History VideoGame / RecettearAnItemShopsTale

* BigBad: For as simplistic as this game's story is, even it has an ultimate antagonist: [[spoiler:Avall, President of Terme Finance]].

* DayOldLegend: The descriptions of many fusion items describe their origins or rumors surrounding them. These range from "Found within the ruins" to "Found within a great desert, which was said to be created by the item itself" (for a middling fire-themed bracelet no less!). Possibly these are what [[HonestJohnsDealership Recette]] is supposed to be telling her customers about the item, more likely they're just nonsense.
** Several of these are {{Mythology Gag}}s]] or {{Continuity Nod}}s to ''VideoGame/{{Chantelise}}'', where the descriptions were accurate.

* AllJustADream: If you fail to meet a debt repayment, everything prior to that point turns out to be this as Recette wakes up on Day 2. Well, everything but any renovations and remodeling done to the store, store levels, and your items.
** Considering that you return to Day 2 with ''everything'' you'd earned up until the point you failed (items, merchant levels, store renovations, ''and'' adventurer levels) it may feel more like Recette [[GroundhogDayLoop just got sent back in time]], rather than just woke up from a particularly bad dream.

* GroundhogDayLoop: [[EpilepticTrees One interpretation]] of what happens after you get a Game Over.

* MagikarpPower: If you put in the effort to increase their RelationshipValues, the only customer whose budget increases by ''less'' than a hundredfold is Alouette, who started well above everyone else at over a million pix.

* MagikarpPower: 'Ingredient' items in general. At first they're nigh-useless, practically worthless junk that takes up inventory space while dungeon-diving and are usually the first thing thrown away when you fill up your bags. Then you unlock [[ItemCrafting Fusion]] and find out sale price on a fused item more than covers buying the base version wholesale, and they're suddenly much more valuable.

--> "Please tell me that you have not reached the point where your face is frozen in a vapid smile for all eternity."
--> "Your logic, as always, is breathtaking in its faultiness."

* CowardlyBoss: The fight with [[spoiler:Tielle]] has the adventurer chasing her down through three different rooms while clearing a path through various crates to reach her, after which she runs off to the next room. The last room is where the adventurer gets to fight her proper.

* DoWellButNotPerfect: While the early tutorials encourage players to squeeze every last pix out of each customer's purchases or resales, it is generally recommended to aim for around 104% on purchases and 70% on resales to gain ''Near Pin'' or ''Just Pin'' bonuses to raise the Merchant Level and customer reputation much faster.

* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: [[spoiler:Recette's father is never seen again after Lapis Ruins.]]

* 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]].

* {{DRM}}: Carpe Fulgur specifically refused to use any, instead politely requesting the people not pirate it. They're even uncomfortable about Steam's wrapper which is generally considered the lightest-handed form of DRM out there.

* GameplayAllyImmortality: While exploring the dungeons, Tear and Recette follow the adventurer around. They are completely immune from any danger/damage that happens to the adventurer, no matter what happens. Tear states early on that she casts a protective spell over herself and Recette, so that they will be considered invisible and invulnerable, but unable to interact with anything.

* DigitalDistribution: Par for the course given that it's a doujin game. The demo even points this out at the end.

* {{Woolseyism}}: Some parts of the translated dialogue are given a fun flair, though after several years a bit of UnintentionalPeriodPiece might be noticeable in a few of the jokes that are cracked.

* TheDevTeamThinksOfEverything:
** Already have the items Caillou requests when he first appears? Recette says that she has them now (much to Caillou's surprise, since he thought them impossible to get) and sells them (with a fat bonus) without Caillou having to come in again!
** When food shortages raise up the price of your food items, they also increase the price of seeds and chestnuts (both of which are labeled as crafting materials, rather than edibles).

* KingMook: Some of the bosses are these, some even in a literal sense such as the Crowned Slime ([[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin a blue slime with a crown on its head]] that is basically the King Slime from ''Franchise/DragonQuest'') and the Eyebat King who has a "fancy hat, common wings" (again, simply a very large Eyebat with a crown, but he can fire a WaveMotionGun from his eye). The Gauntlet (the enemy, not the floor with mooks) is also simply a very big Knight. Like his two colleagues before, he is accompanied by swarms of normal enemies of the type. Other bosses however tend to be decidedly more unique.

* GiantEnemyCrab: One of the bosses in the Amber Garden. Naturally, you have to flip it over to AttackItsWeakPoint ForMassiveDamage.

* ThrowTheMookAtThem: [[GiantEnemyCrab Volcanicrab]] will literally take no damage from any of your attacks initially. [[ActionBomb Bomb mooks]] appear eventually, however, which can flip him over to strike his underside [[ForMassiveDamage for massive damage.]]

* BrutalBonusLevel: Crystal Nightmare.

** Several of these are [[MythologyGag Mythology Gags]]/[[ContinuityNod Continuity Nods]] to ''VideoGame/{{Chantelise}}'', where the descriptions were accurate.

* EmotionlessGirl: Arma, though why she is like that should be obvious just from her appearance. [[spoiler: She sounds more normal in the final scene of the BrutalBonusLevel, since she's severing ties with the system that requires her to be emotionless and impartial.]]

* HeadsUpDisplay: Has a LifeMeter, a ManaMeter, and a LevelMapDisplay in its combat sections.

* KingMook: Some of the bosses are these, some even in a literal sense such as the Crowned Slime ([[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin a blue slime with a crown on its head]] that is basicly the King Slime from ''Franchise/DragonQuest'') and the Eyebat King who has a "fancy hat, common wings" (again, simply a very large Eyebat with a crown, but he can fire a WaveMotionGun from his eye). The Gauntlet (the enemy, not the floor with mooks) is also simply a very big Knight. Like his two colleagues before, he is accompanied by swarms of normal enemies of the type. Other bosses however tend to be decidedly more unique.

* LevelMapDisplay: The dungeons all have a minimap that completes itself as you go through each randomly generated level. Two of the random effects that can happen on each level play with this; one reveals the entire map from the start, the other disables it.
* LowFantasy: Considering the main focus of the game is on the simple everyday trials of an item shop owner, most of what mixes up the setting is only implied or heard of as background information, some of which could be base enough for a game plot in and of themselves. Outside of just what Recette deals with personally, we got a refugee princess, TheFairFolk reinventing themselves in order to avoid extinction, which ties into the inherent human dominance of the setting which leads to the prejudice against Elves and Demons, and while magic is a simple and everyday occurrence the local churches are trying to snuff out any and all magic items, something Recette helps prevent only through a head-ache inducing loop hole. Also, the most prevalent threats to the world are dispatched by a simple item shop owner and her hired help. The closest thing to a HeroicFantasy stock hero is Recette's dad, who is... underwhelming to say the least.

** Somebody ''else'' could snatch up your rare and valuable fusion item first. Expect most of your premium equipment to be bought by strange old men for God only knows what purpose and little kids "on an errand"; though you can, at the cost of your current EXP combo, simply demand an utterly unreasonably huge price, which will cause them to run for cover immediatly and give your adventurers a chance to ask for the item instead (finding that trick out is a GuideDangIt in itself).

** Even in endless mode saving money to buy expensive equipment before tackling on Survival Mode is a good idea since you do not carry it over, but you carry items to it (save from Survival Hell). This can exponentially extend your score as the debt will eventually reach ''millions'' in the later weeks.

* {{Rare Random Drop}}s: The best fusions require these, and so does recruiting Caillou. Special mention goes to the BrutalBonusLevel BossRush: '''Each and every''' of these encounters has a normal drop whose drop chance is some 25%, an uncommon drop that is around 5% and a ''rare'' drop that is less than 2%. Even ThatOneBoss at the very end. You want OneHundredPercentCompletion for your Item Encyclopedia? [[ThisIsGonnaSuck Have fun!]]