Shantae is a Half Genie and the Guardian Genie for Scuttle Town. In this game, thanks to a pirate named Risky Boots in the previous game Shantae: Risky's Revenge, Shantae is no longer a Genie.
FUN: This game captures the essence of what a classic platformer game should be. Since Shantae is no longer a Half Genie, she has to use Tools and Weapons, instead of transformation magic from her previous games, she picks up along her journey to aid her even further. The Touch Screen for the 3DS makes for easy access to her items such as health items and extra attack weaponry and power.
The controls are smooth and the button placement makes anyone who hasn't played a Shantae game before easy to pick up and play. The characters and music also makes the game quite enjoyable. FUN - 2.
REPLY: The reply value for this Shantae game is actually quite unique. There are 3 different ending for this game; Any% complete, 100% complete, and 100% Speedrun. However, you can't unlock the 100% Speedrun until you beat the game once with either Any% or 100% complete. On top of that, beating the game once will unlock, Pirate Mode!
Pirate Mode allows the player to start the game with all the Pirate weapons and tools you picked up during your 1st playthrough. This allows quick shortcuts and gives you a better chance at the 100% Speedrun ending for the 2nd playthrough. REPLAY - 2.
STORY: The story starts off with Shantae getting awoken by a load bang outside her lighthouse. When she goes and checks it out, she finds out that Ammo Baron is taking over the city! During her trek through Scuttle Town, she finds the Mayor you told her that Ammo Baron owns the town now! After finding and defeating the Ammo Baron, Shantae is given a summons saying that she is fired as the town's Guardian Genie for attacking the owner!
After being assigned to her house until further notice, Shantae gets captured by Risky Boots. Risky then tells her to give her back her crew and weapons. Shantae being confused by this quickly states that she doesn't have her crew and weapons. Risky then shows Shantae that her Uncle has one of her crew member locked up. Before Shantae tried to find an answer to why, a dark mist enters Risky's crew member and transforms it into a Cacklebat! Risky releases Shantae when she realizes there's a bigger problem, the Pirate King is being revived! It's up to Shantae and Risky to stop this from happening before the whole world becomes the Pirate King's. STORY - 2.
DIFFERENCE/ORIGINAL: In all of the other Shantae games, Shantae was a Half Genie. Being a Half Genie gave Shantae the power to Transform into animals by dancing. In this game, thanks to Risky Boots in the previous game, no longer has that power. Instead, Shantae has to use weaponry and tools she picks up and buys in order to complete her quest. That's preety much the only difference about this game. DIFFERNCE/ORIGINAL - 1.
DIFFICULTY: The Shantae series and WayForward knows what makes a great platformer. Smooth controls and easy button placements. Those two things makes the game easy to pick up and only your skills and what you learn from playing the game will help you along the way. Most of the time, it will be you own doing that will get you killed. From not having enough healing items to forgetting a simple pattern to get through. Most of the mistakes will be you and not the game's. DIFFICULTY - 2.
TOTAL - 9.
Well, that's Shantae and the Pirate's Curse in a nutshell! I will be reviewing Shantae 1/2 Genie Hero for the PS Vita when it comes out, so be sure to check out my Non-Nintendo VG review Blog to read it! Until next time, this has been the Nintendo Rater! See ya!
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