Beneath its various clunky bits and funky bits, there’s a thoughtful, tense, strange, powerful game in here like none I’ve ever really played. The gameplay, narrative, and characters EVOKE many things-both stunningly beautiful and strikingly ugly-but all the game actually ever reveals are shadows, hints, nuances of the profound. EVOCATIVE is the word that best describes what occurs in game. Of course as is typical in these cases, when the rubber meets the road, nothing in this vein is ever explicitly shown in “Rule of Rose.” However, the game can be powerfully unpalatable at times. If you’ve not played the game but are familiar with the title, this is probably because you may recall some faint headlines at release time about “Rule of Rose” containing possible references to incest, lesbianism among young children, child sexual abuse, live internment of children, and other types of ugliness-enough references that some countries moved to ban the sale of the game (namely Poland, in this case). And I am unlikely to analyze the game in a way that reveals anything new or interesting about it (other than if you’ve not yet played it, I implore you to take me up on my PCSX2 advice). It’s an underdog game for sure so it sits shoulder-to-shoulder with everything else on here, but it is rather well known by those who care about such things (some who pray to it and others who revile it). PCSX2 flaunts it all.Īctually, it’s questionable whether or not I should include this title on this blog, mostly because, like a number of other survival horror titles out there, “Rule of Rose” (which you might argue isn’t actually a survival horror title in a strict sense) has its own rabid fanbase, with its own wiki, and its own lore. Games, like “Rule of Rose”-which has style oozing out of every orifice–never looked this fabulous, ever.
But sometimes good things come to those who wait, and this is most definitely the case with PCSX2.
So, a few semi-old-school treasures like “Haunting Ground,” “Michigan: Report from Hell,” and “Kuon” flew below my radar as I was wading knee-deep into “Gears of War” or what-have-you. I had no time for that last-gen junk anymore.
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There are a handful of late-comer PS2 games (mostly survival horror games post-2005) I never played because the next gen of machines had arrived at that point in time, and I was dazzled by the shiny new titles available. To understand exactly what I was seeing through the emulator, with both games I made sure to plug in my old PS2 console and play a bit of them using their native resolutions.
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This plea may be a little premature I’ve actually only played through two games completely on PCSX2-“Forbidden Siren 2” and “Rule of Rose.” And I understand that not all games can be played on the emulator successfully-some run slow, and others are full of graphical glitches that impede progress. If you want exact minimum requirements, go visit the PCSX2 page at (and then go take out a second mortgage and build yourself a new rig if you need to-it’s worth it).
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What kind of computing power is needed? I’ve got a 6-core processor (which doesn’t matter, since PCSX2 only uses 2 cores anyway), running at 3.8 Ghz, with a GeForce GTX 460 video card, and I can boot just about any PS2 iso without a hitch or a glitch. low-res PS2 rendering–no contest.) It’s a serious wow factor. (See the pic here which is a side-by-side comparison of hi-res PCSX2 rendering vs. If you’ve got the computing power, you will not believe your eyes when you see that favorite low-rez, last-gen game of yours playing smoothly at a 2000×2000 resolution on your high definition screen.
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I’ll begin this discussion of “Rule of Rose” (2006, Japan) with an exhortation: If you are lucky or wealthy or finicky enough to own a PC rig built for serious gaming (and you care about more than what flashy title is arriving on shelves next Tuesday), do yourself a favor and dig out those old-timey PS2 faves of yours, rip an iso of them onto your desktop, download the free PS2 emulator called PCSX2, and revisit those games on your PC.
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