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**Positives**: Very unique. If there's another game out there like this, I haven't heard of it. (+3) The market system works very well, you buy and sell for a little profit, slowly working your way up (+3) The game advances at a sensible pace, upgrading the list of items every few levels, so you're never without new items to make a profit on (+3). There are few buttons that need to be pressed, making it easy to pick up and play (+2). The characters are, for the most part, lovable (+2). The item design, prices, and most importantly, in-jokes that come with them, are top-notch (+2). Bosses are all well-designed, and almost all have a tactic beyond "slash and run", and area always a challenge, without being excruciating (+3). I'd love to go on, but it's getting too long already. **Neutral**: They've translated "mataku" (which usually means "geez" or a verbal *facepalm*) as "merde", which just doesn't feel right, but isn't bad enough to deduct points. **Negative**: Euria. A girl who always breaks your chain of gaining experience from selling items. Once "unlocked", she visits your store, selling goods to you at very inflated prices. This is a death knell if you encounter her early enough (-1). FUN FACT: Euria sounds like 'urea', the waste part of urine! Sounds pretty apt! Constantly levelling up in dungeons makes dungeoneering very easy for the first few levels, and very annoying in the later stages, where you are about to fight a boss, but want to level up first (to get full health). (-1). It can be said that the markets fluctuate TOO much, if you buy a somewhat expensive item at low price, and sell it when it's high price, you make a much higher profit than you should, making the game fairly easy if you're lucky enough. (-1). **TOTAL**: 18-3=15. Recettear is one of my all-time favourite games, and is perfect in almost every way, with some VERY minor exceptions. Worth the unusually high price tag, and MORE!

Positives: It's certainly original, which is nice to see these days (+3) It runs fine on my PC with no noticeable defects (+1) It's good to see more titles from independent developers (+1) As far as I can tell, the game is quite expensive, and power-ups are awarded in due course (+2) POSITIVE TOTAL: +7 Neutral: The Art style isn't to my liking, but it isn't bad. It's kind of cheesy, but that's not a good or bad thing. Negatives: Bad Camera Control, which is a very bad thing for a 3D platformer (-3) Annoying amount of foreseeable backtracking, though I've only managed to play 94 minutes before giving up (-2) The powerups are given out too slowly (-1) The 'humor' is absolutely awful (-2) EXTREMELY REPETITIVE, which is another major flaw for a platformer (-3) Character voices are very grating (-1) I'd like to go on, but I fear I've generated enough infamy by now. NEGATIVE SCORE: -12 TOTAL SCORE: < -5 Having a total score of less than -5 puts it quite a bit below average, but it does have its good points, so it doesn't deserve a 0. Since I didn't pay full price (sales) i can deign to give it a lowly 2. How anyone can find this game entertaining is beyond me, and if anyone wishes to provide me with a counter-argument, be my guest. It is currently the only game in my steam library (of over 110 games) that I have uninstalled.