Suits: A Business RPG

"You looked through the trash and found... this game." - literally a joke from the game. I was in my teens when I discovered OFF. That game blew my mind and got me interested in RPG Maker games. I stumbled upon this entry - I wasn't too picky at the moment -, played it for a bit and put it down because it didn't seem too good. Because it wasn't any good to begin with. The game capitalizes heavily on the aesthetics of OFF, but fails to produce anything impressive, because the creators don't seem to have a solid comprehension of what exactly made OFF's aesthetics good to begin with. It was designed with a "sketch book" style in mind, but it was very refined and clean (Mortis Ghost is a comic artist, first and foremost). This game, however, is just a clutter of poorly drawn assets that look like childish doodles, and honestly resemble a deliberate attempt of making something unlikeable, something that you can't physically look at. My impression? I didn't like it. Then there's the story... oh boy, where do I even begin. The story revolves around a guy (you) serving a capitalistic megacorporation, and then subsequently overthrowing its top brass. You would think that there's more, but no, that's basically it. Literally a blank "capitalism and bueraucrats suck" slate, which is supplement by a massive load of what seems to be the worst, corniest jokes assaulting your gaze non-stop during the playthrough. All of them are very straight-forward and juvenile, with some of them being references to other media products (it even has an OFF easter egg, where you have to kill a ghost called Mortis, then kill Batter), but none of them lands. Then there's the gameplay, which is just spamming the default RPG Maker abilities (funny enough, the first skills of each party member seem to be the most efficient). Can't say much about it, asides from it being very dated, especially with some games like LISA at least attempting to make it more intricate and interesting than just spamming damage numbers back and forth. All of this is extremely funny to me, considering that: - this game is not entirely devoid of creativy, you can see some shreds of it here and there, even though the final product appears to be what it is; - OFF was NOT intended to be what it is. Mortis Ghost HATED it because it was a game he created for sh!t and giggles to share with his friends and within small internet circles back in 2009. Still, it emerged as a decent product, because the people behind it were competent enough for the job. So yeah, if you are interested in something OFF-like... just replay OFF, ok?