Shantae and the Seven Sirens

Second best Shantae game after Pirate's Curse. Map is the best out of all Shantae games. Animated scenes are awesome.

Somewhere between a Metroidvania and Megaman, Shantae finds her way through a risque adventure!

It's a good metroidvania, the level of difficulties varies heavily throughout the game, with some enemies absolutely destroying you and, in the same area, some others being absolutely easy to take care of. If you love the Shantae series, it's an easy recommend, but I'd say play the others first to get an idea of what you're getting yourself into. Recommended.

Shantae and the Seven Sirens is an alright game. The animated cutscenes are really pretty, the voice acting was a nice upgrade from previous games, but it just didn't feel really "Shantae." The transformations felt rather boring, because rather than getting a wide variety of silly animals to turn into it's way more limited. You get a frog to do underwater traversal later in the game (although the underwater sections don't feel too complex), you get a drill shellfish to dig through dirt, a lizard that feels worse than the monkey, etc. The game switches to using other genies' dances rather than transformations, which is unique but feels less fun on the whole. While this game is visually an upgrade from previous games, the mechanics just felt less fun to use. The world wasn't as fun to retrace either, which is a big issue for a metroidvania. And the fan-service for any female character is honestly crazy, but I guess that's to be expected for Shantae. Overall it's a mixed review leaning slightly towards positive, so that's why it's recommended. I had some fun with it!

Idk man I just don't think this is it chief

I have to say I’m pleasantly surprised with Seven Sirens. I was really worried going into it since I wasn’t super happy with the direction that ½ Genie Hero went, but this is really a return to form for the series. It harkens back to the game play of Risky’s Revenge and I’m absolutely loving it. It goes without saying that this is likely due to the meteoric rise and popularity of Hollowknight which I can see some influences with the card system. Despite that, this game stands on its own merits drawing from the series past while still changing things up. I love going back to the interconnect map again. The isolated levels in Pirate’s Curse were alright, but ½ genie hero really just killed that style of metroidvania for me. There’s tons of places to explore, secrets to find, and abilities to unlock along the way like any good metroidvania. The music does feel weaker in this game, other than the pieces used in the cutscenes. The intro has to be my highlight musically from this game. THAT ♥♥♥♥ SLAPS SO ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ HARD OMFG. The art style is a bit weaker compared to ½ genie which seems to have cemented itself as the game with the best art in the series. It looks very much like a…