Flower, Sun, and Rain

Terrible controls, ugly graphics, confusing puzzles but funny ass hell. Also good music.

Esse jogo... meu Deus. Tão confuso quanto seu antecessor, igualmente perfeito (tirando sua gameplay extremamente maçante, mas que sinceramente, eu não ligo nem um pouco por conta da narrativa genial que o Suda consegue entregar). Eu vou carregar o Hotel Flower, Sun and Rain comigo pelo resto da minha vida, todos esses personagens estarão comigo para sempre, principalmente meu personagem favorito de todos os tempos, Sumio Mondo... ou melhor, Sumio Kodai, não? Obra-prima.

One of my favorite games of all time. The story is funny, a little bittersweet, and impactful. Explore a beautiful and relaxing island while Sumio Mondo tries to escape his past. You'll want to play Silver Case before hand and probably want a walkthrough to help with some of the puzzles.

[SPOILER ALERT: This review contains spoilers.]

This is a very difficult game to review and I'm also very sorry to say that, despite having a great names behind (like Suda51), I will say that the game is not recommended for everyone: I love his works, Killer7 is on top of my favourite games of all time, but this game just doesn't work right. Let me explain why. The game is basically an adventure game and you play about 18 cases (19 if you consider the start, called request 0) and you actually control your character, Sumio Mondo, around the place: the limits are going to be slowly removed, making you more free to roam around. And this is one big problem because in later cases, you'll RUN a lot during these parts, almost 5 entire minutes of solely running into vast spaces, only then to come back and later do it again! No fast travel, you run all the time, and when you're not running you will be solving puzzles, and here it comes another big flaw: the puzzles are revolved on the same exact thing which is basically imputting numbers, and nothing else: you use Catherine (your briefcase) to jack-in, and according to what you read at the start of the case (yes, the puzzles don't tell you what you gonna do: you need to write them down your own), you put a long or short sequence of numbers. And this is where I used to stop: I couldn't get past the first (Request 1, not 0) day, because even if I made sure to read the part where I was supposed to read, the game was too cryptic to let me know how it worked. It was only thanks to a walkthrough that I finally managed to beat this **** even then, I STILL didn't get the puzzles, even when it explained it to me how it worked. I'm sorry, but I still don't this game works greatly: I grew up with adventure games such as Full Throttle and Day of the Tentacle, but this was just too cryptic for me. So as much as I love Suda51, I do not recommend this game to **** it's not a bad game and, really, it has a very good story (a bit too crazy), **** you're curious about it, grab a walkthrough and enjoy the story: the game is lengthy (about 8 hours with a walkthrough, you can easily double of triple if you want it to do without cheating) and the story will hook you in, just because you don't know what's going on! I liked it, but I doubt that I'll play it again. Not the best adventure game nowadays. If you want adventure games with puzzles in it however, go play Professor Layton instead.