The game uses a sort of onscreen narration to allow inanimate objects like wastebaskets and scissors to speak to you, and you save your game by talking to bucket knights, nothing more than a couple of broom handles and a bucket that is kind enough to offer you clues on how to advance.

The filth room turns out to be quite a safe place, really, with a friendly rubbish bin and bucket knight standing by to keep you company. The game actually uses storybook-style narration for in-game events, repeatedly referring to the main character in the third person as 'the unlucky girl.' It's a pretty apt description for someone who's kidnapped by a group of children, thrown in a coffin with a squirming, hairy bag and deposited in an area called the 'Filth Room' before being taunted and teased about what a bad, bad girl she's been. Like traditional survival horror games, there are times when it's best to just run away.Īt the start of the game, Jennifer, whose parents have been killed, finds herself face to face with a young boy who hands her a tattered hand-drawn storybook called 'The Little Princess.' You can flip through the pages yourself, and as events progress you'll find that more pages have been drawn in.

The most intimidating weapon I've come across so far is a paring knife designed to kill fruit.

She gains a tiny bit of confidence with a dessert fork in her hand, but seems so scared to reach out while attacking that you can't really describe her jabs and swings as offensive. Her timid personality comes through in her every move. Jennifer, the protagonist in Rule of Rose, doesn't seem quite prepared to star in a horror game.

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