Adventure Bar Story, the edutainment RPG: Melon juice is OP (image heavy)

Oh my god guys. Look at all this anime.

Pro tip: Just skip everything.

Allright. Let’s buy ingredients, learn recipes and cook things, so we can make some quick bux and invest in a blender and a frying pan.

We can also buy equipment to fight some RPG battles to get more ingredients. We also need to eat things to level up because fighting enemies only gives you drops.

Let’s engage in the whole virtuous circle.

The short term goal is to beat this jerk:

We might also have to save the world later down the road.

Christ my restaurant is a travesty

NPCs give you secret hints. You can also just use google. Either way you get edutained. Did you know that vodka was made with potatoes?

What is that nonsense

Uh. Okay.

Mayonnaise in a carpaccio? Is that a joke?

Apparently not, but source please

Allright guys. Shortly after beginning the game you will have access to a forest where you’ll find melons lying around.
Melon + Blender = Melon juice, this thing sells for 300G. Guys, 300G. Can you believe it. Wow.
You can also have your party members drink liters of this to get to high levels.

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Found some mayo-beef carpaccio examples. Mostly in German.

This has nicer looking pixel art than I was expecting. The shades of green in the trees and grass are crazy.

The look of this is really charming!

Edamame is indeed really good with beer. You should try it sometime.

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Will do!

My fingers burn after playing phone games for too long (sensitive skin?), and I can’t go back to this even after putting it down for ten days now.

It was still a fairly lovely 5 hours for 3 bucks. I couldn’t figure out whether you could take all the time in the world or not, so I just min/maxed everything and crushed the two early food contests in the game. I think the charm might have worn off fast and it was a good time to stop anyway.

Sometimes I feel the app store is filled with generic RPGs with one unique selling proposition, and this one was the cool one.

this reminds me of something completelyobscure that would have stayed in japan on the snes, only to be translated a decade later by agtp or something. its good to know someone is doing the lords work
how do i acquire this

It’s been on Steam for like 5 years at this point. I think I got it in a Humble Bundle at some point, so it might be in the Humble Store. I just looked and it’s like $3 in the Android store. No idea about OSX or iOS or if the developers have become truly desperate and released it on Windows Phone.

Actually, I confused this game with the extremely similar Recettear: An Item Shop’s Tale (which I did indeed buy 5 years ago)

This game seems to be iOS, Android, and 3DS eShop

I’m just going to leave this here:

i just started playing the 3ds version of this today, and it’s really fun!
it’s the nearest game that i know of so far to being a portable recettear (though recettear is an action rpg and this isn’t. but seriously some publisher really needs to give easygamestation a bunch of money to port that game to vita already). a much better substitute than the harvest moon spin-off hometown story, also on 3ds. (which is kind of okay, but it’s more about building relationships with townsfolk than running a shop)

i want to play more of it, but my 3ds is charging. boo hoo.

Glad you enjoy it!

I need to get the 3ds version, import all my cool recipes from the phone one, and become an earlygame god of food

Remember when someone on old sb wrote a novella length complaint about Recettear

yes! and it basically amounted to “i haven’t worked out how to properly play this game and i am upset”.

edit: here it is. no mention of buying low and selling high or any of those other tactics that lead to obscene riches

[quote]I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but read here because there’s no other way to say this.

You fucking suck at this game. [/quote]

This is good SB

does nothing xs still post here?

he only joined new sb fairly recently

He seems super busy with his FGC life on the tweeter. Like many of us, he seems to have graduated from sb-land to Real Videogames Culture.

I started piping up here because the tweeter doesn’t sustain the length or depth of discussion this IC heritage has always created, even among professional. The world can be pretty empty if your demands are high enough!