| Japanese developer Grasshopper
got noticed by gamers with home console games Killer7 and,
most recently, No More Heroes. Both are alluring, stylised
and very original concepts.
But another of its recent projects, the intriguingly titled
DS game Flower, Sun and Rain: Unending Paradise has now
been confirmed for released in the UK. That's according
to gamesTM magazine, which has reported Rising Star will
publish the game here.
The game has actually already been released in Japan (called
Hana to Taiyo to Ame to) on PlayStation 2. Unending Paradise
is an enhanced remake for DS due for release there on March
6th, and in the US shortly after.
It stars a character called Sumio who makes a living searching
for people's lost things. He's tasked with finding and defusing
a time bomb planted on a plane soon to take off but on his
way to the airport to intervene he's distracted by various
people and incidents and the plane explodes.
Life's harsh sometimes.
However, the next morning he wakes up in his hotel room
and discovers the aeroplane hasn't taken off and the explosion
hasn't happened. He sets off again but is side-tracked by
different people and fails to get there in time again. You
can probably see where this is going: poor Sumio is stuck
reliving the same day over and over again, presumably until
he either gets it right or goes completely nuts.
The game is described as a mystery adventure and the DS
version adds 50 new missions to those in the PS2 game. Other
changes for handheld include controlling Catherine, a computer
your character uses in several ways, with the stylus.
This aside, a lot of the gameplay is about as mysterious
as the game's plot but we hope to find out more when it's
released in Japan. Grasshopper's most well known DS game
to date, Contact, was interesting and kooky, just a little
lacking in thrills. But it's a developer certainly worth
watching and it's one of the reasons we'll be keeping an
eye on Flower, Sun and Rain.
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