Flower, Sun, and Rain (Hana to Taiyou to Ame to) is a video game developed by Goichi Suda for Grasshopper Manufacture. The game was initially released for the PlayStation 2 in Japan on May 2, 2001, while an enhanced Nintendo DS remake with the original name, and subtitled Murder and Mystery in Paradise was released in Japan on March 6, 2008, Europe on November 14, 2008 and North America on June 16, 2009. Publishing for the reissue of the game in Europe and North America was handled by Rising Star Games and Xseed Games respectively.
PLOT:
Sumio Mondo is a "searcher" who makes a living looking for people's lost things. He arrives on the Micronesian resort island of Lospass and takes a room at the Flower, Sun, and Rain hotel after being tasked with detecting and defusing a bomb, planted on a plane which is soon to leave the island's only airport. On the way to the airport however, Mondo encounters other hotel guests and island residents requesting his help with various problems, including searching for missing items. While Mondo is distracted by them, the airplane with the bomb on board takes off and explodes, crashing into the island.
Flower Sun and Rain: Murder and Mystery in Paradise is an adventure game from Goichi Suda (or Suda51), who is best known as the lead designer of cult video games Killer 7 and No More Heroes.
In the game you play as Sumio Mondo, a "searcher" whose job is to search for people's missing items. After failing to defuse a bomb set on an aeroplane, Sumio begins to relive the same day over and over again, and the same disaster continuously takes place.
Flower, Sun, and Rain (aka Hana to Taiyou to Ame to) was originally released on the Playstation 2 in 2001 so the game has an old school polygon bent to the visuals. The character models and locations are rendered in 3-D which gives Flower, Sun, and Rain an eye pleasing look with it's fluid animation and stylized graphics. The game play may be likened to standard detective sims where clues are ferreted, folks questioned, and point A must be visited before going to point B. All in all, an enjoyable and unique game brimming with interesting scenarios, characters, and puzzles to solve.
The game is played by exploring 3D environments and searching for places, people and objects to examine. Once Sumio discovers a place he can examine, he uses his partner, "Catherine" a briefcase that can jack into anything and discover secrets. After finding the correct jack to hook up to the object with, Sumio must input a code to unlock the secret and solve the puzzle. Sometimes this is guesswork, sometimes hints are given from other parts of the game.
MANUFACTURER'S DESCRIPTION:
Resort of tropical mood is adventure game stage. It's to resolve the scenario of all 19 pieces Arising hotel Rosupasu Island only. Become a Sagashi-ya Mondo Smith, resolve the problems that are asked from the hotel guests, and its mystery intertwined, would be raised to grant the wish of the client Lord! ?
FEATURES:
- Third person perspective.
- 3D graphics
- Cartoon graphics
- Mystery theme.
|
|