Suits: A Business RPG Reviews

After seeing this game many times in hidden RPGM game videos, I decided to give it a shot. But if I’m being honest, I was disappointed. Suits: A Business RPG is a story- and battle-focused RPGM game made in 2016. With its hand-drawn art and capitalism-themed premise, it got me really interested at first. Let's start with the story without diving too much into it. Your character is assigned to work as a typical office worker. You decide your character's name and start with an introduction to the world. The world is a capitalist dystopia (if I say something really wrong, please correct me—I’m not familiar with this kind of theme). First, we have to graduate from business school. The game teaches the basics while throwing in some jokes, which were actually funny. After finishing school, we begin our harsh business journey. I have to mention, with a name like A Business RPG, I expected a lot of mechanics or gameplay related to business. It has some relation to the theme, but it's mostly just used as a setting for the game. Other than that, it's just a classic story- and combat-focused RPG. The gameplay is really okay. There are combat segments mainly focused on the dystopian story. The balancing is questionable, but I’ve played worse games. The art style is only great when the hand-drawn segments appear. Some of the enemy designs in battle look good. But the rest—especially the overworld environment and characters—look really bad. Many characters are just blank men in suits, and on the overworld, they look awful. But in the hand-drawn scenes, they actually look great. I feel like they made this design choice because they wanted to create some kind of mascot that would become popular (blank-faced, wearing a suit, looking intimidating—from the trailer, cutscenes, and sequel). Since I haven’t seen it become widely recognized, I guess it failed. Level designs are just okay. Nothing stands out. My biggest issue here is the interaction with the world. You can’t interact with any items from above, you can’t interact with some items because they are too close to each other, and only one of them has an interaction tile. This isn’t game-breaking, but it becomes really annoying after a while. The game's strongest aspects are its symbolism and jokes. There are some great symbolic elements that I have to praise. But for a casual player, it might be hard to understand what they mean. The jokes are mostly from the 2010s era, which some people might really like. There are also some reference jokes, but I think today’s players would probably just roll their eyes at them. The soundtrack is really interesting. It’s not something you would regularly listen to after finishing the game, but it really complements the atmosphere. Even some of the joke tracks are actually great. Some overworld soundtracks really enhance the game’s atmosphere. I probably mostly praised this game, but what I wrote above are its great points. The bad points are the same across all aspects of the game—bad polishing. Really awkward controls, not deep or well-balanced (just okayish) combat. The overworld art style and main story are just not that great. I assume this is the developer's first RPGM game. I’ve seen much worse games out there, but I don’t think this game deserves as much praise as it gets (looking at Steam reviews). There is a sequel that looks more polished. That being said, the game is really cheap. A really mediocre game, but with an interesting premise and lots of 2010s reference jokes. For those who like RPGM games, I recommend it—especially for those who are tired of horror, story, and puzzle-based RPGM games.