Ironically, the one thing I don’t have a good feel for yet is the romance. A weird sense of humor also runs through this demo, such as the previously-mentioned cloaked figure using bizarre word choices (which you have the option of recounting to other characters verbatim instead of rephrasing it in your own words) or encountering strange situations and having a choice to “calmly accept” whatever impossibility you’ve just been struck with. I only have a passing familiarity with the Fallen London universe from a few hours I spent with Sunless Sea a while back, but I can already tell how well-crafted and thought out it is. Mask of the Rose has an intriguing story setup, with a lot of weird things happening, as well as an incident at the end of the demo that raises the stakes even higher. Meanwhile, in the present, you’re gathering census data for the totally-not-inhuman-cloaked-figure who has a particular interest in learning about people’s romantic activities. Starting out a new day also presented me with the option to remember the past, which led to shorter sequences set immediately after London’s fall. Even in this short demo, I found myself needing to choose who I would prefer to focus on. You have a set number of activities you can perform each day, with a map to choose which locations you want to visit to talk to different characters. That’s not a bad thing in fact, the only thing I disliked was that it wasn’t always clear if having a number of topics to choose from would let me circle back to discuss the others or if I was choosing a single one to move on from.ĭialogue options aren’t the only choices you’ll make. It didn’t seem likely that I’d be sitting back to read a long stretch of text without choices any time soon. Mask of the Rose is presented in a common visual novel format, but the frequency of the dialogue choices took me by surprise.
Speaking of dialogue options, they come up often.
Meanwhile, the official regalia I donned with it gave me other dialogue options focused strictly on work. While I wore my fancy hat, I had new flirtatious dialogue options available in almost every conversation. Not only do your choices influence subsequent dialogue options, but so do your clothes. That’s actually one of the parts I found the most intriguing. You might be asking yourself what in the world a hat has to do with anything. I’m not entirely sure what the ramifications of these choices will be, but one thing that stood out is that if I picked the friendship option, I didn’t get a hat when choosing my clothes. Interestingly, since Mask of the Rose has a strong romantic element, one of these traits relates to your romantic interests, asking you to set whether you’re interested in friendship, chaste romance, passionate romance, or intimate encounters without romance.
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You can choose from two different character backgrounds, although there will be more in the full game, as well as a few other details. The first thing you do is customize some basic traits about your character. Set in the same universe as Sunless Sea and the other Fallen London games, Mask of the Rose is a romance visual novel planned for this October/November and included among the titles featured at LudoNarraCon.
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