#sgtws

Now, there are some rules to this jam:

Deadline is September 25th

The following week will have a video be up on YouTube of me going designs

Hell, I'm gonna go old school and make a PMV with the art designs sometime after that!

Keep it relatively sfw. ^^; Some people within my audience are young as preteens and I don't wanna get sued.

When posting online, please tag your posts as #gissyredesignjam or #SGtWSredesignjam (Tho in Tumblr's case, you can tag it as "Gissy Redesign Jam" or "SGtWS Redesign Jam")

No Art Theft or Gen A/I images. We don't need that shit in this household.

More importantly, have fun! Don't be afraid to take some creative liberties!

[For how I took some creative liberties, here is my past take]

Want clean PNG refs? Here are the character profiles with said refs: [Cynaiya] [Mellory] [Subiko] [Reparo] [Armix]

IF you want context for these characters, you can watch SGtWS here:

As everyone and their grandmother knows, Super Mario RPG is getting a remake that will release in November and all of us that had been waiting for what felt like eons got super hyped about that! The fan artists raised up like there was no tomorrow (Not to say there was a shortage of fan art but it surely HAS increased since the announcement)

In fact the only think I am sorta missing is the overly long subtitle "Legend of the Seven Stars". Like I get it, it was a thing the west added when the original was ported over to the states back in the mid '90s and they are not doing that for the remake but still! ;w; Ah well, that's just one thing I'll miss but other then that...HYPE!! :D

But there is a indie game I heard about that has been in development for a couple of years and that game is Another Crusade:

Now, I will say that the game does look cute! And from who I'm seeing for far, it seems to capture elements of the gameplay that SMRPG has.

With that said... boy do I feel a lil sorry for it. Like, it probably would had a little more hype surrounding it, had it finished a little earlier. (That said, I get that the devs wanted to take their time with this game and a month ago is probably the best earliest announcement time they could do. ;;;;.)

And in all fairness, it was in development for a couple of years and during the beginning, we didn't know SMRPG was coming back. We just assumed that it would have been a faded memory until June of THIS YEAR. ^^;

Hell, to put myself out there, I've literally made a fanime that has basically similar plot elements to SMRPG and that is Seven Guidances to Wishful Safety!!

This was made back in 2019!!!!! Granted, there were many factors the fell in place for this series existence:

This was for the 2019 Fanime Weekly Challenge, and what I initially planned for said challenge didn't go as well as I hope and had to make changes. I had to think of a story QUICK

TBH, I was a lil' petty towards Nintendo and Square Enix for not giving SMRPG much attention during that point (again, before the remake was announced.)

And the key differences between SGtWS and SMRPG is the fact that the former is sort of an isekai/multi-ream type of story, whereas the latter had most of the characters be the locals in the world itself (minus Geno and especially the Smithy Gang)

So really, even if I was a little more critical of Another Crusade, I know I am not one to criticize because... well, just look at Seven Guidances.

So yeah, even though I very much really want the SMRPG Remake (as well as my own Switch for that matter!!!!), I would also like to give Another Crusade a chance! :0 Since it is on Stream (as well as other platforms), I'll add it to my Steam.

Seems tho that AC is going to release around a couple of days (September 15th) so I could probably give this a chance early while I wait for the SMRPG remake.

I know there are probably going to be some folks being a little more critical of it than I am and I can understand but for me, I want to give it a fair chance. (Again, I am certainly now one to criticize, FDSGOJFDBOTR)