The concept of this game - Metroidvania where you play as a magical genie that attacks with her hair and can transform into animals - is really solid. Too bad the actual game is a fairly slow, plodding pile of nothing with weak combat and weak level design that spins its wheels in the mud for 90% of the runtime until all of the cool plot twists happen in the last room in the map and then the game just ends.

I've been told that Pirate's Curse is The Good Shantae Game so I'm definitely giving that one a chance. I've also been told that this game had a very troubled dev cycle, to which I replied "Yeah, I can tell".