This looks and sounds fantastic but is quite buggy.
You get elixers with the first time interacting with the green orb, subsequent times they are removed from your inventory.

elixer's description says it will revive, but you can't use it on dead people.

interacting with green orb says it restores helpers but it does not.

It feels like it is really close to something cool and fun, but when two of your helpers are killed in the first battle before they have a chance to do anything, that is immediately lost.

Not sure how/if it incorporates the theme, but was not able to get far enough to really evaluate that.

I smashed the beast.

The texture and music create an interesting atmosphere of sad desolation.

RPG systems without traditional HPs are difficult to build but they are intriguing and a small jam game seems the right place to try to use one, especially when it can fit the theme like you did.

Thanks for sharing the game.

I love the PSX aesthetic! The atmosphere is cool and the music is so nice! The PSX-style random battle encounters are also a nice touch.  Good job!

I couldn't finish the game, it gives me an error: failed to load img/pictures/Header.png
Any tips?

I love the audio design in this.  So chimy and ambient.  Reminds me of PS1 era JRPGs.  Especially with the menu interface.
I just wish I could play more of it.  It keeps failing to load images so I can't get very far.

EDIT:  I think it was looking for img/faces but it was searching for img/pictures instead.  I copy and pasted the folder and renamed it and it's working now.  This is either an unfortunate flub or and incridible piece of meta gaming XD.

I'll get back to you when I've tried some more.

EDIT 2:  OK made it to the Boss and... oh the revive system doesn't work and I'm down two helpers.  *Reads other comment* oh I can just use the Elixers... I have no Elixers and they won't refill... you're not making this easy for me XD.

I reloaded an older save and hoped the RNG wouldn't hand me any sneak attacks again.  Managed to beat the final boss with only losing one helper.  It was the only time I tried using magic, but I managed to get a hit in before Blinding fired off.

Obviously needs some hefty debugging, but the fact I worked so hard to get to the end is a testament to how lovely the art, sound and interface designs were.

Not sure how the Theme fits in, unless it's just the Ice and Fire.

Second sphere wasn't reviving helpers for me, is that a bug or a feature? Ended up finishing it with only 2 helpers, as I was wandering for quite a while trying to figure out what "Right 3. Down 2." meant...

Audio was very loud, btw :) It was a calming melody, but I needed to turn down my volume quite a lot for it to feel comfortable.

I like the idea of 1hp combat, and I think it can be really innovative if its fleshed out well!

Very rpgmaker!

I wandered around the cornmaze.

I got teleportated.

I fighted some goblins.

I luckily read the "do the copy of images" thing on the game's page.

I was not bowled over. But its a solid start.

Took me a moment to get used to the controls (I prefer QE for turning) but then got comfortable with them.

Interesting concept, unfortunately I did not get far because of an fatal error: "failed to load img/pictures/herder.png". Tried it a couple of times but to no avail which is a show stopper. 

I would not mind to see more of it, though.