Rule of Rose [JP]
Rule of Rose [JP]

Rule of Rose [JP]

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Rule of Rose comes as a loose PlayStation 2 disc, so you're getting exactly what matters most — the game itself, ready to play. Coolection has fully tested this disc, and it was performing as expected. Discs are professionally resurfaced when needed to make sure they play their best. Feel free to use the "Request Additional Pictures" button on this page if you'd like high-resolution photos of the actual disc before committing. Please refer to the provided photos for the exact details of the item's condition.

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A small boy leads a young woman into an abandoned orphanage, and from that moment Rule of Rose never lets the air back into the room. Set in England in 1930, Punchline's survival horror game follows Jennifer, a timid nineteen-year-old who finds herself at the bottom of the Red Crayon Aristocrats, a club of children who rule the orphanage and a looming airship with a ruthless pecking order of tributes, punishments and humiliations. The doll-like creatures stalking the halls are unsettling, but the children are far more frightening, and that is entirely the point.

The story unfolds in chapters, one for each month, and every chapter opens with a handmade storybook whose crude drawings and fairy-tale verses hint at what is coming. Those books are the key to the whole game. Rule of Rose is about memory, and the deeper Jennifer goes, the clearer it becomes that what she is seeing is a distorted recollection of something terrible, assembled from fragments the player has to interpret. It is cryptic, melancholy and cruel in the specific way children can be cruel, and the faded, sepia-washed visuals and Yutaka Minobe's mournful live-performed score make it feel like an old photograph you were never meant to find.

Jennifer's closest ally is Brown, a loyal dog who sits at the center of both the story and the gameplay. Let him sniff an item and he follows the scent to whatever the chapter requires, turning up hidden food and healing items along the way. He cannot attack, but he can growl to distract enemies, and he can be hurt, which makes protecting him part of the tension. Jennifer herself is no fighter. She swings kitchen knives and pipes with real clumsiness, and slipping past enemies is often wiser than standing your ground. Critics at the time found the combat frustrating, yet that helplessness is a big part of why the dread lands.

Its reputation was shaped as much by headlines as by the game itself. Ahead of the European launch, sensational press reports accused it of content it did not contain, and the UK release was cancelled even after the ratings body dismissed the claims as nonsense. What survives is a cult horror game more people have heard about than played, and a lasting favorite among players who value atmosphere and storytelling over polish. On a shelf beside Silent Hill and Fatal Frame, it is the strangest and saddest of the bunch, and the one that lingers longest after the screen goes dark.

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Released
2006
Publisher
Sony Computer Entertainment
Developer
Punchline
Players
Single player
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Rule of Rose is a survival horror game in which the player, who controls Jennifer, explores the game environments and furthers the plot by accomplishing tasks and experiencing cut-scenes while sporadically encountering enemies and bosses. Taking place in England in 1930, Rule of Rose centers on Jennifer, a young woman who is led to an abandoned orphanage by a small boy.

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