Hey there, and welcome to my review of Recettear: An Item Shops tale.
First off I'd like to say I will be rating the game on 3 things.
1.Graphics
2.Gameplay
3.Sound
The game begins with your main character Recette, waking up to a fairy named Tear knocking at her door.
Recette is alone as her father use to be an adventurer that unfortunately met his demise.
However before her father died, he acquired quite a large loan.
Now the debt has been passed down to his sole daughter Recette.
In order for Recette to pay this off, she turns her home into a shop and names it Recettear because the
fairy Tear has decided to help her get the money to pay the debt.
The object of the game is to buy/sell/acquire items to make more money.
At the end of each in-game week you have to make a payment on your debt.
That of which increases every week making the game get progressively harder.
You start off in a town that has a few locations such as, The Adventurer's Guild, The Merchant's Guild, The Market, The Town Square, A Pub, A Chapel,
and of course your shop Recettear.
The Adventurer's Guild allows you to go through dungeons with "Adventurer's" you can work with and equip with your own items.
You will prepare an inventory with supplies for a journey to a dungeon. In said dungeon you will control your adventure in a RPG/Action style combat system.
Running around killing slime monsters and eventually a boss that reminded me of Gordan Freeman.
There is multiple levels of a dungeon and half way through you have the choice to leave with what you have and call it a day, or keep going down the ever so increasingly difficult
levels down to the boss level of that dungeon.
The Merchant's Guild allows you to buy items at a discounted price and sell them at your shop, you can also sell items here but it won't be like it would at your shop.
Everything here is a set price, so be careful on what you decide to sell.
Other benefits become available as you progress through the game.
The Market is...self explanatory, it's a market...
The Chapel and Town Square as far as this reviewer knows are just story event related so sorry to burst your bubbles if you were expecting a lot of detail on these.
The Pub is a place where you can eventually in the game find more Adventurers to hire.
The game's characters and in-game sprites are all 2D, but the world is 3D.
The art style of the game is cartoony and anime but that's not a bad thing!
It's well done and goes perfect with this type of game!
The sound is probably the worst part of the game...at least in my opinion.
The music gets repetitive over a day or so of playing, and there isn't that large of an amount of different sound effects.
I give this game the following ratings:
Graphics:7/10
Gameplay:8/10
Sound:5/10
Overall: 6.5/10
The game was made by EasyGameStation, a Japanese game company that has also made
Chantelise - A Tale of Two Sisters, and various Japan exclusive games.
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Minimum System Requirements:
OS: Windows XP/Vista/7
Processor: Pentium 4 1.7ghz or Athlon XP 1700+ (or equivalent processor)
Memory: 256MB of system RAM (512 reccomended for Windows Vista and 7)
Graphics: DirectX 8.1-compatible video card of any type with at least 64 megabytes of video RAM; Nvidia and ATI tested (Intel Intregrated Graphics below X4000 series not recommended)
DirectX®: DirectX 8.1
Hard Drive: 700MB free HD space
Sound: DirectX 8.1-compatible sound card/motherboard chip
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