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Everyday horror...

Thump...thump...thump...BANG!!!

Mouth Sweet... a game I found by chance when I was browsing looking for something about Killer7 (this game was sometimes referred as a "game-boy Killer7 version").
Like Killer7 this is a modern horror shooter with invisibile enemies, but unlike that game these creatures do not turn visible once you draw the gun and enter the first person view...making this game quite hard.

Ok, wait a second, at the beginning of the game you can choose the difficulty, that is basically difficult or story mode.
Have you decided? Good!

Welcome to Chalfont, Chalfont, and Chalfont, Incorporated. You are a new employee and this is the first day at work.
You've been assigned an entry level job working for the C.C.C. Inc. by your temp agency, and you have a PDA that can only receive messages about the various tasks that you have to perform: arrange some crates, delivery sandwiches and...uhm apply a barcode sticker to an infant. Time travelling to 1980. Yes, really this is not a joke.


It's a dangerous corporate world. Even in the bathroom you cannot stay safe!

Game immediately gets disturbing as you find a dead body in the hallway... hm maybe you are the replacement, anyway the problem are these things named "bugs" that will try to kill you. Luckily a colleague will provide a trusty revolver, but you will still have to look around for bullets and kill these invisibile creatures before they kill you. Eh it's not an easy job!

Mouth Sweet is a game about the dead "Soul-Crushing Desk Job": you have many tasks but seem not related and make little sense, colleagues aren't your friends and the boss is an invisibile dark entities. Oh yes and good luck trying to be yourself in this game, but you will understand what I mean from the beginning. Then things will become more and more disturbing as you progress, but those invisibile Bugs there are will always present, even if there is something more monstruous about the company...

Graphically the game is interesting: the visuals use a dark green monochrome style typical of the Game Boy games, characters looks cute, but do not let this dostract you by the fact that this is a dark game about terrible situations, suicide and so on... sounds are mainly footsteps but there are some other creepy sounds and recordings (including a scream of tired despair done by the creator of the game that impersonates never seen the CEO of the company).


Oh no! What's going on in this company???

Now, the gameplay: in this adventure you explore the place like in any other Rpgmaker game, but when you hear the sound of footstep you have two choices. First, you can run away or enter a room (lootable objects and unlocked doors have a darker outline). Or, you can draw the gun entering first person mode and try to kill the bug! Well this is easier said than done, because ti kill the invisibile entities you have to move your gun listening to the footsteps. Once you hear that the sound is entered that means that the creature is in front of the barrel, then you have to SHOOT! (Kill them before it is too late!).

Uh what else? Ok there is not much else ai could tell you about this game, except spoiling the story by telling what will happen in later stages and at the end... yes because there is one single ending even if during the game you have the chance to react in different ways. But it seems this does not change anything. Anyway let's head out...


Come on, let's get out of here!

You are fired, go home now!
Ok, this was Mouth Sweet, a game of simple graphics and great atmosphere, and also original gameplay. The game well introduces from the beginning some themes like the dehumanization of the corporate culture (also represented by the dull monochrome graphics and by the fact that they will chose your name and appearance) and mixed them with a more traditional horror of invisible monsters. Now, will you survive in this hell until retirement age?

I do not know but this game is legendary. Probably not for everyone but it's a clever concept that includes custom art and good execution. I also found no bugs... except for those invisible ones that you have to kill, I mean! So it gets 4.5/5 also for originality and exceptionally creepy atmosphere. A classic and a rm2k3 game that looks different from any other.