History YMMV / RecettearAnItemShopsTale

--> [[http://yfrog.com/0s44730641j "Son of a Submariner!"]], [[VideoGame/FinalFantasyVI indeed]]

* AlternateCharacterInterpretation: Is Recette's dad merely a [[BumblingDad bumbling]] [[TheDitz ditz]]?, or did he set the plot in motion by crossing the MoralEventHorizon?

** This is also pretty good for dealing with pursuing foes like [[GoddamnedBats those angry roper things]] if you're lucky. Best works with Charme who can detect traps without a ring.
** Recette's Father when you find him. It doesn't matter what you were expecting to see, chances are it's not that.

* DemonicSpiders: Ropers initially thanks to a bug. They hit you once and you are either left in single digit HP or dead.
** Regular enemies which usually deal pitiful amounts of damage in earlier dungeons become this in [[BrutalBonusLevel The Crystal Nightmare,]] where they deal larger amounts of damage, and get tougher with every floor you clear.
* EnsembleDarkhorse: [[RichBitch Alou]][[TheRival ette,]] simply because she can buy stuff at insanely high prices when you're in her good graces.
** So insanely high she can save your butt on Survival, especially on 1.106. Get her to buy a rug or ask for 'something metal' and you'll get near half a million pix off her in one sale!
* FanNickname: [[VideoGame/KillerInstinct C-c-c-combo]] [[ComboBreaker breaker]], basically to anyone who messes up your exp combo by refusing a sale. [[note]]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).[[/note]]
** Euria herself tends to inspire rather... colourful name calling.
** If people grow fond of Little Girl-type customers, they might start calling them "Little Sisters". [[Manga/ACertainScientificRailgun Sounds]] [[VideoGame/BioShock1 appropriate]].
* GameBreaker: In 1.105 and 1.106 at least you can sell vending machines in vending machines. Physics aside, this can be a very good way to make money fast once you have the capital to get it started.
** Considering Tear says point-blank you (supposedly) can't resell vending machines, this is almost certainly a [[GoodBadBugs bug]].
*** Also works wonders during a metal rush. Clear out all but the showcase of metal items. After those get sold people will ask you to 'sell them something metal.' Pick the most expensive vending machine and jack the price.

** Shopping-wise examples:
*** Little girls seem like this if they're treated as every other customer. However, when treated as an investment, they become a welcome sight at all times.
*** Euria, who will constantly try to sell you Treasures, which most generally are useless commodity you can obtain, at ridiculous prices ('''300~350%'''), more or less insuring the destruction of your combo. [[note]]She IS a good source of rar-ish treasures needed for fusion. The most annoying thing is when she tries to sell you utterly common rugs for a million pix, or gets stuck in a thankful statue/gold statue loop (both of which can be bought in the market shop). Made worse by the fact that if you actually buy something from her, '''she'll show up more often'''.[[/note]]
*** Prime will only pay base price until you increase your relationship level with her, the fact she tends to pick up the most expensive items in your display case doesn't help either.
** Combat-wise examples:
*** Lightning Bugs. They're very small flying enemies, move faster than you can, and slow you when they hit. When you first encounter them with Louie (a melee character), you will be frustrated.
*** Gnolls can also be very annoying at first. While their ranged attacks can be blocked by Louie, they have some fast melee-range attacks for when you get closer, and the block only works if you face them and aren't attacking something else.
*** At first, Bombs are these. When you kill one, their corpses become [[MeaningfulName bombs]] that can cause massive damage, so knocking one down in tight spaces without losing much health could be hard. Being sufficiently armored though minimalizes that.
*** Statues are very annoying, especially in groups when they can obstruct your adventurer from going further or close enough to attack them.
*** Ropers. The early variants mostly die with one hit, but later in the game they become '''fast''' and without a very strong adventurer it's unlikely that you'll get past one without taking CollisionDamage, oh, they are also immune to knockback.

* HilariousInHindsight: The introductory cutscene for Euria becomes this. She tries to sell Recette and Tear a picture for half a million pix and then tries to justify it by saying that it's an investment and the price will only go up, just like someone attempt to sucker a person into an NFT scam.
* HoYay: Les Yayness:
** Charme X Recette:
*** A very drunk Charme complains that she can't take Recette home if Tear is there, too. She's just joking, but Tear finds it hard to believe, and so might the player, considering just how abruptly she backflips when Charme [[DidIJustSayThatOutLoud realizes what she said]].
** Recette X Tear, where the game's title could be a PortmanteauCoupleName.
*** A RunningGag is Recette A) concluding that Griff is in love with Tear (much to Griff's consternation) and B) declaring her intention to stand in their way: "Too bad, because Tear is my -"
*** The only real time Recette shows anything related to romantic feelings is towards Tear. Specifically, she's convinced that Griff has a massive crush on Tear, and Recette, rather than being ShipperOnDeck, doesn't want Griff and Tear to become a thing.
* MemeticMutation:
** Capitalism, ho!
** Glee/Yay, I just sold <Item> for xxx pix!
** Yayifications!
*** Don't steal my CUUUUUUTENESS! Eek!
* {{Moe}}: An impressively large portion of the cast has the Moe look. Recette especially fits the archetype; one reviewer described her as "cute enough to induce insulin shock." Even somewhat {{lampshade|Hanging}}d in the dialogue: "That girl: something about her inspires people to care." One wonders if the Japanese version of that line included the word "moe."
* OlderThanTheyThink: Being able to play as a merchant to sell items to adventurers predated this game with ''VideoGame/DragonQuestIV'', granted it was for a small segment instead of being the whole game.
* TheScrappy:
** Elan, especially early on. If you plan on selling anything to him, you '''WILL''' be taking a loss of profit, since he seemingly never carries any more than 1000 or so pix on him whenever he visits your store, no matter what the reason (though he does start carrying more as you start to raise relations with him). In the dungeons, he initially seems useless with fast but terribly short-range attacks, terrible SP and no defensive skills (though later he's faster than average, as his rage skill plus healing rings turn his massive HP more massive and his damage output similarly massive).
** Euria exists only to force you to spend ridiculous amounts of money not screw up your Pin combos. People have actually gone so far as to avoid all cutscenes during the times of day that she could appear and thus start appearing in the shop.
* ScrappyMechanic: Adventurers cannot equip something from you unless they buy it at Recettear. If you choose to have them equip it for a single dungeon run, the equipment swapped out takes up slots in your bag. Because shopping relies completely on chance, it could take in game ''days'' for the adventurer to actually buy what you want to sell them... unless, of course, you want to keep your Pin, to which you're likely to sell it to an NPC first.

** Your customers will often sell you food... with a quote about how it's a "family heirloom" or "my grandfather used it with love before he passed". Now honestly, when in ''any'' [=J/RPG=] you've ever played - or even ''any video game'' - has food actually ''spoiled'' with age?[[note]]actually, there are [[VideoGame/{{Elona}} several]] [[VideoGame/NetHack games]] [[VideoGame/MountAndBlade that]] [[VideoGame/BatenKaitos have]] this as a mechanic[[/note]] FridgeBrilliance without the fridge.
** Certain wearable items come with this quality as well, such as the fighter guy sell a sailor suit saying the grandfather used it ''with loooove''...

** [[spoiler:The Geddon Device]], the FinalBoss (or BonusBoss since you can only fight it in Endless Mode), in Lapis Ruins. It has a wide array of attacks that are either extremely damaging or difficult to dodge. It is well known to downright one-shot poorly equipped adventurers.

** Your customers will often sell you food... with a quote about how it's a "family heirloom" or "my grandfather used it with love before he passed". Now honestly, when in ''any'' [=J/RPG=] you've ever played - or even ''any video game'' - has food actually ''spoiled'' with age?[[note]]actually, there are [[VideoGame/{{Elona}} several]] [[VideoGame/NetHack games]] [[VideoGame/MountAndBlade that]] have this as a mechanic[[/note]] FridgeBrilliance without the fridge.

** Carpe Fulgur's localization is top notch, capturing the game's humor and charm perfectly while sprinkling in numerous clever references to other relevant works and maintaining a biting sense of humor. Of course, this trope shouldn't be a surprise when Andrew Dice, one of the two founders of the company, even lists Ted Woolsey as an influence.

*** She's helpful until you have all rank 5's unlocked. You should definitely avoid her cutscenes after you have Elan's friendship note thing and all fusions unlocked and sold to your adventurers, however.
*** You don't need to avoid her cutscenes. Just decorate the store so that she avoids it. Plain and Light makes her avoid you.

* {{Moe}}: An impressively large portion of the cast has the Moe look. Recette especially fits the archetype; one reviewer described her as "cute enough to induce [[TastesLikeDiabetes insulin shock]]." Even somewhat {{lampshade|Hanging}}d in the dialogue: "That girl: something about her inspires people to care." One wonders if the Japanese version of that line included the word "moe."

* ThatOneBoss:
** [[spoiler:Griff, Rebel with a Cause]] in the Obisidian Tower. He can down an unprepared adventurer with two attacks. He is also swift, difficult to counter and loves to spam magics all over the place.
** [[spoiler:The Geddon Device]], the FinalBoss (or BonusBoss since you can only fight it in Endless Mode), in Lapis Ruins. It has a wide array of attacks that are either extremely damaging or difficult to dodge. It is well known to downright one-shot poorly equipped adventurers.

* ScrappyMechanic: Adventurers cannot equip something from you unless they buy it at Recettear. If you choose to have them equip it for a single dungeon run, the equipment swapped out takes up slots in your bag. Because shopping relies completely on chance, it could take in game ''days'' for the adventurer to actually buy what you want to sell them... unless, of course, you want to keep your Pin, to which you're likely to sell it to an NPC first.

* SelfImposedChallenge: Repaying the debt without going adventuring is a somewhat common one, since you can get by if you buy items from the merchants' guild and the market and resell them for a value of around 108%. As long as you prioritize increasing your merchant level so you can access higher tier equipment and take advantage of price fluctuations, you can usually get enough money to repay the entire debt with about a week to spare.

* FunnyAneurysmMoment: Tear is quite pleased when Caillou thinks she's the proprietor. Given what we later learn about the treatment of fairies, she's probably not used to getting that kind of respect. Caillou himself thinks it's unexpected, though he's more willing to believe a fairy is in charge than a girl his age.

* HarsherInHindsight: An early encounter with Louie searching the want ads at the pub ends with Recette stating that he reminds her of her father. [[spoiler:Given what she does -- or doesn't do -- when she finally sees her father again, this may not be as sweet as it sounds. A scene after clearing the Lapis Ruins and the "reunion" with Mr. Lemongrass has her saying to give her some credit -- she isn't as stupid as ''Louie!'']]

* UnfortunateName: Caillou, if only because a certain [[WesternAnimation/{{Caillou}} TV series]] and [[Website/GoAnimate cartoon making software]].

* MostAnnoyingSound: Recette's voice, mostly due to the nature of Japanese's cute girl type dubbing, especially that she loves to say "Daijoubu? (You okay?)" in nervous tone almost every time an adventurer gets hit in a dungeon.

* SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic: Whenever the game's soundtrack isn't being EarWorm it's being awesome.
** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Mh4aSBz9_k Boss Theme]].
** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WOttyWKM7K0 Lost World]]. Obsidian Tower's [[spoiler:Final]] Floors.
** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E7u1LRUdSO8 Last Boss]].

* EarWorm:
** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lLvVryt1fLQ "Closed Shop"]], which plays in the shop when it's not open for business.
** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1r4-WpPDhmI "Opened Shop"]], which plays whenever you [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin open the shop]].

* CrowningMusicOfAwesome: Whenever the game's soundtrack isn't being EarWorm it's being awesome.
** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Mh4aSBz9_k Boss Theme]].
** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WOttyWKM7K0 Lost World]]. Obsidian Tower's [[spoiler:Final]] Floors.
** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E7u1LRUdSO8 Last Boss]].

*** Don't [[http://img29.imageshack.us/img29/565/stealmycuteness.jpg steal my CUUUUUUTENESS]]! Eek!

** Your customers will often sell you food... with a quote about how it's a "family heirloom" or "my grandfather used it with love before he passed". Now honestly, when in ''any'' [=J/RPG=] you've ever played - or even ''any video game'' - has food actually ''spoiled'' with age?[[note]]actually, there are [[VideoGame/{{Elona}} several]] [[VideoGame/NetHack games]] that have this as a mechanic[[/note]] FridgeBrilliance without the fridge.

* {{Les Yay}}ness:
** A very drunk Charme complains that she can't take Recette home if Tear is there, too. She's just joking, but Tear finds it hard to believe.
** So might the player, considering just how abruptly she backflips when she [[DidIJustSayThatOutLoud realizes what she said]].
** A RunningGag is Recette A) concluding that Griff is in love with Tear (much to Griff's consternation) and B) declaring her intention to stand in their way: "Too bad, because Tear is my -"

* {{Moe}}: An impressively large portion of the cast has the Moe look. Recette especially fits the archetype; one reviewer described her as "cute enough to induce [[TastesLikeDiabetes insulin shock]]." Even somewhat [[LampshadeHanging lampshaded]] in the dialogue: "That girl: something about her inspires people to care." One wonders if the Japanese version of that line included the word "moe."

-->[[http://yfrog.com/0s44730641j "Son of a Submariner!"]], [[VideoGame/FinalFantasyVI indeed]]
** The game's memetic catchphrase, "Capitalism, ho!" was eventually admitted to have come up as a whim of the writer, having no equivilant in the Japanese script. He commented in the translator's notes that given the popularity of the phrase and its effect on the game's marketing, he wasn't too concerned.

* TheScrappy[=/=]ScrappyMechanic: Elan, especially early on. If you plan on selling anything to him, you '''WILL''' be taking a loss of profit, since he seemingly never carries any more than 1000 or so pix on him whenever he visits your store, no matter what the reason (though he does start carrying more as you start to raise relations with him). In the dungeons, he initially seems useless with fast but terribly short-range attacks, terrible SP and no defensive skills (though later he's faster than average, as his rage skill plus healing rings turn his massive HP more massive and his damage output similarly massive).

** Certain wearable items come with this quality as well. Once had the fighter guy sell a sailor suit saying the grandfather used it ''with loooove'' line. [[FridgeHorror TMI! TMI! TMI! TMI! TMI! TMI!]] [[BrainBleach GYAAAAAAUH]] Magical Girl Pretty [[Anime/TenchiMuyo Noboyuki flashbacks]]...

** Certain wearable items come with this quality as well. Once had the fighter guy sell a sailor suit saying the grandfather used it ''with loooove'' line. [[FridgeHorror TMI! TMI! TMI! TMI! TMI! TMI!]] [[BrainBleach GYAAAAAAUH]] Magical Girl Pretty [[TenchiMuyo Noboyuki flashbacks]]...

* UncannyValley: A few things are off, but this [[TropesAreTools does fit with the comedic bend of the game]]:
** Dialogue during shopping tends to combine various pre-made messages with odd and most definitely hilarious results. "This is a family heirloon I will have to sell." except said heirloom is ''a bar of chocolate'', among countless other examples.
** Enemies, unlike the characters, are made with 3d models, which causes a weird scene when your sprite-made team of Adventurer, Merchant Girl and Fairy Clerk fight against the forces of darkness, all of which are obviously "otherworldly". Again, this can fit with the rest of the game for comedic effect.
** Arma, as a golem (magical RobotGirl in this case) thankfully manages to act just human enough to not fall into this (though technology-related SesquipedalianLoquaciousness does happen on occasion). Animals also like her and Recette describes her as "kind", which is made of [[Heartwarming/RecettearAnItemShopsTale d'awww]].

** Your customers will often sell you food... with a quote about how it's a "family heirloom" or "my grandfather used it with love before he passed". Now honestly, when in ''any'' [=J/RPG=] you've ever played - or even ''any video game'' - has food actually ''spoiled'' with age? FridgeBrilliance without the fridge.
*** {{Elona}}!

*** You don't need to avoid her cutscenes. Just decorate the store so that she avoids it.

* {{Woolseyism}}: Carpe Fulgur's localization is top notch, capturing the game's humor and charm perfectly while sprinkling in numerous clever references to other relevant works and maintaining a biting sense of humor. Of course, this trope shouldn't be a surprise when Andrew Dice, one of the two founders of the company, even lists Ted Woolsey as an influence.
-->[[http://yfrog.com/0s44730641j "Son of a Submariner!"]], [[VideoGame/FinalFantasyVI anyone]]?
** For a more ''direct'' example of this, the game's memetic catchphrase, "Capitalism, ho!" was eventually admitted to have come up as a whim of the writer, having no equivilant in the Japanese script. He commented in the translator's notes that given the popularity of the phrase and its effect on the game's marketing, he wasn't too concerned.

** Arma, as a golem (magical RobotGirl in this case) thankfully manages to act just human enough to not fall into this (though technology-related Sesquipedalian Loquaciousness does happen on occasion). Animals also like her and Recette describes her as "kind", which is made of [[Heartwarming/RecettearAnItemShopsTale d'awww]].

** {{Elona}}!