![]() Your job is to interview the folks of London for a new census, one that’s concerned not just with their living circumstances but also their romantic affairs. Pages, one of the new masters of the city. Playing as a Fallen Londoner scrambling to make ends meet, you manage to nab a job working for a mysterious cloaked creature called Mr. But at the same time, I've never had this much trouble smooching any of the characters in a dating sim in my life. It’s full of lavish lore and history, dubious characters with dodgy motivations, corpses coming back to life, tussles with power authorities, and eldritch mysteries to uncover. It’s a fantastic setting, one that has two brilliant spin-offs in Sunless Sea and Sunless Skies, and Mask Of The Rose is a welcome expansion into how it all began, set just a month after the fall. basically the entire cast of the Goosebumps books. ![]() With the economy literally in the pits and Queen Vicky refusing to leave her cushy palace, London has become somewhat unruly, turning into a lasciviously gothic underworld home to a whole parade of monsters, devils, living statues, cloaked beings with red eyes. In this alternative history, London has been dragged through the Earth’s crust by bats and now resides in a vast underground cavern called the Neath. Mask Of The Rose is Failbetter’s visual novel dating sim set in the Fallen London universe, an already established alt-history Victorian London that the studio has been building over a decade as a quite excellent browser game. It's giving Berocca when I wanted Coke and Mentos. Many of my romantic pursuits in the Neath totally fizzled out. It’s not something unique to my dashing, tentacled suitor, either. ![]() But in actuality, I simply don't know, because after ten-plus hours and multiple playthroughs, that all-important question remains unanswered. ![]() I had one question for Mask Of The Rose: Can I smooch the Cthulhu monster? I mean, I assume you can, they’re one of ten characters you’re able to romantically pursue in the delicious depths of this Eldritch dating sim. Reviewed on: AMD Ryzen 5 3600, AMD Radeon RX 5700 XT, 16GB RAM, Windows 10.Mask Of The Rose is an anthology of eldritch mysteries in a deliciously gothic world, but Failbetter's story-engine approach - like the studio's other games - feels odds with its dating sim promises. ![]()
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