505 cans Rule of Rose News

Wow- all that free advertising and they've pulled it O_o

Don't they know anything about Italian politics? They should have just bunged him 50 quid.

Wow no wonder Sony didn't touch it with a barge pole.

ffs.

Someone get a youtube up of this video! I bet it's lame aa hell.

Free Speech ftw

I still haven't played the game so can't comment directly, however if PEGI found it suitable for release then the canning is a very bad thing indeed...

I don't know what's going on with the mayor in rome...
We had elections a few months ago, no need to be making this kind of propaganda...
Hope this won't continue...

Can anyone describe this terrible content? I know nothing about it.

Pity, but as the game was picking up some really bad (50%-ish) reviews I guess its not a huge loss.

Shame they pandered to the reactionary idiots. Import it is, then.

Wrong headline, EG.

Should be "No Rule of Rose in the UK" or something like that. 505 didn't can the game itself, right?

Boo! Hiss!

It might not have been the best game in the world, but it went through classification and came out of it fine with an 'adults only' rating. Adults should be allowed the choice, regardless of what some dumb fuck politician who's never even played a game thinks.

Is it just barred for the UK, or is the release going ahead in other parts of Europe?

So the game's not coming out in the UK because of complaints from the mayor of Rome...

We don't need games where you kill children

You don't kill children. Didn't your Mum teach you not to believe everything you read?

I just bought 505's Michigan: Report From Hell which, according to G4, has genuinely disturbing content. Oh noes!

No politician is going to stand in the way of my corruption through video games.

Too bad.

In Metal Gear Solid, Snake is captured and tortured. Do you want to ban that too?

EuroSexMachine, do you edit The Sun, by chance?

The ignorant fuckwits have won, then? :/

Of course EuroSexMachine would be singing a different tune if the game was an Xbox exclusive.

Don't feed the troll, people.

I say we should all listen to politicians.
After all, we put them where they are, so they know we trust them!
What's that? Go kill some people half a world away for God knows what reason?
Certainly!
What again? Don't play games that can, in the slight chance I'm already a bit unstable, mess with my head or God forbid, make me think for myself?
Thank you Mr. Politician Man. You're our saviour!

All I can say regarding Rule of Rose is: thank God for piracy!

Quotes:

VSC secretary general Laurie Hall told MCV: “I have no idea where the suggestion of in-game sadomasochism has come from, nor children being buried underground. These are things that have been completely made up.”

“There isn’t any underage eroticism,” added Hall. “And the most violent scene does indeed see one of the young girls scare Jennifer with a rat on a stick. But the rat’s actually quite placid towards her and even licks her face.”

Source.

I have to wonder - are they really pulling it because of the controversy or just because they reckon it'll sell bugger all. I mean, review wise, it's been lucky to reach the 60s. I'm keen to see what the sales have been like in the US for it.

Talking of violence between children does anybody remember Gripper Stebson period Grange Hill? Sick filth from the BBC. Ban it!

OUCH!!

At least it's not what people think.

/wonders how it got an 18. :/

Oh come on, it was friggin rated 16+ by PEGI. A game containing scenes of pedophilic nature would NOT score so low. No matter how questionable ratings can be sometimes, that wouldn't slip through.

I remember a horror (or terror as the author himself preferred calling it) PNPRPG called Little Fears making this kind of headlines a few years ago. And the accusations where, as usual, mostly bollocks.

edit: didn't even score points for sexual references...

I shouldn't think they would be worried about low sales - have you seen some of the stuff 505 have released? Rule of Rose almost certainly would have outsold anything else in their catalogue, particularly with the publicity it has received.

That's probably my biggest worry, actually. 505 are a tiny operation who release great stuff which otherwise wouldn't make it over here. If this busts them up then I'm going on a drug-fuelled rampage with a cricket bat.

If this busts them up then I'm going on a drug-fuelled rampage with a cricket bat.

Need a sidekick?

/prepares molotov cocktails

Christ, that video review is conclusive proof that Americans are by and large complete morons. Game bad. Because its not exactly like Resident Evil 4. Purely from the footage you can see they are going about the game all wrong, bashing enemies left right and centre. You don't like the combat? Guess what? You can run away. Perhaps we'll give you a nice copy of Final Fight to play instead...

Based on the G4 review whoever thought the game was about Children, Perversion, Torture and Violence without even looking at the game proper needs to wash their filthy sick mind.

/looks at EuroSexMachine.

Meh, no great loss by all accounts but it is sad to see the forces of Conservatism getting the casting vote again.

I suppose it possible they stopped the disc being printed ages ago and announced its canned on release day just to upset the two people who were going to buy it.

Wasn't this games biggest problem that it was crap?
Anyways. In the land of the blind, the autopilot is the king.

Hmm. Doesn't this give the wrong impression to the Jack Thompson wannabes?
"Shout loudly enough, and you'll bury what you don't like!"?

What about the rest of Europe?

Which one are you aspiring to be?

Any one of them would appear to be a step up from "EuroSexMachine".

I don't want virtue to exist anywhere. I want everyone corrupt.

No one gives a shit about you lame trolling, Eurosexmuppet. Please just shut up.

The song "Faster" has just exploded into life inside my head. Yay for Azazel \o/

Love the fact the someone called EuroSEXmachine is giving us jip about game morality and ethics! ha ha ha ha.
Maybe they shouldn't believe everything that mummy reads to them and that includes unsubstantiated reports of child cruelty in games?

505 Games will no longer publish controversial horror title Rule of Rose in the UK.


Smart move considering that the game actually sucked.

Game doesn't look that good now I've seen a vid. Wonder what will happen to the order I'd placed? Now that it's been pulled due to the IGNORANT WHINING MEDIA AND DUMB POLITICIANS, does anyone know where it /has/ had a release to import? I feel duty bound to own a copy now.

Doesn't matter if the game was crap or not... halting the release of a game because of a bunch of ignorant people who completely missed the point of the game and used a bunch of lies to try and stop its release is a VERY BAD THING.

505 should not have caved in. So what? The game may have been on the average side. So was Manhunt, and the media circus made that sell.

And on the flipside, there are people who need to learn to think for themselves in these parts, don't believe all you read. Just because someone says something, does not make it true... I'll bet you believed there were Weapons of Mass Destruction in Iraq, right?

Kami: well, there were WMDs in Iraq. Only thing is they had propellors and tracks, and US/British flags on them.

I reckon this game will become quite the rare collectible if they actually had pressed copies ready to go, just stashed somewhere in a warehouse.

A shame really.

Not enough games about horticulture.

I don't really know what this game is about, but it sucks when people pander to the Daily Mail and stuff.

505 are the wailing masses bitches /o\

Some small enterprising publisher should take it off them and make a tidy sum!

"THE GAME THEY TRIED TO BAN!"

The game may have gotten some poor reviews but the market for Rule of Rose is'nt one thats swayed by reviews. They are the people that bought Silent Hill 4 and Forbidden Siren 2, they bought Michigan and the other Simple Series games.

Seriously this is a joke, theres nothing all that bad in Rule of Rose, nothing in comparison to what takes place in Clock Tower 3 thats for sure.

This is a pretty sad day in European gaming, the game was released in the States by Atlus with no fan-fare or ruckus, in fact no one cared apart from those that wanted to play it.

Yeah I agree totally! I'm glad the government banned this sick, child-rape simulator! PEGI are all perverted pedos, murderers and rapists, as is proved by the fact they let Canis Canum Edit (the game that indoctrinates and trains kids how to commit gruesome high school murders) get through certification at all, let alone with a BBFC 15 rating.

Oh hang on! Maybe I'm wrong and actually the reason PEGI passed this is because they felt the content was fine for the rating they allocated it. Just as the very vocal opposers of Bully didn't actually have any idea of the content of the game, or for that matter European law, neither to the the critics of this. There are VERY strict laws on violent content (in Film and TV as well as in games) where children are being depicted. Notice how GTA has schoolbuses but no school kids? In Fable you can kill everything apart from the children?

It's odd, maybe this'll turn into a Clockwork Orange type thing, where people only want to play it because it's not available...

Anyway EuroSexMachine, if you're not just baiting us (which you clearly are) I have to point out your weak line of argument. Have you played the game? Of course not! Aside from you not lowering yourself morally to play it, it's not released over here! maybe a career in Law might be good for you. I hear Florida is good place to get mentoring.