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Throughout the game, although Jennifer is supposedly nineteen years old, she is wearing knee socks.  I believe that this is symbolic of her childlike mindstate; she was very young when the orphanage massacre occured and she is trying to retrieve these memories of her past.  Very near the conclusion of the game, during the ”Stray Dog and […]

 The film The Orphanage, has many similarities to the game Rule of Rose.  While neither claims to be influenced by the other, the plots seem to have much in common.  In the film, a woman named Laura returns to the orphanage where she grew up; while she does this in reality, and Jennifer’s is a […]

Along with the younger children (presumably below the age of fifteen) at the orphanage, there is one older girl named Clara. She is sixteen and is probably the oldest orphan. There is a chapter that you must play through that is controlled by a storybook about a mermaid. The mermaid chapter leads Jennifer to a […]