Weapon Shop de Omasse

Weapon Shop de Omasse is a rhythm RPG game that was developed by Nex Entertainment for the Nintendo 3DS and was released on November 21, 2012. The main characters are a father and son pair who craft weapons for heroes in a fantasy weapon shop resembling the set of a sitcom. The player uses rhythmic gameplay to forge weapons that are rented by heroes for their quests; the weapon chosen will affect whether or not the hero is successful.

The player takes the role of Yuhan, an apprentice blacksmith who has set out to revitalize his master’s failing business. The player must craft and rent out weapons to heroes to assist them on dungeon crawls, ultimately attempting to defeat the Evil Lord who threatens the world. Weapons are created in part by using a rhythm minigame set to a musical beat; how well players can follow the beat determines the overall quality of the weapon forged.

Other aspects include speaking to customers to determine the right weapon for the task. As the game is set only in the weapon shop itself, the story outside the shop is shown only via the Grindcast, a Twitter-like magical apparatus that gives the player a real-time feed of their dialog and quests, sometimes interspersed with images, as the player crafts weapons.