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azuarc 10/10/22 1:14:36 AM #24:	14. Potionomics Genre: Item shop management deckbuilder Start with Recettear. Make the main character less of a dingbat. Remove the dungeon exploration. Replace the basic haggling with a card-based system. Buy ingredients, but then use them to craft your own stock. And throw in some pretty distinctive animated modeling for a game without any real action. Voila, you've got Potionomics. It's going to be a fun game for people whose itch it scratches. Personally, I loved Recettear, and I'm not certain I'll be as eager to play this one. Not spending an entire day signing on with an adventurer is fine -- that was just a big (IRL) time sink. But the game will obviously be a slow grind of getting ingredients, upgrading aspects of your shop, working relationships with other artisans, earning new cards to use in your deck while haggling...it might be a lot to manage. Or it might not. I can't really tell. This demo was very short. I reached the end of it in 22 minutes. I'm not sure that I needed more time to form an opinion, but geez, people, this was like a 5 GB download. My poor SSD won't like all this installing and uninstalling. Anyway, the deckbuilding part, in particular, caught me by surprise. So many games have been shoehorning components of that into their game that I'm inclined to shy away from anything with cards, but this seems like a nice, light replacement for the very underwhelming haggle system in Recettear. What price would I buy it at? -- I recognize a quality product, but I have a feeling this one's going to be priced out of my interest level. It releases next week, and there's no price listed, but with the sort of animations they have and given that this very much looks like Xseed's attempt to finally follow up Recettear, I just know this one's going to eclipse the $20 mark for its initial price, and that's not a barrier I'm prepared to cross unless it's for something special. TBH, I'd probably be waiting for it to go on sale, anyway, and maybe some day I might pick it up for cheap, but that won't be for a while. --- Only the exceptions can be exceptional. <cite>azuarc posted [p:968611601] in azuarc pla... [t:80187293]...</cite> <quote>14. PotionomicsGenre: Item shop management deckbuilderStart with Recettear. Make the main character less of a dingbat. Remove the dungeon exploration. Replace the basic haggling with a card-based system. Buy ingredients, but then use them to craft your own stock. And throw in some pretty distinctive animated modeling for a game without any real action. Voila, you've got Potionomics.It's going to be a fun game for people whose itch it scratches. Personally, I loved Recettear, and I'm not certain I'll be as eager to play this one. Not spending an entire day signing on with an adventurer is fine -- that was just a big (IRL) time sink. But the game will obviously be a slow grind of getting ingredients, upgrading aspects of your shop, working relationships with other artisans, earning new cards to use in your deck while haggling...it might be a lot to manage. Or it might not. I can't really tell. This demo was very short. I reached the end of it in 22 minutes. I'm not sure that I needed more time to form an opinion, but geez, people, this was like a 5 GB download. My poor SSD won't like all this installing and uninstalling.Anyway, the deckbuilding part, in particular, caught me by surprise. So many games have been shoehorning components of that into their game that I'm inclined to shy away from anything with cards, but this seems like a nice, light replacement for the very underwhelming haggle system in Recettear.What price would I buy it at? -- I recognize a quality product, but I have a feeling this one's going to be priced out of my interest level. It releases next week, and there's no price listed, but with the sort of animations they have and given that this very much looks like Xseed's attempt to finally follow up Recettear, I just know this one's going to eclipse the $20 mark for its initial price, and that's not a barrier I'm prepared to cross unless it's for something special. TBH, I'd probably be waiting for it to go on sale, anyway, and maybe some day I might pick it up for cheap, but that won't be for a while. --- Only the exceptions can be exceptional.</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
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