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Flower, Sun, and Rain (DS)

Status: Stopped playing - Got Bored
I started playing this game on Saturday 17 February, 2018  //  I stopped playing this game on: Monday 26 February, 2018
Current opinion of this game
No comment, yet.

February 26, 2018 02:59:51 PM
Started it up and I found a bunch of new puzzles...all numbers and I just gave up. I'm not intrigued enough by the story to really want to bother with reading a bunch of text for clues to solving the puzzles. Time to move on....

February 22, 2018 11:10:10 AM
What the heck is going on in this game?

Ok, in terms of gameplay it looks like you just need to talk to people, interact with stuff and then find numbers in a guidebook that are used as answers when you "jack in" to people/things. The numbers parts are the puzzles and, well - I'm not all that enthused about doing more of those. I've already - not counting the "tutorial puzzle" solved two of them (to get out of your hotel room and then to open a football shaped bag) and...eh. I'm very "meh".

And the story? It seems very David Lynchian and...weird? I keep on waking up in my room like nothing happened and there's a plane that explodes, but I also made it explode the second time by kicking the football bag at it? And the character dialogue is...uh...weird?

I'm not terribly interested in this so far - but maybe I'll get into it? I'll give it a few more hours and we'll see...


February 18, 2018 02:51:12 PM
I bought this many years ago because Suda51. As in, here's a weird game by a strange creative person doing potentially interesting things. If I recall, the reviews were "ok", but whatever.

I first tried to play it several years ago while on a plane and I got to a point where the game said to look up a date in the manual. I didn't have that with me, so I put the game away and then...others games got in the way.

I started it up yesterday and, with manual in hand, learned that you were supposed to make any date up (it's the character's birthday) and write it in the manual so you don't forget it! There's a blank space in the manual for that...sigh. I guess it's a good thing I didn't just try a random number when on the plane because chances are I would not have remembered what random number I put in and then would have screwed myself over....


 
kudos for original design to Rodrigo Barria