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Rule of Rose
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luchta checked-in to:Rule of Rose
Platform: Playstation 2
609 Players
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Eu estou voltando a ficar animado para testar o emulador de Playstation 2, o PCSX2 1.6.0, vou configurar os jogos que eu quero jogar com base nas configurações da versão anterior do emulador que eu já tinha feito. Mas é claro que vou testar coisas novas, configurações diferentes dessa versão. O primeiro jogo que estou testando é o Rule of Rose, aquele jogo de terror com crianças do PS2. Essa screenshot tirei do jogo, acho que está bem legal, mas da para melhorar. Bem, testo depois.
Me lembro que a um tempo atrás eu ficava testando vários emuladores e compartilhando os resultados dos testes aqui na rede. Um dia um cara me perguntou se eu estava jogando realmente os jogos que testava, pois eram muitos em pouco tempo. E obviamente que não, eram testes para deixar eles redondinhos para jogar. Só que não joguei nenhum depois disso, ai eu percebi que a diversão está em configurar e testar o emulador e não em jogar o jogo propriamente dito até o fim. Parece loucura, mas participando de grupos de emulação eu percebi que não estava sozinho, ahahah!
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"E obviamente que não, eram testes para deixar eles redondinhos para jogar. Só que não joguei nenhum depois disso, ai eu percebi que a diversão está em configurar e testar o emulador e não em jogar o jogo propriamente dito até o fim."
It's my life...
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É tipo jogar um simulador de construção, tipo aquele PC Building Simulator ou mesmo SimCity.
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Rule of Rose
Platform: Playstation 2
609 Players
33 Check-insE dois anos depois eu estou de volta com as emulações de PS2 no PCSX2!
E vamos começar com o Rule of Rose, um dos jogos da "tríade" de bons jogos de terror que morreram no PS2. Mas antes é bom constar que dessa vez estou focando em emular jogos que realmente quero terminar, até para não ter dor de cabeça com jogos que nem encostarei a mão (não quero ser BETA tester desse emulador zoado).
Nesse jogo controlamos a Jennifer, que é uma garota que se encontra em uma mansão cheia de crianças bizarras, e se você viu filmes e outros jogos de terror, ou mesmo a Greta falando na ONU, sabe como crianças podem ser bizarras, cruéis e assustadoras quando querem. E tem um cachorrinho, mas ainda não cheguei nessa parte.
Como da para ver estou jogando em HD com o famoso patch widescreen! Estou usando o PCSX2 1.5.0 DEV 3291 (que até o momento é a versão mais recente no site), e a emulação está boa, com as configurações "padrão" (meu padrão claro) ela não precisou de ajustes, sombras aparecem normalmente, e sem texturas fora do lugar ou FMV bugado.
Apenas uma textura ou outra que fica piscando em determinadas partes do cenário que são o problema, coisa que acontece bastante em outros jogos como o Castlevania: Curse of Darkness. Nunca consegui resolver esse problema, mas depois de um tempo percebi que, ou é coisa da emulação, mas também pode ser coisa do patch widescreen, e/ou do aumento na resolução de texturas, e até mesmo do jogo original só que mais perceptível na emulação em alta resolução (em modo software [que é mais preciso] e baixa resolução ainda tem isso, mais é bem pouco perceptível). E como nimguém relata isso na wiki do PCSX2 creio que é "normal".
Enfim, ainda quero testar outros jogos como Clock Tower 3 e o problemático Haunting Ground. Essas imagens eu tirei na emulação que fiz, vocês podem clicar para ampliar. E essa estrada que a menina inicia o jogo parece as que tem aqui perto de casa, bizarro!
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Esse Pcsx2 é pesado demaaaais.... até consigo emular alguns jogos no meu PC mais antiguinho.. esse Rule of Rose eu emulo bem, mas tem muito jogo que pqpariu... faz meu PC peidar farofa pra emular em resoluções mais altas...!! O mais engraçado é que Game Cube, que era uma plataforma superior ao PS2, eu rodo tranquilão aqui !! Palmas pros desenvolvedores do Dolphin !!
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Tirando da Estante: Rule of Rose
Todo mundo tem para si, aquele jogo que ficou para sempre marcado na memória. O tempo vai passando, os games evoluindo e muitas vezes, aquele jogo que te fez passar horas em frente a TV cai no esquecimento.
Mas todo bom jogador, separa um tempo para jogar aquele game antigo que já estava todo empoeirado na estante. E nesse artigo, vamos tirar da estante um dos melhores títulos de Survival Horror de todos os tempos: Rule of Rose!
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Tirando da Estante: Rule of Rose
Venha conhecer um dos melhores títulos de Survival Horror da história!
Rule of Rose é um game de terror carregado de suspense que vai fazer você se chocar e se emocionar a cada revelação.
Rule of Rose
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A love letter to Rule of Rose: why you should love it too
I know, I know; If you’ve heard of this game, you’ll know that Rule of Rose has a kink or two.
Or several.
But the fact of the matter is, despite its frustrating shortcomings, Rule of Rose is a jewel of its time and something we probably won’t see for a long, long while in the game industry.
Let’s start at the beginning. Rule of Rose is a survival horror title from 2006, developed by Punchline and published via Sony in Japan and Atlus in the US.
Why the change in publishers? Well, it was one thing to aim at the Japanese market, but Sony had so many scruples when it considered the American release that it backed out altogether. This is because Rule of Rose’s storyline is a bit, oh how should I put it…controversial.
The story is centered around our nervous but plucky heroine: 19-year-old Jennifer, who is re-living her horrible childhood memories in a dream that mixes both the surreal with the mundane. Stuck in a floating airship, poor Jennifer is captured and forced to play the game of The Rule of Rose, where once a month she must find an offering for the Red Crayon Aristocrats (an exclusive club consisting of the most horrible children you have ever had the displeasure of encountering in a game).
Little shits.
We discover later in the game that its horrifying images and terrifying teachers are the result of how small, too-imaginative-for-her-own-good Jennifer viewed them. Think Silent Hill only with gore implied instead of shown.
In the game you must find the aforementioned “offerings” –actually small, harmless gifts such as butterflies- around the airship with the help of your faithful sidekick, a cheerful dog creatively named Brown. He sniffs for clues and leads you not only to your objectives, but also for health items or “small offerings” like ribbons and marbles that you can trade for food or new weapons.
Your enemies are the Horrible Imps: as their name implies, not the kind of company you want in a dark, locked room (and trust me, it’ll happen a LOT). They are small creatures, suspiciously children-sized, with hollow dark eyes that grab you whenever they have the chance. Oh, sure, you can kill them; but this is hindered by the fact that Jennifer is a terrible fighter. She closes her eyes and tentatively jams her tiny fork around, hoping to hit something in the process. Also, there are so many enemies in the first place it’s best to run away than take your chances.
About that running away part? Well, here’s where we get to its technical problems. Jennifer is horribly, terribly, punishingly slow. Even when she’s running, it’s a frustrating slog through corridors as you pray that you won’t get face-to-face with an Imp. A game should be able to decide what it wants to be and plan its mechanics accordingly! If fighting is sluggish and running away is the answer, make the running not feel like my legs are stuck in tar, underwater, while chained to an anvil, goddamnit.
I know, I know. This is supposed to be a love letter. But I’m harsh to the things I love, because I want the best of them. And Rule of Rose really fucked up in the mechanics aspect, which turned off a lot gamers who play for the action. The creators themselves admit that financial and time constraints made them cut and change the product short, making them only “80% satisfied”- Shuji Ishikawa, director.
But if you’re a story gamer such as myself, get ready to sit down and take some notes: while a bit convoluted and containing a bunch of unanswered questions, Rule of Rose is a dark, fascinating and genius game.
The aim is to have the player figure out what really happened in Jennifer’s past, and along the way we’re given tantalizing clues. The question on your mind the whole time is: which events were real, and which ones were exaggerated through our small heroine’s child-like point of view? The answer might sound simple but [insert tear-stained maniacal laughter] trust me, it’s not.
I have spent so many hours on message boards, playing the game myself and riffling through its contents and in-game texts, but some concepts are still a mystery to me. I won’t spoil what though! (unless you ask. Then I won’t shut up, so be warned fair reader).
But why isn’t this game more popular, or at least heard of? Well, that’s where Sony’s scruples kick in. The game was banned in a lot of European countries, but ironically for the wrong reasons. The official statement is that it’s banned because you are forced to kill children in very gory ways. This is completely untrue, since the only enemies that you have to kill are either surreal depictions of adults or the Imps, who, while child-like in appearance, are definitely not real human children (even in-game). There is some cartoon-y blood when you kill them, but honestly, Rule of Rose’s gore is very invisible, with the most heinous acts mostly implied.
Like this charming image.
But there is the fact that there is some, ah, questionable content in Rule of Rose that would definitely make it deserve its R rating: like horrific bullying, pedophilia, and even –buried deep in the clues- cannibalism. This is, in no way, a kid’s game.
But where does the genius of Rule of Rose lie? I think it’s the subtle world-building that catches you completely off-guard. I will exemplify this with my favorite memory of playing this game:
The enemies are separated completely from the Red Crayon Aristocrats, including the area where the kids are generally found: the first-class section of the airship (of course). You could have been slashing at 500 imps near the generators, but the minute you step into that fancy compartment there isn’t a single enemy to be found. The children don’t ever see, interact or even seem to be in the same reality as the supernatural imps. This is so ingrained in you that you end up associating the Aristocrats and their doings with the “normal” world, even if there’s an imp in the next room scratching at the door.
One month the Aristocrats say that the offering of the month is a pure mermaid. Since they always asked for small, mundane things, the fact that they’re asking for a fish girl seems almost laughable. “What the hell, there’s no such thing! Where the hell am I going to find a mermaid here?” I thought, as I decapitated an imp with a rabbit head.
This game is weird ok
After going through the airship’s maze-like corridors, I finally find the room that supposedly has the mermaid I’m searching for. I open the door and…
Ok, but do you see how this whole move was absolute genius? The creators kept your mind in the real world when it came to association with the Aristocrats, even when you found the mermaid. She’s just a girl with slit arms for gills, and she’s hanging from a rope that covers her legs that gives the appearance of a mermaid. Gruesome, yes, but still feasible in the context of reality. I thought it was so clever!
I’m sorry, I’m raving. I hope I was able to get my point across, because I still remember how that blew my 14-year-old mind.
Anyway, Rule of Rose is full of those tricks that make it a very original tale even amongst horror games. It dared tackle very controversial, scary topics and talk about them through children (which was ultimately it’s downfall).
I feel that people misinterpret the real horror behind this game. The message, it seems to me, is that this is a world seen through the eyes of a terrified child. The adults are creepy and the scenery is dark and troubling…but what if I told you that these images are not the product of a dour over -imaginative child? What if I told you that the reality behind these terrifying images is actually much, much worse?
Rule of Rose
Platform: Playstation 2
609 Players
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This game "Broke" my mind ... rly loved to play ... nice post =D
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AHH yes @markzima , I want an airship ride too after playing! *---* ~first class, of course hahaha~
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Eita, replica de Rule of rose?? vou ver.
como funciona essas replicas? digo em relação a qualidade do cd.