{"id":30,"date":"2012-02-13T15:07:50","date_gmt":"2012-02-13T15:07:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/j-rpg.com\/?p=30"},"modified":"2022-12-18T10:22:08","modified_gmt":"2022-12-18T10:22:08","slug":"well-played-role-and-role-station-well-played","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/j-rpg.com\/?p=30","title":{"rendered":"Well Played, Role and Role Station, Well Played!"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The above pic was borrowed from the latest blog post by the owner of Role and Roll Station<\/a>. “Role and Roll” is an imprint, a company that makes various tabletop games and RPG-related media items. Their public site is here: http:\/\/www.arclight.co.jp\/r_r\/<\/a>. I’ll talk about some of their excellent games later. Role and Roll Station<\/strong> is R&R’s brick and mortar gaming store in Akihabara. It’s one of the best gaming stores in Japan, right up there with Yellow Sub and Daydream Cafe.<\/p>\n

Anyway, I’ve always been a fan of the owner (“Tencho”; or loosely “Shop Boss”) of the store: He’s really creative, extremely public and prolific with updates and blogposts and the like, very transparent with the good and bad things that happen as a store owner (including his struggles to find a new storefront when the previous one was pretty much destroyed\/unusable after last year’s earthquake). This latest Valentine’s post is just another example of a good store owner creatively generating some buzz and goodwill, and not just falling into a slump of day-to-day sales.<\/p>\n

Here’s what he did: He went through his catalog of new products, and ranked them (with hearts) on a Valentin…ian(?) scale. Check this out:<\/p>\n

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So what he’s got there is one of the pictures from his store, the New Game\/Materials shelf. It’s a mix of TRPG, replay and supplement there.<\/p>\n

Those cards each have three categories with hearts in them, then a somalier-style (but with games instead of wine) description of the game from a Valentine\/lovey-lovey point of view.<\/p>\n

The three categories are:<\/p>\n

TOKIMEKI<\/strong>: It’s an onomatopea which basically is the thump-thump of a heartbeat. It’s used in “sparkly innocent love stories”, like the “Tokimeki Memorial” game series or other school-days-era love stories. Indicates the amount of innocent sparkly happy love that can happen in the game.
\nEdit: Thought of a better way to call it: “Hugs and Kisses!”<\/p>\n

RABURABU<\/strong>: “Love Love”, yeah. Indicates the amount of more serious love that can happen in the game: Love between adults (not sex per se, just a more mature kind of love; kissing, etc), etc
\nEdit: Probably better to call it “Hot Romance!”<\/p>\n

Then the third is something else\/different special for that specific product in order to show off what it does. The bottom left one’s third column is “Heroine Power<\/strong>“, the middle one has “Incredible Story<\/strong>“, the third one (Shinobigami!) has “This Can Make You Cry<\/strong>“.<\/p>\n

Anyway, that was a pretty creative thing for them to do, I thought, and deserved a shout-out. Just a little fun activity, nothing too serious, that tied holidays and games together. I’d love to see what they come up with for Halloween. Or perhaps Respect-for-the-Aged Day!<\/p>\n

[Just an aside, as a Shinobigami fanatic: Yep, that’s pretty accurate! Unless you really gun for it, the romance in the game is going to be more mature than schoolgirl\/schoolboy love, and yeah the kinds of romances that develop in the game are more often than not tragic, hence the “crying” thing]<\/p>\n

Anyway, Role and Roll Store Boss’ Blog is a Regularly Followed Blog<\/strong> for a bunch of us. Check them out if you’re interested in what’s new and on the shelves in Japanese game stores! http:\/\/rrstation.blog40.fc2.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n

Also: SORRY MARLA in NC<\/strong>! Looks like your comment got false-positive’d as spam. I corrected that. Good to hear that there are gamers\/J-speakers in the RTP\/Triangle NC area. Hit me up with your contact info and we’ll hit you up when we playtest\/run a Japanese RPG locally.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The above pic was borrowed from the latest blog post by the owner of Role and Roll Station. “Role and Roll” is an imprint, a company that makes various tabletop games and RPG-related media items. Their public site is here: http:\/\/www.arclight.co.jp\/r_r\/. … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":31,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/j-rpg.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/j-rpg.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/j-rpg.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/j-rpg.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/j-rpg.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/j-rpg.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":174,"href":"https:\/\/j-rpg.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30\/revisions\/174"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/j-rpg.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/31"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/j-rpg.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/j-rpg.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/j-rpg.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}