January 27, 2018
January Patron Week: Recettear, Part 3
It’s Patron week on Spoiler Warning! One week every month, we play games suggested and voted on by our patrons. This time, we make friends with a thief–I mean, adventurer–and send him into a dungeon with only the best equipment: nothing!
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Geez, that tutorial system is awful. It’s not just that they explain simple concepts two times in a row, but it’s so overly verbose. The game uses several paragraphs to explain something that could be summed up in a couple of sentences.
The “best” part: it teaches you to play the game wrong.
See, when you sell someone something, you get Merchant Experience, but there’s a mechanic called the “pin bonus” (no, I don’t know why it’s called that). Long story short: sell something to someone for exactly the right price and they’re super happy and you get a big bonus to your Merchant Experience, and raising your Merchant Level is *super important,* far more so than the relative extra pittance you can squeeze out of people by asking for a lot up front. The game never tells you about this system, let alone that it has a combo bonus, nor does it point out that raising Merchant Level is very important, and it certainly doesn’t tell you about “happy customers bring more money which means more profit in the long run.”
On the bright side, if you get a game over because you weren’t able to make enough money, you get to keep your cash when you try again, so you can eventually brute force your way into paying off the loan. And paying off the loan is just the start of things, because you still have a bunch of dungeons to go through to find out what happened to Recette’s dad, among other things.