The Rose of Segunda Demo

Having someone else making decisions for you is not something most modern people are confronted with, except of course for children. However, there are still places where people are expected to marry the persons their parents pick instead. This is usually because families want to keep their fortunes or even grow them, and it’s especially popular with royal families.

The Rose of Segunda is an interactive visual novel in which you play the role of a young woman trying to sort out her life by choosing a man to marry and love. The game features more choices than your average visual novel, which translates into multiple possible routes and endings. Hence, you can get quite a bit of game time out of it if you are willing to go back and do it all over again.

You are free to pick a name for your character in the beginning, but everything else is set in stone. Hence, your mother is the Duchess of Florentia, and she sends you to attend the prince’s birthday in the hope that he will choose you to become his bride. However, you are free to disobey your mother and pick someone else at the party in question.

As mentioned before, you are free to make dialog choices, many of which affect your chances with one partner or the other. Naturally, you can actually pursue the prince and make sure he chooses you, just in case you aim to be a queen and please your mother at the same time. The choices also affect your character’s personality, and some of the other characters might not fancy you because of that.

Visual novels bank a lot on the visual side of things, because there is usually not much else to do other than look around and admire the scenery. The Rose of Segunda does a good job in this regard, because every scene is very detailed and nicely drawn. The characters are unique as well, but they are still pretty cartoonish, so it might not be easy to become attached sometimes.

It’s nice to see something slightly different for a change, and The Rose of Segunda features an interesting cast of characters. The full game is bound to include more choices and possible endings.