APOLOGIZE
wayforward.com
APOLOGIZE
DUNGEONS
looks like their reusing a lot of assets from the previous game.
Hopefully this one will break trends and be actually good
garbage
new portrait art is cute though
They did it. The waifu bait made it into the title.
Shantae is a l.e.w.d. 16 year old girl!
Plant......
>dungeons return
>interconnected world returns
>full 2d instead of trashy looking 2.5d
Cautiously optimistic.
More girls to be fucked by Shantae's mighty futa penis.
Sprites should look like the main art
Seven Sirens? More like
SEVEN Waifu Wars for the best Siren
I hate the way the portraits cut off on the bottom. Just put them lower on the screen
>automatic transformations
>aka no standing still and dancing
Where were you when they saved Shantae?
YOO holy shit seven fucking waifus!
No new character models?
Oh...
hot damn we got cutscenes CONFIRMED "Gorgeously animated TV-style cutscenes!"
I claim the pale one with red hair. She's mine now.
How many Giga Mermaid bosses will there be?
That's retarded jesus christ the old sprite doesn't even match the new artwork artstyle
So will Shantae fuse with other girls to transform?
It's going to look like the fucking Trigger OP, isn't it?
>ocean up that high
It's tradition, just like Shantae reusing her Risky's Revenge sprite in Pirate's Curse without the vest and bandana. :^)
Odds of Trigger getting permission to make a Shantae anime?
So does this confirm the TRIGGER opening is shortened ? I feel like the OP of a game would show SOME of the introduced things in said game of a series, like the new characters.
>Shantae and the Seven Sirens
>seven girls who are plot relevant
someone please explain to me how this series doesn't thrive on spermheadedness alone. it really doesn't seem like anything else at this point, it's literally just "the girls are fuckable" and that's it, it might as well be a visual novel
>7 sirens
>only 4 in art
So are Rotty, Risky, and Sky gonna be the other 3?
also
>genie elf ears
LORE
>So are Rotty, Risky, and Sky gonna be the other 3?
I better not have to power bomb this tube too
It's gonna suck just as much as half genie
In fairness, a lot of platformers have sprites that don't match artwork.
You only like Shantae because you fap to her you sick fucks.
Pretty obvious
>Shantae 5 is now Shantae 7
BOZOOOOOOOOOOOOON
Plot twist: Bolo is actually one of the sirens instead of Sky, Rotty or Risky.
Thats simply not true
I do fap to Risky tho
Please tell me they cut most of the transformations and the bullshit around 'enhancing' their abilities.
>seven sirens
they aren't even bothering to hide it anymore
>shantae 5
>river city girls
Yeah, I'm thinking wayforward's back
these guys have it correct
your fanbase was already ruined by smashfaggotry and even the devs are aware of your cum-filled craniums. They even decided to use it as the focus point for this game. It's literally nothing but sex appeal and smash circlejerking now, abandon ship while you can.
> As Shantae gets caught up in the island’s sinister secrets, she’ll use all-new dance abilities and instant-transformation Fusion Magic to explore the nonlinear, interconnected world where she’ll visit multiple towns, overcome treacherous labyrinths, and battle dastardly bosses
Transformations will be istantaneous.
Wayfoward is favorite weeb company.
HGH wasn't that long ago
I wouldn't have expected them to crank out new assets so quickly
judging by the website, dance transformations still exist, but I assume certain transformations are just visual stuff like she will automatically become a mermaid or fish person when she goes underwater, basic stuff like that.
> Shantae’s biggest adventure yet!
I really fucking hope so, lack of length has always been a problem. The only one with the length, the first one, has other problems.
Well it looks like it's leaps above Half Assed Hero at least.
It only has to be as good as PC to be fine.
At least the backgrounds and models look like they fit together now.
dilate
>My calarts degree is finally good for something!
But why are dance abilities and transformations seperated in that statement?
Sounds like the instant-transformations have to do with this new fusion magic.
>shovel shitters mad their dlc is gonna be delayed another 6 months
I think the Sirens will be like Rayman's Origins Nymphs.
>biggest adventure yet!
>nonlinear, interconnected world where she’ll visit multiple towns, overcome treacherous labyrinths, and battle dastardly bosses.
>Rottytop cleavage on the cover
Fuck I'm happy to be alive
If they don't have these outfits in this game, and have them be outfits you can use for the whole game, I'm gonna fucking riot.
my fetish. dude's wife is literally the god of designing waifus.
Calarts unironically meant something back in the day.
I want to tie her up and start fingering her navel
like said, it's probably for certain elements like "she turns into a fish when she goes into water" the game is themed around the water, so having to transform into a fish every time you want to go to water is just tedious. I doubt EVERY transformation will be instant, but ones that would be extremely annoying probably will be, I expect stuff like the fish, the harpy, and maybe the monkey will be instant while others won't.
have you considered that MAYBE the games are good?
Shovel Knight King campaign STILL isnt out yet right?
>bought Shovel Knight on release on Wii U in 2014 and played it
>decided to wait until all DLCs were out so I could buy the complete physical release, eventually on Switch
>five years later
>still not finished
Where the FUCK is King of Cards?
Gotta say, the ingame art looks like shit and I hope it's a alpha thing, but give me the real shantae game you were always trying to do please
at least the other DLC actually felt like a new game, the Shantae outfit DLC stuff is a joke.
I’m only here for the inevitable lewds. The games themselves are all mediocre.
What does shantaes hair smell like?
Looks like more of the same, hopefully the level design is better this time
>explore the nonlinear, interconnected world where she’ll visit multiple towns
God, please tell me they're going for a GBC style again.
Is it gonna be more fun than the last one at least?
I hope the original shantae dance mechanic gets in somehow. I want to see those unused animations.
That would be a cool reference, actually.
It's pretty wild how there hasn't been a shantae cartoon yet, not just from him being an older calarts alumn but how well connected he's stayed with the animation industry
>The games themselves are all mediocre.
Except for pirate's curse, of course. Which is good.
What does shantaes pubic hair smell like?
I think lavender is a safe guess but it also could be something dumb like beach walk.
>assets made for 720p or smaller resolution
>4K GUYS IT'S 4K VISUALS!!!!
HAHA no
Their Shovel Smash clone isn't either
>It's ok when zelda does it
Fuck you this shit was the dankest fucking shit on this planet, I used to stop playing and just waste time trying to make my own dank beats, especially the last 2 sounds are fucking dank
youtube.com
How?
their game was fully funded and released like 5 years ago.
they then "re-released" the game under the 'treasure trove' moniker just to hike up the price by $10 more
how are they still not finished with the DLC?
This is the first one since well, the first one to show potential
Do you really think leftist pandering execs want to take a chance on a cartoon with a main character that looks like shantae and is filled with cute fan service?
>he doesn't want to play through the game in Shantae's shit and piss stained potty outfit
I can tell that the fusion mechanic is literally just gonna be "monkey, harpy, elephant BUT IN WATER!!!!!!!" you can even see that animal in the tube kinda looks like a sea monkey or something like that.
>mini-games
Grape juice uwu
More porn incoming, bros
You can't rush art
is it still going to be sexist garbage? then no thanks
based
>damage numbers
literally for what purpose?
Showdown is probably a draw on their staff/resources.
You know, that mode that literally no one asked for.
Oh shit, i didn't even notice that.
They're really trying to go back to their roots this time, huh?
Man this whole "Indie King" that was proposed by people on the internet kinda shows success doesnt mean much if you cant maintain it.
It sucks cause while Im more of a Shantae fan I really did enjoy the fuck outta Shovel Knight. but man these delays...
>>>/resetera/
Yeah it's weird, especially sine you only have that attack.
Shantae is for ______
They've been a thing since RR.
So out of the four new half genies there who's the best design wise?
They've had them before, but they're a pretty pointless inclusion beyond tangibly seeing that shop upgrades do more damage.
>floating portraits
god I hope that gets fixed
You'd think Yacht Club Games would try to capitalize more on Shovel Knight instead of slowly coasting along like they've been doing, especially since the character showed up in Smash of all places.
Looks more like Pirate's Curse again, which means that I'm fully on board.
From what we can see, the red head and the black girl are the best.
The multiple towns stuff actually sounds like the original, which wouldn't be bad either.
hugs but also fugs
black hair >= red hair > chocolate > blondie
>You'd think Yacht Club Games would try to capitalize more on Shovel Knight
He literally showed up in 1 bazillion other games and they have had steady sales so far, thanks to their publicity of free DLC promises
>I'm fully on board.
Indeed. I'm ready to cast off on this new shantae game.
I think they should instead get some work on another IP cause its been like 5 years now and Shovel Knight is YCG's afaik ONLY IP.
hell considering all the stuff so far has been technically been DLC they havent ven really made a new game yet either.
>Perk cards that give you different ways to play
>Perk cards
TOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOODD
The bigger question is, is SHE in???
Same. I'm at full mast here.
Red hair is the only one who comes close to matching shantae's cuteness, so her.
Smae but replace black girl with the black haired red outfit one.
She was a pretty shit mechanic, so hopefully not.
Sounds like Castlevania/Bloodstained, just cards instead.
maaybe? If I recall she was a backer's addition? do they own that character fully now?
>especially sine you only have that attack
I can understand the appeal of most fetishes, but I'm never gonna fucking understand vore.
What is the fucking appeal behind being painfully murdered.
Are they toning down the fanservice?
>backer-made
>smut artist
Yeah, I sorta doubt she'll be back.
>Yea Forums suddenly having a somewhat positive opinion on a wayforward game
How long until one of the devs makes a slightly left-leaning twitter post or someone notices a 30 pixel-wide dab animation and it causes all of Yea Forums to turn on them?
honestly shovel knight lost all it's prestige once it was whored out to literally anybody no matter how shit the game was.
i just see shovel knight now and remember his forced ass appearance in yooka laylee and associate him with all the shit cameos he's in.
>painfully murdered
Being digested feels like bliss
The games are mediocre as shit and are not worth all this discussion. The only reason people care about Shantae is because of all the porn, it's a fact at this point.
its odd you say that since she looks by far the most serious of the bunch.
Imagine Reddie getting flustered when Bolo calls her "cute"
>instant transformations
>they got rid of the actual biggest issue with the Shantae games meaning at the absolute worst the game is going to be on par with Pirate's Curse
Holy FUCKING based. It feels so good to be a Shantaechad.
so whats some of the worst and I mean not like "Yea Forums views the game as bad" I mean jjust a game that all around sucked critically and commericially.
Link to artist pics?
who the fuck would fund such a thing?
you're being slowly melted...
you ever burn your finger on a flame?
imagine that but 100x more painful, all over your body, and immense blood loss and organ failure.
Shovel Knight will show up in any indie game meaning he's in a lot of literal who throwaway trash games you've never heard of.
HGH showed a Shantae game can have many more issues than just the transformations.
But from what we're hearing 5 is gonna fix them.
Redhead might be best design, but I like pic.
>metal gauntlets
Ever get an acid burn how about suffocation?
Shame, giant waifus are the best waifus.
Also they look nowhere near as thick as the nymphs from Rayman.
pleeease t ell that dick isnt shopped into the image that would make it waay more funny if it was legit.
Imagine if every single girl in this game shows their tummy
HGH was a crowdfunded title that overstuffed the game with fan backed transformations, resulting in some transformations such as Spider and Bat to get no real use outside of a single part in one dungeon. A lot of HGH's flaws were due to the crowdfunding if you ask me, considering how much WF accepts criticism and was willing to drop Shantae's dance gimmick to make the gameplay tight just like Pirate's Curse, I doubt we'll see any of HGH's issues in this game.
oh shit I didnt even notice those.
I played the game, its shopped. Said game is bunny black.
>Dungeons, nonlinear world, upgraded moves
Literally like the first game, they should've kept this and build it up since Risky's Revenge. Better late than never I suppose.
having written a few vore stories, I can get some ideas, even if I don't understand it fully myself.
For predator, it's a sort of power fantasy. The ability to fully dominate something to the point that it becomes a part of you, watching it feebly struggle against your might. It can get sadistic, but it can also be cathartic, like the story I wrote featured the antihero shrinking down a vorey-monster and giving it "just desserts"
as a prey, its more of a feeling of being encased and warm and sometimes losing control. If there's size difference, there's being played in the mouth like a little toy. If you're the same size as the predator, it's like you get the same kind of thing as those people who enjoy being vacuum sealed in laytex or something.
Imagine like a hug, but for crazy people
Will this one finally be a decent length?
So they're just reusing the art/style and animations. I was really hoping to see something different than the HGH appearance this time.
So I see this game is going to be 4k. Will I be able to experience this on my 1080p monitor?
Rotty is just a corpse so she doesn't count
Because it's instant feedback that you have made x amount of damage.
Also, this time if it's actually a big game, seeing those numbers get bigger feels good
With Pokemon doing the same, I blame gamers. It's all us gamers care about the most.
I just hope the gameplay is good. PC tier good.
I think most agree it's GuNMouTH.
It's furry shit.
>automatic transformations
>aka no standing still and dancing
where you were when they FUCK UP THIS SERIES!!
Fuck WF for appealing to Casuals, if i would make this game, i will bring back the Dance system from the first GBC game, and have 16 unique dance idles.
Gastric acid has a ph of around 1.5 on average, which makes it comparable to somewhat diluted hydrochloric acid. Go sit in a vat of that until you die and tell me you had a good time doing it.
Why does having teeth like that make everything instantly sexier
I mean Shantaes teeth
Did they make her tits smaIIer? WTF
>vagina bones
>no vagina
I mean I appreciate it but come on
Hope the cut transformations from 1/2 genie hero gets added here. I remember succubus Shantae being one of them.
damn I want a pissed off but severely aroused futa anime demon goddess queen.
>Pre-gameplay footage has made a huge deal about Shantae's new design
>Literally reuses the in-game sprite from last game and only has the new design in game during the fucking talking segments
Jesus, this series is absolute fucking garbage, why can't we get Mighty Switch Force 3 instead?
they said they'll still have dancing
I think.
Peak soulless
They were never really that big, all the other girls are bigger.
She's a nicer shade of brown though.
also announced a new wayforward game that nobody here will care about
Y-you do know that "vagina bones" have literally nothing to do with vaginas, right? Have we finally crossed the threshold of people calling them vagina bones ironically, and reached the point where people actually think they are literal vagina bones?
user reussed assets arent always "bad"
it's only 4k on 4k systems/phones
otherwise it'll probably be 1080p for everything else
Fucking another Shantae game, jesus christ. Fuck wayforward.
MATT JAMES I KNOW YOU FUCKERS ARE ON THIS THREAD, DO IT!!!!!
2009
>Pre-gameplay footage has made a huge deal about Shantae's new design
Cope
tbf we have no info other then “yeah it’s indeed a thing” same reason why no one talked about River City Girls till the trailer
man they are just cranking shit out this year, what the hell happened, did someone win a lottery over at WF?
Will we get more counterfeit mermaids?
>throw away 2-3 years of work in a new engine
My only concern is if they've streamlined the art production or not by now.
>Incels overhype a shitty game because their minds are subservient to anime chicks
Pathetic
This honestly looks great. The new genie waifus look cute.
What do you mean another you dribbling retard? We've known about Shantae 5 for months.
>being slowly melted by stomach acid feels like bliss
I'll never understand vorefags
I hope they integrate transformations as upgrades, meaning that Shantae momentarily transforms to do specific actions.
>Shantae transforms into a Harpy to do a double jump
>Shantae transforms into an elephant to do a ground pound from the air
>Shantae transforms into a monkey to wall jump and climb vines
>Shantae tranforms into a fish/mermaid when underwater
Full transformations can still be in the game, but regular shantae's moveset needs to be expanded to make general platforming more fluid.
YOU NEED TO GO BACK NIGGER
>user overinflates his sense of self worth by trashing something just to trash it.
They know their audience. If they will fuck a fish,they'll fuck a plant.
Go play wayforward garbage, faggot.
>its ok when gacha shit does it
>its ok when Yoko Taro does it
>its ok when fighting games do it
>Shantae AND the Seven Sirens
>Exactly seven females on the cover excluding Shantae
Nice to see Sky and Rottytops getting more involved in the plot
>throw away 2-3 years of work in a new engine
Things I didn't ask for or even infer.
B-buddy HGH came out in 2016 and since then we got MSF collection, Mummy demastered, River City Girls and hell yesterday a new ip was announced and shown off
Meanwhile in apple arcade this thing still has no info
Struck a nerve huh?
The games are completely shit and if you remove the fan service they have NOTHING. You have extremely low standards befitting a degenerate subhuman like you.
Not him but people often forget that a lot of older games use to reuse assets to save time and money.
Not only that you can improve the older sprites and rework it.
Look at Marvel vs Capcom 2, it's consider one of the best marvel games and that game is just a collection of reuse sprites from a lot of titles.
fucking this
I was hoping they would at least bring the dance parlor back but I doubt it at this point
uhh pretty sure that was just an april fools thing user.
not all transformations will be instant, they literally say on the site that you still have to use the dancing mechanic
Who the fuck does this artwork? It's so fucking cute I can't take it
I was hoping for a bigger leap in visuals, this just looks like Tembo.
>IT'S SO UNIQUE GUYS
>game description is literally just "Lovers in a Dangerous Space Time"
>stop liking what I don't like REEEEEEE
>bolo is around cute, sexy, pretty girls all the time
>even the back ground girls are hot
>still single
I hope Bolo finally finds a girlfriend. Maybe one of the new genies.
Marvel vs. Capcom 2 was the worst example you could use since it actually made some sprites, worse like Sentinel and Anarkis
>was really hoping to see something different than the HGH appearance this time
Considering WF couldn't even get the right shade of brown in their first HGH promos and the game has/had crash problems, I'd think they want to recycle everything that works and not re-make/re-design any assets or the aesthetic.
>cutscenes aren't by Trigger
well hopefully that means that it won't look as bad as the Opening
Bolo will fuck them all
what if i'm gay and i like shantae because i like the gameplay?
i like her new studio trigger design but she does absolutely nothing to me
>announced March 25
Thats hasnt been said anywhere. And Apple Arcade isnt out yet.
my bad
Welcome to nu/v/4channel, enjoy the zoomers and enjoy your stay.
>tfw you realized the reason its got 2D maps is because it has to run on Apple TV
This is the person who animated the dab in river city girls. I want to see shantae dab.
This game is also on Apple Arcade, so it was definitely real.
I guess I'm the only one who like HGH gameplay and visual design. First game I played was Pirates Curse then later I bought Risky Revenge which I never finished and I have to say I preferred HGH transformation gameplay over Pirates Curse
>Marvel vs. Capcom 2 was the worst example you could use since it actually made some sprites, worse like Sentinel and Anarkis
They were fine on release, no one had no way to compare the sprites without going back and forth a machine that most likely was not around.
Obviously today sprites have to actually be rework and made better.
Apple Arcade is not Apple TV, Apple Arcade actually can run 3D games
I hope this comes back as a playable costume in seven sirens.
>Reuse the Half Genie Hero sprites
Those were fucking awful God damn it.
you're fucking retarded. everybody knows that mvc2 reused assets across seven fucking vs games and other 2D capcom fighters.
its also fucking ugly. its capcom MUGEN.
>Yeah, I'm thinking wayforward's back
I want Shantae to fatten up all Seven Sirens.
four games..
wayforward has been busy
>exclusively to Switch
The red and black one
Its all the same hardware really, the big problem is all the games will be held back by iOS.
Its the standard mobile affair, games that have insanely good looking visuals for mobile will have no scope and everything else will take a hit visually, hell Sonic Racing dropped the team mechanic presumably because it didn't work on the hardware.
but guys... small indie studio, please understand when they do something stupid like no online option in a co-op game
Looking forward to the inevitable lewds of the new siren girls!
go back to /vp/ please
I mean they literally ARE an indie studio
>indie studio
>has more people working on their games than most AA studios
>is able to release 4+ games within the span of a year
they had money to waste on trigger videos
Fugs on the streets, hugs in the sheets.
>They were fine on release, no one had no way to compare the sprites without going back and forth a machine that most likely was not around.
No they were not. The game was never praised for its visuals. The backgrounds were low quality 3D shit with uninspired environments, the sprites were an awful mess of clashing art styles between several titles over the years. You had ahit like Morrigan's original CPS1 sprite mixes in with new shit like Marrow or SonSon which boasted higher frame count, better palette selection and detail. Sentinel was an obvious downgrade to anyone who wasn't blind such as yourself.
Your text to speech program won't show my image but I'll give you a description. It's Patrick Bateman about to kill someone with an axe, and I hope it's you.
yeah. it this point. i could care less about shovel dlc
just make a new game already
I like the dancing it was fun in all the games except half genie where I was just a menu
not that user but do you even know what indie means?
>wf hasn't done anything since HGH, i wonder what they're working on
>wf's face when
I'm sorry your games are boring, wayforward-san
I played half genie on Gamepass since it was there. I hated it and don't see what you guys like about this series. Rotty is best tho.
>reusing a lot of assets
Literally who cares, HGH looked good. Only Yea Forums is going to bitch about it, but they were gonna do that regardless.
Portrait art is cute. Still wish they'd stop cropping it. Character sprites could use some work. Wasn't really a fan of the HGH ones.
yeah, smaller studio that works independently of big publishers. Wayforward does neither of these things btw.
Stop talking out of your ass
I just want Wayforward to get a competent graphic designer, for fuck's sake.
So far Pirate's Curse is still the only good one. HGH was legit bad.
>dress like a whore
>manage to be cute and adorable
How does she do it, bros?
>Walk in to Shantae news
I nutted.
Thank you, Matt.
She'll be playable in Smash someday. I still believe.
nice homo mobile menu and font
>punch genie
Give her to me.
Sounds like too much of a spoiler, which means it's likely not entirely accurate and a few of the Sirens have yet to be introduced.
I'm betting Holly WAS a Siren but was banished for her arrogance
wayforward are an independent studio, therefore they are indie.
whered they get all the money to do this?
You're legit bad!
I hope the game will dramatically look better near the release date.
>SAME ARTSTYLE BAD
everytime with you Yea Forums
so begins the war of the waifus
Placeholders
licensed games, probably hoarded the extra kickstarter money rather than putting it to use on features in HGH, ArcSys financed RCG as well.
fuck off you retarded poser you are clueless
What about all those indie devs that partner with the likes of microsoft and sony to get their games on their systems?
>COPING HOPERS
this is the same studio that copy pasted the main menu from HGH for the MSF collection. These are the final graphics.
I jokingly believe the reason they are able to do all these games so far is they got Shantae in Smash DLC and thus nintendo paid them the fees for such a thing.
Indie means Independent. As in they have no set contracts with a publisher to only make games for them. They make game ideas and they market their game ideas to publishers to finance the making of their game.
Sure, the new trend of calling a 1-3 person studio and "indie" studio is a thing, but they too do the exact same thing (or self-publish/submit to Steam for publishing).
why make it so evident that you never played any of the games mvc2 recycled from?
you probably thought they actually make 60 characters just for that game lmao
Only enough for 20 seconds worth of key frames.
>hoarded the extra kickstarter money rather than putting it to use on features in HGH
They also had to make and ship out all the physical rewards.
they're typically smaller studios of like... 15 people AT MOST. WayForward has HUNDREDS of people working there.
Shawntey is cute!
You're an idiot.
THIS!!!
FINALLY SOMEONE GETS IT!
you realize your definition makes studios like Konami and Quantic Dream indie studios right?
I doubt they hoarded cash. It was mostly likely due to Nintendo paying them royalties.
what i want to know is
>can i play as risky
>will holly who be there in some way
>who is the father of risky's child me
You'd hear a lot less of it if it looked like Pirates Curse. A lot of people have had problems with HGH style since it was announced.
No. Risky is going to pretend to be the seventh and fuck shit up until it's revealed that Shantae is actually the real seventh
two small games and probably cheap
river city girls paid by arcsystemworks
leaving some budget for shantae
>reusing HGH's horrible artstyle
cvs2 was literally more consistent visually than mvc2 and it had the same shitass morrigan sprite.
stop embarassing yourself
Well Yea Forums, try to convince me why Shantae series isn't mediocre outside of Pirate's Curse which is literally the only GOOD game in the series (while the rest being just bad to decent)
how can WF be an indie studio after working with SO many big publishers?
I get Shovel Knight being localizated by Nintendo in Japan but ffs, WF has been working with Capcom, Konami, Activision, THQ and Warner Bros. They aren't an indie studio anymore they probably have an awful management tho
You do realize they could've easily drawn the assets at 4k resolution and just shrunk them to 720p for HGH, right? They could just plant them in this new game without shrinking the assets this time. If they have the original assets, and they were made with vector graphics, they could even upscale them to 4k without any blurriness if they have to.
well.. yeah. it was to be expected
pirate curse re-used a lot of RR too
>Indie means Independent.
As in "independent of anything that makes for a good game or movie".
Shantae confirmed for Smash
Sorry Doomfags
>Doesn't know how facts work
And where is your evidence to support this? Oh wait, you are just a seething, dipshit contrarian who is just going to find any excuse to discredit the fans' love of the series. Bet you were unironically part of the jizz-brain meme.
CVS2 game a good chunk of the veteran cast from both SNK and Capcom side an entire new set of sprites and animations not used anywhere else. Why are you pretending to know anything?
They both were awful.
>APOLOGIZE
For what? For buying the games? For supporting and believing in the developers? For borderline harassing them to get this project going?
I Apologize For Nothing!!
cvs2 had ten times the effort put into it and you dont know shit you fucking poser
If they re-used the sprites from Pirates curse you would have people bitching about that too.
All their animations are vector tween shit so they're pretty scalable.
well to be fair, that would be justified since it's been nearly 10 years since RR came out and PC reused assets from that game.
Literally the entire point of HGH was to crowdfund a baseline modern Shantae game/asset set. Why in the living fuck would they go to all that work just to toss it out?
by your logic doublefine wasn't an indie studio before MS bought them out. The number of employees is irrelevant, if they operate independently then they are an indie studio. Mojang, the team behind minecraft, was independent for years in spite of it being one of the most successful games of the decade.
Ssshhh..Don't go asking questions, the contrarians need to feel validated.
>cvs2 had ten times the effort put into it and you dont know shit you fucking poser
I'm not even the original poster you were reply to.
Both games look like total garbage just from looking at screenshots.
>Well Yea Forums, try to convince me
No
You can't convince a blind person what the color blue looks like.
Because it's UGLY.
>it's n-not an actual labyrinth, it's just a level that looks like one!
>HGH assets means it'll be just like HGH!
>HGH had good reviews, so that means they didn't look at any criticism!
press D to dab
i think the funniest part of this thread is the mass of idiots who are surprised they're using the same/similar artstyle as hgh
did you guys get dropped on your head when you were young or were you born defective
or did you train to become as stupid as you are now
i mean if it's the latter, at least you listened to ramsey dewey's advice of get out there and train, but i didn't imagine he meant to become dumbasses with no common sense
certainly you guys are just victims of a botched lobotomy that still left you able to function just barely, but only enough to let us know how brainless you are
or maybe a recent accident has left you guys braindead
there has to be some scientific explanation
for a studio that is praised purely for their visuals, they are awful at graphic design. most of their games have clashing art styles thanks to graphic designers and they do dumb shit like floating poorly cropped shantae for talking animations
no.... THAT'S IMPOSSIBLE
>how can WF be an indie studio after working with SO many big publishers?
because none of those publishers own any part of wayforward. There's no exclusivity deals or exclusive publishing rights owned by any of those companies and none of them have any control over what wayforward develop.
I'd rather have a new Sigma Star Saga game than a new Shantae game.
Sigma Star Saga is a much more interesring concept and a game that deserves more attention as it pushed the GBA to its limits
Then you crazier people like me that just wants to watch her go on a rampage and listen to the aftermath.
I have too much pride to want to be eaten myself.
ur mom is ugly
>literally all we have are screenshots and "promises" from wayforward
>WE OBVIOUSLY KNOW THIS GAME WILL BE THE BEST THING EVER GUYS GET FUCKED HATERS!!!!!
go home Matt, you're embarrassing yourself
CVS2 had backgrounds that were more detailed and fit the setting. MvC2 was just a mish mash of random ass shit that was laughable at the time but no one cared because they wanted Mega Man to punch Psylocke.
The recent trend of looking MvC2's visuals and overall presentation in a positive light is a recent phenomenon. The fact that you hold this view so adamantly leads me to believe that you're one of those faggots. If anything, you are worse because you insist you were part of the original scene. Go fuck yourself.
>The games are mediocre as shit
You didn't even play them, retarded tranny lmao
Man Shantae's GBC Sprite looks like fucking trash, she doesnt have the spiky hair.
The artstyle is unfitting which is why it should be a GBA game
Go yell at Namco.
I wish they'd go back to pixel sprites. Not because I don`t like the handdrawn stuff more, but because the last game sucked and had next to no content.
Shantae needs to become a metroidvania game again.
>trannys assblasted because sex appeal is still alive and well on gaming industry
Join the 40% asap, ill cuck.
I'm not at all surprised. I'm just disappointed that they went that route. HGH was an ugly game animation and character design wise. I hate the gigantic heads they gave everyone and that a majority of the animation is puppet tweens they tried their best to mask.
you guys really like moving the goalposts whenever people talk about how wayforward isn't an indie studio.
>has more people working there than some AAA and AA studios
>has money to burn on professional animation studios and voice actors to do cutscenes for their games
>can afford to make more games than most big studios can in a given year
>works with huge publishers all the time and has been doing that for decades
eventually your definitions are going to be so broad that you could use them to say Nintendo is an indie studio.
bigger art
they wanted to do a sequel but.. rights and all
>typing like this much of a retard while calling others stupid
Many people don't like the HGH art style, thats why its getting brought up. Good job looking like a total chimp though.
i am pretty sure there was a leak a couple years back that said that the hgh kickstarter was just a developmental project to get all the resources for the actual nonhgh game made so hgh would end up as filler
and it really did
The only good fighting game visually is tekken.
Capcom has never made a good fighting game ever.
>Shantae needs to become a metroidvania game again.
Read the fucking news article
nooooo why can't they rape the rights owners and force them to do it, don't they want free money, noooo *doesn't understand copyright law at all* help meeeee
none of what you said applies to independent game studio.
I don't give much of a shit about wayforward, it's a matter of fact that they fit the definition of independent company, and are therefore and independent studio. Posting smug isn't going to change that.
do you even play fighting games or do you just look at stuff and rate things by visuals
So are we FINALLY going to see more half-genies? I recall a mention that there was supposed to be many of them in the world, not just Shantae.
exactly because they aren't an independent game studio
>What is Vampire Savior
They made at least one, and the only fighter with Disney quality animations at that. It's the fucking reason why they never updated Morrigains sprite work, because they knew they could never do it better.
independent just means they dont have contracts with publishers like exclusivity shit or they get funding from published to develop the games.
thats it.
The press release explicitly states that those are half-genies.
>Been trying to push their labor-of-love character/franchise for fucking ever
>Finally pays off after like 20 fucking years
lewd memes aside I'm legit happy for them
what do you use to download images off twitter?
i've been looking for one that adds the handles
not him but i use a thing called twitter view original images, i don't know if you are talking about a script or just something that lets you save files instead of going through hoops n hassle to let you save things
nothing
just orig and copy / paste
Why is HGH artstyle so hated?
im not really a vorefag, but i theorize that the key in this fetish being arousing is that those people imagine its a blowjob but like for your whole body
like imagine having a feeling of getting a blowjob and expanding it to be for every part of your body and then getting a blowjob all at once.
that's what I told them earlier, almost verbatim, that user is just a retarded weeb.
>clashing styles with the backgrounds
>ugly imps everywhere
>awful graphic design with that talking box
>tweened animations that look awful
>Holly's feet isn't even aligned on the ground right
We getting more of Shantdad in this game or not?
They literally had to be a licensed shovelware grindhouse with consistent quality for almost two decades before they got to regularly release their own shit, and they still take on licensed works to put food on the table. It's why they were the first KS I backed. They have a proven track record of getting shit out the door and deserved to really try and build up more of their own properties
He could be Risky's dad instead. If I recall, he shares her HO-HO-HO laugh.
Mario is trash, only SMB3/World/Galaxy/3D World was good games. Even World 2 (which is really a Yoshi game) is better than examples.
>Tweening
>Really off putting proportions (Breast feel stapled on, hips aren't really 'hips'
In general it feels cheap and honestly doesn't do the characters justice.
all we need is Shantae reveal for Smash and itll be full fucking humble beginnigs.
Based Pirate Queen having based as fuck dad.
Id buy it.
>Risky is her mom
Calling it now
You're just asking for inflation porn with that.
they don't need to be in smash to "make it", seriously you people really overhype smash
Apologize? This shit is literally an asset flip from HGH.
It would help you fuck.
>I need this game to waste tons of money to have wholly new assets or it's not a new game
The guy literally describes Shantae is his lost memories, a laugh doesn't link him to Risky.
making it would shit like
>getting an OVA or anime
>getting a nendo
>actually officially selling millions of copies(as far as we know, this hasn't actually happened yet)
those are actual indicators that you are huge, smash isn't
Not to mention they salvaged something good out of that shit mummy movie
can't say I'm a huge fan of them reusing gameplay assets from HGH but the art style of the portraits is a million times better than that game's at least.
I mean, they can update the palette and color count without touching the animations. Doing that alone would have easily made Morrigan stand up well against the new sprite sets they made for Ruby Heart, Marrow, Amingo, and SonSon for MvC2
PC's has her tell Shantae outright that she knew her mother. Bozon's tease might lend more weight to the idea that she was a genie or half genie of sorts before aligning/being corrupted by the Pirate Master
The backgrounds/terrain look disconnected from the characters, and the portrait art is a step back from Pirate's Curse. Thankfully both seem better from what we can see from the screenshots
This looks like a cheap mobile game
>green text
Poor damage control, WayFoward teases that Shantae has a new design yet again, only to recycle HGH visuals and said new design is only there as profile portraits.
>big overworld
>dungeons are back
>animated cutscenes
>"instant transformations"
Well, I'm hype.
Or Shantae's mom was her arch enemy before Shantae came along.
Can't wait to see Risky's new portrait.
Maybe you shuld play HGH before theorizing out of your ass, Shantae's mom has outright said to be still alive in the Genie realm, she is sealing whatever evil from escaping.
Calarts is a buzzword that has no meaning in this shithole
>a third party getting on the roster of one of the most acclaimed crossover series in videogaming ISNT making it
this is the worst opinion ever and there is a 100% chance that you're a faggot aris sub.
Me too.
My secret dream is that they recast Risky with Rachael Lillis. Risky needs dat haughty Jessie voice
She doesn't have a new design. Her hair is just sharper because the UI and cutscene artists are new. You are also hilariously misunderstanding the whole point of the Kickstarter. The fact Shantae's gameplay was going to look like this from now on was the whole point.
And plot reasons mean she needs to be in a swimsuit at some point.
Don't care how.
bitch do you think Bayonetta was finally considered huge when she got into smash? do you think shantae being a spirit isn't enough to be considered "making it?" like for real, you are seriously over hyping smash bros
Holy shit are those all new waifu?
It chances are was the plan at first, though we all know Ruby, Amigo, and SonSon were carry overs from a possible Vampire/Darkstalkers sequel for the CPS3 that got canned, it's why those 3 look so damn good. Marrow's the only other oddball case, and that just comes from them not having anything from CotA and the like for her already, and they needed one more to round out the roster.
The rest of MvC2 is the making's of a rushed deal to get -SOMETHING- out because the CPS3 had tanked Capcom HARD and the Naomi board meant quick resale onto Dreamcast and PS2 once made (Game wasn't even in arcades for more then a few months before a home version was out the door).
>can afford to make more games than most big studios can in a given year
Wait are you trying to use the QUANTITY of games as an argument? Even though 2 of the 4 games we know about are likely fucking tiny? One game was funded by ArcSys and the other has the majority of WF staff and both games will likely be 20 to maybe 30 hours, meanwhile the AA/AAA studios are crafting full price, full length games. This aren't comparable, especially since WF had a huge game drought for a long while after HGH.
>has money to burn on professional animation studios and voice actors to do cutscenes for their games
Lab Zero can also afford voice acting and even an OP from Trigger as well, almost like short, 30 second openings with minimal keyframes aren't horrendously expesnsive compared to shit like advertising.
>works with huge publishers all the time and has been doing that for decades
Isn't this what indie studios are supposed to do?
Why waste money on someone else other than Christina Valenzuela who charges pennies for voice acting?
>Lab Zero can also afford voice acting and even an OP from Trigger as well, almost like short, 30 second openings with minimal keyframes aren't horrendously expesnsive compared to shit like advertising.
you realize Lab Zero had millions of dollars in their budget when they hired trigger and those VAs and shit?
She's not quite at Nendo status yet but they have some garage kits for Shantae, Risky and Rotty with optional animu or Bozon-style eyes
yes?
Well, 4/7ths of them, yes.
Because my dick demands it
I'm surprised Vee isn't either of the main girls in RCG.
SOMEONE ELSE THINKS JESSIE's VA IS PERFECT FOR RISKY!
>you are seriously over hyping smash bros
Are you fucking serious? Super Smash Bros. is the 2nd best selling "fighting" game franchise in the world, only behind Tekken, with only 5 games in the series. Each game sells 5 million copies at very least, any franchise to manages to get a character in it has officially "made it".
I like Christina Venezuela
>Gets a spirit, therefore she's in the biggest crossover event ever
>NO THAT DOESN'T COUNT SHE NEEDS TO BE A PLAYABLE CHARACTER!!!!!!!!
I'd argue Smash has moved beyond just being a "fighting game series", but whatever.
that hand is all sorts of fucked up.
also why isnt the portrait centered at the bottom when they cut off the art like that? at least put a box around the art or something it looks bad that way.
also terrible font/interface style.
she's in the trailer theme at least. Maybe she voices a boss.
see
>Lab Zero can also afford voice acting and even an OP from Trigger as well
They can afford? Lab Zero who has never made a game without asking for crowdfunding?
I never said it doesnt count I just meant playable would be an even bigger "made it"
It's the only voice I've ever heard for her
Vee is fine for Shantae but if they're going to do actual extended dialog she really can't carry multiple fucking characters. As it is they got new people for Sky and Rotty in their expansion, so I'm pretty sure they will
year of wayforward, lads
you know you fuckers cant say that and then also ruthlessly taunt every fan of a character that is currently only a spirit.
you will hang from a tree for this
Lab Zero is fucking cursed. Everyone they sign up with withers and dies. Hopefully Indivisible breaks it
>because none of those publishers own any part of wayforward
And so do Greezo and Good Feel but despite they have been working on Nintendo IPs since his foundation, Nintendo doesn't own ANY part of the studios. Everyone considers them second party but that's false because they just work on Nintendo IPs when they ask for so they don't have the same complete freedom in terms of creativity like an indie studio
>There's no exclusivity deals or exclusive publishing rights owned by any of those companies and none of them have any control over what wayforward develop.
Do you even know that WayForward have been working on multiple licensed IPs since his creation?
Literally the most defining term of an indie studio is "creative control" over his products, something you CAN'T do with licensed games. Fucking hell, they made a Contra and Silent Hill game, two big names in the industry and despite having some "liberty" in the development, this is already against the idea of a "independent" studio (which like the basically the word implies, it aim for INDEPENDENCE)
people only taunt spirit people who think they'll be DLC. being a spirit as a third party is still big. Anyone who thinks that it didn't take a lot for WF to get a spirit in the game is stupid, but nobody actually thinks she'll be playable.
Gum is disgusting.
Same
someone said that being playable is the final nail in finally making it, which is not true, just GETTING ANYTHING should've been enough to say that she's "made it" if you want to use smash as your argument.
probably the best way to do it
god I need Rachel Lillis Jessie again
it was waay too fucking good.
They made SG without crowdfunding. Only afterwards did they need it to expand the game.
shantae is pure and not for lewds. risky and rottytops are fair game though
There's a lot of things 4Kids did very wrong, but the voice acting in Pokemon wasn't one of them.
I still miss Maddie.
Imagine....
Getting to work on a game with a super cute lead girl, having it on nintendo systems, its popular and well liked AND no one can complain about it being sexy because you dont give two fucks.
>Do you even know that WayForward have been working on multiple licensed IPs since his creation?
yes, something they signed on for as a roundabout way to get funding for their own projects. They're basically operating as freelance developers when they choose to work on licensed properties, and as a studio they still operate independently.
Also see
en.wikipedia.org
en.wikipedia.org
>using wikipedia
look at this fucking dude
>that gif
Fuck me its been ages, I moss balloonshop
Matt "I love jailbait" Bozon
>They made SG without crowdfunding
They made a 8 characters, voice-less, story-less, command-skill-less, game without crowdfunding, they didn't ask for money to "expand" the game, they asked for money to actually finish it, and even to this day Lab Zero says Skullgirls isn't finished the way the wanted to be, characters they wanted are missing still because they are taking this lore they created seriously and wanted to finish it.
At least Shovel Knight is a good game.
I miss Veronica Taylor's Ash.
it explains everything you need to know, such as the fact that wayforward are a privately held company, which is one of the key reasons why they're classifiable as independent. I don't know much about how Grezzo and Good Feel operate as there isn't much publicly available information about them, but I do know that Grezzo at least is a subsidiary to Nintendo, and ergo are not an independent studio.
yeah and its still the only thing YCG has to their name.
Thats not gonna help em acquire funding for future stufff.
hey don't bring shovel knight into this, I like both games
Grezzo is not a part of nintendo they are completely independent, literally if you went on their website or did any research you'd know that
haha whoops, this clumsy monkey dropped her banana and had to bend over to pick it up.
I don't speak nippon so I can't really research them
>Grasshopper Manufacturer has less than 20 people working there
>not considered indie
>WayForward has hundreds of people working there
>considered indie and anyone who says otherwise is screeched at
dont worry Shantae I got you a ton of junk food to eat.
Your workforce has nothing to do with it.
they have an english website. but all you need to know is that Nintendo is only a client, they also work with companies like Square Enix and have games non-nintendo systems.
Grasshopper Manufacturer are literally a subsidiary to GungHo Online Entertainment, that's why they're not classed as indie
and sky will rip the clothes from your body
What have they done besides the Zelda 3DS remakes?
I guess I was wrong, I thought they were a nintendo subsidiary but they're really just affiliated with them. I don't know how the company operates, but it seems reasonable to say that Grezzo may be an indie studio as well then.
Alliance Alive, and the owner of the company created the Mana series(Secret of Mana, Trials of Mana, etc.)
Indie label is dumb, like despite people saying Grasshopper isn’t indie and wayforward isn’t indie TSA and HGH are indie games
How the fuck it doesn't have anything to do with it? The size of the workforce in a company is the direct result of how much capital circulates, defining the size of the enterprise.
I like the idea of costumization with the monster cards, this game has potential to be pretty fun
Ooh, thats nice.
not if another woman is chewing it
because if you're a small workforce working under a parent company then your workforce is not independent by literal definition.
>half-genie allies
who has been breeding all of these genies?
>Still no Shantae RPG whit rhythm mechanics like paper Mario
>Still no Shantae amiibo
>Still no playable in smash
However whit her popularity rising she is bound to make it someday
>How the fuck it doesn't have anything to do with it?
Because you can be small but work under a parent company like sony or nintendo.
So when is Kebako getting another game WayForward?
Plot twist: they all have the same dad.
hot monkey cunt
MANLY MEN!
And his name is Bolo
MUHHH
>her first game was an actual "appetizer"
Hopefully soon, user. Either that, or she gets put on the shelf until ironic weeb fandom comes back around again.
>ANOTHER shantae
Yawn
don't worry, user, you'll always have grindr
I can find good games on grindr?
one day
they remember her at least
I'm the ultimate pleb, I can't find the right timing to jump here to reach the next ship.
>skys theme is a porno track
Of course it is
>HGH sprites
ew no
>jump
>immediately switch
>push right
literally just run and jump
DS fag
not enough space to run
it just fits
All the girls have really moody 70s-themed tracks
he means you carry your momentum from the previous jump, hold right as you jump to that point in the pic and insstead of stopping and trying to jump from there, seamlessly jump and switch as you land.
LITERALLY JUST RUN AND JUMP
RUN
JUMP
SWITCH
MSF is the only good wayforward series
So we can all agree the black haired girl in the red is the hottest right?
Shantae is still the cutest.
>4+ games
And whats the length and quality of them on average?
Yeah.
Nah, tsundere redhead. Pending the official reveal of her breast size.
Fuck off boco
Call me when they have hardcore lesbo sex in the game
I dunno, you can literally just feel the soul when you play them
I really like the first one, it's actually the best one if you get over the camera being way too close
i want to fuck holly in every direction
twice on sunday
Not gonna lie, I never did too much research on it, so this is the first time I've actually seen that there are gameplay differences with the costumes... neat.
Risky better be lewded.
Nice.
Who?
>heh, I know a way to make sure I'll never be forgotten
>*ziiiiiiiiip*
>*flop*
Huh?
that's the us version where she got censored due to feminism
You'd better sauce me on that
It has always been that way though
how hard is it to search 'holly_lingerbean futa' in any booru? Too hard apperently.
I WANNA FUCK THE SEVEN SIRENS!
>Holly rapes everyone and becomes the SequinLand Terror"
She does horrible atrocity after atrocity to make sure she will NEVER be forgotten
babies, old people, comatose people, nothing is too low for her.
Sky is the sluttiest of them all.
best siren coming through
So apparently Shantae has no canon age.
D
hehe, bean.
>Sirens doesn't take place in Sequin Land so we probably won't see Joe, Twitch/Vinegar, Squidsmith, Giga Mermaid, etc.
>but we'll 100% see Squid Baron's ass again
>bangs your waifu
Kinda wish they would get a publisher like Arcsys to publish the Shantae games so we could get art as quality as River City Girls looks
I would fucking kill for a Shantae game with that level of pixel art
>Radda
>Radda rad-da!
Radda radda radda rada rad-DA! Radda!
Anyone else picture this guy sounding exactly life Scruffy from Futurama?
Keep seething, retarded nigger.
ammo baron and twitch/vinegar have a whole fleet so they might make it in
still. maybe wayforward just wants original villains for this game
I wish. But if the game has a pixel visual, please for the love of god have the text be in the same style. Games with a default font and pixel art just clash and looks bad
You can't say that on a blue board, Shnitzel.
I just think it just deserves a lot more in general.
Like look at this, it has fucking iPhone text boxes
Bolo is the best character.
I tried it on mobile and thought that was just a side effect of being on a phone. I wish it was. Not deal breaking but looks bad
Reminder that her pants are see-through now.
>rada
Radda RADDA radda
RADDA Ra RA**A