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Recettear: an Item Shop's Tale Localized
An anonymous reader writes "An indie-produced item-shop-sim-slash-RPG, Recettear: An Item Shop's Tale, has been localized and a demo released by the equally indie startup Carpe Fulgur LLC. The game is equal parts item shop sim (as in, item shop like the kind you find in every RPG ever, except you're behind the counter now) with certain Zelda- or Diablo-esque elements also present in the form of randomly-generated dungeons that you can grab an adventurer friend to go tromping through for loot to sell. The response so far has been pretty positive and it seems like Carpe Fulgur is trying to make a business of taking (non-pornographic) unique indie titles from Japan and getting them into a state where the rest of the world can enjoy them."
In case you are not being facetious, the vast majority of Japanese indie games that get localized for US release are pornographic.
It is to the point where if they did not specify it was a localization of a non-pornographic title, people would assume it was a pornographic title.
I know of hundreds of US-localized pornographic Japanese indie titles, but less than a dozen US-localized Japanese non-pornographic indie titles.
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Makes a lot of sense, actually - after all, from many hack'n'slash games, it seems like you're already the one keeping local economy going.
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...the tedium of Nethack married to the tedium of being a 7-11 employee? Say no more, where do I send my money!
I've always wanted to be an item shop owner. They make so much money from those stupid adventurers!
I'm currently developing a game where you play as one of the WoW quest givers. All day, every day, you'll sit around with an exclamation point over your head asking every random stranger who comes along to get you 10 wolf pelts. It'll be the most exciting game since Penn & Teller's "Desert Bus."
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From the FAQ:
Does Recettear feature any form of copy protection?
Recettear does not feature copy protection (or "DRM") of any kind. Neither Carpe Fulgur nor EasyGameStation believe in compromising the user's privacy and freedom to use their computers as they wish.
But doesn't that mean I can just pirate your game?
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But aren't you afraid of getting pirated into oblivion?
Well, we'll say this: Recettear would be pirated regardless of whether we used copy protection or not. We're adults and we understand that our work will be stolen by someone who doesn't want to pay for it; that's how the Internet works in this day and age. Any prospective pirates who enjoy our work, however, must realize that we can only continue to produce localizations for games - and possibly help foster new projects on our own - if we make enough money to make a living at it.
If you like the game even a little bit, please purchase it. We respect our customers enough to not put any invasive DRM programs into Recettear - we hope the respect will be repaid in kind.
taking (non-pornographic) unique indie titles from Japan and getting them into a state where the rest of the world can enjoy them.
They're adding in pornography?