Rule of Rose (PS2)

Rule of Rose is quite a rare little gem along my PS2 collection of games and I have only recently became the owner of a European PAL version of the game. I managed to score this Italian copy (although it plays in English) from ebay for a bargain price of £48 including delivery. Considering the English copy is going for around £600 or something silly it is a pretty good price and the game usually sells for closer to the £60 mark. We've been waiting for this game for over a year so when I saw I had 17 seconds left on a game I've been waiting for I took a chance and won. When the game arrived I ... more

From what I read in the back of my game box, it truly didn't look too interesting--but "boy" was I glad I actually went with my intuition and bought it! Despite my misgivings, when I first turned the PS2 on, immediately, was I awed by the insanely awesome graphics that I saw. The opening theme song, 'Love Suicide' was a haunting melody that caused me to actually pick up the controller and play. Although the quality of the graphics were good in every scene, it usually dissipated throughout the game play as Jennifer. Your whole map is very limited, and select to only some places, which sometimes ... more