My mission to befriend Hog Fang shopkeeper Yudai Miki is finally making progress! I think you just can't make friends with shopkeepers until week two, but now he smiles and says '...Welcome back' when I enter the shop.

Cute! I love that Fret is helping, however inadvertently, this shopkeeper-cum-brawler to open up his world. I could ship this. If you were to write fic of these two, I have no doubts I would read it immediately.

So many stores in videogames either don't have shopkeepers at all, or all have what feels to be the same uncharacterized shopkeeper in every store (looking at you, Pokemon! where no matter which Pokemart in the region you're shopping from, every shopkeeper looks the same and says the same darn thing!). Giving shopkeepers their own dialogue, dress sense, and characterization can do a lot for a game's overall personality, and for me it's a huge part of why both TWEWY games ooze style at every turn. The world of the games feel lived-in, real. Shibuya isn't just a funky background, it's a city we might as well be a part of, it interacts with us as if it were a player of the same game. It's so good.

I always feel slightly bad when Fret goes 'man, I'm starving!' at the café and then I just force-feed everyone six cups of coffee. NO FOOD. ONLY COFFEE. You'll thank me when you see your defence stat.

We had the cast eat some truly unholy meals on our playthrough. So many alligators-on-platters from SBY BBQ.