Discounty

[h1]Worth every minute ♥[/h1] Discounty completely pulled me in. Once I got close to the end, I couldn't stop playing until I had finished the game. I was really happy with the ending I got, it felt like the perfect conclusion to the story for me and made the whole journey even more rewarding. Knowing there are different endings also gives me a reason to come back and see what else could have happened. Definitely a game I'll remember for a long time. ♥ ︵‿︵‿☾ 𝗦𝘁𝗼𝗿𝘆 ☽︵‿︵‿ 🤍 One of the best Storys 💙 Lovely 🤍 Good 🤍 Boring 🤍 Just Text or Audio 🤍 There is no Story ︵‿︵‿☾ 𝗥𝗮𝗻𝗸 ☽︵‿︵‿ 💙 10 / 10                      🤍 5 / 10 🤍 9 / 10                          🤍 4 / 10 🤍 8 / 10                          🤍 3 / 10 🤍 7 / 10                          🤍 2 / 10 🤍 6 / 10                          🤍 1 / 10 ⠀⠀ ⠀ /)＿/) ⠀⠀ (๑^᎑^๑)っ ♥ ／|￣∪￣ ￣ |＼ ⠀ |_ _ _ _ _|

Gameplay Genre: Management sim with minor restoration aspects Story Genre: Rags to riches Story/Gameplay Ratio: 2:1 **Gameplay** Ideas: 6/10 | A little derivative, but then again, things are popular for reasons. No real *bad* ideas, but no particularly great ones, either. Execution: 6/10 | Aggressively mediocre. Not particularly engaging, and the extremely limited inventory is so annoying when gathering resources I felt the need to mention that issue specifically. Clearly, you are meant to focus on the shop, and not literally anything else going on in the town. But if that's the case, why bother adding it? **Story** Ideas: 6/10 | "Newcomer to a small town contributes to the local supermarket and/or the restoration of the town" is a story that has been done before by a game I'm sure I don't even need to name (and, in fact, several others) in far more interesting ways than this. The only thing novel here is that instead of farming, the player is running the supermarket, which I will admit did intrigue me. Execution: 1/10 | A shame that idea didn't pay off in the slightest. I try to avoid ratings this low, because truth be told, most things are a lot less bad than people say they are. This game, however, forces you into the corporate modus operandi without any way to do- or, in many cases, even *say*- anything that actually supports the town you are supposed to grow fond of. The player is told over and over again in unsubtle ways that what they're doing is wrong, and are strongarmed by their choices out of any form of agreement with that statement. Doing something hated because you feel it's right could also be a good story, but that's not the case here! The player character pushes on with their capitalistic interests and never once expresses any desire other than making money and helping their aunt make money. The player is not given any freedom whatsoever in terms of ethical decision making, at least until where I stopped, which is far, *far* too late in the story to justify. **Characters** Ideas: 8/10 | A fairly well-rounded cast of archetypes that a small town might have. Execution: 3/10 | Every character, save only a few, is unrealistically rude and callous- which might be fine if it was remarked on at all, but the player is expected to assume that's how people are. Precious few behave like actual human beings do. The dev team has clearly never spoken to any small town resident, because this is not how small communities operate- in fact, it's not how *any* community operates. The only reason this score isn't as low as the story score is because of the small bunch of actually well-made characters- and the only ones that are written well are Ted, who is the least interacted with of any of the trade deal partners, and Fisher, who I have a hunch is only so good because of how little he actually speaks. As a method of balancing the choices, this would be... fine, but not exceptional. The problem is that you don't really have a choice in the first place, so it's not serving any purpose. **Visuals & Sounds** Ideas: 6/10 | The art style is fine, and the music fits well enough. There's nothing wrong with it, but it isn't particularly unique. Execution: 5/10 | Competent enough, but doesn't have anything really special to it. Cohesiveness: 6/10 | The disconnect between what characters are telling you and what you are being forced to do by the game progression is so severe- and what's worse is this is the first time I've ever noticed a problem like that in a game, which means it's something most games have no trouble with. Personal Favor: 3/10 | I kind of liked this game for a couple of hours, though I was a bit frustrated with my lack of choice, but after the store expansion the writing got too bad to handle. My final straw in choosing to DNF was not being able to leave the lemonade stand be. **OVERALL RATING:** 3/10

When I first saw this game, I was excited because I thought that it would be like Stardew Valley, or Chef RPG, or Travellers Rest, but the twist was that you run a store. But as I played it I realized... there's very little to do other than running the store. Maybe I'm just weird but I like it when you can do other things, like go to diners and eat there, or hot springs and chill there, a lot of games these days do things like that now and it always makes me happy even if some people may question why such a function would exist. The game just feels boring outside of running the store, and when I do run the strore it just stresses me out. It gets very overwhelming. And I don't like that you can't choose when to open the store. Then again, there's literally nothing else to do but run it so why am I complaining?

I wish there was a "it's ok" rating cause that's what I would give it. The Pros Very few bugs and the ones you do experience are not game breaking The gameplay loop is fun, managing the shop and then running around town to gather supplies and talk to people is a tried and true loop that many find enjoyable. There is a clearly defined story and it appears to have a conclusive end (I have not reached the end) The art style is nice. The Cons The characters are awful: Everyone just sucks. Few people have redeeming traits and in most cases are simply there being either miserable and forcing that energy upon you, or being two-faced and simply having to accept that. In most writing you need flawed characters to create conflict, but in this everyone is awful and you are the conflict. I often find myself rooting for everyone to fail including my character and the only reason I continue in the story is to unlock better things for my shop. Speaking of, many features are unlocked way too late into the game. I recently unlocked an online order mechanic which sounds great, but the biggest issue with it is that I simply have too much going on in my shop to ever work on that. Meaning unless I have a challenge to do that specific thing, it just simply never gets touched. resulting in this mechanic as well as others simply feeling half baked. Quests are simply tedious: The amount of times they are just "give me a lot of money" or "wait x days" is too many to count It's just not fun to do the quests. There is one quest that was really good where you had to solve puzzles to give to certain creatures, and that one was great, but that is the only quest I can say I actively enjoyed. Prices are automatic: You have 0 control over the prices of your items, and they justify it in game by stating you are a franchise which sure that part doesn't matter much, but + points for having a lore reason for a missing mechanic. The point still stands that the entire thing you are doing is just putting items on shelves and cashing the customers out, that is it for the in store portion. There is no real control over the shop and it often feels more like working a job rather than managing a shop in a game. You are the villain: In the story for most of it, you are often portrayed as the bad guy because you are constantly trying to introduce a massive corporate grocery chain into a small town. The game is very much trying to have it's cake and eat it too by having there be a message of community and down with corporatization, but you are actively the one doing it. It really feels like the game is having the MC be like "corporations suck, but not us, we are the good guys I swear." which just leaves an awful taste in my mouth and makes for bad story writing. All this is to say that the game is fun but it is HEAVILY flawed and has a pretty awful story.

It's ok. Fun at first but at the end becomes so boring and clumsy that I just didnt have enought patience to finish it. Story effectively ends with chapter 3 and then for some reason it continues with more characters and less features. Progression is shallow, automation is almost non-existent and inventory management is just bad, but it have its somewhat cozy charm.

Thoroughly enjoying Discounty! Art style is really cute, characters are funny, and the story is fun so far.

O jogo é super gostosinho de jogar.. as histórias são bem criativas, personagens cativantes e o mercadinho é um bônus a parte! Se vc gosta de jogos com a pegada "faz isso, faz aquilo" ele te entrega isso, com as missões e com tag do tipo.. "pode não ser possível fazer isso agora/pode demorar um pouco a acontecer", te dando a possibilidade de ir ao seu tempo, pode ficar a vontade em focar na lojinha e deixar as histórias pra depois sem problemas.. sem precisar correr pra zerar o game. foi um prazer jogar e ir atrás da platina, conhecer todos os finais me trouxe uma grata surpresa. [spoiler] A roupinha na missão stealth do museu é sensacional, queria poder usar ela no jogo todo hahaha. [/spoiler] Tive dúvidas de como seguir pra um dos possíveis finais e os DEVs foram muito atenciosos, Anne você foi maravilhosa comigo! Obrigado <3 Parabéns pelo trabalho a toda equipe da Crinkle Cut Games, ansioso pelos próximos jogos!

Comprei Discounty achando que seria só um joguinho de gerenciamento de mercado, mas ele me surpreendeu bastante porque tem toda uma história acontecendo conforme você avança pelos capítulos Uma coisa que gostei muito é que o jogo não fica te pressionando a terminar as missões. Pelo que joguei, elas não têm aquele limite de tempo chato, então dá pra fazer tudo no seu ritmo, organizar a loja, mexer nas prateleiras, ganhar dinheiro e ir avançando quando tiver vontade - o único limite são as horas do dia que você desmaia se fica até muito tarde Conforme a história continua, você vai desbloqueando novos recursos e mecânicas, e também tem um sistema de escolhas em que algumas decisões realmente afetam o rumo das coisas, o que deixou o jogo bem mais interessante do que eu esperava Basicamente, você sai de uma cidade grande e vai morar em uma cidadezinha onde precisa administrar o mercado e, ao mesmo tempo, tentar ganhar (ou não kkkkk) a aprovação dos moradores. E assim… eles fazem QUESTÃO de dificultar sua vida, principalmente no começo. Bem receptivos graças a Deus No geral, achei muito divertido e tranquilo pra passar o tempo. É definitivamente um jogo cozy, mas que possui objetivos (o que costuma faltar na maioria deles), e que traz uma dose de fofoquinha durante a história (e moradores te julgando enquanto você só queria organizar suas prateleiras em paz 😭)

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