Fans of the incredible Flower, Sun, and Rain will be disappointed to hear that the game’s prequel, The Silver Case, which was being ported from PlayStation to DS, is now on hold. Or rather, the port is complete but Suda doesn’t want to release it.

The Lospass guidebook is one of the many things that go a long way toward making the world of Flower, Sun & Rain believable, but you won’t be using it for sightseeing.

Flower, Sun, and Rain begins with a montage of in game cuts mixed with live actors performing scenes from the game set to the song “Anata no Tame ni.” The intro is very avant garde-esque, and it sets the “feel” for the entire game, which is similar in nature.

We hinted at Grasshopper Manufacture’s future earlier in the morning. Now, let’s take a look at their past.

Suda51’s Groundhog Day meets mystery adventure game, Flower, Sun, and Rain will land in North America on June 16. The game stars Sumio Mondo who is stuck in a time loop as he tries to diffuse a bomb and assist the residents of Lospass Island.

Two GDCs ago Grasshopper Manufacture head honcho and “punk” video game developer Goichi Suda noted the Silver Case was being remade for the Nintendo DS. The Silver Case was one of Grasshopper Manufacture’s earlier games and since it was a text adventure it wasn’t high on import lists. Instead of seeing the Silver Case on [...]

The retail leaks were spot on. Fire Emblem: Shadow Dragon and its online Pegasus Knight battles arrive on February 16. Sometime later in the month Marvelous and Matrix Software’s original DS RPG, Avalon Code, will also be in stores. In March Marvelous follows up with Flower, Sun, and Rain, one of Grasshopper Manufacture’s earlier PlayStation [...]

Xseed and Marvelous are partnering to release Flower, Sun, and Rain in North America sometime in 2009. But, Rising Star games is releasing an English version in Europe this October. How come we aren’t getting an expeditious release if Flower, Sun, and Rain is technically done? I inquired about this and found out Xseed is [...]

Grasshopper Manufacture is rolling out what additions are included in the Nintendo DS port of Flower, Sun and Rain. The dress up system is sort of neat since Sumio can dress up as the bellboy and choose an outfit that looks strikingly like Travis Touchdown, but it’s a cosmetic feature.   The internal notepad that [...]

There were many signs that Flower, Sun and Rain DS was going to be the next project out of Grasshopper Manufacture. The most recent in memory and what should have been the most salient was a flier packaged in my copy of No More Heroes. No matter, we know the exact release date for Japan, [...]