OFF: Forgotten Dreams
A downloadable translation for Windows
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What is OFF?
From the French site description:
Off is an RPG with a highly original atmosphere and artstyle. You control the batter, who, with the help of a cat with a deformed head and flying circles, purifies the world of the evil that lurks within. The gameplay is standard, but it serves an original universe. With violence and bright colours.
Boring backstory
Off was created in 2008 by Mortis Ghost and Alias Conrad Coldwood. In 2011, the user Quinn K. (known at the time as Reconstructed Dragon) translated the game into English. They revised their translation in 2013 with a 2.0 version, and a final 3.0 version in 2018.
These translations carry an important legacy, being the gateway for the English speaking audience. However, if you're looking for an accurate and faithful translation, you may come away dissatisfied...
The translation takes multiple creative liberties in 2.0 and 3.0, being more of a localisation. There are also technical problems introduced during the translation process that weren't present in the original. Most noticeable is the degraded audio quality.
Forgotten Dreams aims to be an alternative that redresses the above technical issues, and provide a way for fans, new and old, to experience the original text.
Goals of "Forgotten Dreams"
- An accurate and faithful translation.
- Rebalanced battles. Mr. Mortis has expressed his woes on the game being too easy, and has given his blessing to try and rectify this problem.
- High quality soundtrack that loops properly (wherever possible, anyway)!
- Various bug and oddity fixes (the soulful quirks were kept).
- Cleanup of various graphics (monsters, characters, etc), as well as visually faithful translations of large graphics.
- CREDITS -
Four Eyes - Graphics, testing Lempereur - Main translation Ivy Nivek - Design, programming, music RAL - Promo art
- Downloads - Portable - Game is contained in a zip folder. Installer - Install the game to your computer.
Disclaimer: this game is distributed with an unofficial, modified version of the RPG Maker 2003 runtime binary, "Maniacs Patch". EasyRPG will not run this.
Updated | 22 days ago |
Status | Released |
Platforms | Windows |
Authors | Ivy Nivek, FourEyesT, Lempereur |
Genre | Role Playing, Puzzle, Strategy |
Made with | RPG Maker |
Tags | Atmospheric, Dark, RPG Maker, Story Rich |
Languages | English |
Links | Soundtrack |
Download
Install instructions
Portable: Download, unzip and click on [OFF FD].
Installer: Follow the instructions, choose your destination and use the desktop shortcut.
Development log
- So Long 2024! The future and other projects22 days ago
- Version 1.0.3 UpdateOct 05, 2024
- Version 1.0.1 UpdateAug 07, 2024
- Minor Update to the InstallerMay 29, 2024
- Installer Implemented + Project Completion!Dec 12, 2023
Comments
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Hi there! Super excited to play this. I saw you mentioned that the game will not work with EasyRPG, and you were absolutely right. The jumpscare gave me a good laugh. I noticed the game also does not run on JoiPlay. Do you know if there is any way to play this version on android?
Thanks for your hard work!
I'm deeply sorry to say, but there's no way as of right now to play this game on Android. :(
Perhaps in the future, an update to the patch this game uses will allow it to function normally in EasyRPG or JoiPlay. Again, apologies for the inconvenience.
Okay, no worries at all. Thank you very much for the quick response!
I am completely unable to beat the new Batter fight in the ending. Is this supposed to be this insanely difficult or is it a skill issue?
The fight is designed to be beatable regardless of level.
If you are struggling, I recommend you abuse status effects (due to the fact that the new Batter's party is functionally identical to the player's, so they will work).I tried to abuse status effects but I guess I didn't abuse them hard enough. I assume Palsy will help me a lot there! Thanks for the advice!
You can do it!
If you can beat the Queen, you can beat this fight.Sweet game!
How do I access save files?
I've been thinking about attempting to make an OFF randomizer, and I may use this version to do that with (still not totally sure what version to go with). Thought I'd leave a comment to see if you would be okay with that.
Hi there, that's fine by me (I don't own the game lol). Please note that this game uses a patched version of RPG Maker 2003. Called the Maniacs patch, so you won't be able to properly edit the game with regular 2k3.
Why would you jumpscare easyrpg users....... so cruel...
shlerp
I would be interested to know what the 'oddity fixes' are, do you have an example?
Those inquiries are answered in the README's changelog.
Everytime I try to save in a block, i get an error.
I've seen this before; this is more than likely a permission error, allow files to be made in your Program Files (any help with that is outside my scope) or install the game to a different directory.
Sometimes you can't choose anythin in the X menu, it just closes upon selecting anything. This bug occured after obtaining Alpha until going out the one-room mine. Small bug, but still
There's no way for me to alter how the default menu works, so I'm afraid I can't help.