Spring Peace

Spring Peace (Spring Quest in Japan) is a turn-based action RPG video game developed by Paper Thin Productions and published by Nintendo for the Nintendo Switch in October 2022 and later, the Mixii in August and September 2023.
The game follows the main protagonist, Gear, an amnesiac boy who just gained consciousness from a coma. He explores the new world he's been reborn into but struggles to fit in, but he makes a friend in the form of Nati, a confident and kind boy who helps Gear.
He learns that the small planet he is on is at war primarily between the two major regions, Gessa and Tindenno, and they are currently in the more peaceful area of Gessa. Gear gets into various situations, meets new friends (and enemies), learns about his past and where his future is headed and finds himself to be the hero that the world was in such desperate need of.
This is the first game of a trilogy. It is followed by Summer Peace & Autumn Peace and has a DLC prequel called Winter Peace.
==Story==
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In the beginning, there were no colours, a perfect balance of light and dark, yet it was certainly very boring. The Loch sisters, three ancient deities, spawned infinitely radiating hues as far as the eye can see. And of course, this universal phenomenon attracted life, a few hundred early life forms playfully named the Ancients.
"Makamoi, asima?"
'Makamoi' means 'hello' and 'asima' means... 'friend'. This is the Ancient version of what any normal person refers to as a greeting, or rather, the only version. You don't really hear such positivity as this anymore.
Gear awakens in a small mineshaft under a tall, green hill that seemed impossible to scale. He stumbles forward out of the empty cave and up a much more manageable hill that revealed his apparent location on an island, connected to a much larger region by a pier. He walks down the pier and anxiously turns around to see that the island he was just on had completely vanished and the pier led nowhere.
Gear continues walking along the first major area of the game, Gessa-on-Sea, when a stubby purple creature with ghost attributes attacks Gear, resulting in the first fight of the game. Gear suddenly discovers a simple sword that was with him and fights off the creature, but it doesn't show any pain, it just disappears eventually.
He runs along, seeing more of these ghost-like figures of all shapes and sizes before encountering a normal-looking boy with a strange gun-sword fighting off more of these ghosts that were invisible to Gear. He notices that the boy was acting as if he wasn't there and there was a robotic spider on the back of his head. He reaches out to the boy but his hand completely phases through him. Gear knocks the spider off, and the boy returns to normal.
"Hmm? Hello, friend! Who are you?" Asked the boy.
"Oh! Uhm... I'm not sure... my memories are a bit hazy," replied Gear, he was certainly confused.
"Memory loss, huh? You aren't old. I have to deal with my granny forgetting things on a regular basis!
"Haha, yeah I'm not old, I don't think so anyway." Gear laughed, but it was somewhat fake as he has a more pressing issue.
"I'm Nati, I know it's a silly name. My parents were silly people, much like myself."
"I'm-" Gear quickly interrupted himself, he didn't even remember his own name! Not to his memory, at least.
"Gear?"
"Gear. That's a pretty weird name as well, looks like we'll get on okay!
Gear smiled a genuine smile, it wasn't something he'd done yet and it was a good feeling.
To be continued...
==Gameplay==
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Spring Peace, like many other RPGs, is top-down, meaning that you can't see very far. However, there is a mini-map that can be brought up at anytime in the overworld by pressing ZL to help you navigate. You can interact with various NPCs, expand the world and complete quests.
Although most of the game is top-down, there are sections in the game where Gear goes in the minds of various party members. These locations are very minimalistic and abstract and the game becomes a 2D Platformer. You can only control one character at a time, but make the most of their abilities in various ways.
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Battles have various elements that require strategy to win. Each of the six characters have weapon types and an ability that is exclusive to them. Their weapon moves have elements with effective/normal/ineffective reactions and the exclusive moves activated with abilities don't have elements and they do the same damage every time. Special moves from abilities are only available for one turn after they the ability is activated. Ability Bars represent if an ability can be activated and is shared between characters. After four turns, one of the character's abilities can be activated. All moves have timing-based action commands similar to the Paper Mario series.
You can have four characters on the battlefield at a time. If a character is in danger (A third of their normal HP or less) they can be moved back for up to three turns, meaning that they can't do anything, but they also won't be targeted by enemies. They can be healed and given status effects by other party members. Only one character can be moved back at a time. Once a character falls, it's difficult to get them back up again in that battle, only the Clock Elixir can get them back up again with half their max HP which is quite rare. Nothing else has any effect when a character is knocked out.
* Weapons - There are a total of 24 weapons in the game and four per character. Every weapon move will have a different element and weapons cannot be switched mid-battle.
* Abilities - Abilities activate four special moves exclusive to each character with no element, meaning that it will always do the same thing. The Ability Bar charges up for four turns before a character is able to activate an ability and it will only last for one turn. If no-one's ability is activated, the bar will reset.
* Elements - There are eight elements that react to each other differently. Most normal moves have an element and all enemies will have an element too. For example, an enemy's element is fire, for your next attack to be effective against the fire enemy, it will have to be water element. There is also a neutral element.
* Items - Items are one-time attacks that can be found in the overworld. They tend to have a specific effect, for example, the Wraith Lamp will make a scary shadow and have a 50% chance to scare any of the enemies away. Or a HP Bean will recover some of a party member's HP.
==Characters==
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Character	Image	Description	Age...	Gender...	Class...	Ability...
Gear 	 	
Gear is an amnesiac boy who wakes up in a war-torn society that he doesn't fit into. He quickly makes friends, however and meets another resident of this strange world that looks a lot like him. Gear ends up having to save the world from what becomes a three-way battle and learns about his past and who he is.
Joins in: Intro	15 	Male 	Tank 	Mach
Nati 	 	
Nati is Gear's best friend who travels around with him throughout the entire game. Because of Gear's apparent incompetentness when it comes to defending himself, Nati acts as his protector, but after Gear's confidence grows and he more apparently no longer needs Nati to save him, he feels conflicted and pointless, as before Gear arrived, he led a very normal life with his Granny.
Joins in: Chapter 1	16 	Male 	Thief 	Team-Play
Mila 	 	
Mila is the Lady of Tindenno and puppet to Lord Chea. He was brought back by Chea after his raid of Ancient Isle and used as a gateway to his own plans. She is secretly Gear's older sister and one of the only two remaining life forms of Ancient descent. She is infected with a metanical infection that essentially means a robotic parasite is spreading through her body that will essentially kill her whenever Chea wishes it. This was implanted into her while she was being captured.
Joins in: Chapter 1	20 	Female 	Healer 	iHand
Star 	 	
Star is a young dog rescued off the streets by Nati early on in the game. He is anxious at first and runs away, leading into a chase across Cylkras City. This ultimately exposes Mila's location who is tracked down and found by a group of Fether Agents right when Star was cornered. Star sees Mila in danger and decides to help. From this point on, Star is adopted by Nati and stays in the party.
Joins in: Chapter 2	1 	Male 	Thief 	Instinct
Deem 	 	
Deem is an ex-mercanery who is attacked in a dark forest and dies while attempting to escape. Chea performs a metanic implant on Deem and revives him from the dead. Deem becomes the leader of Chea's Royal Guard and dedicates himself to him for the rest of his life. After being sent to fight the party twice after being seen as a threat by Chea but sees that they aren't doing anything wrong and that there is no reason in fighting them. Deem joins the party but refuses to admit that Lord Chea is the 'bad-guy' in all this, as he saved his life and when he finally accepts it, he feels alone and without anyone to rely on. Realising that Team Gear are his new family, Deem truly joins the party.
Joins in: Chapter 4	25 	Male 	Tank 	Absorb
Fan 	 	
Fan is Axol's daughter who previously lived on the awfully remote planet Silros. Her and Axol worked tirelessly to reactivate Stansa, an ancient machine with unlimited abilities. An experiment went wrong and Fan ended up being flung across time and space into the bad future of Gear's planet. The final sentient being, Fan fights tirelessly against a loose Stansa and learns of what it truly is. She is visited by the soul of Stansa, Metao, and teleported back in time to kill Gear, which ended up being a mistake. Fan finds her corrupt father with the completed machine, but there is nothing that she can do. Axol's soul is absorbed by Stansa which gives him power and Axol is dead. Fan realises that she has found happiness in the new world and helps Gear defeat Stansa.
Joins in: Chapter 5	19 	Female 	Healer 	Psyche
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Character	Image	Description 	Age...	Gender...
Lord Chea	 	
Lord Chea is a Tindenno monarach alongside Lady Mila. In secret, he layed waste to the Ancient Isle, a haven of peace south of the Gessa region that is invisible to everyone else for their everlasting resource of the rare meta ore. He supposedly finished off the species of the Ancients but took back Mila to use as a puppet in his plan to become the ruler of the world and brought everyone else to their demise. Apart from one, Gear, Mila's brother. Before this, he was a Tindenno Prince who was foretold by the current Queen (his mother) to become an evil emperor and attempt genocide on a species that would go on to defeat him against all odds. He was quickly banished from Tindenno. Disgusted by this, Chea achieved his destiny on the path to change it by invading and ending Ancient Isle, stealing the meta ore and bringing back a hostage to use as a puppet to take back his heir to the throne. Gear gives Chea numerous opportunities to change his path and find another way to get forgiveness, but he chooses to ignore him and ends up inadvertantly ending his own short reign.	40 	Male
Sir Axol 	 	
Sir Axol is an ambitious scientist on the planet Silros who lived with his daughter, Fan. He was tasked with reactivating Stansa, a powerful machine that could supposedly, 'Bring peace to any hell'. In an experiment-gone-wrong, Fan was seemingly phased out of existence by a bolt of electricity. Actually, she had been teleported to a future torn apart by a crazed Stansa, but there was no way of Axol knowing this, and just assumed she was dead. Fan makes it back to the present, but it was too late as Axol had travelled to Planet Reesour (Gear's planet) and invaded it desperately searching for the final pieces to complete Stansa and bring back Fan, but to no avail. He befriends Chea, however and they strike a deal. If Axol becomes his apprentice, he will help him find his daughter. The party invade the Silros Ark and find Axol, having just finished Stansa. Stansa, visibly corrupted, doesn't recognise Fan, so he fights and loses. Chea arrives and attempts to dispose of Axol, but the party protects him and Chea is cornered on the edge. Stansa finally awakens and absorbs Axol to use as a vessel. At the happiest point in his life, Axol finally remembers Fan and apologies, saying that somewhere in his heart, he always knew that Fan was alive and that he would be always looking over her. His heart crumbles and his eyes turn orange, showing that Axol was now completely under Stansa's control.
"What possessed me to complete such a souless computer? Foolish. I always knew no pile of metal scraps could bring life."	40 	Male
Stansa 	 	Stansa is an ancient machine crafted by the Ancients to destroy the world if anyone with a dark heart (Chea) were to corrupt it.	∞ 	none
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*Anna Webb - Gear and Mila's deceased mother who was a natural heroine who fought to protect the Ancient Isle and her children (with Mila being 7 and Gear being only 2). She is the protagonist of the upcoming prequel to Spring Peace.
*Big Bush - The bossy leader of the Gessa Royal Guard who always finds war to be a solution to every political problem.
*Eskmann - An eight armed, no-legged, tiny-footed librarian with glasses. Owns Gessa Library.
*Granny Soot - Nati's only remaining family member who's approaching death's door. He lives with her and she has the uncanny ability to knit armor for Nati for a cheap price.
*Jed - A poor mechanic who is one of the only residents of the freezing cold Sneezebury, he rescues the party from a blizzard and brings them back to his shack, where he makes them a cold-resistant vehicle.
*King Kiland - The Coward King of Gessa, a disliked ruler known for sitting back in his throne and doing absolutely nothing about the problems at hand.
*Nevaeh - A fairy guardian who lives in Finco Empyrean but was captured by Warden Moneybone.
*Seam - Lady Mila's tough royal guard and friend who protects her at all costs and the only person who she truly trusts.
*Punkle - A mischievous clown-kid who will take gold in exchange for puns.
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*Mack - Nati's 'school ally' who becomes an enemy when he steals a strange currency from a rich family called Schlatt Coin. A single Schlatt Coin can be purchased off of Mack for 20G, and the Gs given to him would slowly be given back to the person who bought the Schlatt Coin. This turned out to simply be a money-making scam and the Gs given to Mack would be kept with him. But he threatens people with his powerful partner Rookie to keep his Gs and the Schlatt Coins are worth nothing. However,  Mack is eventually taken care of by Gear and Nati, but swears revenge. He pops up again in the game numerous times but ultimately never succeeds.
==Bosses==
Chapter 	Boss 	LV. 	HP 	ATK 	Location 	EXP 	Gold 	Element
Prologue	Captain Phanto (1)	16 	720 	70 	??? (Ancient Isle)	0 	0 	Fire
Part 1 	
Mack (1)
Rookie (1)	
4
5 	
99
200 	
10
25 	Central Tindenno 	
9
12 	
50
40 	
Water
Fire
Part 1 	Metanic Proto 	9 	420 	40 	Central Tindenno 	30 	100 	Lightning
Part 2 	Fether Agent x4 	10 (each)	106 (each)	13 (each) 	Cylkras City 	9 (each) 	20 (each) 	Earth
Part 2 	
Ebb Pectro
Mag Ark Jr.	
15
14 	
250
150 	
30
20 	Camp Samura 	
35
30 	
70
60 	
Ghost
Part 2 	
Librass
Clockwork Limb	
18 	
650
200 	
80
0 	Magna Mansion 	
80 	200 	Tree
Part 3 	Deem (1) 	21 	800 	90 	Bombar Cliffs 	80 	150 	Water
Part 3 	
Barney Badger
Crashing Ram	
22
? 	
600
9,999	
50
100 	Bucka Town 	
90
999 	
70
999 	
Tree
Beast
Part 3 	Blubba Tubbs 	25 	1,200 	140 	Bucka Town 	120 	300 	Earth
Part 4 	Roomise 	26 	1,200 	120 	Finco Village 	100 	250 	Ghost
Part 4 	Deem (2) 	29 	1,400 	150 	 Finco Empyrean 	145 	200 	Water
Part 4 	Warden Moneybone 	32 	2,000 	160 	Finco Empyrean 	180 	400 	Magic
Part 5 	Axol 	34 	1,800 	200 	Magna City 	200 	300 	Lightning
Part 5 	Fan 	34 	1,700 	180 	Magna City 	170 	250 	Tree
Part 5 	Aracton Wraith 	38 	2,500 	270 	Tekna Forest 	260 	500 	
Magic
Part 6 	
Mack (2)
Rookie (2)	
40
42 	
999
1,500	
100
170 	Sneezebury 	
100
160 	
200
150 	
Water
Fire
Part 6 	Blooey x3 	44 (each)	999 (each)	100 (each)	Cyk'kho's End 	100 (each)	120 (each)	Water
Part 6 	Cyk'kho 	48 	3,200 	
360 (R)
280 (G)	Cyk'kho's End 	330 	600 	Fire
Part 7 	Captain Phanto (2)	54 	3,500 	400 	Fan's Cognition 	380 	400 	Fire
Part 7 	
Fan Clone (Metao)
Fan Clone	
57 	
3,800
150	300 	Silros Ark 	400 	550 	Ghost
Part  7 	
Sir Axol
Brick Wall
Brick Ball
Brick Dragon	
60 	
3,800
200
500
800	
350
20
50
80	Silros Ark 	420 	700 	Earth
Part 8 	
Lord Chea
Tendrils
Armour	65 	
4,000
500
999	
380
400
0	Chao Palace 	450 	800 	Magic
Part 8 	
Stansa
Body
Right Tentacles
Left Tentacles
Feet	70 	
5,000
800
300
300
400	
450
0
60
60
0	Ancient Isle 	999 	999 	Beast
==Locations==
===Other===
*Ancient Isle
===Chapter 1===
*Gessa-on-Sea
*Central Gessa
*Central Tindenno
===Chapter 2===
*Cylkras City
*Camp Samura
*Magna Mansion
===Chapter 3===
*Bombar Cliffs
*Bucka Town
===Chapter 4===
*Finco Village
*Finco Empyrean
===Chapter 5===
*Magna City
*Tekna Cave
*Tekna Forest
===Chapter 6===
*Sneezebury
*Cyk'kho's End
===Chapter 7===
*Epsol Soken
*Silros Ark
===Chapter 8===
*Chea Palace
==Gallery==
Spring Peace Elements.png|Spring Peace's Ability Chart
img_561116.png|Magic Icon
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