Summoner Armin's Bad Day by Alessandro2024

In this Fantasy game, you take on the role of Armin a summoner, who is facing the worst day of his life as he has to find a way to make a potion to combat an undead curse.

Explore Spirit Springs and its surroundings in this game made with RPGMakerMV.
Search the town to find ingredients, to regain your abilities.
Summon mighty beasts to make your day less bad.
Get to know the other residents of Spirit Springs.
Play in browser here!-> https://commadotgames.itch.io/summoner-armins-bad-day

Game Director:
-> Alessandro Langosco di Langosco
Digital Artist:
-> Afshin Gholami
Authors:
-> Susanna Litmanen aka vadelmakarhu
-> Mohammadamin Sadeghizad aka amindodo1998
-> Amirali Alinia
-> Lukas Adlassnig aka LHA2401

SerpentSoundStudio - Townsong
Alkakrab - Sacred Rivers Loop
Alkakrab - Tourney of the Knights Loop
Alkakrab - Midnight Walk Loop

Game Screenshots

| Web Browser (itch.io) | https://commadotgames.itch.io/summoner-armins-bad-day |
| Link | https://commadotgames.itch.io/summoner-armins-bad-day |
| Link | https://commadotgames.itch.io/summoner-armins-bad-day |
| New Version Windows | https://commadotgames.itch.io/summoner-armins-bad-day |
| Old Version Windows | https://drive.google.com/file/d/1v0WPoWlOybFpzRBetV3hO4fmUOB19Y8k/view?usp=sharing |
| Original URL | https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/55/summoner-armins-bad-day |
Ratings
| Overall | 844th | 3.337⭐ | 48🧑⚖️ |
| Fun | 880th | 3.141⭐ | 48🧑⚖️ |
| Innovation | 1176th | 2.4⭐ | 47🧑⚖️ |
| Theme | 755th | 3.456⭐ | 47🧑⚖️ |
| Graphics | 667th | 3.611⭐ | 47🧑⚖️ |
| Audio | 484th | 3.386⭐ | 46🧑⚖️ |
| Humor | 467th | 3.227⭐ | 46🧑⚖️ |
| Mood | 598th | 3.533⭐ | 48🧑⚖️ |
| Given | 45🗳️ | 76🗨️ |
Game Director:
Alessandro Langosco di Langosco
Digital Artist:
Afshin Gholami
Authors:
Susanna Litmanen aka vadelmakarhu
Mohammadamin Sadeghizad aka amindodo1998
Amirali Alinia
Lukas Adlassnig aka LHA2401
Special Thanks to: Syed Asad Ali Hasani
https://commadotgames.itch.io/

First issue that stood out to me, both in the game and in the "capsule" image, was the different scaling on the graphics. Specifically zombies look weird compared to the other characters because they seem to have a higher pixel density. Hopefully I'm explaining the problem correctly -- I think the all the art looked fine here, even the zombies, it was just when put together the zombies stood out as inconsistent.
The items you have to fetch were very unique. I particularly loved the "hair of an illegitimate lover".
There were varied locations that make sense. Asset placement seemed good. I did breeze right through a lot of it. In the tavern I was able to interact with a lot of stuff which was neat. It was very obvious where to get all the items, except for the dead lovers ring. It's was maybe a little obvious -- when I went to the farm I breezed right through to the barn and didn't talk to anyone else. Not sure how they feel about some strange man running in and stealing their eggs.
I got a little stuck trying to find the ring. The church was deserted and I wasn't sure if I had sequence breaked the game by going to the tavern first. I expected to find a glowy thing like I did in the previous locations but it was missing. I left to see if I was supposed to go elsewhere but the zombies got me. Thankfully it was very forgiving so I went back to the church.
I started digging around the graves and then the creepy guy at the church spooked me. He helped me out, but with all his talks about desecration and heretics he had a weird vibe. Which I loved! He was my favorite character.
All of the writing seemed pretty good. Some of the characters writing was a bit stiff, especially in the post-zombie tavern scene. There were a lot of characters and some of them stood out. I was disappointment when I couldn't find the creepy church guy at the tavern, but he didn't seem like the revelry type.
I also like that the game is quite forgiving. I may have hugged a zombie once or twice... And there is freedom to explore, even though the world is not too big, it's perfect size for game jam.
Great job! Good luck with your future projects!
Thanks for this adventure!
And the piano had nice sound xD.