Welcome to the world of Recettear: An Item Shop’s Tale, where you play as a shopkeeper and provide an endless supply of items. To maintain a perfect atmosphere, it is recommended to use furnishings and display items to stay in the middle of the atmosphere axis. It is better to obtain items from dungeons and sell them instead of trying to buy from the Market or Guild when they are worth it.
The merchant level is the most important aspect in Recettear, with an aim to sell at around 106 to 110 percent to get near pin and stack combo sales for the most exp. Louie never charges more than you, and MSAA can be applied with DgVoodoo2.
Recettear is a game that allows you to create a store atmosphere near the center and place items in front windows that customers can afford and are interested in. Store decorations can be purchased from the Market, which affect the store atmosphere. As the game progresses, you can buy different kinds of tables, wall coverings, flooring, and carpets, with different designs yielding different effects.
You can purchase new atmospheric decorations at the Market, and once you do, making your changes is free. See Atmosphere for a list of possible options.
In summary, Recettear is a game that requires you to maintain a perfect atmosphere by using furnishings and display items to keep your store atmosphere in the middle of the atmosphere axis.
📹 Recettear Review | Capitalism Ho! | Merchant Edition™
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📹 Recettear Tutorial 10% done (first 5 mins?)
For hobo juction purposes (BOx cars and cardboard boxes bitch.) 104% Selling to customers is near pin (+15 to your EXP plus …
One complaint: you didn’t fully express the sheer hatred and loathing you will feel towards little girls in this game. They are a fairly common generic customer, and will take even less shit than the housewives. You can’t raise the prices at all with them, forcing you to sell at practically cost. And that’s before even mentioning the fact that they have no money. Every customer has a hidden amount of money they can spend, and little girls have almost none. That won’t stop them from grabbing the most expensive fucking thing in the store and demanding you sell it to them for a dollar. If you don’t sell the treasure that’s worth 20,000 to a little girl who came in with her god damn allowance, say goodbye to your combo. There’s a hidden way to raise the amount of money each customer type can have, but that involves selling a lot of stuff to them. Again, in the case of the little girls, that means selling at a loss. The worst part is that they then have the nerve to gloat about it afterwards. “I’m so smart! I got such a good deal!” NO YOU DIDN’T YOU LITTLE FUCKING EXTORTIONIST, YOU STOLE THAT FROM ME!
hey hey people, argentine man here. for anyone who doesn’t know valve is one of the very few companies out there who takes pity on our cozy little financial shithole that is south america. unlike let’s say apple who often goes to 3rd world countries like india to try and sell their 700US$ garbage tier phones to the middle and lower classes who just can’t afford to spend their two to three month family budget on a product that is basically the same as other market options but at double the price, valve goes for a different aproach to struggling countries’ markets, often offering every account linked to a south american country insanely dirt cheap prices effectively gaining popularity and ever increasing the hold of the imperialist system on our daily lives. 10/10 great company good market strategies thoroughly recomend them. and if you unlike us would like to have a try of 90% discount on your Imouto Simulator for your VR setup but were unlucky enough to be born to a backwater never heard of place that is subject to the harshness of the free market such as “the united states”, “england” or “germany” or as we call it here Das Vaterland you can always hop on in to your nearest luxury Kreuzfahrtschiff and come to live our little corner of the world, a lot of peopple do it to escape war crimes, you can do it for steam discounts. alternatively if you don’t have sufficient economic standing to procure passage and living standarts or a high enough military standing to make the state procure you a working visa, in these times there’s a more updated solution, get a proxy, set it to argentina and start buying. much love from the United Provinces Of The South and have a good one <3
Debt collector in an anime game: “Your father has died, I’m sorry for your loss but you must take on his debt now and pay it off.” Me, strapping an MG42 and a 1800s cannon to a bus: ” GREAT LEADER IS DEAD ” ” SOLO NOBRE MUST FALL ” (Destroys the Debt Collection Bureau) ” W E L C O M E – B R I G A D O R “
Sseth hints at it, but one of the most important part of doing well in this game is stringing together combos. Problem: the game’s tutorial not only doesn’t tell you about them, but actively discourages you from getting them. Tear explicitly tells you to haggle with customers for better prices. But that’s a terrible idea. You want them to accept the first price you offer them because that is the only way to build a combo. And without those combos, you’ll level up at a snail’s pace and get absolutely crushed.
At the end of my run I was barely short of my last bill, and only had one action left before it was due, but wouldn’t sell enough to make it. I realized I could grab up my entire stock and with my last action sell it all at the flea market. Empty shelves, full wallet, no more debt. I practically came from entrepreneurial spirit
I love you for featuring this game. Serious talk though this is one of the most unique games out there. The merchant part is great, the dungeon as Sseth said not so much. If you tried this one out and want another game with the same mechanics but with better dungeon crawling experience, I suggest playing Moonlighter. Recettear will always hold a special place in my heart though, I’ve played it obsessively when the english translation came out! EDIT: Freaking Fredrik Knudsen hasn’t uploaded anything in months because he keeps being featured in other website’s articles lol
8:55 as a argetinian citizen myself, I feel honored for the mentioned of our humble country, in the other hand, I do not know if I should laugh or cry, yeah, the steam games are mighty cheap now, but I am also trying to build a pc and the price of the components are, how can I put it? oh yes, a kick in the balls and the boots has rusted-metal spikes.
Yes! Someone giving this game the attention it deserves! WOO! Still holds up, S tier gameplay (the store part, not the dungeon), and adorable characters~. 5:45 “Report any union activity immediately.” Excellent comedy edits as always Sseth. And any part where your face flashes on screen for a split second always makes me laugh. Oh and, the hand reaching out to grab the viewer was hilarious.
I love Recettear, so much fun. Gonna replay it after perusal this. Only tip not yet mentioned in the article is to not listen to Tear on prices, the percentages she advises to go up and down aren’t safe to keep your sales-combo and that is the most important thing, you can easily pay off every debt-deadline and have plenty to spare of you just keep that combo.
4:20 Genuine answer; Wives tend to manage the family finances in a lot of modern Japanese households. It’s fairly common practice for men to hand over control of their paychecks to their wives and then receive a personal allowance from them while the rest goes to groceries, utilities, and other expenses.
I really enjoyed the game and played it to the end, but then I found out that to actually progress the narrative beyond the debt repayment stage I needed to beat the dungeons, which meant so much fucking grinding to get adventurers XP, get ingredients to give them better weapons and gear, so, so much grinding for rare drops (everything is a rare drop, fucking toothpicks are like a 5% drop from knights, fuck that shit!) and just gave up. I have no idea why the people who made Recettear were so proud of their crappy proceduraly generated dungeon hack and slash grindfest, because it’s the absolute worst part of the game and is 100% NOT FUN. And tying characters and plot to them was a terribad idea. Anyway, can’t wait for you to do Sengoku Rance. Or Supreme Commander, whichever.
I noticed that Yahtzee Croshaw recommended this, and then Steam began ruthlessly shoving it down my throat. After 3 months of algorithmic harassment, Sseth (someone actually relevant) tells me what it is, and now all digital traces of the game are gone. Thank you, Sseth. I will now buy it so that it may continue haunting me.
They say you can tell when a speaker loves/is passionate about the subject he speaks on — indeed, you can. This is peak Sseth content; my only complaint is the lack of a longer more generalized version Seeth pontificating about the miracle that is Capitalism. He truly is of the Merchants Guild, and for the Merchants Guild.
You don’t need to leave town and you don’t need to change your store interior. Just buying lots of different things and then putting nothing but those into your store as soon as prices rise is enough to beat the game already. I even had enough inventory left after paying off my debt to continue playing without a massive income loss! No money at all, though.