Shantae

released on Jun 02, 2002

Genie-girl Shantae is the self-appointed guardian of a small fishing village, Scuttle Town. Living life in a lighthouse rather than a bottle, she's constantly on the lookout for danger. When the nefarious lady-pirate, Risky Boots catches wind of the treasure that was recently unearthed in the village, she launches an attack. To get Scuttle out of trouble, it's up to Shantae to prove that she's the rightful 'Guardian Genie' to the best of her dancing, buying and hair-whipping abilities. Now crack that whip!


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I finally played this game. The only other one I've played is 1/2 Genie Hero.

It's probably the best-looking game on the GBC. The graphics are pretty impressive for the system. The music is good and the characters have a lot of charm. A great start for Shantae.

The dungeons are easily the best part of the game. Figuring out the puzzles and unlocking the next area (while getting collectibles) until you reach the boss.
While the world exploration is fine. There are a lot of instant death traps that backtrack you (without loosing anything you've collected). The main issue I had (besides all the instant death traps) is that you spawn with only 3 hearts even if you've collected them all.

Seeing as I had a good time playing this and loved 1/2 Genie Hero I now have more motivation to play the rest of the series.

This game is a commitment man like you already have to sell one of your kidneys just to get a loose cart of this game but then you gotta buy a GBA which is like $80 itself which is roughly the equivalent of one pancreas. No you aren’t getting by with your game boy color that’s shoved between your couch cushion because then you don’t get the Super Secret transformation that lord only knows how you even get that in the first place

And THEN you have to mod your GBA because otherwise you’re only playing that thing when god himself decides to shine a beam of sunlight on your screen so you can actually see it. And have you actually modded a GBA before? You will fuck it up the first time. After going through like 5 systems (equivalent to roughly 1 spleen) you’ll say “screw it I’ll just buy one” but THEN that’s like $300 on top of the $500 you just spent already. Hope you weren’t using that liver

So yeah unless you weren’t planning on living past 50 I’d just emulate this game or something because it’s just Pretty Good all things considered. I’m already operating on like 67% of my required organs I don’t think I’m gonna see my son graduate college

And DEFINITELY don’t blow it all on one of those stupid “WATA graded” copies that’s in a plastic case that’s impossible to open and you’ll end up just leaving on a shelf to collect dust anyway. Because that’ll require BOTH your kidneys.

It also makes you a sucker.

And I don’t talk to suckers.

a fine start to this half genies series, but suffers from blindjumps, and overall a lack of fun : /

This game is overall, as a whole experience, not that great. The exploration is not satisfying, the lack of a map is frustrating, and finding the talismans to upgrade the transformations happens way too late. However, I will say that the dungeons were each pretty fun in their own rights. I hope I see more of this while I play through the franchise

Very conflicted about this one. The graphics, music and the charm of the characters carry this game hard, but it's one of those cases where the game could've been better on a more powerful system even if it's pretty impressive for the GBC.

Pretty obvious statement but I'm pretty sure that the most important thing in a metroidvania type game is the exploration, but exploring any of the areas in this game is so damn painful. The enemy placement is godawful and there's a lot of instant kill traps that only serve to slow down the experience since you'll always go back to the start of whatever area you're at. Been a while since I hated backtracking in a game as much as this one.

Wanna know how it gets worse? No map system. Not a huuge problem since there are plenty of maps available online but it's still such an inconvinience for this genre, specially when put next to the portable Castlevania games on the GBA.

The combat also leaves a bit more to be desired. The attacks are nicely animated but honestly feel kinda unsatisfying to use since almost every enemy take way too many hits to kill and the hit detection is kinda wonky.

I can kinda see why this has such a cult following but all those issues made it a pretty annoying experience for the most part. Only play it if you really wanna get deep into this series, otherwise I would recommend to just skipping to Risky's Revenge.

(The dances and overall spritework are still really cute)

Um dos jogos graficamente e esteticamente mais bonitos que já vi no Game Boy Color, a protagonista é muito expressiva e consegue fazer vários movimentos, é um bom jogo de plataforma, porém com certos problemas e bugs que podem atrapalhar um pouco a gameplay