E3 2006: Rule of Rose revealed @ Gaming Target

Written by John Scalzo on May 12, 2006

News: Sony Japan's horror hit is coming stateside courtesy of Atlus.

If you read the April issue of Play Magazine then you might have seen their writeup of the PS2 game Rule of Rose. It is a moody Japanese horror game produced by Sony Japan that really looked pretty cool.

Of course, the writeup ended with the standard "And this will probably never come out in America."

Flash forward to E3 and Atlus, everyone's favorite quirky Japanese company, is bringing Rule of Rose to America.

The Play writeup focused mainly on the game's great story, which Atlus summarizes like this:

March, 1930. A young girl named Jennifer, whose parents were killed in a tragic airship accident, is taken to the Rose Garden Orphanage, located in a remote portion of the English countryside. What Jennifer discovers is a dilapidated building and a ragtag mob of children who call themselves the "Aristocracy of the Red Crayon." The demented residents of Rose Garden kidnap Jennifer and take her into the dark heart of an impossibly large zeppelin, on a meandering course for a distant land. Now, with the help of a canine companion named Brown, Jennifer has to find valuable gifts for the Aristocracy, or suffer a fatal punishment for her insolence...

They've also supplied a feature list:

Features

Befriend a faithful dog and work together to locate crucial items!

Intense melee combat against bloodthirsty monsters!

Musical score by Yutaka Minobe (Panzer Dragoon Saga, Skies of Arcadia)!

An immersive storyline with 50 minutes of award-nominated CG scenes (Official Selection of the Annecy 2006 International Animated Film Festival)!

Multiple endings and hidden extras!

Rule of Rose is scheduled to ship in the fall for the PS2 and I'll be keeping a very close eye on it.