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{{quote|''SHOUTARO: Just what does "Flower, Sun and Rain" mean anyway? It doesn't really mean anything, does it? Huh?''<br />▼
''SUMIO: Oh no! That's the worst possible thing you could have said!''<br />▼
''SHOUTARO: It's just what everyone's thinking.''|'''Sumio and Shoutaro, R-07: Children's corner'''}}▼
 
 
{{quote| ''A mystery is concealed within this entry!''}}▼
▲{{quote|''SHOUTARO: Just what does "Flower, Sun and Rain" mean anyway? It doesn't really mean anything, does it? Huh?''<br />
▲''SUMIO: Oh no! That's the worst possible thing you could have said!''<br />
''SHOUTARO: It's just what everyone's thinking.''
▲''SHOUTARO: It's just what everyone's thinking.''|'''Sumio and Shoutaro, R-07: Children's corner'''}}
 
▲{{quote| ''A mystery is concealed within this entry!''}}
 
''Flower, Sun, and Rain'' (known as ''Hana to Taiyō to Ame to'' in Japanese) is a game created by Grasshopper Manufacture and written by [[Suda 51]] for the Playstation 2 and Nintendo DS consoles in 2001 and 2008 respectively.
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Afterwards, two police officers (one from Micronesia and one from [[The Silver Case|Ward 25]] arrive on the island under the guise of investigating Sumio's murder, but actually trying to capture the international terrorist Sundance Shot, who fled Japan after the original Silver Case back in 1979. He also turns out to be the guy who shot Sumio on the roof of the hotel, and is in the process of carrying out [[Evil Plan|his mother's plan]] to use his own Silver Eye to take the place of Sumio and travel back to Ward 24 to get revenge on the Hachisuka family.
 
His mother's plan is thwarted by Toriko Kusabi, who [[Ascend to Aa Higher Plane of Existence|has supernatural powers now]], and under the guidance of her ''talking'' pet alligator Christina, decides to bring Sumio back to life. This also reactivates the time loop.
 
Sumio gets a call from someone who seems to know him and follows a series of puzzles and mazes to a sunken ship, where he meets [[Mr. Exposition|Tokio Morishima]], who informs him that he is really Sumio Kodai from [[The Silver Case]], and that Lospass was colonized by the Hachisuka family so they can cultivate a particular type of indiginous hyena for their Silver Eyes. They learned this trick from the [[Proud Warrior Race Guy|Shot tribe]], the aborigines on Lospass, who were also slaughtered for the benefit of the Hachisukas.
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The next cycle of the day, Sumio is finally able to make it to the airport in time to defuse all of the bombs and escape the island, at the same time confronting another Sumio at the gate, which turns out to be Sundance in disguise.
 
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This game contains examples of:
* [[Breaking the Fourth Wall]]: (It's why Sumio hates Shōtarō Kai so much.)▼
 
* [[By the Power of Greyskull]]: Sumio's KATHARINE activation phrases. In the PS2 version of the game, this is necessary to activate KATHARINE, but in the DS version, it's not, and serves as mere [[Invocation]].
▲* [[Breaking the Fourth Wall]] (It's why Sumio hates Shōtarō Kai so much.)
* [[ByCompanion the Power of GreyskullCube]]: (Sumio's is visibly disturbed when KATHARINE activationgoes phrases.missing, Inand the PS2first versionthing ofyou themust game,do thisafterwards is necessaryrecover toher. activateHe KATHARINE,also butrefers into theKATHARINE DSas versiona person, it'smuch not,to Edo and servesSue's as mere [[Invocation]]confusion.)
* [[Eyepatch of Power]]: (Sundance Shot. {{spoiler|His eyepatch covers his Silver Eye.}})▼
* [[Companion Cube]] (Sumio is visibly disturbed when KATHARINE goes missing, and the first thing you must do afterwards is recover her. He also refers to KATHARINE as a person, much to Edo and Sue's confusion.)
* [[Groundhog Day Loop]] : {{spoiler|Subverted. Time isn't actually repeating. Each time the bomb goes off, the island is restored to the way it was, and all the inhabitants are replaced by copies of themselves. [[Video Game Lives|Sound familiar?]]}}▼
▲* [[Eyepatch of Power]] (Sundance Shot. {{spoiler|His eyepatch covers his Silver Eye.}})
* [[Jigsaw Puzzle Plot]]: How this game manages to connect up to {{spoiler|[[The Silver Case]].}}
▲* [[Groundhog Day Loop]] {{spoiler|Subverted. Time isn't actually repeating. Each time the bomb goes off, the island is restored to the way it was, and all the inhabitants are replaced by copies of themselves. [[Video Game Lives|Sound familiar?]]}}
* [[Jigsaw Puzzle PlotLeitmotif]]: (HowFull thisof gamethem. manages{{spoiler|From toboth connectFlower, upSun, toand Rain ''and'' {{spoiler|[[The Silver Case]].}})
* [[Leitmotif]] (Full of them. {{spoiler|From both Flower, Sun, and Rain ''and'' [[The Silver Case]].}})
* [[Medium Awareness]] (Sumio gets so fed up with Shōtarō that he ''orders'' the current chapter to end.)
* [[Proud Warrior Race Guy]]: (The Sundance tribe)
* [[Public Domain Soundtrack]]: (Most of the soundtrack consists of pop and/or techno remixes of classical (and on occasion, jazz) pieces - in fact, most of the chapters are named after them.)
* [[Rule of Symbolism]]
* [[Soup Cans]]: (This is the reason why Sumio doesn't just go defuse the bombs instead of messing around with the island's residents; he's not allowed to proceed past an unsolved puzzle.)
* [[Strategy Guide]]: (The solution to ''every single in-game puzzle'' is found in the "hotel guidebook" given to the [[Player Character]] at the beginning of the game, although said solutions are themselves riddles of various kinds that the player, and not the [[Player Character]], has to solve.)
* [[Take Your Time]]: ([[Zig Zagged]]. The [[Player Character]] is ''forced'' to do meaningless [[Sidequest|Side Quests]], even though there are bombs about to blow up and kill people. And, when you finish them, which you have all the time in the world to do, the airplane blows up because you spent all that time doing meaningless sidequests instead of defusing the bombs.)
* [[They Plotted a Perfectly Good Waste]]: (The game isn't particularly fun to play, and ''intentionally'' so. Just how much pointless crap are you, the player, willing to go through simply because it's what the game requires of you?)
* [[Title Theme Tune]]: (Also part [[Expository Theme Tune]], as it's about a character, part [[Do-It-Yourself Theme Tune]], as it's sung in character, and part [[Foreign Language Theme]], as it's incomprehensible to me.)
* [[Wham! Episode]]: (R11 - Clair de Lune and R17 - Kill the Past.)
 
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[[Category:Play StationPlayStation 2]]
[[Category:Adventure Game]]
[[Category:Suda 51]]
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