#shining wisdom

"Epic Shining Wisdom is a remake of the classic Sega Saturn game, adapted from an action rpg to a tactical rpg like the other Shining Force games, using the Game Maker 2 engine. The concept is very simple: What would happen if instead of just Kazin and Sarah being sent by Granseal to help Mars, they sent the Caravan full of the heroes from Shining Force 2? Thus, Mars can recruit the beloved heroes of Granseal while fighting alongside Wisdom characters like Princess Satera and Gudo Fairy."

Game is being made by Didakus, you can read more on his website here. He approached me months ago to commission map sprites for the game (including all the ones you see above), and as you might have noticed he's also using a bunch of my battle sprite edits and portraits as well, those have always been free to use and there they are, being freely used.

DAY 1642) CrossCode - Rhombus Square 

Composer: Deniz Akbulut

So when I first heard this I thought there was no way this wasn’t inspired by “And Then...” from Shining Wisdom, which I just posted yesterday!!! So I asked the composer if it was and indeed yes this track is an acknowledged tribute to that specific piece of music and it makes me so happy to know that it was a tribute to that of all things!

In line with “And Then...” this is mostly 4/4 but with subtle parts that aren’t!

(0:02 - 0:10) 4/4, 4/4, 4/4, 5/4

(0:10 - 1:02) 24 bars of 4/4, 1 bar of 2/4

(1:02 - 1:12) 8 bars of 5/8

(1:12 - 1:29) 7 bars of 9/8

(1:29 - 2:15) 20 bars of 4/4, 1 bar of 2/4, 2 bars of 4/4