SHANTAE 5 - Opening Animation

I'm going to use her opening

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Well it's nice that someone does at least.

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the character is sexy but I've never played any games in her series

Wait what the fuck Erin Bozon worked on Futurama?

*blocks your path*

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hang on bros
i think anonymous is trying to tell us something here

I don't get it, it looks great? Highly dynamic, looks like Imaishi's style which is fantastic.

Post more cute shantaes!

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Cute butt

Hold on

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why can't transformations be like the pirate tools?
single button press or actions for an instant animal ability

no, because shantae is fuckin boring. here’s hoping the in game animation won’t be puppet warp, tweened bullshit this time though.

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The first four seconds are good. The rest is so hilariously fast paced and budget squeezed, it's not even readable.

here's something another user did

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I mean, its cool as a trailer for youtube. But it says nothing about the game itself.

the intro looks so fucking bad
I miss the Pirate's Curse artstyle

>new shantae opening has already 20k likes and less than 100 dislikes

>Yea Forums being a contrarian shithole again and seething over the OP like its a disaster and no one likes it

EVERY

FUCKING

TIME

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Man I really kinda hate the vocal style they go for with the shantae songs

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Imo they should just drop the transformation gimmick and focus on deeper core gameplay

nah man, resetera hates the trailer because it appeals to pedophiles or something.

Was the last game even good? I heard they mostly dropped the metroidvania elements?

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The art is fine, but the animation is choppy. It could afford to be smoother, though maybe WayForward couldn't

nah, I want more transformations, they need to add mid transformation animations rather than just light flashes

Shouldn't they love it then?

Post more Shantae tummy!

it's nice that they didn't have to do a kickstarter this time.

*blocks your blocked path*

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I'm talking about the animation, I don't think it's choppy at all. It's fluid and dynamic.

What about lewd Shantaes?

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I EXCLUSIVELY COMMUNICATE IN MEMES AND AM INCAPABLE OF MAKING A MEANINGFUL POINT

Sure.

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No, Shantae is a teenage girl. They would only like it if Shantae were 9 year old young boy dressed like a drag queen.

Yet another shitae thread where incels jerk each others off like the thirsty losers they are.

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What did the faggot mean by this?

Excuse you, I am well hydrated.

Why can't the whole game be in this style instead of the tweening animation

Wait a minute...

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I dunno, feels like the devs don't know what to do with them but they still include them because 'thats kinda her thing I guess'

Monster Boy's OP is superior.

>0 (zero) gameplay
>hype

>waifufags are easy to please
EVERY
FUCKING
TIME

welcome to smashU

I want Shantae to poop on my chest

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Neat
it occurs to me the only shantae game I have played is half genie hero, what's the best way to play the other 3?

Nah it couldn't be.

>Barely any actual animation
>Art'style' completely separate from whatever the game is (as far as I'm aware)
>Song is cringeworthy
Maybe the japanese song is better, but unironically Toei / SEGA did it better.
youtube.com/watch?v=m8DWm-bPyWY
>I'd be autistic about posting the superior "You can do anything", but frankly even Sonic Boom is eons better than, whatever the hell was in that Shantae opening.

I like fanservice as much as the next guy but I kind of wish jamies mode had had more covering pygamas, they had the entire rest of the game for fanservice

>>Barely any actual animation
You couldn't be more fucking wrong.

based bonzi

It actually sounds like a western cartoon opening
could this be a sign

user, this shit is entirely keyframes.

Nah he's right, they use it to great effect though
they probably should have actually animated her running out of the house though

Not him but now almost all lines are straight lines with sharp angles and I personally don't like it at all.

studio trigger is a japanese animation studio, responsible for kill la kill and little witch academia among other things

Actual animation:
>First 2 seconds
>4-5 seconds in
>5-12 seconds in
>15-23 seconds in
Still images pan & scanned, or still layers moved around a bit:
>3-4 seconds in
>5-7 seconds in
>12-15 seconds in
>23-30 seconds in

Grand total:
~18 seconds of actual animation
~15 seconds of pan 'n scan
These numbers are extremely loose (and don't add up) as I wasn't going frame by frame (just using the youtube timecode), but it's about half 'n half. While for a full length anime feature I could see that ratio being ok, for a literal 30 second piece of "animation" from a professional animation house, I expect full 24fps frame by frame animation, or at least 12fps if you want that "style".

>sounds like

>animation studio

Something got missed here

*for a full length anime feature (assuming the still images are just people talking with a couple lip flaps, not actual pan&scan 'animation', as that just screams lazy.)

What would be the problem with that? Because apparently they're all keyframes then, since they're all different. At least the animated part obviously.
You're a retard.
>they probably should have actually animated her running out of the house though
Yeah that part is kinda bad. Like you said, used to good effect though. The animated part is what I was thinking of, it carries the whole thing.
So people are really just hung up on a parts having panning? Which are still used to good effect?

They probaby didn't have money for more. I did, however, see amateur 1-man team animations with more actual animation.

Why the fuck do they keep letting Christina Vee sing holy shit I hate her voice.

What is it about Shantae that makes Yea Forumsirgins so eager to masturbate together?

yeah I realized after I posted. I thought it sounded pretty bad to be honest, somewhat unprofessionnal compared to the animation

That's fine.

>Waste money on a cringe song and opening
>Sell games at 40 bucks without DLC
>Games are mostly re-used assets
This is why I hate these fuckers.

This could easily be an anime OP ahahah

But yes, we a bit hyped.

Shantae is pretty much indie Mario but with a tan and tits

Why do they keep letting her talk at all? And I don't just mean recorded.

Pan&scanning a slideshow is still not animation, as seen here it reads as lazy. It's partially because I'm comparing it to the Sonic CD opening (and ending) because I'm a massive Sonic autist, which even without the autism the CD animation is a million times better while serving virtually the exact same purpose.
And that's the part that gets me, they probably have a relationship with Trigger which got this made, but don't they have their own animators on staff that could do a far more involved job of this? Couldn't they hire some youtube animators to put something together? It's not like there's a shortage of overlap of people who like Shantae and have the technical ability to animate a 30 second opening.
Clearly they cared more about the name the quality of the final product.

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She got her voice acting job by doing fan songs in early/mid 2000's.

Of course she's going to sing if she voices Shantae. That and shes also cheap compared to hiring someone else singing. The problem are the poorly written lyrics which most weeb songs get a pass because most weebs cant speak Japanese.

Actually, ignore that .gif, didn't remember it looked so gross.
Take this instead.

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Does 2D Mario have backtracking shit?
It is more like a bastard version of Kid Chameleon.

Nine times out of ten this looks better animated.
This is probably the one time where it doesn't.

>Are we hyped, Yea Forums?
I'll tell you once I see fucking gameplay.

>which most weeb songs get a pass because most weebs cant speak Japanese.
Usually when Japs voice shit they can also sing properly. Unlike this chick.

Have sex

this
Shantaefags are always so quick to deny that they're only in it for the girls, but look how much praise the game is already geting before we even saw anything of it.

You have a shitty singing voice Christina.

Why the fuck did they even give Shantae a voice?
>shawnTAY andduhpiretscurSSSSe

>Pan&scanning a slideshow is still not animation, as seen here it reads as lazy. It's partially because I'm comparing it to the Sonic CD opening (and ending) because I'm a massive Sonic autist, which even without the autism the CD animation is a million times better while serving virtually the exact same purpose.
My point is that the other parts, which are actual animation, carries it. I realize those panning parts aren't actual animation, but they're not bad in my opinion. The other parts are fucking fantastic, and it seems like people are hating on those, which is retarded in my opinion.
I dislike those two gifs you posted compared to the animated parts of the intro by the way. Yes it's smooth, but it's not dynamic at all. It falls into the trap of accurately portraying the state of the body at every frame. It makes it look smooth, but you need exaggerated parts to make animation look dynamic. This is what the animated parts of the intro do very well. Hell, I'd say the panning parts do it better as well, even though they're not animated.

>Because apparently they're all keyframes then, since they're all different. At least the animated part obviously.
ESL or stroke? Either way not having proper in-betweens means they have the bare minimum of what you could call animation. It's even worse since in any given scene there's too much shit going on but not enough frames of animation to convey what's happening well, so it just looks like someone is rapidly clicking through a powerpoint presentation.

Stop fucking giving Cristina Vee work, Jesus Christ.

could u imagine kill fucking this sand nigger?

>ESL or stroke?
It's a perfectly valid sentence mate.

>Either way not having proper in-betweens means they have the bare minimum of what you could call animation.
Yeah no, this is more than the bare minimum.

>It's even worse since in any given scene there's too much shit going on but not enough frames of animation to convey what's happening well, so it just looks like someone is rapidly clicking through a powerpoint presentation.
You're complaining it has too much animation now?

I've played a few of the games, and I'm wondering when they'll go in a new direction with this series. Each game I played felt so samey and the story is always pointless and ultimately means nothing. I think most people only like the games for the characters, and that's the only thing keeping the series alive at this point.

>somehow the model sheet looks off model
defend this triggerfags

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>The other parts, which are actual animation, carries it.
No, not really. You shouldn't have to "carry" anything.
Things like pan & scanning still images and only animating key frames (which personally is less heinous, as long as there's enough keys to make it so that doesn't turn into a slide show) are techniques to speed up the animation process / make animating cheaper, alongside animating at half framerates and designing characters with less complicated shapes. For your DBZ's and other long running shonen anime, or even your standard 13 episode series, this sort of thing over multiple full length episodes is excusable because of the lengths of time being animated involved.
30 seconds? No. Absolutely inexcusable. Peoples portfolio reels have more effort put into them than this, and they're literally one person. This is an opening animation to a entire video game, put some more effort into it.
Can't have too many round and flowing shapes user, they're too expensive. :^)))))))

>if it's not fluid Disney style animation then it's bad
Do retards actually believe this?

Also, those .gif's, while aren't the most dynamic, wern't ever trying to be. They were trying to accurately show the movement of a belly dancer, probably even rotoscoped to a certain degree. Because y'know, that's one of Shantae's thing.
If I had something more dynamic that was animated equally as well that's relevant, I'd of posted that instead.

>objectively bad opening because it feels way to choppy and all over the place with a million things happening on screen at once at a given time which shouldn't be the case ever
>WF shills still defend it because "OMG TRIGGER IS THE BEST STUDIO AND SHANTAE IS GOOD PLEASE SHANTAE ANIME WAYFORWARD I WANT IT NOOOOOOOOWWWWWWWWW!!!!!!!!"

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>if it's not fluid [...] animation then it's bad
correct

It doesn't have to be "Uugh Disney qualiteeeee!", but it does have to be, you know, animated.

You missed the point, that was my opinion.
It's not animated well though, that's the point.

I'm not talking about quality, I'm talking about a style, one that emphasizes fluidity, as seen in Disney animation. Non fluid animation isn't bad, nor is it "not animated". Fucking retarded philistines.

this opening is literally just flashing colors on the screen levels of obnoxious. It doesn't do anything well but it tries to make up for that by having tons of shit happening all at once and extremely loud music, heck I don't even get why they went with this idea since it doesn't even fit a metroidvania type game, even more confusing is the fact that they didn't have Kaufman write it.

Shantae and crew are built for stinky, fat old man cock.

>>Song is cringeworthy
You say this for literally every song in English. Just because you can't understand it doesn't mean the Japanese one is better.

>It's a mater of opinion, so that means I can't be wrong.
That's not how facts work. The fact is about have of this "animation" isn't even animated, and the other half has the bare minimum of animation to be considered animation, which that much personally I wouldn't see as a problem, assuming that was the entire 30 second expanse of presented run time and was done well. But this just comes off as lazy.
I never said the style was bad (though going so far off model to make it easier to animate is questionable), as I just finished saying, what animation that is there would be barely passable, it's just that's only about half the 30 SECOND runtime.

>That's not how facts work.
You're missing that I'm not arguing that it's overall good animation at this point.

>and the other half has the bare minimum of animation to be considered animation
You're fucking wrong.

Anime ops and eds are much better than mainstream western music but mainstream japanese music is just as awful as mainstream western stuff

>He doesn't know

>You say this for literally every song in English.
>Says "The superior "You can do anything""
>And "Sonic Boom is eons better than, whatever the hell was in that Shantae opening."
>In the same post.
>Literally both Engish songs.
The language isn't strictly what's at fault, the voice is as much a instrument as all the other mechanical and/or electronic instruments there. Their lead instrument is straight up not very good.
My primary point has only been one of fact, it reads as lazy because about half of it isn't even animation.
And by literal definition of animation "A series of still images when played back appear to be a moving object", only having the "key" poses with no inbetween frames for the motion is literally ' the bare minimum of animation', which I already said when done well isn't even a problem.

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>You're complaining it has too much animation now?
more stuff happening =/= more animation
A 200 frame animation of a ball bouncing has less going on than a 2 frame animation of a guy punching someone in the face and firing a gun while he pisses into his own mouth, but it's extremely obvious which one is going to be better at conveying the motion of something. Damn, if only there was a word for conveying motion through the use of several images, something that you could call good, bad, or minimal depending on its ability to achieve that goal.

This song really does not work for Shantae and neither does this art style, what the fuck were they thinking, did they not stop to think that maybe it's going to look super jarring when you go from that opening to THIS

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Why is Wayforward shilling Cristina Vee so hard? Her singing sounds like fucking garbage.

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>My primary point has only been one of fact, it reads as lazy because about half of it isn't even animation.
And I'm not arguing against that, I don't know why you keep bringing this up. I'm just saying that I personally don't mind that, I agree that the pan and scanning factually is not animation.

>"A series of still images when played back appear to be a moving object", only having the "key" poses with no inbetween frames for the motion is literally ' the bare minimum of animation', which I already said when done well isn't even a problem.
I thought this was about the other half, which isn't just key poses with no inbetween frames of animation. The other half is animated well.
But this (not the panned and scanned part) is more like the 200 frame animation, since it has unique frames constantly.

>I have no Skill but I must Kanada

>Her voice sounds like fucking garbage
FTFY

she's a sad girl and WF's the only company that bothers to keep her around.

I want to lick the sweat off of Shantae's toned, desert-scorched tummy.

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Shantae has the most lovely degenerate thoughts!

you have to be a special breed of retarded if you think that image is real

That was the gayest shit I've seen in a while.

>dude let's just mix a bunch of gibberish together and call it an intro it'll be EPIC

You liking something that's bad doesn't mean it's good or OK, still means it's bad.
Sorry for the confusion, but while the "all just keyframes" from the other user was slightly hyperbolic, when we get actual action on screen, it does get proper choppy.

are we really sure that's how the game is gonna look tho? maybe it will be more like PC

Pirates curse still has best art direction. A true shame that game didn't have an animated intro

>You liking something that's bad doesn't mean it's good or OK, still means it's bad.
>And I'm not arguing against that, I don't know why you keep bringing this up.

I don't see why this is a big deal, most of you are going to buy the game anyway if gameplay is good.
This is intro animation you're going to skip through after the first time you see it in-game anyway.

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Apple leaked the gameplay footage of it back when it got announced

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The cutest!

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imagine if shantae was flat chested

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Yes

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loved it. shantae and TRIGGER blend together perfectly

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>My point is that the other parts, which are actual animation, carries it. I realize those panning parts aren't actual animation, but they're not bad in my opinion. The other parts are fucking fantastic, and it seems like people are hating on those, which is retarded in my opinion.
Your initial statement was literally "I know it's bad / it has bad parts, but it has redeeming parts / I like it so that makes it OK."
I'm going to judge a professional game studio hiring a professional animation house to produce an animated opening for their professionally produced and to be released product on whether it comes off as professional or not, and from what I've seen, it doesn't.

>everyone should draw cartoons as ultra realistic real life humans from real life because i'm a baby. goo goo gaga

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No, Trigger is a vastly overrated studio.
>dude ttgl and klk lmao so hype xd

Imagine if she had huge cowtits

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back problems

>Your initial statement was literally "I know it's bad / it has bad parts, but it has redeeming parts / I like it so that makes it OK."
No it's not, I clarified that multiple times now. Stop bringing it up please.

The games themselves are meh, typical for awaifu-bait shit that is dime-a-dozen on jap market
Only difference here is that it was made by western devs

The only good thing to come out of it was porn and that one shortstack SFM model - those are rare as fuck. Too bad rarely anyone makes porn with it.

It's fine she works out.

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oh neat, handdrawn backgrounds instead of that 3d garbage. Well I'm gonna give them the benefit of the doubt and hope that maybe this will be their majora's mask

I don't see any point where you directly clarified, so far every time you've said some variation of "And I'm not arguing against that, I don't know why you keep bringing this up."
I'm bringing it up because beyond saying "I like it, so it's fine." you haven't had any other point.

if you're gonna do the "quickly move between each character" thing, at least give it some purpose, it just looks kinda dumb here if I'm being honest. Compare it to the Persona 4 opening, this opening does the "jump between each character" thing twice both around the same length as it is in this opening, but it was able to have much smoother actions and was able to give just enough attention to each character within that time frame, meanwhile Shantae's opening doesn't do that at all and it just feels weird to look at
youtube.com/watch?v=h73LvR8V2LA

please watch klk and then say that

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>I don't see any point where you directly clarified, so far every time you've said some variation of "And I'm not arguing against that, I don't know why you keep bringing this up."
>I'm just saying that I personally don't mind that
>You're missing that I'm not arguing that it's overall good animation at this point.
>You missed the point, that was my opinion.
I didn't say it's OK, I said I personally don't mind. There's a big difference, I agreed that those parts are factually badly animated.
>you haven't had any other point.
No there were other arguments that you completely ignored in favour of just focussing on something I haven't said.

>Too bad rarely anyone makes porn with it.
holy fuck this, everyone just uses that garbage raraknight model with the fucked up face

Stop overhyping it.

What did they do to the art style? What the fuck kind of abomination is this? Why couldn't they just keep it to where it looks like the other games? I can't fap to this mess.

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Dude, they're all literally some variation of "I don't think it's bad, so that makes it OK." with some added "And I'm not saying your wrong." a couple times.
I did go and check previous posts before making my statement.
>I didn't say it's OK, I said I personally don't mind.
They're pretty much the same thing in this context.

no

>this retard thinks that THAT pic is real

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Then be prepared for the people calling it fucking shit because total shit-for-brains like you overhyped it way too goddamn much as TEH BEST ANIME EVAR!!! because you couldn't keep your shitty fucking mouths shut. Fuck off back to your Super Best Friends fan club, bitch-ass nigger.

user...

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just watch it retard

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>Dude, they're all literally some variation of "I don't think it's bad, so that makes it OK."
You should learn English then.

>They're pretty much the same thing in this context.
One's a factual statement saying other people are wrong, the other is a personal opinion without saying it's a fact and without saying people are wrong. I never said that makes things OK, that's the important fucking part, you fucking illiterate dipshit.

>seething this much

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I know Rotty has the hots for Shantae but is Risky a dyke?

booty

>no gameplay
If you get hyped for this you're a fucking moron.

Jeez, I keep forgetting Yea Forums is full of stupid motherfuckers like you

Only if they go back to using sprites.

it's not very common for video games to have playable openings

>The Yea Forums zoomers are suddenly animation expert.

Shut the fuck up seriously. It's look fine and on par with what TRIGGER usually does. You are all trying SO fucking hard to hate this because of that left leaning guy from WayForward.
So fucking predictable.

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they've always used sprites, user. there's never been a shantae game without sprites.

how is it even possible that a series so old is still so utterly boring?

>I personally don't mind that
>but they're not bad in my opinion.
I don't think it's bad
>Which are still used to good effect?
>The other parts are fucking fantastic
>that was my opinion.
So that makes it OK.
I did say "Some variation of", not literally 1:1.
And you stating that you don't mind something, so that means it's acceptable is functionally synonymous with stating that it is OK because you like it. Saying something is OK isn't strictly a matter of something being factual, it can be used equally for something factually being OK and something by the opinion of the person being OK depending on the context.
We're arguing semantics for the sake of arguing semantics at this point, would you rather talk about something else? Because I sure would.

Shantae games are mediocre and only good fir fanart desu

sorry im not done with you, just lmaoing at your life.
youtube.com/watch?v=83v9YLS5oKY

I want to racemix with Shantae!

>So that makes it OK.
>so that means it's acceptable
No, didn't say that.

I'm not the one whining about people not liking my overhyped garbage.

>shit-for-brains like you overhyped it way too goddamn much as TEH BEST ANIME EVAR!!!
>Fuck off back to your Super Best Friends fan club, bitch-ass nigger.
judging by this i imagine you are the whiny type
youtube.com/watch?v=p5CjmHLUQQI

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No, unless you are some kind of sheeple you shouldn't get hyped until you see actual gameplay. That is like getting hyped about the new Ford Fiesta because fucking Disney had it their promo for Cars 4. Get the fuck outta here with your low tier shilling.
-This post was sponsored by the Ford motor sport company.

Yeah word this place is full of retards. One should only come here to shitpost.

I honestly thought it would be better than this. I like Trigger well enough, but it just seems too choppy. I don't even mind the style all that much since the actual game isn't going to look like that. Still, it doesn't seem all that animated for what's supposed to be an opening animation. I really wanna hug Monkae.

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This is animation from 2019

youtube.com/watch?v=CiM_95fl2TA
And this animation from 2005.

What the fuck is wrong with people accepting worse and worse products from the industry every year?

Bro, Trigger specializes in using the lowest amount of frames to animate. I love them but almost everything they do is budget as fuck in that way. Honestly I find it charming at this point.

>Couldn't they hire some youtube animators to put something together?
Animation isn't cheap. You're talking about paying full-time wage for weeks or even months. Animation can't be commissioned as easily as illustrations.

>hyped
For what? A flash tier game that was never good?

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I can't tell if this is supposed to be ironic lol

>hear the vocals
>close tab immediately
Jesus christ

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Some of her fan covers are pretty good, but the official songs don't play to any of her strengths.

Yeah I know. I've already jacked off today, didn't want to get a boner again already.

>Animation can't be commissioned as easily as illustrations.
It's a shame really, if I could into 2D I'd be all over that. (Literally had a furry once asking around for some 2D animation work once.)
Have to stick with 3D instead, which has its audience, I just can't into finding people.
That said, it seems pretty evident WayForward didn't pay the amount needed for 30 seconds of proper animation either.

whenever I see shantae I think about that gif of her monkey form being fucked. and then I get upset...

Pirate's Curse was great

>liking those vocals
Yikes

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Hoping the bit of hype the opening has generated opens a floodgate of new fanart. I got a folder to fill, dammit!

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>yikes
cringe.....

Dilate

Based

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What is it always with this "new fanart" stuff?
People still draw her all the time.

I REALLY fucking hate the hyper-angular look. Shantae is supposed to have smooth curves.

Trigger is based.
Shantae is based.
WayForward is based.
Theme songs with vocals are based.
I'm sorry you faggots all hate fun.

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>Bozon, my son. You have X amount of dollars to buy animation work for your game's opening
>you can either hire any of the animators on YT who will use 1/3 of the budget to make a fluid, beautiful OP
>or you can hire Trigger with dozens of in house animators who all need to be paid to, so you're left with 12 seconds of animations and the rest of the OP has to be done with cheap editing tricks

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i like shantae :)

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Yeah but it's naturally a slow trickle. It makes sense to expect a larger wave after a big event.
Based

implying nip animators don't work for cheap lol

I like Cristina as her voice. She brings a cute, youthful energy to Shawnty's antics and her moans and groans make me diamonds. She really needs to stop singing, though. It's not her strong suit.

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>Implying animation isn't just inherently expensive no matter how you slice it, so "cheap" is easily quintuple figures for something short by genuine professionals.

Doesn't one well animated weeb show episode cost like 2 million to animate?
Who in their right mind hires an entire studio to do a 30 second opening to their indie game?

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I like her singing, it fits the tone of Shantae

Well-animated, like OPM season 1 or something? Sure maybe. That's why he went to Trigger lol

With how infamously furfags dump absurd amounts of money into commissions, I'm surprised there aren't some noteworthy super indie animators around you could call up for this kind of thing.

Yeah same, it sounds like a 90's cartoon opening which is the general feeling I've always gotten from Shantae.

>youthful energy
that bitch is old, busted, and used up

What the FUCK is that Belly and Spine?

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Is Trigger THE most overrated studio in existence?

>Can't have too many round and flowing shapes user, they're too expensive. :^))))))))

Nice to see they paid TRIGGER for exactly 30 frames total

How are Wayforward going to release two games the same year soon after releasing HGH (which was fairly successful, but was also crowdfunded so they got a lot of that money years ago), and after releasing the Mummy game which fucking bombed? Is the company funded by the mafia or something?

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no see, she's a pirate who likes to plunder booty

We need a looped gif of the first second of this intro

What a faggot

>469382317
>mfw wayforward sells those plushies

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>I'm comparing it to the Sonic CD opening
That's very unrealistic user. We'd never get 90's Toei quality out of Shantae.

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I know that's unfair, but I've seen my fair share of animated openings for vidya, and while most of them are made in house, out of all the one's that were outsourced, I don't ever recall them feeling /that/ lazy. A little bit off because colours in modern animation also feel a bit off, yes, but not straight up "Have this slide show with bits of actual animation in there".
Which is even more baffling given the last time I was actively aware of Trigger doing any western commissions was that time they did a fight sequence for Gumball, which was genuinely amazing. youtu.be/jyC8DPWZVWQ?t=2m14s

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That's longer, but also more rigid and less well animated than the bits of actual animation in the opening.

>Studio Trigger
Fucking overrated westaboo shit.

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They recently did about a 1 year stint helping polish Bloodstained, so that probably paid them decently.
River City Girls isn't a Wayforward property, they're just the studio picked to develop the game by Arc System.
HGH supposedly sold very well according to Wayforward, so the proceeds from that probably also had something to do with it. Plus, they were one of the first studios to break the news about Apple Arcade, and that may have come from some sort of deal with Apple.

One game that they developed bombing doesn't mean it's a horrible company. Hell, The Mummy Demastered was apparently actually pretty good, it just didn't sell. That's not on Wayforward's head though, that's on whoever decided not to do any advertising.

Well yeah, I was talking about funding, not necessarily the game's quality. I haven't played it myself meaning I'm part of the problem, if there is one.

My favorite part were the two frames of animation.

Maybe try giving animators a living wage or better working conditions?

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I love my wife, Shantae!

And I hope to all things holy that Shantae 5 isn't just 95% reused assets from Half-Genie Hero

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Who gives a fuck, what matters is her voice

fatposters are the result of genetic failure

maybe if they animated better they would get a living wage or better working conditions
no work? no pay

Imagine the belly dancing

>Why does this cartoony character look cartoony
I hope you don't watch Panty and Stocking, you may have a heart attack.

That's is the best part.
They'd have to animate more than just her boobs bouncing as she dances

Will there be more giga mermaid though?

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Trigger didn't animate this, it was Studio 4°C

Half Genie Hero was fucking trash so it's hard to be hyped.

And add extra sloshing sound effects.

There shouldn't be cause she's an unimportant one off,
but considering Wayforward probably knows how popular she is, they'll find some way to include her.

well I am, they could have Filmation animators doing it for all I care

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they did axe the squidsmith and she was very loved as well

>playing waifufag trash
why do people put their dicks before their dignity?

Maybe have her slow down her dancing every now and then [to give herself time to catch her breath[/spoiler] then pick up the pace again

Oops, fucked up spoiler tag

Really?
I don't think i've ever seen Squid Smith fan art.

Ah, my mistake.
When was the last time Trigger did any animation for a western production then? I honestly don't know. Steven Universe?

What the hell are those gold things on her hips? I thought they were cloth in the past games. Not literal dense solid objects

ngl. i miss pirate's curse artstyle more and more the further away they move.

EVERYONE USED TO BE SOFT AND HUGGABLE LOOKING

NOW THEY'RE FUCKING PAPERCRAFT
GONNA GET A PAPERCUT OFF THESE BITCHES

Test

no, and that's what would make shantae being intimate with her much cuter and hot

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Gold ornaments, but yeah, they would be rigid.

>watch the opening for the first time
>"oh ok, that was cool"
>go on Yea Forums
>mfw people act like it's the fucking spawn of satan
How the hell does a 30 second opening animation rile you fuckers up so much? Sure, it's kinda choppy at points, but that's how most of Studio Trigger's stuff looks like for the most part, right?

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Depends on the animator. Clearly none of these guys have seen Panty and Stocking, Kill la Kill or Luluco because it did shit like this too. Or more accurately Yea Forums just hates Shantae and want to act like nothing involving her was ever good.

They look way to big for the outfit she's wearing

>Oh ok, that was cool

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SHANTAEEE YESSSS. IT'S LIKE I'M 8 YEARS OLD AGIAN EXCEPT IM 32 AND MY WIFE IS DOWNSTAIRS GETTING BLACKED BY SHEQUAN

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small amount of anything riles these people up, just look at them react to their own penises

It's definitely exaggerated in this iteration, but so is her hair, and the angles. It's just a style.

Because people praise it, so naturally it has a bigger backlash, if noone was talking about it, there wouldn't be many people shitting on it either.

A lot of people seem angry about the lazy panning parts, which is a fucking bummer to say the least, I'm just used to it. Rest looks fantastic.

Hol' up

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ab absurdo

Mmm, dayum ninja.

you must be really bad a looking for it then.

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That's the thing, i don't look for it.
But with Giga Mermaid you were seeing fan art everywhere regardless of looking for it or not.

The cutest character with the most boring games

Fair enough, Howeber I think that Squidsmith is more liked than Sky!

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Why are her pants see-through? It's extremely visually distracting and only clutters up the image more.

Because it's hot.

Genies are sluts and she is no exception.

literally a useless fapbait character

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>Buy plushie
>Cut myself with its sharp, Trigger-patented edges
>Die with thorny plushie Shantae by my side.
>Piss pants and shit

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I think that looks alright, but an anime opening doesn't tell us much.

Genie pants are vintage, man.

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Are you seriously saying that if everyone likes something but it's shit and you call it out that makes you a contrarian? You're mad lmao

Needs pubes

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tis merely libtard agents attempting to influence

If anything, the 30 seconds made me wish there was more of it.

Shantae is very sexy, young and is out of nintendos control.
Resetera and nintendo babies can't handle that.

You have to go back.

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Janny is going to freak!!!

NICE
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all those women have hideous goblin feet. i'll stick with shantae

Hell yeah, bro. Best thread on Yea Forums right now.

what's your problem with shantae, user?

>Still using HGH sprite

Please fix this.

>nintendos
why would they hate a character that started on the gameboy color.

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>Or more accurately Yea Forums just hates Shantae and want to act like nothing involving her was ever good.

Why doesn't Yea Forums like Shantae? A good-looking, delicious brown tomboy is usually the preferred flavor of waifu for anons here, and it's not like a game being shit has stopped Yea Forums from liking a character/series. Did her creator side with some political views or some shit like that?

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>cool
English vocals. Cringe city man.

Daily reminder that Shantae is 16 years old! So no half jinni for you!

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>soles aren't lighter
Trash.

Nintendo is quite desperate at the moment and throw everything they have on Smash. So if there is a fandom that is not so excited to get their character into the pile of trash that is smash that is a problem for nintendo.
I for example played all shantae games but I couldn't care less about smash. Personally I think that would even make the character look bad.

i am not interested in her
or darryl either
i want you, risky

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Everything is too sharp but it looks alright otherwise
Pirate's curse art style drove my dick wild, it's a pity they won't go back to it

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I FUCKING LOVE TUMMIES

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They’re not.

With the likes of resetera that is a bit too dangerous right now. They are technically sexualizing "minors" after all. Shantae and many of her lightly dressed friends are under age.
In the past this was seen as okay, since its fiction and people understood the temptations of "forbidden fruits." But today feminists completely lose their mind over literally everything and media goes along with them.

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But, she is in smash just as a sprite honestly don't get why can't be happy with that, like I'm happy they even remember disaster day of crisis exist.

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She's 2D and old enough.

What is a cartoon character, Alex?

But the boards are laid out different!

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Nintendo wants us to more excited for Shantae getting into the game. But the fact of the matter is most don't care.
Ahem, we're going to use that later when we ask you some questions, user.

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How does your image even come close to representing "Oh okay", you memespouting fuck

I wish her and the pirate would fuck already.

Okay, I can't wait for my court date when you're gonna have Shantae testify in court about statutory rape. Are you going to bring her 30-something voice actor into the room as well?

*zombie

Loli is perfectly legal and protected by the first amendment, user.

Rotty is cute but the fact she's likely actually rotting and covered in pus and disease really really turns me off to that whole idea.

There's always some faggot in the comments typing out the lyrics.

Why do people hate the US dub of the Sonic CD OP?

faggot

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set the speed to .75 and it is a LOT better.

Half Genie Hero was garbage

Hopefully this game is a lot better

>generic anime OP garbage
fucking why. There's absolutely nothing unique about it. Fuck anime

It's nice where they're willing to put their resources in instead of actual gameplay.

It's choppy, but I'm sure they still paid a lot for it.

It’s legal where I live

There's always outliers, but for the most part people don't /hate/ Sonic Boom, it's just the entire US soundtrack is inferior to the JP/EU one.

the fuckton of Shantae related Stages in the editor begs to say otherwise

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Kyoani still holds that spot.

Yea Forums told me her games are mediocre at best, and that shovel knight is much better. Is that truth?

Wayforward just needs to stop with songs with lyrics. She's cute as Shantae, but these theme songs aren't doing anyone any favors

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I mean, there is a battle where Ridley's Spirit is possessing himself somehow

Spirits are fucking dumb lmao

Me too!

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>kipteitei

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A fellow of quality, I see.

I posted Kip's Shantae in this thread earlier

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you just reminded me that comic even existed. i had almost entirely forgotten.

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>americans think their legal age is everybody's legal age
that's practically fascism

Can you even call that animation--that anime shit of like 2 or 3 frames sliding around?

It's morally right.

as soon as they get their first period that means they are ready, friend

well that was a disappointment

that singing is fucking horrible too, river city girls sounded horrible as well

Yea Forums hates brown girls now. Just look at the Nessa controversy.

How can someone be that wrong holy shit

I love seeing the """""BIG SHANTAE FANS""""" on twitter bitching that Shantae is sexualized. We're on the 5th game in this franchise and they are now complaining.

No, you should never trust Yea Forums of you look for genuine criticism

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>Implying I don't love this
youtube.com/watch?v=MDrc5Jzm2wc

Kaptain K. Rool is not a playable character, user.

it's reality vs your post

My favor part was seeing you boil with anger.

Kaptain K. Rool is just K. Rool in a costume. Same guy, different look. The different look has its own spirit while K. Rool is still a fighter.

Who says another design of Shantae can't become the fighter? After all, each of her games is in a different art style. And her Spirit is Half-Genie Hero styled. What if classic GBC Shantae got in? Or Pirate's Curse? Or even this Shantae 5 design?

oh no no no no no

The King K. Rool of Smash is every incarnation of K. Rool in one, bub. He has the blunderbuss for fuck's sake.

>pants are semi-transparent
MUH

It's shit.

>Link (Link Between Worlds)
>Link (Link's Awakening)
none of these use the 1-to-1 names of fighters, and there's no way shantae is getting parentheses on her fighter spirit

What elements?

True, kaptain K. rool is definitely not K. Rool.

That would be like comparing Clark kent to Superman, one doesn't even have glasses, preposterous !

Had more fun with it than with HK. Both are on the Game pass.

Dude I love KLK and it's a fucking joke of a series aside from the hype bits.

>qality animation as early as episode 3
>pacing is dogshit bad, you've got about 10 episodes and then Trigger's usual LMAO ALIENS shit
>spend an entire episode setting up shit like the naked army boy then forget about him
>plot points and motivations introduced that are also forgotten(remember that sniper bullet during berserker Ryuko?)
>they just run out of budget after the tournament arc
>huge portions of the second half use every animation budget saving trick in the book
>qality extends to even important moments like lmao 2 arms
>yo bro did you want any satisfying build up for Satsuki or any of the b cast? too bad bye

Now sure, the hype bits are great. But the flaws are plentiful and they really needed a lot more god damn budget for animation.

Only proves how desperate nintendo wants us to be excited for shantae. It'll never happen though.

i don’t think you can be more contrarian. than pretending shantae games are actually good

She's a green cartoon zomb, don't think about it too hard

are you serious? That singing is so fucking cringe

shantae is not indie

dilate

i dont care.

garbage

I look late 90s style, to bad there's is no line weight to perfect it.

So basically in game advertisement.
>Look fans of Shantae! If you get hyped enough we may include Shantae to our game!

I knew someone would go here.
I'm not 100% defending the Trigger animation, but the issue is you're comparing something that's telling a story of the character in a age when 1+ min intros was still the norm to do for something like that, verse post 2010 when 30 sec animations for intros is very common now. Shantae's opening is like a modern day intro for normalfags minds, most would hate that toei Sonic one I hate to say. Compare that to Mania's which is shorter and snappier then the CD one and that's why Shantae's is going the same but shorter

Hell we aren't even sure if the one revealed by Wayforward is the whole thing. I think it is but we really can only tell when the game comes out for sure.

tl;dr: Times have changed and using an near 30 year old example is a bad example. Changing times /= good times, or more accurately, coping with said changing times.

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Thoughts?

I'm the only one who can't play these games without jacking off first because I get turned on? I can't concentrate like that

Reminder:
>Yea Forums will never get force the idea that no one likes Shantae and that she only has 1 good game
>Shantae games normally get good rating
>Shantae has at least a cult following in Japan
>She is also popular with Smash fans
>Yea Forums's opinion is worth less than dog shit.

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A pedophile mind is a pedophile kind.

I said tummies not landwhales user

Seething nintendie is seething. How original. I played all of her games and I can flat out say every single one is better than smash.

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What do them Japs think about this? Or Shantae in general.

Isn't Monster Boy's intro like 90 seconds?
youtube.com/watch?v=B2mkzj0cb80

I think you're just making excuses out your bum.

Source?

>TRIGGER
Love it, just wish Christina Vee didn't sing that cringy-ass song

Dance Through The Danger was nice, this just sounded like ass

The monster boy trailer unironically has more stilted and awkward looking animation it's entire run time than Shanta does in it's thirty seconds.

That's the opening, not the trailer.
And my point was about run time rather than quality.

>she only has 1 good game
No. All are mediocre.

Every time and come to these threads and hear the complaints, I always replay the intro in my head. Then I go back and watch it and remember that it's not the "slide show" the Yea Forums like to act like it is.

Shantae spirit is just Shantae, the spirit isn't called Shantae (Half Genie Hero).
There is no case of a character having two spirits, without it being a special version of them.
If we just had Monkey Shnatae, then she could get a normal one, but then they wouldn't have included Shantae spirits in the first place.

Thighs, tummies, and armpits are objectively >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>feet

It's cute but I just can't get myself to give a shit about Shantae.
Are the games even worthwhile? All I hear about is people jerking off to her.

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You need to get off Yea Forums.

Holy fuck smashfags leave, let us talk about genie pussy or some shit

looks more like concept.

She likes teasing Sky.

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Good animation doesn't change just because of the era, that sort of thing is genuinely universal. You pointed out the Sonic Mania intro, which seems to be an odd thing to do considering that only solidifies that a video game opening can be genuinely high quality without resorting to blatant cheap production tricks.
And what the hell does length have to do with anything? I'd rather have 30 seconds of good animation than 90 seconds of bad animation, but that's absolutely not what's happening here.

What the fuck is up with WayForward and blatant weeb pandering these days anyways? It makes me sick to my stomach, either just give the damn IP away or hire a competent UI designer. Why does it always come down to this fake ass animu shit, and why haven't they fired bozo Bozon yet?
WF really shouldn't be allowed to make anything without a strict supervising team breathing down their collective necks.

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How do you think these people would react if for Shantae 5 they barely had Shantae look any different but claimed it was 2 years later so she's now 18?
Would these faggots still get their panties in a bunch or would they go "oh, okay, now she looks like a late teen and is a late teen so it's okay to sexualize her. Before when she looked like a late teen but was a couple years off of being a late teen, it was bad."

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>0:02-0:07
Aside from the brief moment of Shantae moving her head up, that's /not/ a literal slide show?
No one was claiming the entire thing was, just decent chunks of it.

amazingly cringe thanks

That doesn't answer the question but ok.

You could make Shantae 35 and they’ll still freak out over Shantae’s pussy being out because them complaining and fighting over cartoons make them believe they’re actually doing a difference to sexual crimes

People like that have no happiness in their life and will never achieve anything other than bitterness.

I know I'm saying this on Yea Forums of all places but some of you at least have disposable income at least and don't have to e-beg and guilt trip others for a livelihood.

pirate's curse was the only decent Shantae game.

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what the FUCK is up with the graphics
why all the fucking angles
why does it have to get worse every game

>Japan does western styled things: GOOD
>West does eastern stuff: BAD

They are all perfectly fine games with their only real downfalls being their short lengths. The original is quaint but more than competent. Risky's Revenge is short but sweet, though rather easy, but still a good romp. Pirate's Curse is legitimately fantastic. 1/2 Genie Hero is like if Risky's Revenge went on for about 2 or 3 more hours, but like Risky's Revenge, it's normally pretty easy.

The worst offenses of the games are that the transformations in the first game, Risky's Revenge and 1/2 Genie Hero are basically just access keys, while the abilities you get in Pirate's Curse don't just open doors but make the entirety of Shantae's movement and combat capabilities more interesting and fun to play with. There's a reason people generally agree that Pirate's Curse is the best of the series- because it absolutely is.

If you feel like trying Shantae, I'd suggest starting with Risky's Revenge. Like I said, it's short, but it has all the common elements in the other games and will give you an idea of the world, characters, and general gameplay of the series.

Isn't that basically a remake or something though?

They are also porting MSF games in a collection to multiplat.

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There is like 2 seconds of actual slide show animation, the rest is the kind snappy and quick animation you see from certain Trigger/Gainax works.

Because unlike many other developers who stick to just one franchise, Wayfoward does more than just Shantae.

>Isn't that basically a remake
No.

Your dev is obsessed with Smash so you have to deal with this.

>That gigantic chain in the first one
I wish people would just ignore these fuckers and let these fuckers wallow within their own bubble. Instead, everyone takes the bait and feels like they have a duty to respond.

I was thinking of Wonder Boy: The Dragon's Trap, my bad.

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Indian (aryan) blood is the ultimate patrician fetish, if hitler won all girls would look like that,

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Snappy can be fine, and fair chunks of that 30 second run time I would consider fine, but the way the overall 30 seconds that was put together feels, well, unapologetically lazy.
To swing back for a moment,
youtube.com/watch?v=zA9zwpMj_8A
That, being ~three times longer, and strictly speaking not as much happens, as animated by literal fans and a literal who animation group looks vastly more professional throughout its entire runtime than the 30 seconds on display from Trigger.

Americans are so mentally childish their legal age should be 30

>risky boots
>doesn't wear boots
2/10

>transgirl
>transgenderrific!
opinions discarded

God the intro looks awful. I like Shantae but think it's overrated and only liked this much because of the porn. They're all solid 7/10 platformers with nice art styles, but not the best fucking platforming games ever or anything.

non-fluid animation is not animation

Huh, didn't notice that. Scrubbing through the intro, she's not wearing them in that, either.
She absolutely wears boots in the other games. They're pretty clear in the artwork and even the games' sprites. But boots those ain't.

What a strange oversight.

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Yes it is.

The boots were too risky

HE'S IN!

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>Tyson has said that the animation for this and Mania Adventures were on a very strict budget, lower than average
>The whole thing was a passion project by the fans
>Said fans are complete amateurs in the industry
>Pulled off a far better looking product than industry professionals with years of experience under their belt
Personally, I don't like the Mania opening. It's incredibly dull and the pacing comes to a halt at the halfway point. From a technical view however, it's certainly impressive.

Shantae is just a fucking mess though. The only bit of animation is when they all come together to do their attacks with speed lines in the background but that crap is too choppy and quick to tell what's going on. Yeah yeah, I know that's this specific director's fucking "thing", but that shit doesn't fucking work when you're limited to 30 seconds. No one bitched about Namco x Capcom's opening. That shit was a decent length and reasonably paced. This is just a mess.
youtu.be/V5gz6DLwJa0

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>but the way the overall 30 seconds that was put together feels, well, unapologetically lazy.
I can't see that.
Comparing it to Sonic Mania is stupid though, that looks like an extremely good intro, most intros are going to be worse than that. Though I wouldn't say it looks professional necessarily.

I remember when Shantae had almost no porn.
Good times.

Must've been the wind.

Three times longer, produced by two multi-billion dollar companies, yet only half the substance of the Shantae 5 intro produced by one small dev team and a small animation studio.

Shantae confirmed three years ago poggers

>No one bitched about Namco x Capcom's opening
Yeah, and no one is bitching about Shantae except for people on this site and the few who think intro is problematic.

they only hired trigger for the news story. If they had just said Shantae is getting an animated intro, nobody would've cared but because they said "by Studio Trigger" everyone was like "HOLY FUCKING SHIT HAUUHUUUUHHHHHHH GIVE ME SHANTAE ANIME!!!!!!!!!!"

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>Thinking SEGA put ANY money into Mania
Mania might as well been a indie project for all the money that went into it. The only reason it did as well as it did was through raw unfiltered raging autism from everyone creatively and technically involved.
Also,
>Trigger
>Small
In anime land they're pretty big. More art house than mass production, but still plenty big in their own right.

Pirate's Curse is really good. The others are mediocre.

If you go to Yea Forums for opinions you never cared to begin with.

I'm more TRIGGERED by that God awful song. It's not catchy or long enough like all the other cheesy vocal openings I unironically love. The ending is especially grating to the ears. Who the fuck mastered it and thought that shit was ok?

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>It's not catchy
It's pretty catchy.

Half genie was a fucking disaster. The opening want pander to rich pedophiles

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Not him, but it's not remotely catchy. It's obnoxious, plain and simple. And I like "I am all of me" unironically. Ok maybe slightly ironically but it's still at least FUN. Unlike whatever's being screeched into my ears with that opening song.

Shantae is a series of ideas stolen from other games and executed incredibly poorly. It's only universally acclaimed great title was the one that ditched all the things that made "Shantae" Shantae and just made it into a side scroller action platformer game with a decent unlockable moveset.
Shovel Knight is a game of ideas stolen from other games and executed competently. The spin off add ins where they experiment with different characters is arguably better product than the base game, which was already ok to begin with.

I Am All of Me is a dope song nigga.

Holy shit is that a mother fucking Smash bros reference!?

What exactly are you trying to prove here?

can someone red pill me on these games?
are they worthwhile?

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Did you play the Mummy game? It's amazing.

Just okay platformer that's popular because tits.

which Shantae game should I play?

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So happy to see Wayforward adding diversity to their team

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There's not really a reason not to give the GBC a shot, since it's be emulator friendly for a long while now.

Its nicely done for a what, 30 second intro? Songs alright, although 'Dance Through the Danger' was better.

Unf

With the exception of Sonic Boom itself.

what the fuck are you even talking about user

Go ask your grandparents when they first fucked, or better yet, got married

Huh, no Jake Kaufman? Besides, she's saying she worked on it, not that she's part of their team now.

>she

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fucking Sonic is just speedrun Mario
Megaman is just shooter platformer

stop this bullshit comparisons.

>anime tiddies bad
>real CP good

Fucking hell, I should really just start using "it" or some shit. I didn't look that closely at the picture or the bio, just to check if it specified their job listing.

different user here, sonic and megaman offer enough to be more than what you just said
the only thing shantae tries to add to be unique are transformations which everyone agrees are the worst part of these games

Enjoying xer song?

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>everyone agrees are the worst part of these games
Since when did Yea Forums's opinion matter?

yeah

Sonic behaves nothing like Mario. Mechanically, they're not even the same and you can't even get the same thrill. The same thing applies to Mega Man where tight precise platforming combined with enemy combat take focus over just side scrolling action. You cannot play Mega Man like a Mario game and vice versa. None of those games are direct comparison to each other. Shantae has a direct comparison to the Monster World series and those games are far superior to anything Wayfoward has to offer.

Honestly there's so much face fat that it rounds out any masculine/feminine features to the point it really doesn't matter.

since Yea Forums are the only ones who bothered playing shantae games in the first place

HGH sold really well, though.

fucking Trigger is overrated shit, and it sickens me that is the only jap studio that does outsource work for americans now, just because of what, they are westaboos, oh sure, sure, its still better than giving to the fucking koreans of Studio Mir and do MOCK-NIME.

But you know, there's other studios who honestly deserve a better chance at doing something special for americans, and that they do more fluid and well done animation that isnt just choppy key frame poses with shitty anatomy proportions.

what about MadHouse, what about Studio Pierrot, or Nippon Animation, or even fucking Kyoto animation?, FUCK EVEN TOEI AS CHEAP AS THEY ARE DESERVE A CHANCE GODDAMMIT!

why is that these stupid american companies dont look beyound their nose on their safe comfort zone bubble!?

sakugabooru.com/post/show/50531

>Cristina Vee autotuned

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define "really well" because I'm sure it wasn't remotely close to the sales of other indies like undertale, shovel knight, hollow knight, isaac, meatboy, hotline miami, cuphead, etc

The "Yea Forums doesn't actually play video games" meme has never been more true than with Shantae games. The series generally been well received and even with what is probably the most criticized entry of HGH, the issue was it's lack of content and not it's transformation mechanic. This was also the case with Risky's Revenge. Yea Forums doesn't play Shantae games, just shitposts about them and pretends they do.

>HURR V DOESN'T PLAY GAMES

bitch i played the 4 hours necessary to complete each game and they are mediocre as FUCK. Jake Kaufman deserves a better franchise to make OSTs for.

I am all of me is unironically good though. Good song and the CG was high tier for its time. Hell it still holds up well today.
vimeo.com/331145568

No one knows how well it sold because Wayforward doesn't release sales numbers for their game

And before you say
>b-but that just means no they don't sell for shit

no, it just means they don't release their sales numbers.

no one plays shantae games, people only like the characters and fanservice
every single positive mention of shantae refers to how "cute" or "sexy" she and her friends are, not a single soul praises the gameplay or level design of these games because they're just trash

works for me to be honest

Fuck Toei. Those guys are dicks.

I think that looks worse though.

Funny, I've played them all to completion too and find them to be really good. Not Goty material or anything, but definitely far more than mediocre.

>it sold really well, just believe me
please stop and take a second to think about how retarded you're being right now
seriously if that's what you have to say don't even bother posting, your hopes aren't facts , they're useless

oh yeah, how so?

sakugabooru.com/post/show/57437

cant believe this was as good as TV animation could be even in the late 90s when japanese economy hit the toilet

Maybe you should try getting off of Yea Forums?

but sexualizing children and encouraging child drag queens is probably fine by both of these faggots

>tomboy
?

It's typical Studio Trigger style.

Please take a moment and reread my post because I never once said how well they sold retard.

The first few arcs of DB Super say hi.

And besides the animation, they're assholes when it comes to legal stuff. Aren't they the ones who prevented Fighterz from being at public tournaments?

well, that sure is a neat 30 second animation.

Why did they do this?

>think the image is real
>think B&K would be a legend

so it sold like shit, got you

Trigger is so fucking overrated

because they know spending all their budget on that will give them more sales than investing in the actual game

>DBScuck

DISREGARDED OPINION

I've never really liked Studio Trigger, but I'm surprised how some people here complains about the lack of animation in the Shantae opening, but probably like their shows.

Here's your you.

>it sold really well, just believe me
No one even remotely said this.

see

>everything is angular
WHYYYY

I stand corrected. Fairly sure HGH did worse than pirate curse, but I might be wrong.

Awful fanart.

Trigger

I mean they're right, there's a bunch of horny stuff in the games, especially as the series continues. My guess is that the fanservice increased because it's not kids who are getting these games, but instead men who miss 90's saturday morning cartoons. I still don't really think it's harmful, or as creepy as they're trying to make it sound.

So what would they say if a child WANTED to be sexualized? and also wanted to be trans.