Unlike the GBC Pokemon Trading Card Game, the outcome is not fixed so you can game the system by leaning on save states and win every match. There’s a dance parlor in Scuttle Town where Shantae can earn gems by essentially playing Dance Dance Revolution, and a dice game in Oasis Town where she can win big bucks by essentially gambling on dice rolls. This becomes critically important later in the game during item cleanup. You’ll also find five Warp Squids per dungeon, and you can deposit four in each of the game’s five towns to learn a warp dance. They’re tightly designed and, while floor plan maps would’ve been nice, aren’t so large and sprawling that you’ll get hopelessly lost (although I did manage to get turned around too often in the ice dungeon). The game’s four dungeons, however, are a joy. However, you’ll only find Fireflies (this game’s collectable de jure) at night, and collecting all fifteen Fireflies lets you access a new healing dance that’s actually not all that critical once you’re in the endgame but probably nice to have. The original game also features a day/night cycle which reminds me a bit of the Light/Dark worlds in Metroid Prime 2: getting around at night is generally harder because enemies deal more damage and take more hits to kill. The monkey can climb up walls, the elephant can destroy environmental obstacles (and kill most enemies quickly), the spider can climb up many "background" walls, and of course the harpy can fly. Thankfully, each animal form gets a workout. It’s workable, but it’s kind of bothersome, especially if you don’t get the timing right. Here, you press X to start dancing, then press directions and/or the A & B buttons in time with a beat to produce a result. Transforming (and warping) is accomplished through dancing, but it’s a slower, more deliberate process that I’m glad has since been changed.
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This happens more than it should, so feel free to lean hard on the game’s save state feature (quick tip for the first dungeon: by holding down Y, Shantae can run across small gaps). Shantae loses a life when she falls into a pit or lands on spikes. You can’t see too far ahead or above you, which results in a lot of cheap hits or accidental deaths. The exploration, in particular, is a little rough-traversing the long, horizontal overworld takes a long time and the large sprites take up a lot of real estate.
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So many aspects of this series have continued onward, virtually unchanged, while other things have been significantly streamlined or dropped entirely. With the entire series under my belt, the original Shantae game is nothing if not incredibly interesting. I think we all know how that turned out (spoiler alert: poorly). Well, I guess I mean TRY to pre-order an Analogue Pocket. As if I needed a better excuse pre-order an Analogue Pocket. Limited Run Games is the publisher on this new remaster, and they’re going all-out: in addition to this digital version, they’re publishing a physical Switch cart and, by some black magic alchemy, they’re reproducing functional Game Boy Color carts. Miraculously, Shantae was digitized for the 3DS Virtual Console back in 2013 and I heartily recommended it back then. Consequently, that cart is now one of gaming’s Holy Grails. It had a legendarily-low print run on the GBC, published by Capcom, who sat on it and until the Game Boy Advance had been released. Of those five games, it’s still the original that’s the hardest to find. This is something of a miracle by itself, as the series spans several disparate systems: Shantae on Game Boy Color, Risky’s Revenge on DSiWare, Pirate’s Curse on 3DS, Half-Genie Hero on Wii U (and other concurrent systems), and finally Seven Sirens on current platforms.
You can play through that entire history now from the comfort of your own Switch, as every Shantae game is on the eShop.
Shantae, our favorite half-genie hero here at Nintendo World Report, has come a long way during her 18-year history.
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