Scogno is a boy that lives with his family in a little village, and dreams to be a hero. He has a terrible temperament, and after getting fed up with the miserable conditions of their lives, he decides to leave his town. His father Pippo gives him a sword, the mother Francy gives him few money and he also gets a potion from his sister. Reaching the first village he discovers that many heroes are here to start a crusade against the monsters that are invading the country, sent by the evil Malefix. However Scogno sleeps until late morning, when everyone else already left the village, except for the sorcerer Dale that joins him in the first of his many adventures around the world.
Scogno's Adventure is a very old Rpgmaker 2000 adventure game released in 2003. It's a pretty long parodistic epic story about the rise to power of a jerkass hero that has great ambitions but he's a coward at heart. Of course the journey will not only turn him into a really powerful warrior, but he will also meet a series of quirky characters that will join him in his adventures.
The game is a fantasy parody with lots of references to popular media in particular anime and videogames: Dragonball, Final Fantasy VII, Excel Saga, Evangelion and others are referenced here.
Random Fact: it's not a coincidence that the name of the developer is the same of the protagonist: at the time, early 2000, italian Rpgmaker games were in many cases "Lol games", that's a category used to indicates humorous and parodistic adventures made among friends, starring themselves. The games sometimes featured sophomoric or crude humor and always used the default rpgmaker combat system.
Despite this, some like Scogno's Adventure were actually completed and done well enough to be appreciate also by non-friends of the developer.
Final Verdict: while not perfect, and including some errors and minor issues, this was an old classic with lots of content, many playable characters, an arena for extra battles and so on. A pretty impressive game at the time.