Rule of Retail
As you read this, creepy children are slithering over to your local retail store. Gah!
Published: September 13, 2006
"I cannot easily express what this game is like in just a few words. It's more about the sensation your experience while playing it. The creepiness gradually builds and the fear heightens. The story as a whole is pretty serious and dark..."
- Makoto Hanafusa, Producer Shirogumi Co., Ltd.
"Children, adults, imps, and even the main character, Jennifer, is a bit unsettling. Nearly every character who appears in the game will make you feel uneasy, as if something's not quite right. They awake hidden fears within us that disturb our sensibilities."
- Yuya Takayama, Producer Sony Computer Entertainment Japan
"During childhood, boys see girls as sweet and admirable, but they are in fact, mysterious and misunderstood, aren't they? ...They're in a world of their own."
- Shuji Ishikawa, Producer Punchline LLC
Now there's something you don't see everyday. Pulled quotes from people who actually had something to do with a game's development (not to belittle our PR pals, but you see what we mean). And in this case, that's about as good of candid commentary as you're going to get on a horror thriller like Rule of Rose (and heck if we aren't in full agreement with Ishikawa-San. The female gender can be a duplicitous one!).
After all, who wouldn't be freaked out by a gang of mad orphans calling themselves "Aristocracy of The Red Crayon", who've kidnapped our protagonist Jennifer (who too lost her parents) and held her captive in a wayward zeppelin? With the help of a loyal canine, lil' Jenny will have to bribe the Aristocracy's twisted members with a number of valuable gifts. Or else...
An engrossing storyline with nearly an hour of lauded CG scenes, peppered with some frighteningly intense melee combat (of course, unless you like going toe-to-toe with savage beasts) and set to a chilling score by Yutaka Minobe (as you may know from Panzer Dragoon Saga and Skies of Arcadia) is all in store for you... that is, if you've got the guts to pick up a copy for Rule of Rose, which currently sits in stores nationwide, anxiously awaiting your purchase. You've been warned!
- Makoto Hanafusa, Producer Shirogumi Co., Ltd.
"Children, adults, imps, and even the main character, Jennifer, is a bit unsettling. Nearly every character who appears in the game will make you feel uneasy, as if something's not quite right. They awake hidden fears within us that disturb our sensibilities."
- Yuya Takayama, Producer Sony Computer Entertainment Japan
"During childhood, boys see girls as sweet and admirable, but they are in fact, mysterious and misunderstood, aren't they? ...They're in a world of their own."
- Shuji Ishikawa, Producer Punchline LLC
Now there's something you don't see everyday. Pulled quotes from people who actually had something to do with a game's development (not to belittle our PR pals, but you see what we mean). And in this case, that's about as good of candid commentary as you're going to get on a horror thriller like Rule of Rose (and heck if we aren't in full agreement with Ishikawa-San. The female gender can be a duplicitous one!).
After all, who wouldn't be freaked out by a gang of mad orphans calling themselves "Aristocracy of The Red Crayon", who've kidnapped our protagonist Jennifer (who too lost her parents) and held her captive in a wayward zeppelin? With the help of a loyal canine, lil' Jenny will have to bribe the Aristocracy's twisted members with a number of valuable gifts. Or else...
An engrossing storyline with nearly an hour of lauded CG scenes, peppered with some frighteningly intense melee combat (of course, unless you like going toe-to-toe with savage beasts) and set to a chilling score by Yutaka Minobe (as you may know from Panzer Dragoon Saga and Skies of Arcadia) is all in store for you... that is, if you've got the guts to pick up a copy for Rule of Rose, which currently sits in stores nationwide, anxiously awaiting your purchase. You've been warned!
