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Rule of Rose touches upon topics such as human indifference towards animal suffering, animal cruelty, traumatic childhood memories, bullying and peer pressure, mental disorders and psychology, rankism and societal inequality, death, addiction (alcoholism and smoking), gun violence, murder, suicide, death, grief and coping with loss, and implied cannibalism. Being a horror game, it is designed to make the player feel uncomfortable. Rule of Rose is a game very much carried by its themes, many of which can be seen as distressing and taboo for video games at the time of the game's release in 2006. There will be people who don’t understand it, but others will. It's about intimate relationships between all people, not just children, not just girls. The main theme is really about trust and fealty. If you play the game to completion, even if parents do, I’m sure they’ll see that this game has value, and is very much from the heart.

There is only one factor which decides the ending: whether or not Jennifer kills Stray Dog through giving him a revolver (leading to the Good Ending), or killing Stray Dog through regular combat means. Rule of Rose has two possible endings, but it is unknown which one of them is canon. The player must 'connect the dots' and infer the story through dialogue, memos, notes, visual cues, etc. A lot of what happened before, during and after the events of the game is not revealed, although many hints are given. The fact that the plot is only based on Jennifer's perspective also stops the player from seeing all sides of the story as well. Because the plot is based on Jennifer's fragmented memories alone, what really happened is not always obvious to the player due to the fact that Jennifer's memory can alter or distort events and dates. Throughout the game, Jennifer recovers the forgotten memories of her childhood and remembers the people she knew at the orphanage. With the help of her new canine companion, Jennifer must find valuable gifts for the Aristocracy in order to survive, or suffer death for her insolence. On the airship, Jennifer saves a dog who was bound by rope by the Aristocracy and names him Brown. Jennifer ends up being forced into the Aristocracy as part of their 'lower class'. The demented residents of Rose Garden kidnap Jennifer and take her into an impossibly large zeppelin filled with monstrous creatures called Imps, on a meandering course for a distant land. Jennifer with Brown, her loyal canine companion. Jennifer discovers the orphanage to be a dilapidated building with no adults around and a ragtag mob of orphaned children who call themselves the Red Crayon Aristocrat Club. Jennifer follows him to the Rose Garden Orphanage, located in a remote portion of the countryside. The storybook is blank and the boy runs away off the bus. The game tells the story of a 19-year-old young woman named Jennifer, whose parents were killed in a tragic airship accident.ĭuring a bus ride along a moonlit road, Jennifer is awakened by a mysterious boy who presents her with a storybook. Rule of Rose is set in 1930 in the rural Cardington, Bedfordshire, England, a few years before World War II broke out.

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Plot For the full plot of the game, see Rule of Rose (plot).

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