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Shop

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The shop interface for the shop in the Town.
The shop interface for the compo shop in the Village.

Players can buy and sell items (weapons, compo items) in the Shop with gold. By clicking the "SHOP" sign in the Town or Village, the shop menu is brought up, allowing the player to purchase and sell items.

The shop in the Town is named "SHOP" and only sells weapons. The shop in the Village is named "COMPO SHOP" and only sells compo items. The player can sell any item they wish in both shops and not only the items which are sold there. The selling price is 12.5% (or one eighth) of the buying price. Below is a chart to illustrate the trend of weapon and item costs, as well as the number of stages that need to be conquered in order to unlock the item for buying.

Weapon/Item Cost for
buying ($)
Profit for
selling ($)
1st Weapon (Starting Weapon) 100 12
2nd Weapon 250 31
3rd Weapon 500 62
4th Weapon 750 93
5th Weapon 1000 125
6th Weapon 1500 187
7th Weapon 2000 250
8th Weapon 2500 312
9th Weapon 3000 375
10th Weapon 4000 500
11th Weapon 4500 562
12th Weapon 5000 625
Stones (level 1) 400 50
Stones (level 2) - 100
Stones (level 3) - 150
Crystals (level 1) 1200 150
Crystals (level 2) - 300
Crystals (level 3) - 450
Jewels (level 1, except Diamond) 2000 250
Jewels (level 2, except Diamond) - 500
Diamond (level 1) 4000 500
Diamond (level 2) - 500
Medals (level 1) 2000 250
Medals (level 2) - 500
Cards (level 1) (except ONIGIRI's Card) 4000 500
Cards (level 2) - 1000
ONIGIRI's Card (level 1) - 1000

The numbers 1st - 12th for the weapons represent the depth at which the weapon is found - a higher number signifies that the player needs to explore deeper into the game to unlock the weapon. For further details, see Weapon.

Weapons bought at the shop have only one compo slot. This is represented by a grey-coloured X on the second compo slot that displays NG ('no good') on the menu upon rollover.

[edit] Availability

To be able to buy a certain weapon or item you have to conquer a certain number of stages. The number of unlocked items in each compo item category or weapon class is computed by the following formula:

Number of available items = (2 + number of cleared stages) / 2

Therefore the order of the items in the shop matters, and items become available as shown in the table below.

Weapon/Item Point of
availability
1st Weapon White Stone 1 Red Crystal 1 Ruby 1 Vampire's Card 1 Bronze Medal 1 Anytime
2nd Weapon Red Stone 1 Yellow Crystal 1 Garnet 1 Quick's Card 1 Silver Medal 1 2 conquered
3rd Weapon Green Stone 1 Silver Crystal 1 Sapphire 1 Long Sword's Card 1 Gold Medal 1 4 conquered
4th Weapon Blue Stone 1 Purple Crystal 1 Aquamarine 1 Catapult's Card 1 Iron Medal 1 6 conquered
5th Weapon Black Stone 1 Black Crystal 1 Topaz 1 Pierce's Card 1 8 conquered
6th Weapon Emerald 1 Guide's Card 1 10 conquered
7th Weapon Peridot 1 Bullet's Card 1 12 conquered
8th Weapon Diamond 1 Explosion's Card 1 14 conquered
9th Weapon Critical's Card 1 16 conquered
10th Weapon Berserk Card 1 18 conquered
11th Weapon 20 conquered
12th Weapon 22 conquered

However to reach the village at least 12 stages have to get conquered, which corresponds to at least 7 items for each item type. Therefore only Diamond 1, Explosion's Card 1, Critical's Card 1 and Berserk Card 1 might not be unlocked when reaching the village.

The shop in the village doesn't sell all compo items which are available in the game. You cannot buy the following items there:

  • ONIGIRI's Card
  • Level 2 and 3 Stones (only level 1 is available)
  • Level 2 and 3 Crystals (only level 1 is available)
  • Level 2 Jewels (only level 1 is available)
  • Level 2 Medals (only level 1 is available)
  • Level 2 Cards (only level 1 is available)

All other compo items are available.

[edit] History

The Shop was implemented in V1.9 BETA, but displayed the word "close" on mouse rollover, because it had not been implemented. It has since opened in V2.4 BETA, and is now functional.

In V2.4 BETA, the selling price was 25% of the buying price. This was reduced to 12.5% in V2.5 BETA.

In V3.7 BETA, the village was opened with a shop where the player can buy compo items. Before this version of the game there was no place where compo items were sold.