An unconventional weapon: In this game, a bard finds a magical [+1 shocking guitar] (It's electric!) and begins using its great power to destroy his enemies.
Only one fight and two spells in this submission, unfortunately.
Game opens on the guitar, stuck into a pedestal like the sword in the stone. There's some combat going on offscreen. Press start! Bard strolls in from the left. "I hope this treasure is worth it, I had to leave my whole party to die back there" etc whatever Pulls guitar out of pedestal, it rises up and floats for a second in a column of light a la zelda <play a "You receieve [+1 Shocking Guitar]" ?> B: "Now, what do we have here?" G: "Are you a bard? Oh, thank fig! The last guy who wielded me was a barbarian who thought I was an axe!" B: "An intelligent wonderous item, eh? Hmm, you should fetch a good price after all." G: "Aww, come on, man! We just met! Aren't you a little curious about what I can do?" B: "I guess. As long as 'what you can do' doesn't involve exploding or killing me horribly." G: "Ten thousand years ago, I was forged for the bards of legend..." B: "Nevermind. No one wants to hear that shizzle." G: "Have you ever played a lute?" B: "Yeah, that's like bard 101." G: "I'm like that... but electric." B: "Fancy." G: "Wait... did you seriously leave those goblins alive? Here they come!" Combat, etc Mini tutorial about first spell and how the game system works. B: "I might just keep you after all, perfect weapon for bards, blah blah blah" Goes to town to pawn guitar, it's overrun by skellingtons or something Fight a bunch of skellingtons and metal skellingtons and spellcaster skellingtons and then fight the skellington boss to save the world. Then pawn the guitar for a couple gold.
I only manage to get spell off once in a while. The notes don't always work, not sure what I'm doing wrong. I have terrible timing so maybes that's it. Difficulty is brutal, but I like the concept and presentation.
It looks fun though.