Terminology of Racing Lagoon

This page is a glossary of terms used in *Racing Lagoon*. Please note that some terms may contain spoilers for the game.

## Bullet

**Bullet** is the term the game uses (at least in the 1st Night) for random opponents that appears on the overworld streets that the player can challenge, or get challenged to a race, for rewards.

## Chicken Race

A **Chicken Race** is a drag race where competitors must stop at the right time, stopping first ahead of the opponent car, but before the edge of the road. Competitors may not steer during Chicken Races, and are not allowed to accelerate again once the brake is engaged. Variants of Chicken Races exist that prohibits braking.

Chicken Races are Takashima VICTORY ROAD's specialty race, and are so named because "chicken" is an alternate term for a loser (in this context, of the race) in English.

## D-Project

The **D-Project** is a human experimentation project initiated by WON-TEC, with aim of overcoming the side effects of the Diablo drug to create the ultimate racer. It was initiated by the Kawashima siblings (Aoi and Satoru), who initiated it out of revenge for their parent's death when they were young.

## D-Sleep

**D-Sleep** is a variation of cryogenic freezing used by WON-TEC in which the patient is frozen using a womb-like substance, freezing all biological growth. The way D-Sleep is developed allows WON-TEC to reprogram someone's memory at will through hypnosis during which the person is frozen, meaning the patient could lose all memories before the execution of D-Sleep, should they get revived.

## Diablo

**Diablo** refers to two interrelated things, both developed by WON-TEC:

* The tune: **Diablo Tune** refers to an extreme form of car tuning, in which the car is equipped with special Diablo parts at the Tuneshop Diablo (actually a secret garage at the Redrenga Warehouse), so extreme that it is practically impossible to control a Diablo-tuned car without taking the namesake drug. Diablo-tuned cars can be distinguished by the use of Aero-Diablo kit (and Color-Diablo paint scheme), although not all Diablo-tuned cars have the specific aero kit installed.
	+ According to Kuniteru Takahashi, he was the inventor of Diablo Tune, something that he came to regret in the 8th Midnight Whisper From The Dark. He also lost a friend (Windy, the namesake of his shop) in search of the Tuneshop Diablo years prior (9th Night Endless Nightmare).
	+ Diablo parts are specifically marked with purple hue in Machine Complete, mainly for parts that the player can obtain from Keisuke Ishikawa in the 3rd Night Pieces Of Dream chapter.
* The drug: The drug was specifically developed by WON-TEC to reduce anxiety and negative emotions, allowing a person's abilities to significantly improve to the point the driver could master a Diablo-tuned car. However, it comes with the side effect of a super high tensions that causes visual and mental instability after a period of time; for this reason.

## Diablo-Zeta

The **Diablo-Zeta** refers to the devilish version of the Zeta3000 with high performance engine (V30G-Diablo with 612 PS), chassis (Diablo-Zeta with 400 kg) and Aero-Diablo body kit, as well as the Color-Diablo livery.

There are multiple Diablo-Zetas in existence, as many of them were destroyed in a fiery accident in the events that led to the disappearance of the Yokohama's Fastest Legend. During the events of the game, WON-TEC also built several units of the Diablo-Zeta.

It should be noted that while the Diablo-Zeta has custom rims in the Darkness GP races, no rims can be placed should the player obtain the Diablo-Zeta chassis as it has no tuning slots. Additionally, the Diablo-Zeta engine only has four-speed transmission, instead of five-speed.

## Driver

A **Driver** (always capitalized and written in English) is a term for drivers who ally themselves with WON-TEC and consuming the Diablo drug, and in doing so have shown good results in achieving the goals of the D-Project.

Characters who have been described as Drivers include WON-TEC higher-ups such as John Truth and Forza Rush, as well as racers who serve for WON-TEC, such as Keisuke Ishikawa and Gamou Kusunoki. During the late stages of the game, WON-TEC will claim that Sho Akasaki is a Driver for them, as he was seen as the D-Project's last hope.

It should be noted that WON-TEC reserved their right to dispose Drivers should they are no longer needed; most of them were imprisoned in an underground prison beneath Bay Lagoon Tower; Tensei Yabuki is implied to be an imprisoned Driver that managed to break jail, based on how Shingo Muraoka saying where he retrieved him, and that he appears to remember Akasaki, but nothing else.

## Game Over

A **Game Over** occurs when the player fails to reach a necessary condition during an important story race (usually a chapter concluder). When this occurs, the player is given the option to retry (which returns the player to state before the story race that they lost) or to end the game and return to the title screen.

## Get Rewards

**Get Rewards** (stylized **GetREWARDS** in-game; **GET REWARDS** in some dialogue parts of the English translation patch) refers to pink-slip activities within the street racing scene in-game, where the winner of a race (traffic or sometimes story event races) can get items from the loser. These include engine, chassis, and body parts, as well as tuning accessories for them. It should be noted that if the player obtains an engine, chassis, or body from a story opponent, they don't actually lose them.

The currency for the Get Rewards is RP (Rewards Points), in which the player begins with 5000 RP; in effect, the game has two currencies (the other being yen, for buying items from shops; the player begins with 100,000 yens). The player can exchange yens for RPs at the Wakaba Bank.

## Lagoon-go

**Lagoon-go** (ラグーン語, lit. *Racing Lagoon* language) refers to variation/dialect of the Japanese language used in the game, where text (both dialogues and monologues) are written poetically (often times with ellipses in the beginning and end of sentences) and with words written in English appearing occasionally. The linguistics of the game have been cited as challenges for a fan translation project of the game, which was not realized until late 2021.

Examples of Lagoon-go can be found throughout the game's loading screen poems.

## **「R」**

**「R」** is an acronym that appears in certain section of the game. While it primarily refers to as the game's logo and the sticker obtainable in the game, It is brought up in several conversations in the game. The example of **「R」** are as follows:

* *"Respect"* - The word used by Sho Akasaki and several drivers to express gratitude towards the mechanic Goro Muraoka, admiring his love for automobile mechanics and his hardworking personality.
* *"Revenge Race"* - Used when a team seeks a competition with another team that previously defeat them in order to take a revenge or regain reputation. Honmoku Night Racers seeks out a revenge race against team Bay Lagoon Racing, resulting in the second chapter of the game.
* *"Rival"* - A bond between street racers where drivers seek to defeat each other while maintaining mutual relationship. Akira Tsujimoto considers Ikki Fujisawa his rival. He later comes to consider Akasaki his rival as well.
* *"Resistance"* - Manabu Oda spots the "R" logo on the back of his T-shirt, referring to his desire to continue street racing to the bitter end despite his terminal illness. Sho Akasaki considers "R" as a factor that motivates street racers to keep roaming the streets.

## Scene Skip

**Scene Skip** is a feature that allows the player to skip repeatable cutscenes; when a scene is skipped, the game jumps to the next point in the cutscene (assuming it is not yet the end of it). It can be accessed by pressing Start (which pauses the cutscene) and selecting the namesake option during such cutscenes. Note that dialogues or monologues taking place at the overworld or the track cannot be skipped.

When starting a new game, if the player attempts to overwrite an existing save data, the game will tell the player that Scene Skip will be available, presumably for scenes that have been seen in the save that is about to be overwritten. If the player has received a Game Over, cutscenes leading to the race the player had lost are also skippable.

## Showtime

**Showtime** is a catchphrase used by Keisuke and Shinsuke Ishikawa. While the siblings use the phrase to indicate something exciting to happen, Sho Akasaki takes the phrase as indication of the siblings' evil schemes, such as abducting Yuka Suzuki, seemingly tampering with Makoto Sawaki's car, contacting Kyoji Nanba, and getting involved with D-Project.

Having befriended and working with Keisuke, Gamou Kusunoki adopts the same catchphrase as he confronts Akasaki and tries to sabotage his attempts to take down WON-TEC.

## Taiman

A **Taiman** battle is a one-on-one race held by a mutual arrangement between two racers. Get Rewards is in effect, meaning the winning racer can get an reward from the losing driver.

## Unofficial Race

An **Unofficial Race** (stylized **UnOFFICIAL RACE** in-game; abberivated **UOR**) is an organized street race that takes place in a certain course and takes more than a lap (except at Hakone and Wangan, due to them being point-to-point tracks in-game). UORs have different hosts between locations (and sometimes chapters) and have certain requirements to be played, usually power or weight restrictions (except at Chinatown and Third Keihin; there is also one C1 UOR with vehicular no restrictions). There are also Unofficial Races that may pose gameplay restrictions, such as those where the player is banned from using the brakes at Takashima Wharf (Chicken Race) and Hakone.

Each Unofficial Race has their own prizes; usually monetary, but also some special tuning items; however players cannot Get Rewards from (or lose an equipped tuning item to) an opponent racer, except at Chinatown. For a list of Unofficial Races in the game, see the Racing Lagoon Unofficial Races page.

## Yokohama's Fastest Legend

The **Yokohama's Fastest Legend** refers to a certain driver from ten years ago who drove a Zeta3000. The legend had been described as being able to pull into the Tama River in the fifth gear (which occurred during a race against Choji Todoroki, according to him).

By the end of the game, it is revealed that Yokohama's Fastest Legend is none other than Sho Akasaki himself, specifically his past self before he was subjected to D-Sleep.