Shantae Thread

I found Pirate's Curse to be just comfy to play.

I'd say a 7.5/10 is fair for the game. An 8 if i'm feeling generous.
I'll wait for 1/2 hero to go on sale before getting it.

I'll have to wait until Risky mode comes out, speaking of Risky, I didn't expect her to be that evil, I always thought she was just a selfish prick, not a destroyer of worlds.

Because she's already dead but still good looking user. She can do nearly whatever she wants and still fuck you silly.

What is she thinking about, Holla Forums?

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Half Genie Hero is a good game, but I'd still rate Pirate's Curse as the best in the series. Really the only thing HGH did better was the graphical upgrade but everything else feels a bit lacking compared to Pirate's Curse. First off, a whole bunch of transformations that either cross over in use or have barely any use at all. You don't need two water traversing transformations, or two flying transformations. Mouse was only used for getting 2 or 3 collectables, same for the spider (who becomes obsolete once you get the harpy).

No real story in HGH either, or characters to back it up with. Kind of feels like HGH was intended to be made as an episodic game released in chunks, because it's always the same formula: Mimic tells you to go find something for his device, you go find it, he tells you to find the next one. Nothing of consequence happens inbetween the questing: Risky appears as the opener boss, then fucks off for the whole game, replacement genie shows up, turns out to have some interesting backstory and traits, then disappears and is never mentioned again. Characters like Sky, Rottytops and Bolo stand in one spot and don't do anything of consequence or interest. Ultimately boils down a series of barely veiled fetch quest without context or pay off, just got to scour the levels for all the collectables, it's like DK64 but smaller.

Bit rambly but those are the things that kept getting into my mind playing HGH. Again, not a bad game, but I had just replayed Pirate's Curse before it came out and Pirate's Curse set a very high mark that HGH does not reach.

I wouldn't say it was bad, but it was a huge step back from Pirate's Curse and felt incredibly rushed and unfinished.

I don't know why this is a thing, but I want more of it forever

The alternative would be upgrading the old transformation. The benefit of a new transformation over upgrades is more cute Shantae animals. I fail to see the problem.
You're right on the mark with your other points though. And HGH is somewhat lacking in content overall, but that should be fixed with the updates.

More characters got funded through paypal later on.
kickstarter.com/projects/1236620800/shantae-half-genie-hero/posts/1089085
Too bad we didn't get nega-Shantae chapter or voice acting, the little bit of voice acting makes my dick diamonds.

That's Emo Shantae. Leave the Goths out of this.