The idea is fun, but unfortunately, the execution fails at each and every step. And I don't mean just the overall grindy nature of the game, but rather specific issues, which could have been easily made right.

A (not quite) few examples:

1) Inventory management. Maxed out inventory is 40 items. And that includes both ingredient/resource stacks (up to 30) AND single inventory items (gear drops). Going through a dungeon fills you up with 4 types of resources (which you generally need in hundreds each) and at least 12 of the 20 ingredients in existence, which you can do with a single stack each easily, except... See point 3... But there are also unstackable gear drops you might wanna haul home to sell, or use, or whatever... Which wouldn't have been a problem, except... See points 2, 4 and 5. Setting the stack size to 100 would have mitigated most of this artificial anality.

2) You cannot drop some item. You can only discard it permanently. So you've got your inventory full, you can't pick up new items instead of something in your inventory to compare unless you DESTROY something first. It's ok if you wanna pick up ingredients (except... See point 3), but you can't check the dropped gear unless you pick it up first.

3) You can't pick up specific things. If you have (or empty) ONE inventory slot, and there's a bunch of stuff laying on the floor after a major battle, you would most likely pick up whatever you don't want. And then you need to go into inventory AGAIN, to destroy whatever you've just picked up AGAIN, to try to pick up that thing you want, and not another thing you DON'T want out of 6-7 different ones.

4) You can't check the selling price of the gear while in the dungeon. You can't check stats while selling (you can only see the icons essentially).

5) The basic vendors (carpenter and smith) are unavailable on some days. Moreover, while their schedule says they are unavailable on the weekday X, they are often unavailable on other days. E.g., the carpenter's schedule says he's off on Umami, but he just was also off on Sweet. And while the carpenter is not THAT much of a hassle, not being able to sell the dungeon loot is, especially because you ALWAYS return when the stores are already closed, so that's actually 2 days you can't sell stuff. Which would have been less of a problem, except... See point 6.

6) You cannot store either all materials, or all gear in your chest. You can only store all of both of them (well, however much fits). Despite pretty quickly getting 2 chests, you can't have one for mats, one for gear. Moreover, you cannot TAKE all gear out of the chest, you need to do it one-by-one. Which, again, wouldn't have been THAT much of a problem, except... See point 7.

7) SUPPOSEDLY, single click picks up the whole stack, or the item, BUT, half the time or so, it doesn't work, requiring a double-click. Absolutely randomly. Other times, the double click both picks the item up and puts it right back.

8) You can't complete quests using items from your storage. Only from the CHARACTER inventory. So you come outside, get a quest for 10 or 15 THINGS, go "%*^&%^ yeah...", return to the restaurant, pick half a stack of those things ONE BY ONE, because you can only do that, or the whole stack, and come back out to complete the quest.

9) You can't save except by ending the day. Which wouldn't have been that much of a problem, except... You wake up, come out to check what's up, get quests, sell gear (because you CANNOT do that in the evening), then don't feel like going through the grind of running the restaurant or the dungeon, but don't wanna skip this day, either, and would rather do it later. Guess what? 🖕🏻🖕🏻 ... No, actually, 🖕🏻🖕🏻🖕🏻🖕🏻🖕🏻🖕🏻🖕🏻🖕🏻🖕🏻🖕🏻 with a cherry on top.

10) There are also some overall minor game design issues compared to the above, e.g., buff shrines being entirely useless because their duration is very short, but there are NEVER mobs in their vicinity, moreover, there are no mobs worth getting a buff to deal with anywhere close.

So yeah... It could have been a great game, but as is, it's too much of a fail.

... Now excuse me, I am gonna go grind another day in the Potato Palace...

Fun game. I really like the combination of exploring / fighting in this game, although it feels chunky sometimes. Really enjoyed this

very fun