Yternis Magissa Novella

Monsters have mysteriously appeared and are attacking the kingdom of Yternis, harvesting souls for energy for unknown purposes. In the middle of it all is a girl named Novella, who becomes a magical girl to defend her village from a monster attack. Can Novella stop the monster invasion before it's too late?

Disclaimer: this is not a complete game, but the first few levels of what (hopefully) will be a much longer game are fully playable.

Controls

Keyboard	Gamepad	Action
Arrows	D-pad / left stick	Move
Z	A / Cross	Attack
X	B / Circle	Talk / interact
A	X / Square	Inventory (pause)
S	Y / Triangle	Transform / end transformation
Space	L1 / R1 / LShoulder / RShoulder	Hold current direction.
Escape	Start / Select	Exit to title screen.
F2	Start / Select	Volume/graphics settings menu.

Credits

Lachesis	Pretty much all graphics, programming, etc.
Drozerix	Public domain music (all available on The Mod Archive).
The Trending Fonts	Magiera Script font

The sound effects are all default MegaZeux PC speaker sound effects currently. The in-game font is from a public domain character set distributed with MegaZeux.

Notes

Anyone who has played the 1990 game Arkista's Ring for the Nintendo Entertainment System will probably immediately recognize that game's "influence" on this. I've wanted to make a game similar to it for some time and I thought magical girl mechanics might be interesting to add to the mix.

This game was created with MegaZeux, a game creation system originally released in 1994 for DOS. MegaZeux has a built-in editor and was originally text mode based, but has evolved over the years to be able to create more complex games. MegaZeux is available for download here and this game will soon be as well, in case you want to peek at the code (warning: parts of it are truly atrocious).