From what the description and the publicity makes it seem, this looks a lot like a version of Recettear or Dungeon Village, but a bit fancier and on mobile. That's not a bad thing, mind-- I loved both of those games. Has anyone taken the plunge on this, and is it worth the time?

Would also love to hear that. It reminds me way too much of this: http://armorgames.com/play/14015/jacksmith which was interesting but it got really boring just making weapons over and over again.

@finnianwhitefir: maybe we'll get lucky and get a quick look! ... Probably not, but we can hope, right?

While the core concept of running a weapon shop and poking fun at JRPG tropes is similar to Recettear, the gameplay is entirely different.

There are essentially two components to playing this game - building weapons through a short rhythm-based mini-game and then trying to make sure you rent the correct weapon to each hero to maximize their chances of success (or refusing to rent a weapon if you think they'll fail and lose the weapon). Everything also runs in real-time, so there's a little bit of time-management involved to making sure you have weapons ready for heroes to rent and also on the larger scale making sure that you're leveling up your shop so that you'll be ready to make top-tier weapons by the time the Evil Lord arrives.

I've spent a decent amount of time with the game since I picked it up on the day it released here in the US, and I'll say that I have mostly enjoyed it. The weapon making definitely becomes tedious as it's just the same mini-game over and over again, but the solid writing and fast pace can definitely keep you engaged.

I've only seen a few reviews, so take this with a grain of salt, but I've read that the gameplay is kind of busted (according to one review, you're not penalized for missing notes, so you can just wait until the heat drops to whatever temperature gives the biggest bonus and then rack up a huge combo). I've also seen some mixed reviews about the humor, in that some of the reviewers found some of the writing amusing, but all of them felt that at least some chunk of the humor relied on old, forced RPG tropes and "zaniness" to get its laughs.

I haven't played the game myself, so again, I'd take those previous complaints with a grain of salt. But it doesn't seem to be burning up the charts, either, unfortunately.