
Man-Eating Plant: There are several Venus flytrap-like creatures in the castle, and they will eat Rose alive if you get into their mouths.Killing her allows time to resume on the collapsing castle that her previous use of her powers caused. Load-Bearing Boss: Viola is the source of the castle being entirely stopped in time.Those plagued by the curse of thorns have Resurrective Immortality, allowing them to reappear in certain areas after death with virtually no injuries no matter how gruesome their death was. Justified Extra Lives: Rose's ability to return to checkpoints after death is explained in a scroll.
Jump Physics: Averted Rose jumps about as well as you'd expect from a little kid.I Choose to Stay: After busting the thorns blocking the exit, Rose and the Giant depart, but after she accidentally leaches the color from a plant, she and the Giant elect to reblock the exit and spend the rest of Rose's life in the castle.The twins finally reconcile and are seen playing together in the afterlife. Blanc then imbues the thorns with color, allowing them to fly directly at Viola and defeat her once and for all.
Heel≯ace Turn: During the final boss battle, when Viola freezes all the thorns thrown at her by the giant, Rose imbues Blanc's rose with the color red. It's also unlikely you'll find all the Blood Memories without a guide, especially the last one which can only be obtained during the final boss's death animation. Guide Dang It!: There are some very obtuse puzzles in this game, and there are some gameplay elements the game never explains, like how you can put Rose into a barrel. Gameplay and Story Integration: Justified Extra Lives come in handy when a doorway demands blood. Apparently it's rated T for the Ten minutes the ESRB must have played it for. And then in the last memory, there's Viola's lover look closely and you can see his corpse has been partially dismembered. And then there's the five doors that must be opened by putting Rose into death machines and watching her shake with fear as they slooooowly activate. Family-Unfriendly Death: The game uses Rose's Resurrective Immortality to nasty degrees for instance, resetting a room is done by committing suicide by wrist bite. When they meet again in a dungeon, Blanc, filled with rage over being abandoned, attacks Rose with her thorn vines, inflict the curse of thorns on her as well. She was attacked by thorns, but, despite her pleas for help, Rose was too afraid to save her, causing her to get cursed by the thorns. Her name is Blanc and her memories reveal that she's possibly her twin sister. Evil Twin: Rose encounters a girl who looks like her, but her clothes and crown are tattered. Blanc lets out an evil giggle toward what remained of Rose before leaving the castle with the Giant. Having mistaken Blanc for Rose, the Giant ends up inadvertently killing Rose. It turns out that the one the Giant saved was actually Blanc and that she placed Rose below the chandelier. Upon finding Rose fastened above a chandelier, have the Giant break the chandelier's chains to save her. Cynicism Catalyst: Viola's lover is a Rare Male Example, his death sending her over the Despair Event Horizon and causing her to embrace the evil of the curse. Players need to make use of both of their abilities to overcome the many obstacles in the castle. The more sturdy Giant is capable of surviving any kind of a hazard, allowing it to move through places too dangerous for Rose, and is strong enough to lift and throw heavy objects. Absorbing red freezes objects in place while imbuing objects with red grants them movement, allowing them to be interactable. As the fragile Rose, players use her ability to absorb and imbue objects with the color red. Players can switch between Rose and the Giant. Forming a bond with each other, Rose and the Giant decide to travel through the castle, hoping to find out why she has this rose and answer the many mysteries surrounding this castle. While initially afraid of the creature, she warms up to it when it goes out of its way to protect her. As she made her way through the castle corridors, she finds a giant creature with a swirl mark on its abdomen. Attached to her waist is a mysterious rose capable of absorbing the color red. Rising from her slumber, a young girl named Rose finds herself in an old castle frozen in time and devoid of color.