| abstract | - Recettear: An Item Shop's Tale is a doujin role-playing game, originally released in December 2007 by Easy Game Station at the 73rd Comiket. It is the successor/sequel to Chantelise. A young girl named Recette Lemongrass is left to live by herself after her father goes on a long journey. Unfortunately, her dad also left her with a massive debt which is sure to bankrupt them and put them on the streets if it is not paid off. Tear, a fairy sent to collect the payment, suggests that Recette convert her house into an item shop to raise the money to pay it off. For a little while Recette laments the prospect of being put on the streets, but soon comes to like the idea of being a merchant and christens her newly founded shop "Recettear" (a Portmanteau of Recette's and Tear's names). Gameplay alternates between tending to the shop and entering the dungeons around the town of Pensee. Recette and Tear can't fight, but they can hire mercenaries to enter the dungeons and fight for them in search of new items. At the end of each week, Recette must have enough money saved in her account to pay off an increased portion of her debt in order to continue. Failure causes it to be revealed as All Just a Dream and allows you to restart from the second day with everything you've accumulated apart from story related aquisitions, such as adventurers. Officially localized by 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 Fulgur's claim has made EGS well over US$500,000. Due to the lighthearted and comedic nature of the game and its translation, a Shout-Out page can be found here.
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