Rule of Rose (New Japanese Horror Game)

[Robert_Boyd]

Here's the link - http://www.playstation.jp/scej/title/ror/

Be sure to check out the movies section (particularly the first one).  Very creepy.

The Japanese version just came out this week and the Chinese version is scheduled for February 9th.  The Chinese version will be mine!  Mwahahahaha!

[PokerNemesis]

I found an online petition, to be sent to Sony Computer Entertainment, to have Rule of Rose come to the USA and Europe.

Please sign it. Lets make sure to have an English language version!

The petition is at
www.petitiononline.com/rorEUUSA/petition.html

[Spriggan]

those online petitions rarely work.  Actually sending in physical letters will help your case more then random names in an internet database.

[The Holy Saint, Grand High Poobah, Master of Monkeys, Ehlers]

yes, but these are lazy gamers who have nothing more important to try to accomplish than getting a video game. You expec them to actually PRINT and MAIL a physical letter?

[Spriggan]

Nope.

I prefer to crush hopes and dreams with facts that require leaving the basement.

[The Holy Saint, Grand High Poobah, Master of Monkeys, Ehlers]

well, in that case, carry on.

[Mad Dr Jeffe]

you left out an important part of that statement.

Their "Parents" basement.

[Faster Master St. Pastor]

That's Sprigg, the crushing force of logic.  

[Spriggan]

Well this game was going to come out in the US but Sony of America axed it due to "underage eroticism"

The company has decided to take a pass on publishing the Rule of Rose in the US due to concerns that the game's semi-erotic interaction between children might not go down well here.

http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20060608-7018.html

[Robert_Boyd]

Actually, that's not entirely true: the game is coming out to the US, it just isn't going to be released by Sony.  Sony's American branch had first dibs on publishing it since it was released by Sony's Japanese branch, but they opted to pass and let another company pick up the US rights.  Atlus was showing the game off at their booth at E3 and has announced that they plan to release it in the US, without censoring it.

Oh and I've played the Chinese version by now.  The Chinese version is dreadful.  Well, the game itself ain't bad - mediocre gameplay, but intriguing story and well done cutscenes - but the Chinese translation is so bad that even I, a foreigner, can tell it's a hack job.  I might go ahead and buy the English version since the Chinese version is so bad and I'm a big fan of Atlus (they do very nice localization jobs).