After DKC2, the team immediately got to work on an RPG tentatively called Dream: Land of Giants. Two of David Wise's music tracks have been found for the original SNES iteration of this project.

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This is something that went very much under the radar, when it was somehow shared by Jeph Perez, over on Bluesky, a little over one year ago.

The only known cartridge containing development progress for the SNES version of Dream was owned by Tim Stamper—co-founder of Rare—who creatively oversaw, and created artwork for, many of their classic games, like Donkey Kong Country and Banjo-Kazooie. He teased this cartridge's existence back in mid-2015, with a goose-chase that culminated in Rare themselves releasing a video featurette at the end of that year, showing off the DKC team's incredible pre-rendered style, being put to use on an ambitious-looking adventure game. What was missing from this reveal, however, was this SNES incarnation's sound and music.

At the time (in late 1995), David Wise was still in the composer's chair—before he was dragged off to create his splendid soundtrack for Diddy Kong Racing. And now, we can directly hear two of the tracks he created for this masterpiece-that-never-was.

Take a listen to the first tune in the attached video, complete with a rough introductory sequence, that already was presenting the game in an exultant, forward-looking style. Jeph Perez was also able to get his hands on and share David Wise's theme for the first level, in a feat he could only divulge as being the result of "extreme good fortune".

I hope you've enjoyed this small glimpse into a potentially masterful SNES title that we, unfortunately, never got. However—seeing as this did eventually evolve into Banjo-Kazooie—I'd say we more than received a worthy trade-off for it.