To cut a long story short the game was published in Europe by 505 games. The story was picked up across UK and European media and the media fear machine did its work. Accusations of depictions of child and animal torture as well as sexual themes involving underage girls were levelled at the game. The game clearly has a 16+ rating so the title was quite misleading. So, what happened? The Times national newspaper from November 2006 was quick to lead with a front page headline “Violent Children’s game investigated by Europe”.
#RULE OF ROSE PART 1 FULL#
Essentially Europe got the release and the full English version is contained within it. You will notice French is used on the cover and manual. The disc plays perfectly on UK hardware and the game is in English. What I have here is the standard European release by 505 game street. The reason being? Well, the UK never officially got it’s mass release, it was shelved before the go to market production run was completed leaving an unknown but low amount of true UK copies. Whilst the Asia, North America and European releases are limited in quantity, these are far more common than the UK PAL release. The good news is that as long as your hardware is correct you can use the correct software. There are vast differences in price between the Asia release, North American release, European and UK release. I mention all this as the region system causes lots of confusion online with this game.
#RULE OF ROSE PART 1 TV#
In the case of PAL vs NTSC games traditionally run at 50mhz and 60mhz speeds to display at the correct speeds on the local TV hardware. These essentially all work the same but allow game to effectively be region locked to the local hardware. Within regions there are similar subsets such as NTSC-J in Japan. And also the Frame Rate of Frames per second. PAL stands for: Phase Alternation Line NTSC stands for: National Television System Committee There are some small differences including the “aspect ratio” or image size. PAL and NTSC can essentially be thought of as viewing or output formats. Largely the UK is referred to as a PAL territory as opposed to the NTSC regions of Japan and North America. So, for those of you watching from outside Europe here’s a little background on how the regions work. However, there was also a fourth region, the UK PAL edition. The Asian market, North America and Europe. There were three major regional releases of the game. Right from the off I’ll need to set the scene on the versions of Rule of Rose. Only later to be dug up by survival horror fans. The collectability of the game arose from it’s troubled release that practically buried it at the time. As it stands the game is a fairly standard survival horror game and received mixed reviews by critics upon launch. So, what’s so special about this game? Well, in short, not a lot. Horror fans, game collectors and re-sellers have all jumped on the bandwagon to get this one in their collection. Rule of Rose for the PlayStation 2 has become one of those games that were overlooked at the time yet have since gained a wave of notoriety. One game above all though has become more collectable than any other.
Due to this trend the mid-2000’s were awash with second rate horror games. Around this time dozens of studios were pumping out survival horror games, spurred on by the success of Alone in the Dark, Resident Evil and Silent Hill. Rule of Rose is a 2006 survival horror game. But hey, let’s go for it anyway as I know a lot of collectors that are looking for some information on this game. With the current YouTube content policy rules its quite challenging to review a game like Rule of Rose without breaking a rule or offending someone. It’s also worth saying that this is an episode that I had planned a very long time ago. Before we start I’ll just say that there will be some minor spoilers in this episode as its difficult to give you a rounded view of the game without doing so. Today we are looking at Rule of Rose for the PS2. Today’s game encompasses all of these things. Maybe the game is controversial, rare, expensive or just memorable. There’s many things that define a collectable game. Greetings collectors and welcome to today’s retro game review.
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