Shizuka ~ CrossCode (Original Game Soundtrack)
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Music composed by Deniz Akbulut ( / sirakumon )
Album artwork by Nemuri ( / nmrbk )
Published on Sep 20, 2018 by Materia Collective LLC
"I've found you, faker!"
"Faker? You're comparing yourself to me?"
"I've found you, faker!"
"Hi? Lea! Why?!"
"Who are you?"
"I am you, but stronger."
"Who are you?"
"Lea, hi!"
Theme of a woman who really needs a hug.
and a goat with too much power
This gave me a guilty laugh
@homo weirdus that's exactly the behaviour of someone who needs a hug.
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Shizuka, best tomboy.
Hearing this again in the Goatfather DLC fight was probably the most funniest shit I've experienced.
cant believe shizuka turned into an insanely powerful goat 🙏🙏🙏
@@Sockren Shizuka is merely an evotar of Goatfather, there's no way around it
The music is GOAT, it checks out
Her ID is Bento-Chan
Her Password is 8 words, most likely "Password"
She is a dev in this game.
before shizuka appeared for second time i keep calling Lea "Bento-chan" the whole game
I thought our tomboy shizuka was a play tester
Yes, she's part of QA (mentioned in one of the dialogues if you have her and Apollo in the same party and end an S rank streak).
The intro is godlike. Such a perfect transition for an incoming battle.
The tension and grief are present in this track, and it's just so good I can't describe it very well.
I read that as incoming balls, but that is also correct tbh
Nice pfp
When you think about it, Apollo might as well have been training you for pvp combat since the beginning in bergen trail
And this is your final exam
And I got 4-4 on my first playthrough. I suck at PVP battles.
@@sphereoffice7789 i did too even though your fight with Shizuka is scripted to end in a tie.
@@xDinomanx But you can get a 5-0 with dash arts.
@@sphereoffice7789 it's possible to 5-0 but youd need to play super aggro
@@sphereoffice7789 It took me something like 50 qitouts and restarts to beat her. this fight is insanely fucking tight, because tier 3 combat arts are insanely fucking powerful against something that only has the healthpool of a player...
Just got to the duel recently...
I think this is my favorite song of all time now.
"you know, there's no rule that states a copy can't beat the original"
Shizuka: *REEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!*
1:15
There's only a few games that have reached something like this.
I mean, after all, ...
Spoilers ahead.
Lea is based on Shizuka. Hearing the common part of their themes was truly one of the best moments in any game for me.
Yesssssssssssssssss
I mean it's a reprisal of Lea's theme, wdym "common part"?
@@Greensburgg up to that point (the timestamp), I can't hear the similarities between the two themes. It's that part that links them together.
That's probably what I meant... It's an year old comment lol
@@DawnAfternoon but the whole point of like over half of CrossCode and its DLC is to underline that an evotar and the person they're based on can't be the same person. They have severe amnesia when first being made, then they develop as their own individual from their different experiences. They can even turn against the same ideals the original held.
@@Greensburgg yeah late but thouh its not quite a letimotif i think, lea's theme has a lot more calming synthy sounds and that part of this song kinda incorporates that feeling which ties the two themes together. at least thats what i think the parent comment was getting at.
The actual hardest fight in the game.
I hope they add a lvl 99 rematch against Shizuka in the post game DLC chapter once it's out.
@@ZoraPMC on top of that, Apollo 4 needs to happen, and dueling the other party members would be great
@@achievedchair17 not sure it would make sense canonically. Even tho it would be cool.
Before the first duel apollo says:
"You know what a duel means?
Sphereomancer vs sphereomancer. No pentafist"
Would be cool to fight like a triblader or hexacast tho.
@@arti2074 He's saying that a duel is one vs one, so Emilie can't back Lea up in her fight against Apollo. Not that PvP matches are something literally exclusive to Spheromancers.
This fight was easy as fk.
Now, if this fight was BEFORE you get access to Rhombus Square, then yes, it would be hard.
I don't know why you guys chose to reuse this music for the DLC Goatfather fight, but I'm glad you did.
Fighting against your real self...freaking emotional
Lea don't looks like a full copy of Shizuka's, she looks more like a "new" character based on the DNA of Shizuka.
Maybe it is because she is the first super AI, this make her an imperfect copy.
@@computervision557 not DNA, but based off her memories and in game avatar (game lore reveals this). as for her being imperfect as she was the first i'd agree with that. the reason why satoshi hasn't fixed her in all that time is still beyond me however.
It is also worth keeping in mind that EVEN if Lea would be perfect copy of Shizuka at moment of her creation, from that moment they both had diffrent life and expiriences. That alone would make them not same person. And Lea was not a perfect copy in first place (as was already pointed out). Anyway, all in all - fantastic game, super story and great music :)
I plan to mirror match Shizuka for my first playthrough. Already spoiled myself a bit but still is a hype moment. Mirroring the same elements would prolong the fights...but...I know the Switch version she becomes unbeatable after 4 rounds won by Lea because level 3 wind unavoidable one-shot. But, if Undertale has taught me anything, is that determination can change fate.
@@ZoraPMC When she starts charging, switch to Neutral and use the level 1 guard art Guard Sphere. That'll cut the damage by so much it's hilarious.
i was so pumped during that fight and then when this part hit at 1:15 i was like 'OH MY GOD IT'S THE THING FROM THE THING" while trying to pay attention at the fight since it's the part that plays from some sad themes and the lea theme when she logs in
This is amazing, just reached this point. Everything is epic about this. the circumstance, the sync with dialogue, the fight itself, the good music, traces of lea's leitmotif in there AAAAAAA
Never bought a soundtrack until now. Can't stop listning to this track in particular, figured it would be worth more to buy it rather than using youtube whenever I want to listen to this.
*_*TURNS UP VOLUME TO MAX*_*
Don't listen too loudly, please take care of your ears! 😅
But that's exactly how we take care of our ears? By listening to this GODLY OST at full volume. We're giving em the VIP treatment yo.
literally me when the fight started
Damn Right!
Well... Two of my favourite confrontations in computer games are this (Lea VS Shizuka) and one from Celeste (Madeline vs Badeline). Despite games being totally diffrent, they both put player's characters into confronting themselfs... And spiced it with totally beautifull music.
I am not surprised somebody in this comment section has not only heard of Celeste, but played it through.
I wholeheartedly agree with this. I played Celeste first, and then CrossCode. And when I got to the point where Shizuka and Lea were... well, explained... I almost instantly related it to Madeline and Badeline's fight.
TLDR you said it better than I could. The greatly composed music, in combo with both game's fight scenes, is a rare and special occurrence IMO.
@@nup5 I also played Celeste first. It's a masterpiece but a lot of people are aware of that fact. On the other hand practically nobody talks about CrossCode despite it being up there with the best indie games of all time
@@Praxium quite unfortunate, isn't it...
from my understanding, Celeste climbed (heh) up popularity wise mostly because of the speedrunning community. It was MASSIVE during the game's golden years. In fact it's STILL active.
I share CrossCode with people that I get the opportunity with. Because yes, this game deserves way more love than it has received
Well... I will just tell that I never heard about Celeste from Speed(gamewasting)running community. In fact, should I learn about game from them it would be HUGE DETERRANT from even trying it. But that is just my personal point of view on speedrunning and that community. I learned about game from one of YT videos, where a man was talking about general game mechanics (can't remember name of channel). It grabbed my attention and I thought - why not? Let's give it a try! I played CrossCode first, then Celeste. And if I would be forced to pick ONE of the two I would go for CrossCode as better game. Better being super subjective of course. That is just my opinion after all. Nothing more :)
I could make a comment about how emotional it was during the shizuka fight but. I will only say: goat.
True, it was extremly funny when I recogniced this song during the goatfather fight
One of my favorite track. I love the various variation of Lea's theme really.
Man... This music... Geez... Why I didn't get this music during the Final battle ? It's by far the best of all the game, making the fight aigainst Shizuka really intense !
Just realized it sounds like two different songs are playing together at the same time, one peaceful and one full of energy
A perfect contrast between Lea and Shizuka.
Generally how you're supposed to do a boss that is tragic while making it sound energetic. The slow and low tones convey a mournful feeling and stay in the forefront, while the tempo conveys the energy in the background. Thus creating a boss that fully envelops the concept of mourning rage.
An argument can be made that this is also Lea's theme, but she is different. To say that she should share this theme would be to deny the impact that all her friends had on her, which Shizuka does not share in at large. Hence why Lea was able to survive being told she's a direct copy, while others were not.
This song + This boss + everything that happens after it makes for easily my favorite stretch of gameplay, probably in any game.
Probably my favorite boss(?) fight in game, I always like battle where both sides have the same conditions or skill sets.
Also I just noticed these OST videos are gaining more views!
Festive Meme no advantages, no gimmicks, no unfair spikes, just you and you alone
Honestly the music just elevated the fight so much it was so epic I fought her like 6 times and never got bored thanks to it
Crosscode devs used the same trick as Cave Story, but backwards. They used Shizuka's theme as the trailer music which you hear first even before getting the game, and then near the end of the game. Cave Story does something similar, it uses the main menu theme which you hear when you boot the game, in one of the last areas. It is so nostalgic.
That is an interesting trick, yes. I believe "Enderal: Shards of Order" does something similar. It reuses the theme which is first associated with the game's prologue, in order to create a particular eerie feeling at key places in the narrative.
It was hard to beat her.
It's like Apollo x100.
I kept spamming Blade Sphere and got 6-0 against her. I should've done the same with Apollo for the trophy 😥
@@MegaPixlz Lvl 2 art for fire swirl is good too , since you draw her in.
i got 0 to 6 :(
@@rii7531 I myself got 5-1 fighting without tricks , and was lower level than her...
i was 56-57 , while Shizuka is 60 , if i'm not mistaken.
Spiro Dra oh, i was lvl 51 but I still beat the game with that lvl
I kinda wish that the final boss was an emotional duel like this one was. It felt so awesome to finally battle her.
Yet at the same time, decimating the Blue Avatar was also g o o d.
yeah i agree. but rip (SPOILER) gautham tho
T H E U L T I M A T E E X P E R I E N C E
I recently finished the game, and by god, that final boss was something else. Requiring all your knowledge of the elements. It was a damn marathon.
Blue Avatar: Hahaha check out my quintillion hp you fool
Lea: 🅱ye.
The first part of the fight, the reprise of where he captures you in Bergen, to be more fun than the final boss fight.
Hearing this in game, out of game, its just great
The "Dante Vs Vergil" of this game
things only get more epic when you discover the devs made it so shizuka AI is based on all the pvp matches you had with apollo, so she becomes your true counter.
god this game is such a 11/10!
really?
soo what if you lost all of them?
This is a Lie, Everyone on the forum and in the Discord, said that is not true
The really ingenious part is that this only works because Apollo is also a spheromancer. They must have designed his entire character around this single idea (or it was a lucky coincidence).
You got a source for that claim? lmao
So that's why she was infuriatingly hard, I beat Apollo all three times without losing a round once.
@@sfvmexe is a lie, shizuka dont take that into account
Most emotional fight in the game. Somewhat diminished if you just let her kill you. This fight deserves to a fair one with equal levels and both sides putting up a good fight.
[EDIT] That said, you could interpret it as Lea being so scared by what Shizuka is yelling at her that she feels she deserves to just stand there and get beat up. That she really is nothing more than a bad copy with no place in the world.
Wait, get killed? As in completely deleted?
I lost first time around , but the second time i managed to beat her 5 to 1.:D
I agree it might've been a good moment, but I think I was 49 and not expecting a boss at 60. I just put my controller down and checked my phone.
I got a very severe but also very well earned 5-0.
In fact I feel like I kinda played poorly just to give the fight a more intense feeling. Mind you, I was lv56.
@Robert Cop
Same happened to me, over 10 levels higher is hard. I managed to kill her once though! Just saved up special points and hit her with 2 of my strongest art in a row. No chance otherwise.
By far my favourite music of the soundtrack, at the same time epic, sad and nostalgic. Just purchased the album today! I have finished the game not long ago and I can't wait to see what the post-game content will deliver.
why is this game so underrated 😭
It made me sad that Sergei didn't take the time to anticipate her meeting Shizuka and programming the word "Sister" for Lea. That would've been a good feel for the tree talk.
Oh that would tear my heart APART!
Installing the word sister is hella dangerous
@@shinobidaniel_12 Only if you're allergic to doki.
@Edge Valmond Funny now you mention it. The Lea board.
@@alkaupadhyay7650 THE LEA BOARD
i love all the soundtracks but damm this one is my favorite, you're so awesome!
To me, this song has both "sadness" and "determination" combined. How you managed to translate such feelings into sounds is beyond me. It's brimming with emotions. Fantastic piece!
i really hate how this emotional intense battle theme is now thought of in my head as the god goat boss
I love this game and music. It was the ultimate experience.
1:15 God this part gives me goosebumps and makes me emotional, it's SO GOOS
Theme of remembering how Apollo mentioned that PvP gets a lot more interesting once you get your level 3 skills and subsequently realizing that you did not level up enough for this fight.
Guard sphere go brrrrrr
1:15 these parts always give me goosebumps
Gotta love “Rematch where the player and the opponent are on equal ground this time” fights. So satisfying.
So this is my favorite piece of the whole game i serously want to thank you for your effort and the emotions you tried to transmit. It was truly perfect
Ah yes, the "me getting my shit pushed in" song.
One of the best songs I’ve ever heard, and that isn’t a joke
It would be so awesome if Apollo dueled Shizuka in post game :D
Duel of the ages!
If she was a party member imagine how happy Apollo would be. Triple the Spheromancers!
@@pizza9798 tbh i'm guessing when postgame is finished she will be.
I thought there was a new game plus mode... never listening to steam post again
oh man....if she's available for the party when the epilogue comes out I'm SO doing a triple spheromancer run. Cuz HELL YEAH. Otherwise if Lukas and uh...you know who who is related to Lukas are both available, totally doing that....cuz awkward :P
Now know as the "Don Goatneo" theme song.
What have the Goatfather and Shizuka got in common?
Horns.
I recently beat Shizuka 2 nights ago. Damn intense fight with this music and the intro.
Still needing time to grind and prepare for the next main quest.
I gotta say, Shizuka wasn't hesitant to use Level 3 Combat Arts, but luckily those sticky situations made me improvise the use of Neutral Guard Arts (which became a habit to me) against Shizuka's Artillery Gatling (Level 3 Cold Range Art) and Ether Snipe (Level 3 Wave Range Art).
Duel with Apollo made me nervous, but with Shizuka it's more intense plus emotional.
this is my favorite track from this game i never played.
Wishlisted on Steam!
same bro
Both of you, go play the demo, hell pirate if you have to, it's worth it
Man, I hope the DLC gives you the option to fight Shizuka again, somewhat close to your level. Put her and the other characters in the arena, like Kingdom Hearts, or something.
Level 99 rematch would be PEAK CROSSCODE!
We got apollo
You can if you go find her at the tree at the old hideout at some point
2 years too late, but you can rematch her in the DLC! Find her at that pretty tree in the old hideout before starting the last section of the dlc (it gives you a warning.) You two talk for a second and she says she wants a rematch, and adds a custom cup to the arena; you can challenge her any time you want from here.
Well I got some news for you
The similarities between shizuka theme(this) and Mother's love(from undertale yellow) are pretty clear
both are emo women when you fight them
Wow can't believe crosscode would steal from Undertale yellow like that, how shameless
what a game, found it on newground like 3 year ago but only got time to play it full like a month ago and now just finished it. And I glad that I played it.
August 2nd 2022
Here's a reminder to play it again
@@deadboyo2773 will do this weekend
All of CC OST is amazing but holy fuck did Intero outdo himself with all the new 1.0 tracks. Literally every single one of them is incredible and even more so than the earlier tracks.
Theme of my two favourite fights in the game: woman who needs more emotional support, and the most powerful goat to ever live
It was terrible to overcome that I couldn't make an actual win in this duel, especially with that this is the only chance I can slap her back. The taste of defeat was just so bitter.
Just save before the fight, and when you lose just reset. I did it like this the first time. I saw the big area and so I tought: "Maybe there is a boss fight here, let's save first"
I synced this up with new year's how awesome
GODDAMNIT SHIZUKA
YAMEROOO
BAKA
Code:Best - VA
An epic duel!
Best
Boss
Music
Ever!
Man, just when I thought Grasshead was Hard, she blew that fool out the water.
this theme is the Goat
There's nothing like it, very good
My fight ended on Lea 4 - Shizuka 4, i thought that the duel wasn't supposed to be completed but apparently i was wrong
woah really? I wiped the floor with her with 5-0 and then winning the first round on the second fight untill it stopped essentially 6-0. She was easier than apollo lol. Or maybe it's because i abused the FK out of my hp regen wave build.
You and me both, game point both moment
Same as me
4-4 is the cannon timeline. Makes sense the duel ends on final match point when they're basically equals.
same with me, his brother called her via D-link and the batle ended
I haven't gotten to this part yet in the game but I'm loving this song
It's really tempting to look at the rest of the comments :(
毎日聞いてる
The strat is to use the time slow effect with the electricity element.
Or the level 3 fire dash art, both are absolutely busted in PVP fights
"you're just a cheap fuckin' knock off, pal"
"oh, no no no- i'm the upgrade."
Everyone here talking about how hard this fight was. and then there's my dumb ass who thought going there would be a point of no return and completed every quest in the game before even facing her.
Blowing this music through my speaker! YEET
Masterpiece
Lea's story hits really close to home for me. Being a trans woman, it's really easy to relate to Lea's specific struggle for identity. A large part of being trans is discovering who you are after your entire perception of yourself shatters apart. I can just imagine Lea shouting "I'M REAL!!" during this fight if she could. I want to shout that sometimes, too. Beautiful piece, it really captures that intensity :)
This is all in my experience ofc, every trans person has their own path. It's just a very common thing I've noticed we relate to.
the moment Lea breaks down in the forbidden zone gives me chills every time
oh wow same
I'm also trans, although for me the main reason i relate to Lea is because of... bad shit my parents said and did in the past
and... god
Shizuka saying stuff to Lea like "you have no right to exist" felt like getting fucking punched in the gut
but then i remembered... _Shizuka doesn't know anything about Lea's friends_
it's proof that Lea is her own person, with her own life, and Shizuka _cant stop that_
those parts hurt a lot to play, but they were also really really good
It's amazing. Really.
Oh my god i love this game so much, i lost the 2nd and 3rd apollo fight, but this music pumped me up so much when i heard it for the first time when i met shizuka. i was so inspired to do my best. I won 5/0. Call that plot armor.
I was way to underleveled for this fight.
This game is so beautiful 👍 Germans inspired by Japanese Culture and vice versa.
You know, despite arguably being overleveled when I finally got to her from doing all that Rhombus Square booster stuff, I still found this battle super intense and was hyper focused on the fight. :p I raged hard on her and everything, LOL. XD
Sigh... and when she acted like she was going to initiate a second duel, I was pissed, LOL. :p (I think it's technically 6 fights you have to win, but whatever. :?).
So I have returned after fighting Shizuka at lvl 58...the results that got me to lvl 60 was 6-1. First set 5-1, second set 1-0. I thought matching her elements instead of going opposite for increase damage actually helped me more than hurt me because of damage reduction. I even survived a direct Either Shot from her...but couldn't survive a second one during an elemental overload... but still...best fight in the game!
So just finished my fight with the ending was sick she hit me with the big shock time stop dash art and immedianlty after I hit her with the big wave sniper throw art
ahhhh this game was SOOOOOO GOOD BRUH I HATED THE PUZZLES BUT HAHA IT WAS SO GOOD
After the way she acted and ruining that beautiful zen garden this was the moment you take revenge then have that heart to heart
i put off this battle for a while just because shizuka had such a violent burning hatred of lea at this point that i found it hard to handle, and god it made for such a good fight (even though i was level 67 by that point bc i'd been putting it off so long and because i got my butt kicked when i went in as a level 52, so i spent all that time practising how to play the game properly)
When you're winning but Shizuka decides to Ether Snipe you for shits and giggles
Guard sphere moment
"Scars are badass".
I made the mistake of repeatedly resetting right after she'd beat me, not realising that you weren't supposed to win 😔
It's more that it doesn't matter one way or the other. Because your opponent can't get what she wants by fighting and is simply too bullheaded to realize that.
If you're aiming for that boss trophy, you should at least win 3 times to make it count.
Level 3 fire dash art meteors melt her
I started off winning but during the bits of battle dialogue, I didn't want to win anymore.
CC spoilers
'Your angsty tomboy-ish sister who you're actually based on beats the shit out of you' theme
Shizuka made Telos and Hrist very proud of being dark and edgy. The literal Shadow the Hedgehog! :v
This music plays if Apollo is Player and Lea is Enemy.
Actually, it kinda fits his intros on every battle, no?
I could actually see that being a thing. Like at some point you temporarily play as Apollo as you face a corrupted Lea or something, and it could be the one pvp battle that you have to beat to progress.
@NinjaMaster909
That might happen since New Game Plus has been released.
Plot twist Shizuka is actually Lea’s clone
Wait...
Oh, ok! Yeah, that makes sense now.
Reminds me of the tales of abyss interaction with Jake and Luke.
hard to find a tales of fan those days xd
I don't know how, but the duel with her I barely scraped out a 6-0 score against Shizuka. Not gonna lie, tense fight.
i still think that shizuka originally was designed as a final boss
No she wasn't :P
Nah, compare her fight to Apollo's and you'll realize that the latter have more clever puzzle-y usage of abilities.
I kind of wish you were actually required to win this fight.
Went 4-4 against her before the battle was forcibly ended. On the one hand, I was slightly disappointed to not see the battle resolved, I kinda wanted to stick it to her after *that one* scene. On the other hand, ending on a tie, one round away from conclusion, it seems kinda perfect in hindsight. It was my first go, it was very tight and a much longer battle than I expected after how quickly the Apollo duels went by comparison (Polly beat me 2-1 across all three duels). And after seeing where the story goes from there, I'm kind of okay with leaving the winner undecided.
I didn't know that happened. A tie, huh?
@@Gale_Storm_ Yeah, I've seen now that she just immediately goes into another duel if you beat her more convincingly, but I never had that happen in my playthrough, so I guess maybe it's just 8 rounds or something and then the fight ends?
@@laggalot1012 Maybe, yeah. That would make sense.
@@laggalot1012 there's some behind-the-curtains math going on with the match, from what I've seen - the duel goes on for 12 match-points before an interruption happens, but Lea's wins count as 2 whilst Shizuka's count as 1. The most you can win is a 5-0 and then 1-0 on the second set, whilst Shizuka can beat you up for twelve whole rounds before being called. 4-4 ends up being the highest score you can get without a 2KO, since that puts the score tally to 12 and immediately calls the match off before either side can get the winning point.
And I only know that bit about the 2KO thing because it happened to me when I did that fight 😅 Shizuka still wants a rematch though, and the story progresses after either player gets a match point.
@@MrSmegheneghan Oh really, that's rather interesting. That's a fairly deliberate way to do it, compared to just going for X amount of rounds. I wonder how the devs settled on doing it exactly that way...
Thanks for sharing, anyway!
Woman fights her sister over absoloutley nothing in innacessible area of a VR MMO RPG
I wish it would have lasted more... First time I got decimatdd 5-0, then there was a second round where I won 3-0, but it suddenly stopped... It could have been a proper bossfight
Especially with that BANGER MUSIC
I beat the absolute shit out of shizuka using abilities that of course she couldn't use, time glitch, wave laser, ect.
I wish you can duel party members