Shantae Advance: Risky Revolution

This is Really not a bad game so far: The only gripe i have is that the dlc isn't a separate entity to buy for cheap by what is listed $9.99 from the showcase pop up and clicking on it only makes it want me to buy the whole game again plus those costumes, which: is greedy. The whole reason a lot of us fell in love with the Shantae series was due to it being affordable Nobody can justify spending $60+ on it that's usually what triple A games are listed and this ain't that chief.

If this was released 25 years ago and strictly on the GBA, or if it was made by one [i]amateur[/i] developer, I'd give some issues a potential pass. Clearly I expected something different, maybe only based on the original concepts. Really amateur writing and dialogue execution. Genuine nonsense moments where I wished I could mash the button to get through them without fully skipping (which I think early in the game, it even pointed out the button to skip dialogue). Often I was fighting the controls and movement. There's a button that saves a transformation as a "quick item" but it isn't the dance button, it's the magic / item button. Suddenly you don't notice that the transformation isn't there anymore, so a potion or two gets wasted or you start eating up your magic with a spell. The other complaint is holding the magic / item button rotates through them. I had to change the controls as I'd be holding the wrong button, thinking it was to dance / transform in large part from the previous issue. Not quite sure how to explain this one, but I know it's occasionally an issue with other platformers. The running sprite seemed further ahead than where I was visually seeing it. Running…

Even though it is inferior to its successors, this game is pretty decent. It hasn't aged well, but it is fun nonetheless. I do recommend the other Shantae titles over this one though. It is also dumb that you cannot fight the AI in the multiplayer mode :D

Good game.

Wife.

I'll be honest with you, I thought the story was going to get ruined in some form. You know, maybe some Millennial writing, or some political correctness, maybe even less of an edge, but no, this is an honest-to-goodness Shantae game. I'm surprised Risky Revolution feels like a lost sequel to the first game. I thought it was just all propaganda; I thought Way Forward really wanted me to play some fake GBA Game and pretend that it's retro. Imagine my surprise when a game advertised as a lost GBA Game turns out to be a GBA Game. If you played this game after the first Shantae game, the leap into Risky's Revenge will be less confusing. If you're trying to play all the Shantae games in order, this is the true second game.