becasue of its dworight badly pace introduction to its storyline and bad atmosphere its nowhere near a good horro
The survial Horror gerne may have fallen on hard timesrecently,but thats no escuse for how lame rule of rose is.Rule of Rose puts into the shoes of jennifer.Jennifers a dumb one,as shown in the opening movie.let me ask you this;would you get off a bus in the midle of nowhere chasing a kid you even know,especially when that kid suddenly appears for out of tin air in the first place?Right on, i know you would but jennifers an idiot and becasue of that we all have to suffer trough the game with her,tough in totaly different ways
Rule of Rose is a departure from what we'dusually expect from survival horror gerne .Closer to Clocktower 3 and Hauntitng Ground rather than silent hill or Resident Evil,the main aim in rule of rose isnt combat,rather it is avoiding combat.Fighting takes a seat back...thankfully because the combat in the game sucks.The hit Detection for the game is totaly broken,sometimes your hits wont even connect to the enemyis right in front of you and other times,youll hitt from improbable distance.Enemies on the game are extremely cheap too,often doing ridiculos amount of damage.To make things even more fun,those damaging moves are insanely hard,and in some cases totaly impossoble,to avoid.Wiat wait! theres more "fun" to compound to your total enjoyment,some idiot decided that jennifer needed to be extremely weak.
Acouple of strong hits always enough to do her in.The best thing though is that the game eschews all common sense whatsoever in that even if your standing behind n enemy and said baddies is clearly hitting infront of him,youl still get hurt.Fun?Not bloody likely.
Youl be spending the majority of time running around spooky locales finding items and lsoving puzzle,first alone and then usually with your help companion,Brown.
Like Haunting Ground Brown isnt just there as scenery.He'll help you,guiding you up to items you missed or are looking for .brown is probably the only thing that will keep you from becoming insane navigating the areas of the game.TOsay they are complicated is an understanment.Inall many years of playing survival horror game,never have i seen so many similar looking hallways one after another,im serious even the first earea,the Orphenage contain so many similar looking rooms that it makes it hard to just walk around without getting confused,Once you find maps for the area your it the problem eases somewhat but it nver really goes away since the maps arent that easy to read in the first place.
The Story Usually the main driving force for games nowadays,is totaly out of whack here.Youll start the game not knowing a dam thing and end the game preety much in the same state .The Story is so abstract thats its ridiculous.I understand keeping some plot points hidden untikl later on in the game,but its insane to end the gaem without even explaining a good deal of whats thrown at you in the game.Repeated play trough does ease the confusion somewhat ,but after the suffering youd likely have gone trough during the first run,i'd imagine a second attempt would be one of the last things on your mind
Rule of Rose does a pretty well in creating a suitable atmosphere.Creepy and forebonding,the areas in the game complement the eerie soundtrack extremeely well.The enemies are too pretty imginative,tough youd soon lose admiration when they start attacking you and you start dying.The Aristocats of the red crayon,argurably your main enemy in the game are extremely lame tough.Children creepy and disturbing things are so Clinch'e nowadays
Dont even bother with Rules of Rose there are ton of better games out there are that are worth your while.Even if oyu need a survival horror game ,you can do better rhan Ruel of Rose.Hell even the ring could be illbleed on the dreamcast are better than this!