I don't know who came up with this blatant lie, but for someone who's supposedly horrified by perverted stuff he sure has a lot of imagination. Yeah, right.Īnother one - Bernard Depierre - not only insisted that the game features "the rape, torture and murder of a young girl" - but also that it is "the game's main goal" and that the "player who'd show the most cruelty would win the game", whatever that's supposed to mean. Such comments are covered in the article but a lesser-known fact is that he concluded his rant by basically calling the game. One - Lionnel Luca - stated that Rule of Rose had to be banned on the grounds that it features "the rape of a 5-year-old girl" and allows the player to take part in "torture scenes". Politicians from the country's main right-wing party went bonkers over it. I don't know about what transpired outside of Europe, but what I do know is that the controversy went to seriously silly lengths in France. Julian Petley & al., Moral Panics in the Contemporary World, London, Bloomsbury Academic, 2013: a collection of essays containing an article on the hysteria surrounding Rule of Rose (Staksrud & Kirksæther, ''He who buries the little girl wins!' Moral panics as double jeopardy.: the case of Rule of Rose.'). Official Rule of Rose Website - Official website, there's an interview with the team in the "staff" section. Rule of Rose Mysteries - All the speculation/theorizing you could ever ask for about the game. "And that theme." Ooops, the link to the song didn't make it into the article, the sentence makes no sense without it. " Brown will not do the fetching part of fetch quests, but he can given any quest item" add " he can be given" After " It's effective because it's so unusual." add the sentence: " It also symbolizes the emotional "bonds" that tie the children together." I usually don't like to go on about symbolism, but in this case the game uses rope in a symbolic sense in the epilogue's storybook. The mention of Love-de-Lic could be linked to the page on HG 101. " some inanimate objects also speak in using the same stylistic device" should be " speak through the same". Maybe replace the upper one with a picture of the chalkboard item menu? The sepia image of Jennifer and her dog shows up twice (top and bottom). The actual magazine article I couldn't track down (it's not on the magazine's website). That's the bit of video game journalism I'm most proud of: as far as I can tell, no english video game author mentions the article as the starting point of the moral panic. What happened to the picture of the magazine Panorama? It's horribly tiny but I didn't find another one.