#shining soul

[wario-land]

Game Boy Advance's All Stars in...

SUPER SMASH BROS. ADVANCE

A concept idea made by me, because i love GBA and it's various games

[ometochtli2rabbit]

13.0.12.1.10

kalajun[12] OK/TZI [dog] oxlajun[13] CEH

galactic tone: understanding/ complex stability

sun sign: dog/white/north

enjoy friends and family - MAYA

chicome[7] - ITZCUINTLI [dog]

Tlahuizcalpantecuhtli | Mictlantecuhtli

quetzaltotolin

lord of the night: Tlaloc

trecena[12]: Tlaloc

x: caxtolli-omome[17]- tlacaxipehualiztli - NAHUA

a few days ago, i was told i look like a monkey. I have nothing against monkeys, so i know the guy was just trying to bait me into a reaction. this guy was using a slur for Japanese people, many of whom I have great respect for and I don't like hearing slurs. so i asked him to cool it which he took as an opportunity to escalate the situation into violence. he continued to say something about people needing to go back to "their own country." when I asked him what if he was talking to me, he asked me, "what are you going to do about it?" and came towards me. thankfully, a library staff member intervened, telling him to leave. i didn't insult or threaten him, though i did stand up to protect myself. in the old days... well, instead of internalizing his insult, i have decided to see the hidden reason he would try to get into my head like that. i know it's more about him than me. it's how this world wants us to do to one another. to make us "the other" or a thing, but I know i'm growing, so i will not let it affect me. Enjoy these songs that include THING in them:

Bo Diddley: Pretty Thing

Prince Rogers Nelson: Hot Thing

Billie Eilish: Wildflower

Queen: Crazy Little Thing Called Love

Juice Newton: The Sweetest Thing

Ms. Lauryn Hill: Sweetest Thing

Depeche Mode: Everything Counts

Dave Gahan: One Thing

Roxy Music: Main Thing

U2: Even Better Than the Real Thing

Jennifer Lopez: Love Don't Cost A Thing

Eddie Cochran: Something Else

Howard Jones: Things Can Only Get Better

Shining Soul: Doing My Thang

Solange: Things I Imagined

Slipknot: 742617000027

Metallica: The Thing That Should Not Be

Johnny Cash: Oh, What A Good Thing We Had

Dusty Springfield" I've Got A Good Thing

The Troggs: Wild Thing

Jimi Hendrix: Wild Thing

James Brown: Get Up Offa That Thing

Fleetwood Mac: Tell Me All the Things You Do

The Fixx: One Thing Leads to Another

Kylie Minogue: Wouldn't Change A Thing

The Police: Every Little Thing She Does Is Magic

Willie Nelson: Things To Remember

David Bowie: Shapes of Things

Booker T and the MGs: Doin' Our Thing

Snotty Nose Rez Kids: Something Else

The Kinks: Things Are Getting Better

George Harrison: All Things Must Pass

The Beatles: Something

Sten Joddi, Chase Manhattan, Adrian Harjo, Tha Native, & Joey Stylez: It's A Native Thang

[gamerzylo]

[redinkquill]

Can you identify the colors I shine?

Can you see which are mine?

I know not the colors

That shine from my soul

Can you tell me what they are

And help make me whole?

[nakamorijuan]

清水咲斗子 - SHINING SOUL Satoko Shimizu - SHINING SOUL Tenku Senki SHURATO - 1st Opening Theme

[claire-starsword]

Shining Force Translations/Loreposting masterpost

About time I tried to organize all the rambling i do here.

Update: also organizing things even better on a website on Neocities, it’s still a work in progress but I hope to one day just replace this entire mess of links with it.

For now though, the mess of links below is the best we’ve got.

Shining Force:

partial translation of character bios from the Shining Force Encyclopedia (original scans here)

translations of the Shining Force Kouryaku no Tebiki Book (original scans here), starting from the character bios, then getting to Max’s diary, the epilogue interview with Nova, and the Country Guide.

translations of the Shining Force World Book  (original scans here)

partial translations of the Shining Force Data Collection from Beep Megadrive magazine

Write up on the japanese pre release coverage of the game, including plenty of changed/removed content

Write up on unused content in the game seen through a ROM editor.

Some further investigation on unused content visible with walk through wall cheats: Khris’ scandalous secret line, unused NPCs in Alterone, and weirdness in chapter 7 and the debug mode (note: i have since then sadly confirmed that lines related to the unused event in Metapha are sadly removed in the JP version as well).

The unused content info is also summarized on TCRF as well.

that one post where i ramble a lot about the ending, including the japanese/english differences

All HQ quotes in the japanese and english versions

All special quotes from the ship HQ of Chapter 5, japanese and english versions

Bloodline of the Sacred Dragons novel translation [ongoing]

Shining Force CD/Gaiden 1 & 2:

Discussion and retranslation of the initial characters’ introduction scene

Sadposting about Hindel plus a small correction to the localization

tfw you don’t have money for treatment in Book 3

Hanzou’s bio from the Guide Book

Natasha is Nick’s cousin according to the SFCD manual

Origin of Apis’ name

Final Conflict:

Translation of all HQ quotes. From what I’ve seen these were mistranslated in the fan translation patch.

Sprite rips and comparisons between the original graphics and the sprites from Shining Force Chronicles 3, the lost mobile version of the game.

Darksol concept art

A few scenes from the start

Me crying about the ending

Unused spell indexes

The Natadecoco/Yogurt lore...

Not mine but worth linking here: the only footage of Shining Force Chronicles 3 I’ve ever found.

Shining Force 2:

All HQ quotes in the japanese and english versions, plus some related stuff from a guide book

Translation of the encyclopedia. You gotta put up with some rambling at the start because i didn’t put that in a different tag my bad.

Manual translations (The prologue and character bios). Also includes a retranslation of the lore dump of Tristan and discussion of the names changed by localization.

Write up of the japanese pre release coverage of the game, including plenty of early build screenshots. The post is currently broken and cannot be edited, but unlike what it says I won’t be making a second part, there are only a few screenshots missing and I’ll put them on TCRF later and link it here.

Bloodline of the Sacred Dragons novel translation [ongoing] (listed it twice in the post since it takes place between SF1 and SF2 with plenty of characters and elements from both)

Sadposting about Hawel

Observation about the Granseal escape sequence that haunts me

Ramblings and love for Zynk

Oddeye’s concept art/beta design

My gameplay of the japanese version. I didn’t make an specific tag for it so you gotta scroll past a few english posts first, my bad. Also I stopped the playthrough at Red Baron. Overall take translations in this one with a grain of salt because it’s messy and old.

Japanese and english versions of the conflict with Oddeye

Me trying and failing to understand the lore dump at Hassan

Fairly important cut line from Zynk

Shining Force GBA:

The english version’s odd obsession with giving relatives to people

HQ dialogue

English Nova forgets Anri exists

Shining Wisdom:

Guide Book translations

Interview snippet from before the game’s launch that says Final Conflict characters were meant to have a cameo appearance there

Shining in the Darkness:

JP manual and intro translation, plus a mention of Dark Dragon in a magazine

Shining Soul 2

Translation of the prologue and bios of the playable characters from the guide book and official website

Translation of bios of the town NPCs

Translation of bios of the boss characters

Masterpost about the lost mobile games

The general tag for discussing localization stuff

My playthroughs. Note that back at some of those playthroughs I hadn’t yet dived into guides and lore and stuff so they might have mistakes and stuff, I’m not linking them as a source of info, just as a source of fun:

Shining Force

Shining Force CD

Final Conflict

Shining Force 2

Shining Force GBA

Shining Soul

Shining Soul 2, mostly with a Slade sprite hack

Shining Wisdom

Landstalker

[doamarierose-honoka]

Yoshitaka Tamaki, the artist and character designer behind Shining in the Darkness, Shining Force, Landstalker and many other classic titles, passed away earlier this year, it has been revealed.

Tamaki passed away on July 13th following a battle with lung cancer. He was just 55 years old. A private service was held in his memory today.

Having initially worked as a freelance artist for Enix, Tamaki would join Hiroyuki Takahashi at the newly-formed Climax Entertainment to create Shining in the Darkness on the Sega Genesis / Mega Drive. While he is most famous for the art and character designs he produced, Tamaki would also contribute to story and scenario writing on several titles he worked on.

As well as working on the Shining series and the seminal action adventure Landstalker, Tamaki would also work on FEDA: The Emblem of Justice (Super Famicom), Lady Stalker (Super Famicom), FEDA Remake!: The Emblem of Justice (Saturn), Alundra (Playstation), Time Stalkers (Dreamcast), Shining Soul (GBA), Shining Soul II (GBA) and Shining Force Neo (PS2). He is also credited on Shining Force: Resurrection Of The Dark Dragon, a GBA remake of the original game.

Back in 2018, fellow Climax / Camelot Software Planning artist Hiroshi Kajiyama, who also worked on the Shining series, passed away.

[jet-grind]

[moonsinpenumbra]

I love him

[femboyyuri]

i knew about the existence of the shining soul games but i never actually really paid attention to them

turns out they were both directed by akira ueda (the contact guy) and it shows , with how relatively low stakes and chill the games are

the 2nd game features some INCREDIBLY masafumi takada music, it sounds just like something you’d hear in the silver case

[sharp-hamburguer]

This post was a ploy to get good gba game reccomendations btw

Guys if we're quick about it i think we can replace tumblr with a gba emulator

[kurhl]

A equipe toda unida para enfrentar o monstro de Shining Soul.

[ometochtli2rabbit]

13.0.12.1.7

b'olon[9] MANIK'/K'IEJ[deer] lajun[10] CEH

galactic tone: patience/ cyclic periodicity

sun sign: deer/black/west

be of service to others - MAYA

chicunahui[9] - MAZATL [deer]

Quetzalcoatl | Tlaloc

totolin[turkey]

lord of the night: Chalchihuitlicue

trecena[9]: Tlaloc

x: nahui [4] - tlacaxipehualiztli - NAHUA

since we are halfway through Native American Heritage Month, I wanted to get some more NATIVE artists on a playlist:

Tall Paul Hip Hop: Someone Great Who Looked Like Me & Protect Ya Spirit & All Kings

Shining Soul: Good Times

Rezcoast Grizz: Water

Jade Turner: Worth

Bigg B ft. N8: Deep End

Las Cafeteras: Mujer Soy (remix)

Artson Ft. MC Red Cloud: Focused

Raye Zaragoza: In the River: A Protest Song

Shibastik: Stay (on the Wind)

Wolf Saga: Walls

Doc Native & Spencer Battiest: The Storm

Jessa Calderon: Walk Away

Mozart Gabriel: Across Seas

Quese IMC: Life So Great

Tha 'Yoties: Sunflower Girl

MC Woes: Raise it Up

Alas: Deathless & Untitled

Hellnback: Feelin Like

Gemma Castro: Me Acostumbraste

Supaman: Prayer Loop Song

Audiopharmacy: Solidarity

Soufy: Joyful

Lyla June: All Nations Rise

Metallica (Robert Trujillo): You Must Burn

Funkdoobiest: Tomahawk Bang

Tiana Spotted Thunder: Stand By Me (Lakota Version)

Link Wray: Comanche

Sten Joddi: They Don't Understand Me

Trixie Mattel, Vanessa Williams & Lion Babe: Bop!

Snotty Nose Rez Kids ft. Beau Dick: Skoden & SHAPESHIFTER

[gamerzylo]

[dean-winchester-is-a-warrior]

OMG, when I tell you I'm sitting here bawling - I am BAWLING!! This is SO beautiful and so true. And the fact that for so long he just sees himself as a killer, as something just dark and violent. 😩😩

This is truly an absolutely beautiful tribute and I'll be back to read it many times. ❤️

the way dean gives so much love and receives love in return always makes me so soft 😭

people love him and connect with him because he's always reaching out - he tries so hard to bond with people and make them happy and he's so thoughtful and kind. truly, genuinely, kind. he's not ~nice~ (nice people are fake!) he's honest and real and beautiful and true and everyone he meets responds to that. his milkshake really does bring everyone to the yard and thank you for the reminder!!!

Think even of how many times Dean has snapped people out of mind control! John, Bobby, Cas, Rufus, Sam, Mary. How many HUGS he’s given how many people he’s said “I love you” to without saying it. Think about how he got through to Lucas in 1.03 and got him to begin communicating with him when no one (not even his MOM) could by empathizing with him and telling him he was listening. When he pulled John out of mind control with a simple plea. When he pulled Bobby out of mind control by telling him Bobby’s like a father to him and he won’t let him die. When Bobby was suicidal and Dean sat down with him and when Charlie was grieving her parents and Dean saw and he listened. When he perpetually cooled Sam’s self-destructive desire for revenge in 1.21/1.22. Think about Dean and Victor’s instant, easy camaraderie in Jus In Bello. Think about Dean instantly gaining Ronald’s trust in Nightshifter. Think about the lawyer he convinced to help him and Sam in “Folsom Prison Blues”, or the cops in “The Usual Suspects” and “The Benders” who he got to believe him just by being sincere. Think about Crowley lovesick flipping through Flickr albums and Dean talking him through his toxic relationship with his mom. Think about Cas being tortured and conditioned to kill Dean thousands of times but not being able to do it when the time comes because of a simple plea. Think about Dean fighting through 360 degree combat looking for Cas even though Cas abandoned him and didn’t want to be found and Dean was the only source of fresh meat around. Think about Jo and Lisa swooning and Dean and Cassie accidentally breaking each other’s hearts. Think about Dean cleaning wounds and putting blankets over Sam and Cas’s shoulders when they’re sick and making people food, and sharing movies and music he loves with his best friend. Think about Dean kissing Charlie on the top of the head and cooking Kevin eggs and cooking Sam soup and burgers and cooking a birthday cake for Jack and making a Winchester Surprise with Mary and playing Words With Friends to try and connect. He’s the most loving guy in the whole wide world everyone wants to be loved by him or to be him or to hold him or be held by him there is blood and dirt under his nails he gets called a killer but he loves so so fiercely so so deeply he uses his hands to nurture and care for others he hugs so so tight and while the people he loves are beating him bloody he is reaching out to them snapping them out of it with love. He saved the world with love TWICE.

[alemonro]