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Two Japanese mystery adventures headed for DS

While unknown to most adventure game fans, Japanese designer Goichi Suda has a cult following on par with the likes of Tim Schafer. Suda is most known for making highly unconventional action-adventures, but has also created pure adventure games in the past. These games were never published outside Japan, but that may change.

According to gaming magazine Famitsu, Flower, Sun, and Rain, an adventure game first released on Playstation 2 in 2001, is being remade for the DS. In Flower, Sun, and Rain, players take the role of an assassin who relives the same day over and over again, a premise reminiscent of the movie Groundhog Day. Only when he can find a way to stop a bomb from exploding at an airport, the day will stop repeating.

At last year's GDC conference, Suda already revealed that The Silver Case, a detective adventure game originally released for Playstation in 1999, is being remade for Nintendo DS. In addition, he confirmed The Silver Case will be translated into English and released worldwide. The Silver Case is being targeted for a 2008 release, though no publisher has yet been mentioned, which might mean that Suda's company Grasshopper Manufacture is still looking for one.

It is unknown whether Flower, Sun, and Rain will also see an international release, but it wouldn't be surprising if Grasshopper has similar plans for both titles.

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