By doing so, she leads the player into a surreal realm where Alice in Wonderland meets Stephen King. A number of mysteries are established early in the game and the only way Jennifer can even begin to solve them is to give in to her captors' demands and slowly earn their respect.
Rule of Rose depends on its plot to keep things moving. After completing many of these airship quests, Jennifer wakes up to find herself back in the attic, only to read a new book and get whisked back to the airship.
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Said help comes in the form of a series of morbid children's books, each of which serves as the intro to a new mission. This enigmatic character constantly tells our heroine that she's been a "bad girl", but needs help to remember herself. In her initial trip to the mansion, she is taunted by a mysterious boy in that place's attic. Then again, maybe Jennifer's experiences aren't happening anywhere but in her mind. And if she fails? Well, the others whisper rumors of something called "Stray Dog" that is NOT fond of lazy children. Succeeding in her tasks has the beneficial effect of ever-so-gradually enhancing her social status. A lowly peasant, Jennifer is ordered to search the airship for various trinkets desired by the three elite princesses. As the newest "member" of their group, she is outranked by everyone - including the slow-witted, clumsy and incompetent Amanda, who definitely isn't considered nobility material by the bourgeois. It doesn't take long for the "children of the damned" to capture Jennifer and take her to their actual home - a massive airship (things just get more and more weird, don't they?). Referring to each other as "princes" and "princesses", these kids have formed their own little aristocracy, ruled by a trio of the more assertive girls.
Well, semi-abandoned, as a number of creepy children have turned this desolate habitat into their own personal kingdom. On her way to the orphanage which is to be her new home, strange things happen and, before Jennifer knows what's what, she's all alone near an abandoned mansion. Taking place in 1930, the game puts the player in the persona of a teenager named Jennifer.
While this effort by Atlus likely will be labeled “survival horror”, I spent most of my time feeling I was living through fairy tales gone wrong instead of some epidemic of gut-munching zombies or other survival horror mainstay. Yeah, I’m sick in the head, but what can I say? I’m attracted to those dark fantasy worlds where happy endings should definitely NOT be expected.Ĭonsidering that, Rule of Rose was the perfect game to spend a few days playing. To my tastes, it was more satisfying to find out Little Red Riding Hood got chomped by the wolf instead of being saved by some random woodsman. Growing up, I loved reading those classic fairy tales, particularly the macabre (oftentimes original) versions of those beloved stories. Using short-range weapons like the assorted knives found throughout the game might solve that problem, but getting close enough to foes to make contact isn't always a good idea." Put a powerful lead pipe in her hands and watch as she swings, misses and takes what seems like an eternity to regain her equilibrium. "Jennifer's about as comfortable (and skilled) with deadly knifes and other weaponry as one would expect the average teenage girl to be.
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