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Gamertell Review: Flower, Sun and Rain for DS

The DS seems tailor made for adventure games, given the touch screen control options, and yet very few have been made available for the system. Sure, there are titles like Trace Memory, Time Hollow and Lux-Pain, but releases like that are infrequent.

Thankfully, XSEED has stepped up to the plate to bring the Suda51 port Flower, Sun and Rain to the DS. While it isn’t a standard point-and-click adventure, it’s close enough, and adventure game fans will surely find something to love about this puzzle-filled adventure filled with all kinds of unexpected surprises.

Sumio Mondo, a professional searcher, who works with a briefcase-computer device called Catherine to unlock mysteries and find objects. He has been summoned to Lospass Island, a resort area, by the Flower, Sun and Rain Hotel’s manager, Edo Macauster. Edo has hired Sumio to find a time bomb which has been planted on a plane. Sumio sets out on his task, but finds that everyone on the island has some sort of problem that only he can help resolve…

No More Hereos 2 not coming until 2010

Even though it was teased at this year’s Tokyo Game Show, the collaboration between Marvelous Entertainment and Grasshopper Manufacture will not hit North American shores until early 2010.

No More Hereos 2 was only shown in a very brief trailer and pretty much the only info on it is that the series will remain on the Wii and it will have the subtitle: No More Heroes 2: Desperate Struggle. The news of the late release comes from a Japanese PDF document released by Marvelous Entertainment and picked up by Siliconera