Banned in China: The UK release was postponed indefinitely after the newspapers picked up on a moral panic story about it in the Italian press of all places, alleging that sexual contact between minors takes place in the game. Blog: While many fandoms have an online place where they discuss the work in question, Rule of Rose Mysteries (now defunct website) takes it to a completely different level, deconstructing the game, analyzing the characters, and piecing together the story. Arc Words: Gathered slowly through three chapters: Everlasting / True Love / I am yours. Different characters also have animal associations: Diana is a rat/fish, Meg is a goat, Eleanor is a bird, Amanda is a pig, etc. Animal Motifs: Many chapters have one, and they reflect on the enemies there are rabbit imps, bird imps, goat imps, rat imps and pig imps. All of the Other Reindeer: Everyone's so mean to Jennifer, even the adults. Each costume also comes with a built-in one-hit super-weapon. Brown also gets a costume change for some of them. And Your Reward Is Clothes: If you unlock the four-leaf clover door, you get to dress Jennifer up in a variety of outfits, such as a French maid or an octopus. A Day in the Limelight: The game has an episodic structure in the style of a TV series, where each of the episodes puts one of the Red Crayon Aristocrats into the highlight. Oddly enough, not the rule that requires all Shojo anime to have a plethora of roses about. Combat tends to occur as the events in a chapter come to a climax enemies will often appear seemingly from nowhere, allowing Jennifer to use a variety of improvised weapons, such as a kitchen knife, an icepick, or a hatchet. Other items such as marbles and ribbons have no immediate use, but may be traded with the Aristocrats. All plot-important items and most health restoring items (instead of potions, various cookies and chocolates are used) must be found in this way. Gameplay consists mostly of finding items with Brown's help, giving him an inventory item to sniff, then letting him guide Jennifer through the environment to whatever it is he's found. Each chapter of the game is introduced with a storybook that loosely describes what the chapter is about and which of the characters it focuses on. During each chapter, Jennifer has to honor a demand from the Red Crayon Aristocrats on pain of death, and in the process, she pieces together clues and recalls forgotten memories about her role in the Red Crayons' world. Her only solace is Brown, her partner and best friend. 
The plot revolves around a nineteen-year-old unlucky girl named Jennifer, who becomes trapped in a world run by young girls who have established a rigid and cruel class hierarchy called the Red Crayon Aristocrats. All this is used to weave a broken fairytale about thoughtless cruelty, wrecked love and childlike longing for an idealized adult reality, culminating into an unusually thoughtful and heartbreaking story of self-actualization and growing up. and the setting), the surrealist horror aesthetic, and the purposely uneven story-telling. or is it? It should be noted before going any further that the entire game is difficult to summarize for all sorts of reasons: the elaborate use of Fairy Tale Motifs, the narration, the setting (and the setting. In any case, it's a dark, horrible presentation of a terrible circumstance that has been picked apart and extrapolated on by dedicated fans since release who honed in on this reading, and goes some way to explaining how Rule of Rose was so fiercely controversial upon release.Rule of Rose is an adventure/ Survival Horror game set in an orphanage/ airship in post-war England. That the Mermaid Princess continually throws up could be reflective of morning sickness, too, if we continue with this path.The form of a mermaid could simply be idealistic wish fulfilment of something all young girls dream to be, but far more likely is the binding of Clara's legs in a desperate projection of stopping Hoffman’s assault. This dark insinuation is what informs the Mermaid Princess's strange appearance, with her slash marks leading to a stapled surgical cut across her abdomen - one that could be indicative of a c-section from an unwanted pregnancy. The cause of this is suspected to be abuse from orphanage headmaster Hoffman, which is never actually seen, but strongly implied throughout the story. As this is the boss form of Clara, it seems the mermaid has injuries synonymous with self harm to reflect Clara's fragile mental state.
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