So, I completed my first run through Rule of Rose last night, and, uh, the ending was just ridiculous. Give me resolution, damn it!

*SPOILERS BECAUSE I'M TOO LAZY TO REFER BACK TO THE COMMENT THAT EXPLAINED HOW TO USE THE HIDEY THING AND BECAUSE THIS IS FUNNIER ANYWAY BUT NO ONE GIVES A SHIT BUT IT'S STILL SPOILERS SO DON'T READ IF YOU DON'T WANT TO BE SPOILED!*


The plot's condition reminds me of something very vaguely... oh yeah, the Silent Hill movie. >_>

I've come to the conclusion that most of the game(all of the airship) is not real. The whole thing is unrealistic for the most part--a ladder that led to somewhere else before now leads to a grassy, moonlit plain? And the things in there are just rather odd and cruel at times. It's all an imaginary game by the Red Crayons, methinks. Especially when Jennifer exclaims to them late in the game, "...playing your stupid games!", or something along those lines.

The actual conundrum of Jennifer being at the orphanage really confuses me though, just because the timeline is, well, whacked. We're led to believe that Jennifer is lured to the orphanage by Wendy and then subjected to the wrath of the Red Crayons. However, if it's true that the airship is all an imaginary game--Mr. Hoffman is not bound and then ravaged by insanity, the children do NOT have total control of their world--then was she welcomed into the orphanage? Was it abandoned? I'll try and cover this right now, but first...

The factor that makes this incomprehensible is that Jennifer was already an orphan there when she was younger. Was she adopted? It's possible, considering she has seemingly repressed the memory of her time there. But none of the other children express any recognition of her when they meet. Are they even supposed to? Did Jennifer ever even LEAVE the orphanage?

That I cannot say for sure.

There's just too many things clashing, and my head is really out-of-order right now. :\

The last part of the plot that needs to be addressed is "Stray Dog", the author of all the storybooks Jennifer finds. "Stray Dog" is really just Gregory Wilson, a nearby resident of the orphanage. This part of the plot truly baffles me.

Gregory had a son named Joshua, and supposedly his son and Wendy shared a type of romance via letters. Joshua dies, in any case, and Wendy masquerades as him when luring Jennifer to the orphanage. But... did Wendy really love Joshua? Was this after Jennifer "left" the orphanage? Is Joshua even real? All of this is left unexplained, and how can Wendy love Joshua when she is so obsessed with Jennifer? Is Wendy led to believe that Joshua is actually Jennifer? Grah.

I'm going to propose a possible cop-out now: the game's story is really just Gregory's story. He expresses an interest in writing about Jennifer, and he titles it the "Little Princess". And lo and behold, as the game progresses the "Little Princess" writes itself in... but it has no solid ending. I wonder.

Well, I'll have to analyze it a little more later, because my brain is not in thinking mode right now. The game was okay overall; the combat was what really got to me, but Brown finds many Chocolates and White Chocolates near the end, so it's all good. :)

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