Shadows of Rose

Shadows of Rose (シャドウズオブローズ, Shadōzu obu rōzu^?) is a DLC story mode exclusive to Resident Evil Village: Gold Edition. It was announced at Capcom's E3 presentation in June 2021, and will be made available with the rest of Gold Edition on 28 October 2022. The game mode is inspired by a cut addendum to the Village story mode in which the player was to briefly take the role of Rose. Like with the main game, Shadows of Rose's script was created in collaboration between Japanese and English-speaking writers; Capcom developed the story outline, with writer Haris Orkin providing native English dialogue.^[1]

Synopsis

"English
Japanese

16 years after the events of Resident Evil Village...
Rosemary Winters, Ethan's beloved daughter, has grown up and is now struggling with terrifying powers.
In search of a way to break free from her curse, Rose enters the consciousness of the Megamycete.

Rose's journey takes her to a mysterious realm where memories of the past return to create a warped and twisted world of nightmares.

Play Shadows of Rose in the Third Person Perspective.
Enjoy the horror of the world itself being your greatest enemy.

あの事件から16年…
イーサンの愛娘であるローズマリー・ウィンターズは健やかに成長していた。
だが、生まれ持った特殊な“力”に悩まされるローズは、その力を封じるために
菌根の記憶の世界、すなわち“意識の世界”へと飛び込むことを決意する。

辿りついたのは、これまでの現実とはかけ離れた異常な世界。
それは、菌根が吸収した”あの村”の記憶の集合体だった。

「シャドウズオブローズ」は三人称視点でのプレイ。
フィールドすらも脅威となる危険な“意識の世界”での恐怖を存分に味わうことができるだろう。

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— Official website description

In the years following Ethan Winters' sacrifice, his daughter Rosemary has survived in protective custody, but her status as a Mutant has left her an outcast and she is perceived as a freak by other children. At the age of 16, Rose gains access to a surviving piece of the Black God - the mycorrhiza which thrived in Eastern Europe - and seeks to use it to forever suppress her powers and live her life as a human. During her attempt, her mind interacts with the Black God and she begins to see scattered memories of the humans it has consumed and archived over the centuries. During this hallucinatory experience, Rose encounters her own doppelgänger, and is drawn away by an hallucinatory figure called "Michael", who promises to find her what she needs.