RPG Maker strikes again!

J8 Hero is one of hundreds of low effort retro-pixel RPG Maker asset/construction kit flips spamming the Steam catalog, made with the RPG Maker video game construction kit... in their own words, "Our easy to use tools are simple enough for a child." Like all RPG Maker "games", this is essentially a bunch of low quality/canned assets from RPG Maker coupled with a cringeworthy high school anime club fan fiction.

But there's more to this one... the interesting part is that the developer was charged with crimes and arrested! Now, before you all start cheering, I don't believe the cause of the incarceration of the developer was for making RPG Maker asset flips. Although, certainly, RPG Maker itself is a crime against gamers. What that does mean is this RPG Maker asset flip is probably not going to be updated or maintained. As if we needed any other reasons not to buy RPG Maker asset flip trashware.

The other thing to know is this is incorrectly marked.. it's apparently an adult game with NSFW content and should have been flagged as such in accordance with Valve's rules. There's a good chance Valve will take action against this game when they find out about it.

Other than that drama, there's nothing remarkable in this, this is just another boring RPG Maker kit bash with no real value for gamers, just one of literally thousands of these asset flips polluting Steam.

As with all RPG Maker 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 RPG Maker is to make demos and small games to pass around friends, and shouldn't be used for "professional" game development.

Like most RPG Maker shovelware and asset flips, the game features extremely low quality copy + pasted 2D retro pixel art, looks awful, and has even worse gameplay. RPG Maker is an absolutely terrible construction kit, and never results in games of any reasonable quality or value to gamers.

So, should you buy this game? Is this one of the best of the 110,000+ games on Steam?

J8 Hero is relatively cheap at $1 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 14,000 free games available on Steam, many of them far better than this paid product.