Recettear: An Item Shop's Tale: Difference between revisions

* [[Cheerful Child]]: Recette.

* [[Cloudcuckoolander]]: Recette again. Quoth Griff:

** All of Recette's customers can come across as this, thanks to [[Uncanny Valley|just slightly]] imperfect [[Mad Libs Dialogue|dialogue choices]]. Nagi and the housewives can dig out golden statues and cauldrons from under the couch while cleaning, and the men will hold onto their grandparents' [[Vendor Trash|Walnut Bread]] until it's time to let go of the past, whereupon they will try to sell the (presumably years-old) food to you. Dialogue lines about children pestering their grandparents to pick up some food could suggest that there are a lot of families out there starving due to parental neglect.

* [[Competitive Balance]]: Each adventurer fits one of these.

* [[Deadpan Snarker]]:

** Tear's most common attitude, acting as a foil to Recette and everyone else.

"Your logic, as always, is breathtaking in its faultiness." }}

** Prime easily outclasses Tear in snarkitude with just about every other line. She ''knows'' it, too.

* [[Defeat Equals Friendship]]:

** How Recette first meets Charme the Lady Thief. Tear doesn't think that telling a thief who just tried to rob you where your item shop is located is such a great idea though.

** The Demon you meet in the Town Square lets one out when Recette tries to guess why he's giving Tear such a hard time.

* [[Foreign Cuss Word]]: [[Gratuitous French|"Merde"]], which Tear likes to say when Recette or others are being particularly frustrating.

* [[Fridge Logic]]: 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. [[MST3K Mantra|They promptly decide it doesn't matter since they're so good]].

* [[Gameplay and Story Segregation]]:

** Possessing certain True Cards during a [[New Game+]] can lead to some [[Canon Shadow|interesting situations]] such as Charme fighting herself in the Jade Way.

* [[Genre Savvy]]: Recette proves to be something in this line during her {{spoiler|argument with Griff at the top of the Obsidian Tower}}. Roughly paraphrased:

** However, earlier she was more [[Wrong Genre Savvy]] when she concluded that Griff's contempt for Tear meant he was [[Tsundere|secretly in love with her]].

* [[Gentle Giant]]: Elan seems to be this. His dialog portrait<ref>All of which appear to be scaled correctly against each other, save fairies, who seem to get sized up</ref> towers over everyone else, yet he's a priest in training who spends what little money he has on presents for orphans and wants to run an orphanage himself.

** 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 to the player's imagination.

** After delivering a package to the local orphanage:

'''Tear:''' Honestly, I'd rather not think about it. }}

* [[No Sense of Direction]]:

** You first meet Nagi in the Jade Way. You find her lost there (or in other dungeons) four more times before she makes it to your store. And yet, when you meet her in the dungeon the third time, after Recette gives her the directions to her shop:

** Recette and Tear actually express shock when Nagi somehow manages to find the store.

** Later in the bar, Recette and Tear notice how Nagi is wearing clothes that are very 'eastern' (a kimono). It dawns upon them that she might actually be much more 'lost' than they first guessed. Further hinted at in a different cutscene - Nagi mentions she's not much good at using a knife and fork yet. Maybe she's used to chopsticks?

* [[Only Sane Man]]: Tear again.

* [[Orphaned Punchline]]: While explaining how money works, Recette somehow says this line:

* [[Palette Swap]]: Most [[Mook|mooks]] with the exception of kobolds and pumpkins.

* [[Paper-Thin Disguise]]: Recette and Tear, in an effort to try finding out why Caillou keeps watching the Orphanage, hide behind a built tree that literally says "Totally A Tree" on the front.

* [[Parental Abandonment]]:

** Recette's father left home on an adventure and never came back. It's not clear what happened to her mother.

* [[Running Gag]]:

** Recette once hears about a strange lady who gives helpful advice in the pub. Players get to find out that the lady is actually Charme in the same event (apparently she gives really good advice when she's drunk.) After that scene, there are occasionally mentions of her from various people, including the humanity-hating, [[Well-Intentioned Extremist]] vampire assassin Griff:

** Caillou will never believe Recette's claims that she is the owner of the store.

* [[Save Scumming]]: Averted when playing in the dungeons, which only saves the data prior to entering the dungeon should you try it. Played straight during the item shop sales, since you can save prior to opening your shop, and should you get a string of bad customers, you can simply exit the game, then reload the last save and hope that the [[Random Number Generator]] gods are on your side.

** Normally, you'd have to be intentionally dawdling on any but the largest stages to see these. However, a random dungeon event can halve the time before they appear, double the spawn rate when they do, and increase their movement speed. [[Oh Crap|Fun]].

* [[Suspiciously Specific Denial]]: When the guildmaster asks Tear for a favor:

* [[Sweat Drop|Sweat Drops]]: Aplenty.

* [[Sweet Tooth]]: Recette, but she pales in comparison to Tielle who apparently subsists on nothing ''but'' sweets in huge quantities.

** But... I... am... the... OWNER! ARRGH!

** Once you finish the same quest:

** Also, at the end of the game, when {{spoiler|Tear was about to leave Recette's side after the debt had been fully paid, she finds blank ledgers that Recette was supposed to fill in, but didn't}}:

* [[Throat Light]]

* [[Tsundere]]: Alouette to Recette, Type A. She is nothing ''but'' tsundere in the Lapis Ruins storyline.

** {{spoiler|Which was actually a lie from Terme Finance to provide a cover for Tear.}}

* [[Worst News Judgment Ever]]:

'''Tear''': ... And, sometimes, the news is like THAT. }}

* [[Ye Olde Butchered English]]: Tielle finds a map that's apparently supposed to reveal the locations of all the best sweets in Pensee that has been written in such a manner.