AL･FINE

It's like Recettear, but with (even more) waifus. Edit: WAIT A MINUTE THIS GAME IS A CRAPPY PORT THOUGH: - No configuration screen: No muting the repetitive music. - No Full screen mode: Enjoy squinting at your 800x600 box - Occasional texture fart: sometimes the background, walls, floor etc will be pitch black until you restart the game. I know some of you hate these kind of half-baked ports, so you are hereby warned.

Only recommended if you've already played Recettear and desperately want another shopkeeping game. If you haven't played Recettear, it's a superior experience for just $5 more. Al Fine involves too much clicking and not enough thinking. The market you buy your items from has infinite stock and their prices rarely change. Exploring dungeons consists of selecting an adventurer and waiting 3 days for the game to tell you whether he succeeded or failed. And selling your items basically consists of setting the same items out at default price 98% of the time and occasionally clicking their shelves to restock them. The biggest change of strategy is during one of the 4 Commerce Battles in the game, where the easiest way to make a bigger income (not profit; spend as much money as you like) than your competitor is to sell all the expensive loot you've stored from the dungeons at a 10-20% discount. It feels like they cut a lot of corners with this game: it only gives you information on the buying preferences of less than half of your customers, all of the information about the other stores in the Top 10 list (not to mention the Top 10 list itself) is worthless, and there's a persistent bug where after an hour or two of playing it, it'll start maxing out your VRAM and refuse to load textures (and also switch to Japanese). The story itself is too bland and light for its own good. All of the characters are caricatures that barely get any development and the only major conflict is a plot to monopolize the town's economy that only takes up 10 days of the 100-day duration. The other 90 days basically involve the meek main character deciding he wants to be a merchant and making friends to help him. Nothing is really done with the 3 different races or the floating island setting. It took me 14 hours to finish the game. I wish I hadn't invested that time (or my money) into it.

AL･FINE is like a carbon copy of Recettear, uses 'waifubait' system for people to buy their game. Same storyline too like Recette needs to pay her father's debt and the main harem kid here is the same and that chibi flying thingy is literally just 'Tear the fairy'. So basically it's like your low budget game copy weeaboo's would buy it for the big girl plots. As much as i like capitalism games i cant handle how bad this game is Also theres a bug that will make your game items go black and error messages would pop up (error texture) you need to restart the game,sure do hope game dev fixes that for the people who bought the game. English isn't my first language sorry

Al Fine is a shop management game similar to Racettear, but is unfortunately inferior to in every way. Many mechanics are similar: - Each day is broken up into 3 time segments: morning, day and night. You can spend this time either opening shop, or choosing to visit one of the town's locations. - Locations are exactly same as Racettear - town center, market, pub, adventure and merchant guilds. Access to each location are restricted by the time segment of the day (ie pub on accessible at night). - You obtain goods to sell by either buying from market, or obtaining through dungeons. Unlike Racettear, there is no combat or RPG element. You just hire the adventurer and send them off. They'll return 3 days later and bring back loot. - You can upgrade and redesign your shop to change the mood and type of customers that visit shop. - Every 10 days you have to pay a fee to keep the store open. The differences - Weather and seasons. These affect the number of customers but in reality the effect is only cosmetic. Even on a bad weather day, with nothing else to do, you are still going to open the shop regardless, just means you make a little less profit that day. It does not affect your decision making hence I describe it as cosmetic. - Commerce battles. You have to make more profit than your rival within x days. This is also cosmetic since you're still going to sell things and make profit anyway. The battles dont change your course of normal actions. Poor implements: - cant change resolution. there is no fullscreen option, so the game at 800x600 (i think?) is just a tiny window. - The game allows you to speed up time, but you have to manually restock shelves. If you speed up time, by the time you notice the shelf is empty and click on the shelf to restock, the store is already closed. So you can either watch the slow shopping process and be more efficient in restocking, or you can fast forward the boring parts but possibly miss out on sales. I don't understand why restocking isnt an automated process. - unlike Racettear where all customer types will buy pretty much everything, but have individual preferences towards price of certain goods, Al Fine customers will only buy the items they are designed to buy. It is not fun to see alot of customers walk in, look around and not like anything then walk back out and waste your time. I also encountered a game crashing bug where an error message popped up and said something like "out of VRAM unable to load scene". Game does not autosave, and I lost all progress. Its another game where I wish there was a neutral button. I'll hit recommend but really Racettear is the same but much better.

ルセッティアを全体的に劣化させたようなゲーム。 操作性の悪さ、表示されない漢字、ガバガバすぎる展開など雑さが目立つ。 ルセッティアを未プレイなら先にそちらを遊ぶことをおすすめします。

I can't recommend the game at this time (Unless you're a die hard waifu lover.) I understand that this game has only been out for less than a day, but there's just too many things the devs left behind. User is unable to configure options, you're stuck in window mode (In my case, I either have to play a feet away from the screen, or squint my eyes until I resemble Brock), and the cursor in-game takes awhile to get used to. The worst part of the game for me is that player is unable to skip the tutorial in the beginning. For a game very similar to Recettear, if not a remake, I'd have thought the devs would let the players be able to skip something they already know in the least. Pretty much spent the first half hour just reading what I already knew. To close out, the game is just missing the very basic features that would otherwise make me keep the game. Until then, I would keep that $15 for now, if I were you.

If you enjoy Recettear, you'll probably enjoy this. It's cute, funny, and has some mechanics (food spoiling, for e.g) that give it an interesting take that make it different enough from Recettear. I'm only 2 hours in, and I can see myself playing this a lot.

Mediocre. No real dungeon exploration mechanics. Like Recettear except uniformly worse in every respect, whether by gameplay, graphics, or repetitive, unpleasant music. No fullscreen option. If you love this sort of game, you will like it. If you only like this sort of game when it's done well, you won't.

難易度「普通」でクリアしました。 可愛らしい絵柄とストーリーは良かったです。 しかし、一部の漢字が表示されないため、色々と残念な事に･･･。 私が覚えている範囲では、「契」、「狙」、「点」、「神」が表示されていませんでした。 そのせいで教会でのセリフ、ストーリーの山場のセリフが台無しでした。 またキャラ毎にちょっとしたイベントがあるのですが、あまり好みではありませんでした。 異常なまでに仲良しであることを強調するだけのイベントで、正直気持ち悪かったです。 経営ゲームが好きなのと絵柄が可愛かったので買いましたが少し後悔しています。 面白くなかった訳ではないのですが、操作性があまり良くないのも相まって小さなストレスが積み重なっていき、クリアしても「楽しかった！」と素直に言えない作品でした。

tl;dr - I can't recommend this game at it's current price for the content it provides. It's like a more technical and casual form of Recettear. I would recommend trying Recettear first before trying this one out. The story is very similar to Recettear as well, both Main Characters start up their family shops to pay off a debt. It's still a fun little tycoon game. I would recommend getting the game when it's on sale and when the vram error issue is fixed, because it can ruin many in-game days of progress in an instant if you haven't saved before it just randomly happens. The vram error issue becomes more frequent the more I had progressed into the game making it almost unplayable. I played the game on Hard for a challenge and it wasn't an impossible task to get to day 99, except as for my first time there was no way in hell I was going to beat Ornate Brand with the RNG like buyers. I could be bad at the game and there is probably a how to guide, or not. Edit: 12/12/2016 The game is still filled with bugs, like the game having all the UI Text turning back into japanese and the store missing textues so it's just a black void, but maybe someday the port will be fixed. Still no trading cards available and it would make this buy a bit better if there was.