Survival Horror Rule of Rose – First Details and Screens
It's official: small girls more frightening than monsters.
SPOnG has just received the first images and details on an intriguing-looking survival horror title for PS2 called Rule of Rose - a puzzle-based horror game featuring some small, scary girls calling themselves the Red Crayon Aristocrats.
Picking up the European publishing rights for a title developed by none other than Sony Japan is a first for 505 GameStreet. It could well prove to be a real coup for the publisher best known for its budget titles.
The game is set in 1930's England where the aforementioned girl gang devise a series of rules, known as Rule of Rose, which govern the society, its hierarchy, and the games its members play.
The press release goes on to inform us: “After a surreal and frightening encounter with a young boy on a public bus, Jennifer, an unhappy and fragile young girl, begins her descent into the nightmarish world of Rule of Rose and has no choice but to obey the cruel and disturbing codes of her giggling tormentors.”
SPOnG knows what it’s like to be at the mercy of a gaggle of giggling, nasty girls. We grew up with too many sisters. Girls, basically, when they put their minds to it, are far more frightening than any bio-mechanically enhanced mythical monster or beast.
You play as Jennifer and your only friend is your trusted Labrador, Brown. Together you explore the detailed world based on an England we never lived in, and with some shocks in store, we are promised.
The whole thing sounds like a mash-up of some of SPOnG's favourite horror games and movies – a dash of the Project Zero series mixed in with a pinch of movie-style Don’t Look Now-inspired pyschological horror.
SPOnG will bring you more on this intriguing sounding survival horror as we get it. For the time being check out our dedicated Rule of Rose page for all info and assets.
Rule of Rose releases in October for PlayStation 2, priced £34.99, from publishing label 505 Gamestreet.
Picking up the European publishing rights for a title developed by none other than Sony Japan is a first for 505 GameStreet. It could well prove to be a real coup for the publisher best known for its budget titles.
The game is set in 1930's England where the aforementioned girl gang devise a series of rules, known as Rule of Rose, which govern the society, its hierarchy, and the games its members play.
The press release goes on to inform us: “After a surreal and frightening encounter with a young boy on a public bus, Jennifer, an unhappy and fragile young girl, begins her descent into the nightmarish world of Rule of Rose and has no choice but to obey the cruel and disturbing codes of her giggling tormentors.”
SPOnG knows what it’s like to be at the mercy of a gaggle of giggling, nasty girls. We grew up with too many sisters. Girls, basically, when they put their minds to it, are far more frightening than any bio-mechanically enhanced mythical monster or beast.
You play as Jennifer and your only friend is your trusted Labrador, Brown. Together you explore the detailed world based on an England we never lived in, and with some shocks in store, we are promised.
The whole thing sounds like a mash-up of some of SPOnG's favourite horror games and movies – a dash of the Project Zero series mixed in with a pinch of movie-style Don’t Look Now-inspired pyschological horror.
SPOnG will bring you more on this intriguing sounding survival horror as we get it. For the time being check out our dedicated Rule of Rose page for all info and assets.
Rule of Rose releases in October for PlayStation 2, priced £34.99, from publishing label 505 Gamestreet.
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Comments
crs117 3 Jul 2006 19:39
1/2
This game has actually picked up a tiny bit of press in the US for its almost sexual portrayal of these young girls. I am not quite sure to what level it takes the premise, but it seems to border on a level of indecency. Because of this sony, who published the game in japan and in UK has decided not to publish the game in the states in order to save itself from negative press on this issue.
I have not played it, nor do i know exactly what garners the bad press thus far, but that is what i do know of this game.
I have not played it, nor do i know exactly what garners the bad press thus far, but that is what i do know of this game.
Joji 4 Jul 2006 10:28
2/2
Don't you just love a game that ruffles feathers? I'll keep my eye on this one.
This ones a biit of coup for 505, and i bet I'l be able to fiind it cheap than £35 too.
Problem is that yanks still have a problem with the fact that games are for various ages these days. When the market was younger they had less to be paranoid about, when not be paranoid about being paranoid.
This ones a biit of coup for 505, and i bet I'l be able to fiind it cheap than £35 too.
Problem is that yanks still have a problem with the fact that games are for various ages these days. When the market was younger they had less to be paranoid about, when not be paranoid about being paranoid.