OFF

I watched a playthrough of the original OFF once, but it had been so long that my playthrough of this version was basically a blind one. context out of the way, here's what I thought: there are several things in this game that are annoying and kind of disrespectful of the player's time. looping mazes where every room is identical, random encounters still happening in puzzle rooms, inconsistent rules that can only be discerned through brute forcing, etc. HOWEVER: this is still a beautiful experience that is well worth forgiving those missteps for. it's a strange, haunting story in a strange, haunting world with strange, haunting music and it made me feel emotions I don't think the English language has words for. the combat is unique, though not particularly challenging. depending on how hard you like your games, that could be a pro or a con. all in all, I recommend it, just be ready to look stuff up when you need to.

A huge inspiration to tricky tony, and a huge inspiration to me as well. This game messes so hard. Prior to I think, September 15th??? I had never heard of this game before. If you asked me anything about this game I wouldn't even know what an "OFF" was. However, that all changed eventually. I think the way I found out about this game was someone mentioning it in the soundtrack of another, (I think it was blocktales and it's third chapter.) how they had stated it had felt like OFF. I was curious about this, so I checked out what this game was. For a very good while now, I've wanted to be a game developer, making something akin to a turn-based RPG. Once I discovered about OFF and saw it was one as well, I wanted to get the game to sort of, "study" how they are. [b]I fell in love with it afterwards.[/b] Dude, I cannot tell you how much I love this game, for the longest time, (before Endacopia,) it was my favorite of all time! The story is genuinely amazing. It left me feeling like a parasite was latching onto my brain afterwards because of how much I loved it and kept thinking about it. This game gets dark at times, and boy did it make it much more insane. Literally putting together the pieces in real time was so surreal and an awesome experience. The soundtrack was the most insane thing ever, it was like a smash bros, "everyone is here" mash-up. They got the guys for Oneshot, Camellia was in it, TOBY RADIATION FOX, they guy who was heavily inspired by this game, was in it. There are some insane bangers in this soundtrack, whether it's PHOENIX, HOUR HAND, or WHITE CARCASS, it was insane. I know that nostalgia for the original ruined it for others, but this may be because it was my first taste of OFF, I thought it was great. OFF has a special place in my heart. I really wanna be develop my own game, so when I got this one to see how the genre is, and seeing how beautiful it was, I loved it. It really did inspire me, similar to it with toby. My love for the game is HUGE. I listened to the music a ton, watched other people play it, and more. Laying on my desk, underneath my keyboard as I'm typing this, is the desk mat from Fangamer of OFF. Hell, I even made the batter's bat, sitting in my room right now. If you're a fan of turn-based RPGs', or games with huge stories, I highly suggest OFF. My rating: 9.7/10.

Words cannot describe how incredible and actually unnerving this game is. It is rare that I feel genuine discomfort while playing something, and it being caused by the vibes alone is insane. I think story told here is so interesting, and yet feels so wrong. I absolutely recommend everyone to give it a try, it is genuinely so good...