of Long Live the Princess the game 1-10 with 1 being least difficult to 10 being most?
It's a hybrid visual novel/adventure game, inspired by another VN/adventure hybrid, Ace Attorney (which I have never played). Compared to other VNs, it's much harder but most VN's don't feel like games to me, they feel like a very boring and tedious way to be told a story. Compared to other adventure games I've played, it's low to middling difficulty - not nearly as annoying as either of the Lost Files of Sherlock Holmes adventures or an infocom game. There are hints aplenty built into the game, and with two exceptions the puzzles/quests are not very complicated. Plus, no pixel bitching.
I am, however, the kind of person whose first question for any game with lots of quests and puzzles is, "is there a FAQ for this game?" and then i read that before trying to play. Which is why I wrote a guide for this game - because instead of empowering you with information, every walkthrough I could find just told you what to do when, which I found to be helpy rather than helpful. (cf: Colbert's "Truthy.") But that's me, YMMV.