Mr. Triangle's Adventure is a low effort retro-pixel JRPG, made with the OHRRPGCE (Official Hamster Republic Role Playing Game Construction Engine) video game construction kit. For those unfamiliar with it, OHRRPGCE is significantly worse than RPG Maker in all respects, except it's free, so it gets used by people who can't afford to buy RPG Maker. Except some versions of RPG Maker are also free, so there's really never any excuse for using it.
As with all OHRRPGCE games, the poor quality engine displays badly in fullscreen and doesn't have full HD support or any graphics tweaking options, making this unacceptable for any dedicated modern PC gamer. The point can be made that the intention of OHRRPGCE is to make demos and small games to pass around friends, and shouldn't be used as a substitute for the work of professional game developers. I don't know how best to put this but there should be a very simple rule in game development. If you can't, don't. Especially not as a paid product on Steam.
Just like most RPG Maker shovelware and asset flips, this OHRRPGCE game features extremely low quality 2D retro pixel art (but I don't think it's asset flipped, it looks like genuine, hand made pixel "art", so it looks awful), and has even worse gameplay. OHRRPGCE is an absolutely terrible construction kit, and never results in games of any reasonable quality or value to gamers.
The game has you controlling a red triangle and his somewhat random gang of furries and things, and the plot seems to have been written by a 5 year old. The writing is completely terrible. However, the rest of the game is also terrible, so at least we can enjoy the beautiful symmetry.
There's an overwhelming amount of mediocre Visual Novel/E-book style cutscenes in this game. So you'll spend a huge amount of time not playing the game, but clicking through endless lines of poorly written VN text cutscenes because the developers couldn't work out how to relate their narrative through the game mechanics, and decided instead it would be better to compete with reading a book for your time. We're here to play games, not watch hours of garbage intersituals.
A choice was made to use obsolete, decades old retro pixel "art" as a substitute for contemporary PC graphics. It's unclear if this is due to lack of budget or talent, regardless, the overall visual quality of the game is extremely low as a result.
There's no option to change the resolution and no useful graphics tweaks. There's no way to ensure this is running at the native resolution of your display. There's no guarantee this game will look right on any PC as a result of this hamfisted design decision.
Reviewing SteamDB to check how popular this game was with players reveals a surprise... there's a very healthy spike in player counts for the game. But this only happened once, around the same time that trading cards were applied to the game... so this is just card idlers getting their cards and moving on. A closer look at the numbers shows the game just has a couple of players every week running up the game and idling it for cards, then deleting it. We must ask how it benefits gamers for there to be so many games like this, with no merit as a serious game, that only generate sales from people idling and selling the trading cards.
So, should you buy this game?
Mr. Triangle's Adventure is relatively cheap at $2 USD, but it's not worth it. Given the defects and quality issues with the game, coupled with the unrealistic price, this is impossible to recommend. Gamers who want a good retro JRPG experience would be better off playing the originals, like Final Fantasy, Star Ocean or Chrono Trigger. This is also competing with over 11,000 free games available on Steam, many of them far better than this paid product.
