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Recettear is an unexpectedly completely addictive game, it turns out. I grabbed it on impulse because I had that formless desire to play A Video Game, But Not Any Of The Dozens In This List I Already Own, and it had a curator recommendation on steam from Dodger, and also it was on sale for like four dollars.
It's fun! The mechanics make sense to me, even though I normally violently despise things where I'm supposed to keep track of a market and cater to its whims to profit! I'm actually spending more time on the shop part than the dungeon crawling part, which is not what I would have expected from me! The naive young cloudcuckoolander+jaded tsundere dynamic of the main characters is a bit dull, but now that I have, uh, completed the main plot and am starting to meet more of the NPCs, I'm meeting other, more interesting characters! Like a hot lady thief who might be a runaway princess and I definitely need to become better friends with her so I can find out!
(She popped up and I went HEY I'M GAY AND SUDDENLY SIGNIFICANTLY MORE INTERESTED)
I had to make myself shut it down so I would do something other than play Recettear today, but odds are fairly good I'll go back to it again. (I unlocked Endless mode! Also Survival and New Game Plus but I'm not sure I'll ever want those--skipping past all the mechanics tutorials was annoying enough when I had to start over because I forgot to save money for my loan payment.) My first session I played two hours and then fucked up and got a game over, but when it makes you start over after that you get a sort of new game plus mode, so that eased the sting of having forgotten to ever save. (I am definitely saving now. It's my own fault, but also, before this I was playing My Time at Portia, which has an autosave system and no manual saving at all, so it's perhaps understandable that I didn't think of it until the worst happened.) But I'm looking forward to finding out more of the plot, because I found a kind of tiny amount of it before I 'finished' the game and the credits rolled. (The credits were spoiling me with flashing up stills from cutscenes I hadn't gotten with characters I hadn't met, I had to tab out so I wouldn't keep being spoiled. Possibly I was meant to play in a different style than I did...)
It's fun! The mechanics make sense to me, even though I normally violently despise things where I'm supposed to keep track of a market and cater to its whims to profit! I'm actually spending more time on the shop part than the dungeon crawling part, which is not what I would have expected from me! The naive young cloudcuckoolander+jaded tsundere dynamic of the main characters is a bit dull, but now that I have, uh, completed the main plot and am starting to meet more of the NPCs, I'm meeting other, more interesting characters! Like a hot lady thief who might be a runaway princess and I definitely need to become better friends with her so I can find out!
(She popped up and I went HEY I'M GAY AND SUDDENLY SIGNIFICANTLY MORE INTERESTED)
I had to make myself shut it down so I would do something other than play Recettear today, but odds are fairly good I'll go back to it again. (I unlocked Endless mode! Also Survival and New Game Plus but I'm not sure I'll ever want those--skipping past all the mechanics tutorials was annoying enough when I had to start over because I forgot to save money for my loan payment.) My first session I played two hours and then fucked up and got a game over, but when it makes you start over after that you get a sort of new game plus mode, so that eased the sting of having forgotten to ever save. (I am definitely saving now. It's my own fault, but also, before this I was playing My Time at Portia, which has an autosave system and no manual saving at all, so it's perhaps understandable that I didn't think of it until the worst happened.) But I'm looking forward to finding out more of the plot, because I found a kind of tiny amount of it before I 'finished' the game and the credits rolled. (The credits were spoiling me with flashing up stills from cutscenes I hadn't gotten with characters I hadn't met, I had to tab out so I wouldn't keep being spoiled. Possibly I was meant to play in a different style than I did...)
