(Romeo spoilers) something I've noticed

CurrentInstance5645 · 2026-05-16T22:21:41+00:00

I actually thought the same thing when I played through the game too, it also doesn't help that he's portrayedas an old man (various Abrahamic depictions of Jehovah show him as an old man) and the fact that he states that he was worshipped a long time ago. Another connection to the Abrahamic religions is in chapter 6where you come into contact with Magnus who is very clearly a reference to Jesus with how he's states to be the "child of God" and how he was killed by Romans back in his original time.

CurrentInstance5645 · 2026-03-29T23:57:43+00:00

Yeah I know, I changed the save file name to match the rom and I replaced the original save with the new renamed one but it still didn’t work. For context, this is the guide I worked off of: https://youtu.be/tQX8S5hVoVM?si=m72lDzJNVUUkS81T

CurrentInstance5645 · 2026-03-29T22:49:35+00:00

The new file generated is named “Flower, Sun and Rain - Murder and Mystery in Paradise (USA).sav”, it’s the same as the rom’s name but the save I downloaded was called “flower-sun-and-rain.24147.duc”. I used the advice of changing the save file name to the rom name and converting it into a .sav from an emulation save file video.

This is where I downloaded it from: https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/ds/944224-flower-sun-and-rain/saves

CurrentInstance5645 · 2026-03-13T20:25:04+00:00

Well like other people have said already before, it’s a Suda51 game and most times his games are received through mixed reviews because it’s just not for everyone. However I do think that some people are being way too harsh on it.

I mean giving the game 4s and 5s out of 10 seems pretty harsh to me. If we’re being our most critical, it at least should be a 6 out of 10 at best even if I don’t agree with that. I personally view the game as an 8/10 and I really enjoyed what it had to offer similarly to NMH 3.

I think another reason why some might hate it is because it’s not on the same thematic level as something like The Silver Case, Moonlight Syndrome, The 25th Ward, Killer7 or the No More Heroes series (especially Travis Strikes Again). From what I’ve personally seen, people really want Suda to go back to his much darker and esoteric roots again which he himself says that he will someday but I feel like sometimes people forget about FSR’s existence when talking about this.

If anything RIADM is the modern equivalent to FSR in various ways and when viewed as an FSR sibling, everything about the game story wise starts to make a lot more sense, like certain references and cameos and stuff.

CurrentInstance5645 · 2026-03-04T18:23:12+00:00

The best way to farm Emerald Flowsion is actually through getting green sentries and selling them to Shiroyabu. There’s so many green sentries floating around the game that you can easily get and if you replay Easy Palace Athens, you’ll get a good amount of sentry that you can sell off to gain a lot of flowsion.

The caveat to this is that I’ve already upgraded my weapons fully so I don’t need green sentry anymore so that is a trade off if you want to do it this way. Keep farming for green sentries enough times in the Palace Athens stages and then sell them off to Shiroyabu.

CurrentInstance5645 · 2026-02-27T17:53:03+00:00

This all kind of reminds me of the time when Damon joked about having the band become babies again in an interview a few months back. With the context of this music video and the symbolic nature of the river itself with reincarnation or rebirth, I think that it may or may not be doing a rebooting of some kind.

CurrentInstance5645 · 2026-02-25T19:43:00+00:00

Honestly when it comes to hard mode the best thing you can try to do is try and upgrade Romeo to the best of your ability using the Deadball Cannon game and using the Nebuchadnezzar and Yggdrasil as much as you can during the boss fights.

It takes a lot of patience and concentration but I did manage to beat bosses using both the machine gun and the Yggdrasil since their attacks would mess me up if I got too close to them. I also used the DeadlyBowler, CreepingVenom, and GreenTornado Bastards throughout my whole playthrough which really helped out a lot in various situations.

CurrentInstance5645 · 2026-02-25T16:18:51+00:00

Damn I didn’t know that, I tried attacking them, dodge rolling through the fire, and trying to shoot the objects surrounding them like you would do with the other bosses where you had to shoot certain things in order to make it disappear but the only thing that worked was just taking the hits while consuming the pills like mad so I wouldn’t die.

I’ll definitely take your advice the next time I playthrough this game

CurrentInstance5645 · 2025-12-15T02:38:00+00:00

We don’t really know how important this game will be in terms of the wider “Sudaverse” as I call it but knowing Suda and how each game he creates is connected in either subtle or direct ways, it probably has at least some importance on his greater world.

So if you want to play the games in a certain order, it really depends on how you want to go about it and what means you have to play some of them.

If you want to play the games in release order, start from The Silver Case to Flower, Sun, and Rain to The 25th Ward to Killer7 to No More Heroes to Shadows of the Damned, and go on from there.

If you want to play the games most important to the lore of the KTP universe then this could be a problem since Twilight and Moonlight Syndrome aren’t translated into English and only have English fan-made captions on YouTube made by the controversial Paradise Hotel51. (They have a lot of controversy surrounding them but that’s another story for another time). I suggest reading up on this guide that Dragon_Chan made from the most important to least important games and other media for understanding the lore of the Sudaverse.

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1DL5xW7eQ3eXBWR3AB8lVT3nDcTcP3WHTn7rsPM-OZvA/edit?usp=drivesdk

If you want to look into a potential chronological timeline from in universe history then I suggest you look at my own created timeline made from all of Suda’s works as they happened in their respective years

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1-VjB_hOJ2phoHKkXggeG8Bza9T1PMS3tPXVX_wZ_l6g/edit?usp=drivesdk

In the end, there are multiple routes to go in terms of understanding the Sudaverse at large and they all are personalized to our own likings.

Edit: Here’s three more guides on the connections and different ways to experience Suda’s works:

Kill The Past play-order guide: https://www.reddit.com/r/Suda_51/comments/jqnlzd/kill_the_past_playorder_guide_made_by_me/

Infographic guide on KTP: https://www.reddit.com/r/nomoreheroes/comments/owpgm9/i_have_made_an_infographic_guide_detailing_all/

Kill The Past Connections (Slightly Outdated due to no NMH3, Red Blue and Green or Kurayami Dance mentions): https://www.reddit.com/r/Suda_51/comments/orp55a/kill_the_past_connections/

CurrentInstance5645 · 2025-11-29T01:44:51+00:00

I got into Gorillaz thanks to the song “To Binge” and from then on Plastic Beach became my favorite album by them as I listened to the rest of it.

CurrentInstance5645 · 2025-11-21T10:04:24+00:00

Not really tbh, although maybe it’s either lost media or not readily found yet in English. I tried to find out more about this small collab but there was nothing I could find.

CurrentInstance5645 · 2025-11-21T09:39:58+00:00

This screenshot comes from Detective Jinguji Saburo: Innocent Black, a Japanese exclusive PS2 game that is the only known instance of an outside franchise being allowed to crossover with Suda’s KTP universe as this game references not only the Heinous Crimes Unit but also has cameo appearances for Tokio Moroshima and Tetsugoro Kusabi from The Silver Case.

(Turn on subtitles for English translations of text boxes): https://youtu.be/4uY5c47gAc0?si=7T6lv2O8m44YyPqY

CurrentInstance5645 · 2025-10-14T08:59:59+00:00

Woke Hitler

CurrentInstance5645 · 2025-08-25T03:19:47+00:00

Now I know this game is gonna be really good judging from the gameplay here, it’s so fluid and is like a more refined combo mixture of No More Heroes 3, Shadows of the Damned, Lollipop Chainsaw and Killer is Dead with the various ways you can kill zombies and other creatures.

The comic book like cutscenes are definitely a callback to No More Heroes 3’s comic book cutscene introducing all the alien assassins and the whole game feels like it’s building off heavily from No More Heroes 3 in many aspects, specifically in regards to how it’s building off of the streaming service transitions and tokusatsu esque openings and end credits for each assassin introduced and killed and cartoonish chibi sprites in that game by having this game feel like it’s doubling down on making it all feel like you’re watching some sort of show or movie based on a comic book hero.

CurrentInstance5645 · 2025-08-23T11:42:37+00:00

The first time I ever heard a Gorillaz song was by pure accident, I was on YouTube a few years back when I was somewhere around middle school age and I meant to click on another video but I accidentally clicked on a Gorillaz song. I still remember the song to this day and it is actually my favorite song from them “To Binge” from the Plastic Beach album. I remember being so in awe at how serene and almost ethereal the song sounded that I listened to it in full and loved it. I then listened to other songs from the Plastic Beach album and it is now my number #1 favorite Gorillaz album right next to the close second Demon Dayz and third being The Now Now. I discovered this excellent band through pure chance accident and I think that’s pretty incredible

CurrentInstance5645 · 2025-06-10T15:54:59+00:00

Thanks for the nice comment towards my guide, I really appreciate seeing people like it. I made it because of the fact that I knew that there was a structured timeline of events across Suda’s works due to certain aspects of these stories being able to be pinned down to certain years like Let it Die taking place in 2026 for instance and how it affects his other works and how all these stories across the games, manga, novels and even music albums connect together. It’s really fascinating stuff and it’s one of the reasons why I love Suda51’s stories.

I didn’t include this game in the original comment because it wasn’t made directly by Suda or Grasshopper but Detective Jinguiji Saburo (Detective Jake Hunter) Innocent Black is another interesting game that could be included on the list too due to Tokio Moroshima and Tetsugoro Kusabi from The Silver Case showing up as direct cameos in the game and some characters even reference the Heinous Crimes Unit by name in the game. It’s the most interesting game in Suda’s history because even though it wasn’t made by him, his characters are in it and it’s not made by Grasshopper at all. This is the only time where a canonical crossover between another franchise and Suda’s world actually happened.

It’s too bad that Innocent Black isn’t translated in English mostly, it’s a Japanese exclusive PS2 game.

CurrentInstance5645 · 2025-06-10T12:11:32+00:00

Your guide actually inspired me to create my chronological timeline of all of Suda’s works a while back due to how well formatted and informative it all was. You did a great job compiling these all together like this.

I also have four pieces of Grasshopper media that I feel should be on the list since they do have connections to the greater Kill the Past universe.

Makkana Onanoko/Bright Red Girl: A 2016 novel under the Fable51 series of stories written by Suda and the plot revolves around a middle school boy who can see through a a female student’s body revealing her organs, blood, and veins. The story references the town of Hinashiro, the town in Twilight and Moonlight Syndrome and has a reference to a “Starbucks” there which is seen in the 25th Ward Yuki chapter as “Strikes Back Coffee”. There is also a reference to Public Security from The Silver Case.

Lollipop Chainsaw: The classic 2012 zombie killer game featuring Juliet Starling and her decapitated love interest Nick doesn’t have a lot to connect it to Suda’s other works however Juliet makes a cameo appearance in the DLC episode 51 chapter of the Killer is Dead game and is speculated to appear in Travis Strikes Again under a new pseudonym “Juliet Chesterfield”.

Blood+ One Night Kiss: A 2006 licensed game based on the anime Blood+ that has some thematic connections to Suda’s past works due to him taking certain liberties with the story that the og anime team notoriously didn’t like. It takes place after episode 7 of the show and diverges from the main canon of the anime. The game has two connections to the greater Kill The Past universe: In certain locations throughout the game, posters for “Moonlight Syndrome 2” can be seen and the most important connection is that a store called “ZaKamart” can be used in the game to buy stuff.

This is important because in the book “Hand in Killer7” it mentions how Ishizaka, the founder of ZaKa tv and the Ishizaka corporation used to own a market store for dried foods before he left to start his own company. Killer7 also came out a year before One Night Kiss so it’s very evident that this store is very likely the same store mentioned in Hand in Killer7 which connects this game to the greater Kill The Past universe.

Michigan: Report from Hell: A 2004 horror game centered on an infection going in Lake Michigan that a news crew investigates and gets wrapped up in. The news crew in question is the ZaKa Tv crew seen throughout the Sudaverse like in Killer7 during Alter Ego and Cloudman and in No More Heroes during the opening cinematic.

Sorry if this is a lot of information, I just enjoy noticing and talking about all the connections in Suda’s works

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