Shantae: Half-Genie Hero Ultimate Edition

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Played every Shantae up to this one, so I went into this with Pirate's Curse fresh in my head and as my biggest reference. And yeah, it's a step down from that. Pirate's Curse had real dungeons, a connected world and pirate gear that made going back to old places feel great. Half-Genie Hero drops most of that for separate stages you pick from a map, closer to Donkey Kong Country than a metroidvania. The transformations are back from the original and Risky's Revenge, which is cool, but the exploration those games had is mostly gone. Once I stopped comparing though, I had a really good time. It looks amazing. The move to HD animation paid off, Shantae has a ton of little animations and even her idle pose is cute. Every character is charming, the writing is dumb in the good way and Mermaid Falls is gorgeous. Jake Kaufman's soundtrack carries hard like always, a few tracks I still hum. The platforming is tight and the first run through each stage is a blast because of the setpieces. Difficulty is on the easy side for anyone who's played the older ones, so it's also probably the best entry point for newcomers. The stuff that holds it back: the transformation menu makes you sit and w…

After playin The Pirates Curse i had big expectations, and to my suprise they were very surpassed, theres a crazy amount of replayability, sure its mostly the same levesl as the main story but they tweak them accordingly with each character/costumes to accomodate the new game modes and playstyles wich makes them as fun as the first time in my opinion. Its fun to play and takes a bit of getting used to the new stuff but its great, nice levels that are confusing at first (the more open ones really) but after the second time you played them youll know the tiny skips by memory. new transformations are neat and the extra gamemodes are extra fun remixes of the main story with some nice callbacks, rewriting of context in the main story to fit the game modes (BIG on Officer mode specially wich is quite fun) and theres LOT of character development spread thru the DLCS modes. ALTHOUGH, the main game ALONE leaves a lot to be desires sadly... so this ultimade edition with all the nice extras is a MUST if you decide to play Shantea Half Genie Hero FOR SURE.

A very good shantae experience. It's really hard to keep track of where to find hidden items. I would make this review negative, but the other gamemodes it has makes this game even greater. The ultimate edition is the best and it's a timeless masterpiece. We also need a graphical update last time I checked the game needs just a few more enhancements since every edge is jagged.

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