The Silver Case

Multiple personalities are kinda SUDA51's bag. Actually, everything about Killer7 is extremely SUDA51's bag. If a bag came to life and started monologuing during a SUDA51 game, that would also be on the level. What I'm saying is, if you've never noticed, I do believe that this gentleman has a predilection for making odd choices. And that oddness is perhaps at its most accessible (?)…

After revamping their very first game, 1999's visual novel The Silver Case [official site], last year, Grasshopper Manufacture have now announced a remake of its sequel. Released on Japanese pocket telephones in 2005 as The Silver Case: Ward 25, the episodic adventure followed cops investigating more violent and strange crimes. When and where and how the remake be released are hazy for now but we…

Master! We're in a tight spot! Wait, that's the psycho-trip assassin tale Killer7, another one of Suda51's games. I'm supposed to be bringing bountiful news of The Silver Case [official site], or at least the remastered version, anyway. Grasshopper Manufacture's re-release of the point-and-click murder mystery adventure is available now for your downloading pleasure.

Working on the remastered version of The Silver Case gave Suda 51 an opportunity to come face-to-face with a young Goichi Suda. They are one in the same, of course, but it was the 1999 release of The Silver Case that set Suda 51 on the path to becoming the game developer he is today. “The game was made by the young Suda,” he told…

See those two fellows up there in that picture? Take their advice. Burn this into your eyeballs. Grasshopper Manufacture's remake of The Silver Case [official site] is out on PC on October 7, the game's 17th birthday. The Silver Case is a text-based murder mystery adventure game, and it also happens to be Suda51's first project with Grasshopper Manufacture. The Silver Case tells the story…

Polish your magnifying glasses, The Silver Case [official site] PC remake now has a demo. This bit of the remake was originally shown at this year's BitSummit in Kyoto, Japan. The demo features the beginning of the first chapter of the game, Decoyman, giving you a brief chance to situate yourself in the story as a member of Republic, a Special Forces Unit. The Silver…

Grasshopper Manufacture is bringing back The Silver Case [official site], Suda51's debut game, this time remastered in HD. The game just got its first trailer, giving us a much better glimpse of what the remake is going to look like. See for yourself:

Grasshopper Manufacture, the studio led by Suda51, has made some incredibly strange games. Often excessively violent and surreal, they're the kind of things that capture my imagination immediately but often beat that same imagination to a pulp long before I reach the ending of whatever story they're spinning. Killer7 is the only Grasshopper game that I love but I'll always be interested to see what…