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I've put a lot of hours into this game. I really wanted to like it. I tried to power through because the story was interesting to me, even if the gameplay got pretty repetitive. But with so many bugs and one bug that has now prevented me from being able to progress at all, I can't say this game is worth it.
Gameplay got pretty repetitive and kind of boring after a while. I had no trouble getting to the required reknown level in a few days and had just weeks left of very repetitive days of going back and forth between the market and my store. It took me a bit to figure out you can run the shop with nothing to sell and essentially skip the day, but once I did that saved me.
I was expecting more free reign over things in my shop too. Especially with the artisans. But you get to choose who to hire once and then just get assigned a new artisan according to the game's schedule. I was hoping the Guildhall would be a place I could visit with a rotating availability of artisans to hire. I was also hoping for a bit more story involving the artisans or to be able to talk or get to know them. So I'm disappointed in that aspect of the game. It plays a lot more like a visual novel than I expected.
I was willing to play through the game though for the story but the bugs have finally got to me. Game crashing several times. Issues with UI not working anymore, can't open my inventory or compendium or anything. A bug where stuff I had sold the day before would still be displayed on my store shelves but weren't actually there. A bug where items on my shelves wouldn't be visible but we're there and did sell. Had a bug where a couple times I would be stuck on the last second of the shop being open and would have to quit and reload the day. After fully expanding my store I lost my display cases. They were fully upgraded before the final store expansion but once I expanded the game treated the cases as if they were still locked behind reknown level 2, despite being a much higher level and having access to them already. And the final bug that has prevented my game from progressing is the game being stuck on the sell excess goods screen. I am reknown level 8 and it is the last day of the month and I would get more story progressing. Unfortunately every time I reload or restart my game and play the day over again I am met with a blank screen where the sell excess goods screen should be and it has completely broken my game.
I really wanted to like this game. Unfortunately the game is really buggy, unpolished, boring and quite repetitive. If the story interests you and you don't mind a more visual novel like experience then wait for the game to be fixed before buying. For myself I have given up on the game. The experience has been very frustrating and disappointing and I won't be returning to it, even if it gets fixed.