Does the concept of Recettear only belongs in not retro? I

Supposedly Recettear is an Atelier series ripoff which has games on the Playstation 1 but all of themn are untranslated.

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>>3767297
Seconding Atelier, it's a pretty niche genre.

>>3767282
Just played this myself. It's a great game but as soon as I pay off the debt I suddenly lose all motivation to continue since there is no longer a goal to strive for. Sure you can try to unlock all the dungeons but there's honestly nothing in them. I got to the one where you recruit Tielle and now as far as I know I can't unlock the next one until some random cutscenes happen in the town square or bar, so I got bored waiting around for them to occur. Not that it really matters because most of the items in the dungeons are trash. You're better off just buying pink items from the guild for just under base price and jacking them up to 250% in your own store. You can easily make over 200k a day with that.

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>>3767314
but the ps2 games are localized right?

Uh, no, the Torneko series exist.
You could also pick up merchants as party members in games like Dragon Quest III.