The Cruelest Survival Horror | Rule of Rose (PS2)

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  @coolboyyo654 · 1 year ago

  honestly having the girls flip-flop between orchestrating cruelty and being benign non-threats outside the cutscenes absolutely tracks for kids.  Friends one day bullies the next.

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• EV

  @Everdistance · 1 year ago (edited)

  I think the imps are the male children. You barely ever see the actual boys on the airship. They also are only ever depicted with male voices. Thinking about how children act along gendered lines, especially in a 1930s orphanage, and the scene with the train, it can be assumed the boys stayed out of the girl&apos;s drama and the aristocrat stuff but were more than eager to participate in the cruelty. So Jennifer would only remember them as monsters that hurt her randomly, not people she interacted with.<br><br>As for Gregory&apos;s murders at the end, keep in mind that Wendy disguises herself as Joshua a lot. If she went to his home disguised as a boy and told him she was Joshua and that she had been abused at the orphanage and taken from him by them, he probably would have snapped.

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• T.

  @t.b.c.194 · 1 year ago

  The bathroom mirror is double sided…. The headmaster spyed on the girls in the bathroom 🤢

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• SP

  @spas9001 · 1 year ago (edited)

  I assumed Jennifer standing up to the club members actually happened since Wendy being humiliated and losing her position at the top of the hierarchy seemed to be the catalyst for her siccing Gregory loose on the other orphans.

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  @harrisonfackrell · 1 year ago (edited)

  I actually really like the fact that the Aristocrat Club members are just... around. That&apos;s how things like this go, isn&apos;t it?<br><br>They hurt you... and then, the morning comes. You exist in the same social structure that you always have, trapped with them. Nothing changes. The cruelty goes ignored. To all outward appearances, everything is fine.

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• YO

  @yomilemondragon1721 · 1 year ago

  I think the reason Clara is a boss fight is because Clara just seemed scary to Jennifer as a child. She didn&apos;t see what Hoffman was doing to her behind closed doors, nor was she old enough to understand what was happening and that Clara was a victim- she just saw an older girl who was always morose and unapproachable, who at some point began to always be violently sick with morning sickness, which probably made her seem like a scary monster to a child. I also wonder if Jennifer only learned through word of mouth that Clara was found &quot;hanging by a rope from the ceiling&quot; before she disappeared, and not knowing what that meant, pictured her bizarrely hanging by her feet.

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• SP

  @spoonkies · 1 year ago

  On where Hoffman and the adults are, there’s an entry in his diary that says &quot;I&apos;m leaving the orphanage. Clara&apos;s here to look after things, and the children are quickly growing up. I&apos;ve done right and fulfilled my duty. Bloody hell! All the trouble started when that wretched child arrived... I&apos;ve done nothing to deserve this!&quot;<br><br>So he basically peaced out and let the kids run the orphanage themselves

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• LT

  @ltcaphide · 1 year ago

  &quot;why did she kill clara?&quot; i don&apos;t think she killed clara... <br>i mean i guess she was a bossfight but since the entire game is about working through traumatic memories it could be a representation of actually seeing her hanging corpse

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  @pollofrit0001-q5h · 1 year ago

  I don&apos;t think anyone is talking about the fact that there IS a visual cue about where the mermaid boss will fall. Brown will look to the direction where she&apos;s going to fall. Using this made the boss 10 times easier for me...

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• GL

  @global-sequence · 1 year ago

  It is unbelievable they squeezed these graphics out of the PS2.

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• TH

  @theorcosaurus · 1 year ago

  I am genuinely so sad that we do not get risky and ambitious stuff like this anymore from AAA studios. The PSX and PS2 era were the gold rush, the peak of AAA gaming. We still have indie games though. Rule of Roses unfair treatment in the media also compounded that it never got the recognition it deserved. Glad to see that amazing channels like this one do their best to keep these games alive.

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• WH

  @WhoeverNevermind · 1 year ago (edited)

  Fun fact: there&apos;s an extremely old, obscure and abandoned YouTube channel called RuleOfRoseMysteries, where a creator with the most aesthetically pleasing voice dives deep into... well, Rule of Rose mysteries and explains theories about its plot. It&apos;s a true hidden gem, in my opinion.

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