Recettear: An Item Shop’s TaleÂ
Meta-gaming brilliance. You know how you’re usually the dutiful adventurer, wandering the fearsome dungeons and selling all that leftover crap to the humble item shop vender? Ah yes, they’ll buy every plop of Slime Goo and every Rusted Sword you throw at them. Recettear flips the concept of JRPG adventuring on its head by putting you in control of the item shop!
Take one part Diner Dash where you manage your store with an intricate economy and bartering system (buy low, sell high always applies), one part dungeon crawler where you gather items to sell with an adventurer in tow, and one part adorable anime plot-line with chibi artwork, detailing the parasitic teamwork of the duo who is charged with running the item shop. The mechanics run pretty deep in this game, and Recettear is one of those titles that will suck you into a time vortex because of how immediately engaging and rewarding it is.
