Rule of Rose Mysteries

PokerNemesis says:

Welcome, kaoleen!

Thank you for recognizing my lovableness, lol.

PokerNemesis says:

I pretty much stick to focusing on Rule of Rose on this blog, rather than talking about myself.

Have you played Rule of Rose? What did you think of it?

PokerNemesis says:

Welcome, CandyMilk!

this game.. does it make your mind think in a different way?

The complexity of the story has required me to have to think very carefully, not only in order to try to comprehend the story clearly, but also in order to describe my theories about it in such a way that someone else can understand what I’m thinking. The idea that one game-event, such as Jennifer falling backwards into the coffin, is simultaneously the telling of two stories—first, a dream-story (that we see as the obvious story of the game), and second, the hidden story of Jennifer’s forgotten past, the pieces of which are used to construct the dream-story—is quite a difficult idea to get a handle on. And one could say that things are even more complicated than that. One could say that the game-story is a dream-story, that occurs in the mode of a story told by Gregory, built from pieces of the story of Jennifer’s forgotten past! It is like the box within a box within a box, of the “Bird of Happiness” chapter!

Another different way to think, for me, was to deliberately use the principles of story-telling in order to try to solve a mystery. When I was a kid I used to try to solve the mystery of mystery novels before the hero (or heroine) of the novel solved it in the novel. But I thought that I was just trying to think like a detective, rather than thinking like a story-teller (but perhaps I actually was thinking like a storyteller even then, without realizing it). With Rule of Rose, it is very obvious to me that there are differences between trying to solve a real-life mystery (thinking like a detective) and a literary mystery (thinking like a story-teller).

PokerNemesis says:

Welcome, NunYbizArrE!

You can find some aspects of the meaning of roses discussed in the following blog-post (and comments):

See-all Walkthrough, with Commentary: “The Gingerbread House” Chapter (Part 2): The Language of Flowers

But there are other aspects too. One might add how “roses” are almost always featured in shoujo-genre manga cover-art and shoujo-genre anime opening animations… something which has led me to argue in favor of the idea that Rule of Rose, with its emphasis on roses, is very much expecting to appeal to players who are girls.

PokerNemesis says:

S!-Dízzlє☆! wrote:

do any of you know how to unlike the octopus clothing in the game?

Lower the edges of your mouth?

PokerNemesis says:

Megan asked:

Can someone PLEASE explain to me the story?!?!

The following blog-post begins a series of blog-posts that, taken together, will be an attempt to explain my reluctance to try to explain the Rule of Rose story by way of some sort of summary:
Why I Am Reluctant to Summarize the Story of Rule of Rose (Part 1)
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PokerNemesis says:

Welcome, Eden!!

Thanks for the kind words of appreciation!

I wish you success with “The St. Raphael Diaries”.

I frequently encourage people to “think like an author” as they think about the mysteries of Rule of Rose, so I hope you will be able to participate in discussions about the game’s story.