History VideoGame / RecettearAnItemShopsTale

* BottleFairy: Charme.

** Played straight in the dungeons, usually. If you die you get to bring back only 1-3 items out of an inventory of 20-35 (depending on how far in the game you are). This includes whatever gear you loaned the adventurer beyond what he's bought, so if you loaned him a fusion armor that takes up a slot if you don't want to lose it. And you still lose the same two time cycles as if you'd won. You're almost always better off ragequitting unless you found one or two extraordinarily rare items and didn't bring anything important with you. That said, during crystal nightmare charging in with nothing but cheap rings and food with the hopes of finding 3 pieces of endgame equipment before you die is a viable strategy.

* DualWielding: Charme only looks like she dual wields daggers as her sprite has a blade in each hand. But she only equips one weapon and only attacks once. Well, until [[DoppelgangerAttack you make clones of her]].

* HairDecorations: Recette's double hair bubbles and Tielle's flowers.

* FailedASpotCheck: There's few things more annoying than having all of your shelves filled with food, then having a customer come up to ask you if you have any food available.

* FanNickName: [[VideoGame/KillerInstinct C-c-c-c-combo]] [[ComboBreaker breaker]], basically to anyone who messes up your exp combo by refusing a sale. This will happen if you sell an item too high (or offer too low a price if they're selling an item to you) for the customer. Happens most often with the little girl or one of the adventurers, but especially Euria, who refuses to buy, and mostly sells crap merchandise to you at ridiculously inflated prices. You'll either have to reload and pray you don't see her in the shop, or better yet, never activate her scene (which occurs by visiting the park during morning/noon after Recette has at least 100k pix, the ingame currency).

* GratuitousFrench: Plentiful. Intentional and justified though; Carpe Fulgar felt that it would seem more appropriate in a setting that looks very fantasy French/European, that they would talk about French things compared to the original script in which the references are to Japanese food and such.

*** It IS possible through careful observation to figure out the general type of store one likes. And some like Euria (a [[IncrediblyLamePun shady]] type of character) and Griff (a demon) are incredibly obvious. Louie, being a bubbly and [[Determinator perpetually happy]] IdiotHero, prefers light stores. So does Elan, who is a priest. Charme lands between these two areas, but [[spoiler: as she is also a princess]] she enjoys gaudy stores. Elan and Louie have little money, so they prefer cheap-looking stores. The Little Girls and old men share their temperment.

** Taken to eleven when he attempts to be WrongGenreSaavy and finds a 1-up mushroom...he winds up eating the POISONED mushroom instead.

** And filling the item encyclopedia obviously requires a lot of items which RandomlyDrops from treasure chests.

* MoneyForNothing: Obviously not the case in story mode or survival mode, since money is literally the goal of the game. But in the extended endgame, as you tackle the {{BonusDungeon}}s and try to fill the item encyclopedia, you'll start having more money than you need for, well, anything. You'll eventually be able to purchase everything available for money in greater quantities than you can possibly sell or use and can afford to take a loss and sell adventures equipment they can't possibly afford. Far more valuable are customer reputation (since they'll sell you otherwise unobtainable items at high levels and adventures can afford better gear), merchant level (needed to unlock a lot of very important upgrades) and the items only obtained from dungeons or customers, especially fusion ingredients and results.

The Heroes actually expect you to do that, as the price range they find agreeable is a lot lower than usual when they could upgrade their equipment with the item on sale.

** Occurs in full view of the player. The first time Arma wanders into your shop, she requires a lengthy explanation of what a shop is, which is faded out. She then needs to be told how money works, so Recette begins her explanation as the screen fades out and comes back to Recette telling an adventure story, fades out ''again'', then comes back with Recette ''finishing her explanation of money''. Which Arma somehow gets. Exactly how these points are logically connected is left up the player's imagination.

* ThirdPersonPerson: [[spoiler: Arma, when talking about her duties as the DungeonMaster, refers to herself so obliquely ("This unit") she sounds more like a voice of a HiveMind.]]

** Its also worth noting that [[spoiler:its eventually revealed that there never ''was'' a debt, and it was all a XanatosGambit by [[BigBad Aval]]. With this in mind, its possible that Aval may have found a way to make Recette forget the events of the weeks up until her "failure", possibly slipping her an amnesia potion?]]
*** [[spoiler: An Amnesia potion wouldn't explain why everybody else is affected too.]]

* ''CrapsaccharineWorld'': For a lighthearted story with cute fantasy times, you have the main character wondering if she should [[BodyHorror sell some organ]] to pay the debt, decides to work hard to earn the payment and [[SocialServicesDoesNotExist nobody cares if she's kicked out of her house if she fails]].
** Also various backstory revealed FantasticRacism to the point of Genocide, portrayal of Adventurer to the point of {{Deconstruction}} (ParentalAbandonment and PerpetualPoverty notably), and so forth in the form of GettingCrapPastTheRadar...Hell, the MainCharacter's CatchPhrase is "Capitalism, Ho!"
** Hell, let's look at some of our "heroes": One's a perpetually poor layabout whose sole purpose seems to be to leech off Recette, another's an unrepentant thief and murderer, one tried her damnedest to murder Recette [[FantasticRacism simply for being human]] (though, to her credit, she's very apologetic about it later), one's a lecherous sleaze, and another [[spoiler:tried to bring about TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt]].

* FridgeLogic: An in-universe example. Recette and Tielle are discussing the delicious jelly filled donuts at the butcher shop before one of them wonders why a ''butcher'' has donuts for sale. [[MST3KMantra They promptly decide it doesn't matter since they're so good]].

* FridgeLogic: She is unused to dealing with humans. They likely only practice these sorts of things in an entirely classroom-like setting, and the goal is to maximize profit. Also note that you CAN become friends with Alouette and the guildmaster still. They appear to have attended the same school.

** Hell, let's look at some of our "heroes": One's a perpetually poor layabout whose sole purpose seems to be to leech off Recette, another's an unrepentant thief and murderer, one tried her damnedest to murder Recette [[FantasticRacism simply for being human]], ones a lecherous sleaze, and another [[spoiler:tried to bring about TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt]].

** Prime easily outclasses Tear in snarkitude with just about every other line.

* WaveMotionGun: Arma's special attack. You can only fire it once, and it consumes all your SP; you need to completely refill your SP bar to fire again.

Officially localized by [[http://www.carpefulgur.com/ Carpe Fulgur]], the game has been picked up for online distribution by Impulse, {{Steam}} and [=GamersGate=]. The international version of the soundtrack is up on iTunes and includes, among other songs, both the vocal version of the theme and its instrumental version. To date, the localized version of Recettear has sold over one hundred and seventy thousand copies, and by Carpe Fulgar's claim has made EGS well over US$500,000.

Officially localized by [[http://www.carpefulgur.com/ Carpe Fulgur]], the game has been picked up for online distribution by Impulse, {{Steam}} and [=GamersGate=]. The international version of the soundtrack is up on iTunes and includes, among other songs, both the vocal version of the theme and its instrumental version. To date, the localized version of Recettear has sold over one hundred and forty thousand copies, and by Carpe Fulgar's claim has made EGS well over US$500,000.

* FreudWasRight: The Thankful Statues. If you are thankful for more than 4 hours, consult a doctor.

* AmbidextrousSprite: All of the characters seem to use this, but it's most noticeable with Recette. When facing left or right, her [[EveryGirlIsCuterWithHairDecs hair bubbles]] face the screen.

* EveryGirlIsCuterWithHairDecs: Recette's double hair bubbles and Tielle's flowers.

Due to the lighthearted and comedic nature of the game and its translation, a ShoutOut page can be found [[{{ShoutOut/Recettear}} here.]]