Flower, Sun, and Rain
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| Developer(s) | Grasshopper Manufacture |
| Publisher(s) | Victor Interactive |
| Designer(s) | Goichi Suda |
| Platform(s) | Flower, Sun, and Rain PlayStation 2 Flower, Sun and Rain: Unending Paradise Nintendo DS |
| Release | Flower, Sun, and Rain PlayStation 2 Flower, Sun and Rain: Unending Paradise Nintendo DS |
| Genre(s) | Adventure |
| Mode(s) | Single player |
Flower, Sun, and Rain (花と太陽と雨と, Hana to Taiyō to Ame to) is a video game developed by Goichi Suda for Grasshopper Manufacture. The game was released in Japan on the PlayStation 2 system in 2001. An enhanced Nintendo DS remake (entitled Flower, Sun and Rain: Unending Paradise in Japan) was released in Japan on March 6, 2008, and a European release is scheduled for October 2008. [1] A North American release has been mentioned in the past, but remains announced.[2]
Plot
Sumio Mondo is a "searcher" who makes a living looking for people's lost things. He arrives on the resort island of Lospas and takes a room at the F.S.R. hotel after being tasked with detecting and defusing a time bomb, planted on a plane which is soon to leave the island's only airport.
On the way to the airport however, Sumio encounters other hotel guests and island residents requesting his help with various problems, including searching for missing items. While Sumio is distracted by them, the airplane with the bomb on board takes off and explodes, crashing into the island.
Next morning, however, Sumio awakens in his hotel room and discovers that something strange has happened. He has not even headed to the airport yet and the airplane explosion and crash have not happened yet, either. Sumio attempts to head to the airport to prevent the explosion. Again, however, other people who need his help appear, distracting him long enough to lead to a repeat of the previous days explosion, and Sumio once again awakens in his hotel room before any of the days events have taken place. As the same fateful day repeats itself over and over, Sumio finds his hotel room becomes more and more warped and twisted, reflecting the fact that he is slowly losing his mind from the repetition. Can he solve the islanders problems and prevent the explosion before he goes totally insane?
Gameplay
Players control Sumio Mondo, the "searcher," to seek people's items in a seemingly-endless loop. Sumio uses a suitcase-shaped versatile instrument named "Catherine" to solve the mysteries about the people's items. Sumio can crack any secret code by using Katherine with a "Dial" for inputting numbers and a plug compatible to many specifications around the world. The player will discover some hints from what people say, combined with a tourbook of Lospas Island to input numbers into "Catherine" to crack the codes and find the people's items. There is a luxurious atmosphere of the southern island resort and the hotel, with waves of unexpected mysteries, and witty, characteristic - but sometimes poisonous - characters' lines.
This game consists of 18 scenarios. In the last half of the game, a part of its storyline links up with The Silver Case and it brought more interests. Ambient arranged classics of Bach, Debussy, Gershwin, Satie, and others act as music throughout the game.
The lyrics of its theme song "F.S.R.-For You-" of the promotional video clip on the game disc is written by Goichi Suda, the director of this game. In the video, Mia Murano is performing in a real-life film as Toriko, the female lead in the game.
The tour guide book players use to solve the mysteries in the game is actually published as 'Flower, Sun, and Rain' Official Fan Book + Guide Book by Sony Magazines Inc.
