Recettear: An Item Shop’s Tale
Hey hey, people.
I was not expecting a Sseth review on this. Welcome, Argentinians!
I’ve played it for a long time.
This is intended to be a spoiler free review.
Let me lay down some stuff, you will be able to tell if you’ll like it or not.
Your first playthrough is going to take a while and it will be fun. You’ll figure out the mechanics, make mistakes, reload some saves, make some profit, then eventually come out on top. Everything feels great, the ending is wonderful, it’s a complete experience all its own.
– Real player with 103.8 hrs in game
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Finally a game where I can live out my fantasies of becoming a merchant who crushes hearts and dreams under the weight of his fat profit margin. Y’all can keep your Poorly-Lit Life Forces 2 or whatever the f♥ck it’s called, Recettear blows that all out of the water.
Ok first of all you play as a loli. Don’t be deceived–beneath her cute, naive exterior lies a heart as black as coal and a mind as shrewd and cunning as they come. This little sh♥t will bleed you for all you’re worth with mark-ups that would make Best Buy blush. And she will love every minute of it as she watches you carry your broke ♥ss out the door with a ham sandwich. Thank you and come again mother f♥cker.
– Real player with 26.3 hrs in game
The Emerald Tablet
If you’re looking for a alchemy game that brings the fun of trial and error from combining stuff, be aware that this game does NOT provide you the adequate tools to do so.
The gaming mechanism is made quite shabby and lack depth. Combination comes either with npc telling you the complete recipe or you get nothing. Several specific mats appear only once in the entire game, but you still need it repetitively for other recipes.
The foe becomes unreasonably strong in late game (from 3rd year) and balance become completely broken.
– Real player with 16.2 hrs in game
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As a huge fan of the Atelier series, I really wanted to like this game, but it really needs a manual or in-game database. There doesn’t seem to be any way to discover recipes outside of trial-and-error in free mixing mode.
– Real player with 12.8 hrs in game
AL･FINE
In Short:
An improvement of the business mechanics seen from Recettear.
Long Ver:
Recettear, a Japanese indie darling that focuses on being a merchant, years later we now find a very similar game inspired by Recettear.
In Al Fine, you play as Loius, a young man swindled by a Sprite named Alice to pay back for breaking a supposingly precious ‘gem’.
But there is no giant debt hanging over our heads but in place are the guild taxes which occurs a few times per month and when there is a challenge, you have a few days to upped over your opponent’s profits.
– Real player with 29.6 hrs in game
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AL･FINE is a mix between Visual Novel / Shop Management. It is a nice game but it’s not quite like Recettear. The VN story is about a boy that destroy a Pixie’s jewel and to pay it back he reopens his parents shop. There is other NPCs present in the story but this game doesn’t have any romance or NPC route.
The main purpose of the Shop is to sell a lot of items and compete with others shops in commerce battles. You have 100 days until the end of the game and 4 commerce battles to win.
Difference between Recettear:
– Real player with 22.5 hrs in game
VirtuaCreature (Legacy Version)
I’ve let my creature die 100 times, 10/10 would recommend for the loss of loved one simulator.
– Real player with 63.5 hrs in game
VirtuaCreature is a title that pays homage to the days of tomagotchi. It was built through an older flash engine so there are some limitations, but that doesn’t make it a bad game. You start with a blob. From there you can evolve it four ways. From there you can evolve it 8 ways. Evolutions are dependent on the way you train them, how happy they are, and what you feed them. There are 21 different creatures in the game. It’s nice that you have more than one save slot so you can try different evolution paths at the same time.
– Real player with 3.0 hrs in game
CESSPOOL
From the outset, a young wanderer walk a ruined land alongside her best friend, a little monkey.
Arriving near the CLOAQUE, a LEGENDARY place supposed to be sheltered from surviving humans, she lost sight of her friend …
Through a PSYCHEDELIC world she will have to find her friend!
EQUIP YOUR FELLOWS!
Each character can wear up to 3 ACCESSORIES in addition to the classic WEAPONS, HAT and ARMOR.
Potholders to resist fire or braces to attack twice…
A great way to customize your playstyle!
IMPROVE YOUR FELLOWS VIA THEIR CONSTELLARIUM!
By slaying MONSTERS during BRAWL, FELLOWS amass a STAR FRAMGENTS who can be spent in the CONSTELLARIUM to increase a CARACTERISTIC (CONSTITUTION, DEXTERITY OR INTELLECT). It is also possible to learn or improve one of the three PSYCHIC TECHNIQUES from a FELLOWS.
Nocturne: Prelude
I rather enjoyed this game, for many reasons, and would recommend it to anyone who would enjoy the following:
-The character you play as, while it is a set character, is very androgynous, allowing you to play as any gender you want. You can also change the name of your character to whatever you want.
-The setup of the game (there’s a main storyline, but free exploration is encouraged), art, and catchy music reminded me of Legends of Zelda: A Link to the Past, which was a wonderful game.
-It’s free!
– Real player with 8.4 hrs in game
I have never played a single rhythm game before, so I review this as an absolute beginner.
- Gameplay
The easy mode is perfectly suited for those who’ve never played a rhythm game before. It’s pretty standard rhythm gameplay with some rpg elements mixed in to spruce it up a bit. I really like the fact that if you’re struggling with a fight, you can look around to see if there’s some better equipment laying around.
There’s random encounters which I’m usually not a big fan of, but it makes sense for an RPG. These random encounters though are great because they let you, you know, play the rhythm part of the game!
– Real player with 4.5 hrs in game
Nocturne
Nocturne
The digital afterlife survived humanity’s extinction.
Nocturne completes the full story that began with Nocturne: Prelude.
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Meet a cast of unique characters who’ll challenge what it means to be alive.
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Explore a vast and beautiful pixel art world.
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Master an entirely skill based rhythm combat system.
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Fierce battles with unexpected twists.
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Challenge your highscores in Arcade mode.
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Multiple difficulty modes suitable for beginners and veterans of the rhythm genre.
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Original soundtrack composed with a mix of digital and live performances.
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Befriend a giant orange fish.
Suits: A Business RPG
ENGLISH:
Instead of translating my French review, this will do: Suits is an amazing RPG. From the “lore”, to the battles, to the black-and-white universe, to the humor and the characters. I had a blast playing it, getting the achievements, and I’ll do another playthrough often.
FRANÇAIS:
- voix off *
Un monde en noir et blanc. Où les humains ne sont que de vulgaires engrenages pour la grande machine qu’est le TRAVAIL. Où la justice se règle a coup de pot-de-vin. Où la seule nourriture existante est des sandwichs au goût douteux. (Il y a aussi des hamburgers et des pizzas, mais impossible d’en manger!) Où LE PDJ est le maître suprême. Où être VIRÉ équivaut à la mort.
! (Et devenir un sandwich!) The Guy, un employer dont le numéro est sans intérêt, parviendra-t-il à survivre garder son travail, tout en découvrant les bas secrets de ce monde? VOUS le découvrirez dans Suits : A Business RPG!
– Real player with 16.1 hrs in game
This has been a little game I had under my radar for a while mainly because I like RPG Maker games and the business theme looks pretty interesting. Plus it had a similar art style to OFF and while OFF was okay, it’s art was pretty interesting. So is it good?
Story:
In a world where corporations run rampant, companies can bribe to get what they want. women are treated as mere plants that look pretty and the mere act of refusing a product is enough to land you in jail. In this world, you live as a simple drone until events happen that put you in an adventure that might change the world.
– Real player with 7.5 hrs in game
Suits: Absolute Power
Coming from someone who has also played the first game, the level of improvement in this sequel is absolutely incredible.
-Unique dialogue for quite literally every interactable object in the game
-Amazing and unique battle themes for every enemy
-PHENOMENAL art style that you’ll see with all the different enemy designs (and their corrupted versions)
-And a much more engaging story that further develops the characters as well as expanding on the setting from the first Suits game in such a great way
– Real player with 24.0 hrs in game
This is coming from someone that hasn’t beaten the game yet, but really have been enjoying the game and definitely recommend, but just to give my opinion right now… (although not the best reviewer but want to give a good rating for the game too!)
Comparing between Suits: A Business RPG and this game… I can tell the devs really put a lot of work into this game as well as continuing to do so as, if there is a bug spotted in the game they will fix that ASAP when they see the message for it (and if you report it on their Discord, they’ve fixed bugs in literally less than 5 minutes after reporting it!)
– Real player with 21.2 hrs in game
Mageo
WHY DOES THIS GAME WANT YOU TO LOG INTO FACEBOOK CAW CAW
FACEBOOK IS CRINGE CAW CAW
THERE ARE NO FEMBOYS IN LINGERIE ON FACEBOOK CAW CAW
– Real player with 0.1 hrs in game