Difficulty:

Easy

Time Spent:

10 Hours or Less

The Bottom Line:

"Been there, done that"

The cool thing about many places in the world besides the West is the fact that, among other things, you can still haggle over the cost of a banana. I currently live in China and giving a shop owner beef for charging me 2 yuan for an apple that we both know to the grave is only worth 1 yuan is no big deal. However being the stupid privileged white person that I am haggling in many parts of Asia can also be considered insulting, since I can afford to pay the top price while the majority of Chinese people can't. This is also the reason I have time to waste playing games like Recettear, a cute RPG from the East that features sexy anime Asian babes.

You get a shop and every week you better pay the piper or she gonna sick a fat loan shark on your meaty butt cheeks. There's a few places you can buy goods from in the town but obviously the best and cheapest way to obtain new stuff is by hiring a young stud to adventure off into the woods to slay a bunch of chubby jelly fish and mysterious shrooms. Along the way he'll open chests and collect even more items that you can sell for a smoking price. And this is the game pretty much. Oh ya, there's a bit of haggling involved when selling goods. You'll throw a chubby price in the customers face, they'll reject it; you'll shed some pounds, they'll buy it. Job done.

Overall the experience is like putting on a pair of socks. Sure, sometimes you can't find the matching pair so you wear two different styles. Sometimes you have no clean pairs so you have to wear dirty ones. Sometimes you wear them inside out by accident. But they're just boring old socks. It's the shoes that everyone's going to notice. Unless of course, you're getting lucky that night...Or someone invites you to a nice Japanese Restaurant.

A wedding is not a wedding without an open bar, remember that.