Caltrops - Reviews





	[quote name="FABIO"]A little over a year ago bombmexico introduced us to <a href="http://www.caltrops.com/pointy.php?action=viewPost&pid=14948">Haunting Ground</a>, where you played a defensless girl and her dog struggling against one of the horrors women face: rape. Now, Rule of Rose takes the same girl/dog premise only this time deals with the <i>other</i> real world female horror: the hopelessly retarded, pointless, backstabbing based social hierarchies young girls set up amongst themselves and the hazing that goes along with it. Demonic little girls are objectively the scariest things in horror, so how do you fuck it up and make a horror game about them so <b>boring</b>? The answer is to make sure that NOTHING HAPPENS, <b>EVER</b>. This game is an endless string of events that seem like they might lead to something, but never do. Here's the entire game: 1. Cutscene of children running down a hall. 2. Chase after them 3. Repeat steps 1 & 2 a dozen times. 4. Cutscene of your teenaged character sitting there and taking abuse from small children almost half her age. 5. Faint 6. Repeat I figured that at some point the girls would turn into Fatal Frame-ish demonic knife wielding ghosts, which is the first thing they teach you in J-horror school. I managed to stick with this game for only 2 hours, and 120 minutes of that was hoping that things would get better. But no, the game really is just about regular retarded female hazing. You can watch news footage of high school powder puff football incidents and get the same amount of "shock". When the game tries to be Silent Hill, all it manages to do is be kinda sorta almost odd and mildly disturbing, kind of like running into a crazy homeless person; you see him coming your way mumbling to himself, you tense up but he just passes by and you shrug your shoulders while continuing to walk. It seems funny that your character will face horrible monsters (though you actually dont run into your first enemy until a whole HOUR into the game) with no trouble, but turns to complete jelly when confronted by small girls. Maybe it's due to some other hidden dumb girl law I don't know about. So far the objective seems to be climbing your way up through the female ranks by trashing the girl directly above you even though a previous cutscene had you both sobbing about how you're both the bestest BFF ever until your reputation with the other girls is on the line and suddenly Amanda is totally a fat skank that needs to be put in her place and also I heard that Mary is a lying slut who's been trying to steal Lisa's man. Combat is <b>horrible</b>. Worse than even the original Resident Evil. It makes hitting Silent Hill dogs with pipes look like Devil May Cry. I can only walk away thinking that this game is intended exclusively for girls. They're the only ones who could possibly be scared by reliving their adolescent horrors being teased in school, plus the game is easy (no difficulty setting at all) and fighting is completely optional so just like real life they can avoid their problems and let a big strong man/dog solve everything for them. <b>This</b> is Zseni's game.[/quote]