Rule of Rose

[Emu]

I picked this up today. I've heard bad things, but I felt like it was something I had to have to complete my Giant Faggoty Horror collection. I'm on the thin line of hating the game so far. The graphics are sub-par for late 2006, and the game seems to shift sporadically between giving more detail than is necessary to uninteresting things (random hallway objects such as potted plants get their own camera pans when examined, for example) but interesting objects like cabinets get nothing more than an opening animation and a disappointing noise -- not even an "it's empty" text flashing at the bottom of the screen.

The game is very atmospheric so far, although it is really fucking slow and I have no idea where to go. The lack of a map is getting painfully frustrating, especially when many rooms share the same name (there are at least four 'Hallway's for example_