Konami has unveiled its cunning plan to save the Japanese economy through Love Plus tourism, whilst simultaneously furthering its diabolical otaku enslavement program.
Love Plus+ will include a new feature called “Locality Love Plus,” incorporating Nintendo’s nationwide network of “DS Stations,” essentially DS hotspots with Internet access and other services.
Distributed throughout each prefecture of Japan, these stations will each provide a “locality capsule” to Love Plus players, which grants access to several special characters (it’s not clear whether these are full blown extra characters or something else, but the official announcement does say “character”), each limited to certain prefectures.
Each prefecture is said to have a special “rare character” as well. Leveling up locality characters will give access to special rewards, all designed to elicit the powerful collector mentality otaku are known for.
Players will thus be forced to travel to all 47 prefectures of Japan in pursuit of all characters, or begin trading surplus virtual schoolgirls with other travelling fanciers to get the ones they want.
Thus, in a stroke Konami could do for regional tourism what hundreds of ineffectual tourism promotion offices could only dream of.
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Let the pilgrimage begin!
Gaming that does more good to economy by not only moving the game industry itself, but other sectors like tourism?! FUCK ME!
Oh, and will we actually see more otakus get out often? Will this make the hikikomoris get out of their rooms?
Not if someone just trades them over the Wi-fi.
No, the hikikomoris will just take their rooms with them. It'll be creepy, these enclosed bedrooms being found scattered throughout Japan at the hotspots...
Gotta catch 'em all.
Lol, I could see cheats coming out like the next day it gets released. Who needs to go to all those places when you could just download it all from online?
I'd love to see a hack for this kind of nonsense... even if it's some kind of wireless router custom firmware or something. Even if this kind of thing were done in North America, most people would have absolutely no way to get to the nearest location for it.
Some prefectures in secret places and in hours of the morning will have xxx scenes ^^
A new videogame myth xD
Man this is awesome. It really blurs the line between what's real and what's in the game.
So you're really like traveling with your girlfriend around the country, so romantic.
I wish something like that was available over here.
You probably don't wish it was.
This is so mind numbingly insane that it might just work. Gives whole new meaning to the 'gotta catch'em all' mentality, that's for sure. I'm willing to bet the first person to manage to collect all 47 (or how many there is total) will gain massive bragging rights.
Japan should pay KONAMI for the tourism plan ~.~
If they really want to save Japan, they should release it outside of Japan.
WOW
too bad everybody that imported the game is stuck with the originals!
but... how will it save the declining birth rates?
Maybe they'll consider random matchmaking?
Think 'Final Approach'.
If it works... well that's just sad.
I can't believe you've done this.
wow compared to this the pokéwalker is no big deal...
brilliant plan.
now, only to solve the declining population and immigration problems...
This is a pretty cool idea. I hope it works out well.
i cant wait for a hacked version of the game that includes all the girls unlocked!!!
I would like to ask for a round of applause for Konami. We did it love... we surely did it...
tourism is NOT having droves of poor people standing in one spot to get secret characters.
might sound good right now, but i don't see it working like they think it will.
GL tho
Im down to do this
this is better than Pokemon on NDS
Couldn't said characters be unlocked via a crack?
I can also see someone buying several copy of the game and selling unlocked copies to hikikomori and foreigners.
I guess that also could stimulate the economy but not in the way they planned.
Maybe install androids that interact with the game at said locations that should draw a NEET out of it's den.
In my mind I see a drug dealer-esque business going down. Hikki's or NEET's getting connections to get these said characters. I don't think it will draw them out, but it will certainly get dangerous for the dealers. Who knows what a hikki will do once the dealer gets there.
Not even my idea of interactive androids will draw them out?
Maybe also offer pizza mmm yes pizza served by real girls dress as the characters.
unbelievable, that's the most brilliant thing I've heard about gaming yet.
Konami you're marvelous
By donating millions of DS with a copy of this game to North Korea?
I agree, there's no way to keep this from Hikkikomori. They always find a way. Sadly, I'm already past tier 2 Otaku. I fear I might be tier 1 Hikki soon.
Get yourself a hobby that makes you go outside maybe hot rodding "that's fixing up and modifying cars" or model rockets/planes.
I wonder if Miyamoto has played this game yet, being in his console and all...
GENIUS!
I hope one of the unlockable characters is a dude. Ronery fujoshi need virtual love, too. ;n;
"diabolical" otaku enslavement program?
There's something called a "thesaurus".
I want a Love Plus Girl's Side, like they did with the Tokimeki series.
Gotta pop 'em all, Lovecraft Plus. *fork*
Gotta rape 'em all!
They need to incorporate the Harem mode then
I wonder if they're gonna come out with an "international" version? -_-. Just put a couple of Super rare characters located in the Middle East and North Korea and see how far otaku are willing to go.
but it's to concentre tourism in japan, not outside japan.
Though, I could see some super rich Otaku going for it. I don't think it would work then because everyone knows the chance of encountering a dangerous situation or DEATH is raised about 252% at the lowest over there.
OTAKU-MON I CHOOSE YOU!!
you save the economy, you take boys away from girls also.
Most girls don't want otaku anyway.
Most otakus don't want real girls anyway.
Some people don't want girls of any sort. Me, I like 'women'.
Some people don't even want women. They want loli.
Some people don't even want women. They want men.
What??? Leave the house? ARE you Crazy????
Too expensive to live it up.
Hmmm, not bad Konami, certainly not bad. I for one would face up to the adventure and would travel all around...if I had the money.
To Konami
Thank you.
With love,
JR
or begin trading surplus virtual schoolgirls with other travelling fanciers to get the ones they want.
so konami is making a slavery simulator ?
Or they could just buy action replay and hack these special events. Problem solved.
There is nothing that can't be hacked by an Action replay.
It will support tourism but it will doom Japanese population...
Next step is a MMO eroge
It's been done repeatedly, though I've never heard of a Japanese version. Clearly, that must be rectified.
for once, a game that will force hardcore otaku to actually go out in the sunshine to "catch'em all"
You're confusing "hardcore otaku" with "hikkimori"... the former does not imply the latter.
Lovemon?
Considering that I know some hardcore otaku that do stuff like take the most remote train lines just to visit every single station...
I can only say that hardcore otaku are perhaps the ones more likely to get out and about.
Nah, most of them will buy the game unlocked ñ_ñ
Instead of traveling to all 47 prefectures. I'd rather just wait until all information regarding the rare characters become available, then choose what I want :D
So Japan do have there own Super Heroes!
Though I still fail to see why this game is so popular...
I think of it this way, if I had a virtual pet, who was in fact, a virtual schoolgirl, how much would I play?
That was when i decided it was in my best interests NEVER to play this game, lest my (small) social life would dissipate completely.
Very wise choice. Though it is technically possible to reset the DS clock, making it less inconveniet to make it to scheduled meetings.
i tought like you, and then tried it... damn
BRILLIANT!
I'm honestly impressed at the ambition of this plan. However, I'm also eager to see how many Otaku will undertake this great quest...
It's... It's... Diabolical... HAIL SATA- ER- NINTENDO!
Nay, hail KONAMI.
I already see people selling character codes or giving them to people for loads of money.
I wish I was part of a scam like that... otakus are good costumers I bet.
My bet too: tourism is for fags and hikis and real otaku won't left their prefectures just because of that. This will be a gold mine for asses that would buy games by the DOZEN do the travel, get the specials and then sold them in 3bay
Tourism industry: "Just according to keikaku!"
Translator's note: keikaku means plan
That's not it you retardfag, PLAN means keikaku >.>
Stop using that stupid meme.
Gotta crack them all! ^_^
trolled with meme.... according to keikaku.
"Keikaku means plan"
Or just wait for a crack that unlocks them all?
This will be like that Lawson's eva store. But then the otakus could just ride the Japanese Rail through all the prefectures without getting off, getting those capsules. Perhaps they will attract the location otakus who will go to the specific place featured just to get photographs.
I hope it's not an alliance Konami has with the ban-faction. Let everyone in Japan see how city-concentrated otakus are in mass just so there will be an acceptance for the censorship.
Is that what you kids are calling it nowadays?
marry 'em all, I guess?
How much you want to bet that unlocked Love+ will be sold in E-bay jut to help hikikomori?
It can either go one of two ways.
Either it will be a stroke of pure brilliance with full-blown extra characters who actually have some story and depth to them who would rival the main characters. This would thus make many travel around Japan to as many prefectures as possible in order to collect as many girls as they can.
Or, much more likely, they'll only be extra side-characters who's story is hardly worth mentioning and who's fanbase will be either very short or non-existant.
It's simply one of those things that's either a "hit or miss."
Or, three, only one really devoted otaku/hikikomori will actually go around collecting them all, then will sell his version to all the others too lazy to go unlock their game themselves.
Ah, personally I hate stuff that's limited to certain areas.
But I guess it won't hurt to "use" the otakus for something that's good for the economy for once.
If a airline pays a small sum to Konami, they could get their own special character that one aquire by riding a plane.
How is that eh?
Wow, that's actually a smart business plan. They support other industries, AND make even more money themselves!
"Players will thus be forced to travel to all 47 prefectures of Japan in pursuit of all characters..."
Here's an oxymoron for today: Local Tourism
Virtual Pokemon!
Saying 'virtual pokemon' is like saying 'crazy women', it's just redundant.
Nah, I stick with the real Pokémon.
(Swap pkmn with woman and you'll get a coment that makes sense, but is totally unlikely, since I am posting here.)
Gotta catch'em all!
Virtual?
This is japan's latest WMD...
Its beyond brilliant
they knew otakus are rich and now they are going to suck them to the bones
Screw that, I'll stick to my Rinko.
What if the special character is Rinko's sister, and you can have them both at the same time?
Or nude scenes for Rinko. õ.Ô
I stick my enourmus penis on you.
No. It doesn't bring Japan significant money from the outside. It is brilliant for getting the internal travel going. It has no effect on international tourism. That is unless they get Love Plus to be an international thing.
Wait till version 3.. they have localized characters for every country!
KONAMI uses Locality Love Plus!
It's very effective!