>Having previously announced the next game in the Shantae series back in March, we are proud to reveal the official title for the hotly anticipated action-adventure-platformer: Shantae and the Seven Sirens.
>Formerly referred to as Shantae 5, Shantae and the Seven Sirens sends the belly-dancing, hair-whipping, half-genie hero to a tropical island where Shantae and her friends encounter other Half-Genie allies, but they soon learn there’s trouble in paradise. 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. The game also features a new collectible card system that grants players the freedom to augment Shantae’s powers to suit their own style of play.
>same shit sprites from HGH >lazy waifu bait characters >floating portraits >lazy backgrounds >bland level design >same shit gameplay from HGH >mfw PC will never get a true sequel
Is this bait? The first thing we learned was that Shantae can do instant transformations now, meaning the gameplay is going to be just like Pirate's Curse except with magic over tools.
>instant-transformation >interconnected world >multiple towns >treacherous labyrinths What? It sounds way more like Pirate's Curse, but most of all it sounds like the original Shantae.
Thomas Cook
Could have sworn that I heard that Jake Kaufman wasn't doing the OST for this game, but feel free to prove me wrong.
Cameron Miller
i just want to know if we can play as risky and where is holly
None of the Shantae games are anything more than mediocre. If you're not impressed by 4 kids looking T&A, you might be better serviced by another game, maybe the ones Shantae rips off.
>Shantae and her friends encounter other Half-Genie allies >multiple towns >treacherous labyrinths I'm hyped. Not sure why people are surprised they're reusing assets, they did the same for Risky's Revolution, Risky's Revenge, and Pirate's Curse, and the sprite's for HGH really aren't bad.
James Wilson
Jake didn't do the theme for the intro but that doesn't deconfirm him entirely.
Zachary Martin
All I care about is if it has another banger soundtrack desu
Caleb Gutierrez
Will they ever find a cure for the disease that melds their middle and ring fingers together?
Seriously, why does the UI look like dog shit? That cut off portrait is an eye sore. How do they fuck something up they already did correctly in Pirate's Curse.
Thomas Miller
SHANTEA HAS A NEW GAME OMG!!!! I CANT WAIT TO FAP TO MOR POR- I-I MEAN PLAY HER NEW GAME OHOHOGOHOHOHOH!!!
Nice, sounds like they're developing the game the same way they did Pirate's Curse. Building off the prior game to allow them to focus more resources on fleshing the game out. I'm liking the art style too.
I like both series. It is possible to recommend one series without dumping on another.
Benjamin Ramirez
>guys instant transformations they fixed Shantae!!!!!! >still requires you to dance to use other stuff this shitty mechanic is never going away, I bet that some transformations will somehow require a dance while others are purely cosmetic stuff that didn't even need to be transformations like she automatically becomes a fish when she's in the water or she turns into a harpy automatically if you try to double jump while required mechanics like elephant dashes and pounds or spider climbing will require dancing.
I mean, yeah porn's nice but with a somewhat more prudish character like Shantae I'm more interested in MetroidVania goodness. Sides, most of the porn can be DA quality at times. What is serviceable is good though.
Jaxon Johnson
Is that you when you make that post?
Ethan Scott
I never trust anyone who feels like they have to tear something down to shill their own thing
Aaron Roberts
This but unironically
Levi Harris
worse promo art. and if that shitty opening animation and recycled assets are anything to go by this game will suck.
Joshua Moore
The description sounds like they responded to pretty much every common critique of HGH >Metroidvania world again >Multiple towns >Dungeons are back >Instant transformations
Basically everything I wanted in a Shantae sequel.
>literally every Shantae thread up to now has people complaining that dancing to transform breaks the flow of the game >WF: okay, some/all transformations don't require dancing
>b-but we still might have to dance at some point!
they literally say on the announcement that you're still gonna have to dance to use other stuff
Carson Edwards
I was never into the idea of instant transformations myself. Being a fan before Pirate's Curse I already enjoyed the series as a slower paced platformer. Though if that's what people want I'm not against it. I'm glad dancing is still a part of her magic though, I consider that to be one of the series' charms. If anything I'd like the dancing mechanics to be actually fleshed out more so it's not just holding down a button. More like how LoZ ocarina is used.
So? You expect a freaking belly-dancing genie not to dance? A girl's gotta eat somehow. I get that it slows the game down for some impatient autists here, but it's like 2 seconds at most, and there was even an item in HGH to increase the speed of dances if you so felt like it.
>all we have are shallow promises and a few screenshots >GUYS THIS GAME IS GONNA BE THE BEST THING EVER SO JUST BUY IT NOW PLEASE!!!! I'd hold off on your shilling until we've seen actual video in game because anyone can twist their words to mean something else >oh by instant transformations, we meant that she'd transform the second you input the right dance rather than waiting for an animation to finish! >oh we have dungeons, we wanted to make our dungeons feel like a traditional platformer like HGH!
>pirates curse which was an okay metrovania. Pirates Curse was barely a Metroidvania. That game was linear as fuck. Why does everyone keep classifying it as one?
Xavier Ross
You have to piggyback off a shantae thread because you know the game wouldn't last on its own.
Jeremiah Kelly
the problem with the last game wasn't the 3d backgrounds. they looked decent. it was the character sprites and animation which were largely lazily done & looked like shit compared to the pixel sprites. they should have fixed that. instead they just made the backgrounds worse.
I don't see the issue, dancing itself is totally fine, the problem was with the constant stop/go gameplay. If the platforming and movement transformations are instant, I don't have a problem with dancing to teleport between towns or something.
Jaxson Stewart
>go into a Shantae thread full of Shantae fans >UHHHHHHH SHANTAE SUCKS GO PLAY OTHER GAME >fuck off, we're talking about Shantae here >WHY WONT THEY PLAY OTHER GAME?
Brayden Wood
How about making your own thread and see how many people other than yourself actually care?
Jaxon Phillips
>Shantae fans you mean people who jerk off to the porn.
You know if there's a thread on one of the biggest videogame based boards on the internet there's a pretty high chance that a majority of people in that thread like the games.
Eli Lee
>people who jerk off to the porn Do you not?
Blake Long
>Shantae Circle of the Moon neat
Cooper Walker
It honestly is better than Shantae. Transformations felt more meaningful and the gear system added a lot of depth. Certainly better than HGH.
Austin Rivera
And it has the best art
Zachary Sanchez
Looks like shit
Leo Walker
I wouldn't mind inputs if they were short, like SF characters in smash or Alucard in SotN or Miriam in Bloodstained.
Matthew Sanchez
Anyone have that image of that crow doing standup?
wayforward isn't even trying to hide the fact that the series is waifubait, they're even doing the oldest trick in the book where the main girls characters go to a new place only to find A BUNCH OF GIRLS JUST LIKE THEM!!!!!! for real wayforward, this is just sad
Is Christina Vee returning to voice Shantae as well?
Adrian Foster
If by poor man's you mean antithesis then sure
Evan Hill
bitch what the fuck do you think, wayforward is the only company that hires her.
Christopher Adams
BROWNIES ARE THE BEST.
Evan Hughes
So basically it’s the artstyle of Half Genie Hero with the gameplay of actual Shantae games
Fucking perfect
Alexander Ramirez
TRIGGER
Hunter Flores
That Fish man is strangely attractive
Liam Peterson
shantae anime when?
Christopher Cooper
>literally all we have is wayforwards marketing bullet points >GUYS WE KNOW THIS GAME WILL BE NOTHING LIKE HGH I'm gonna laugh if it turns out that the "dungeons" are just platformer levels
Jacob Turner
>this is just sad
Nigga, there hasn’t been a single Shantae game where this was never a thing
Henry Rodriguez
Yeah. I really hate HGH's art. Atleast the portrait art look better in this.
Jeremiah Rivera
Trigger isn't even doing the cutscenes, wayforward spent a random amount of money on them making a 30 second intro and that's it, the cutscenes are being made by wayforward's internal animators
Leo Brooks
I'll start saving my buckets of cum now o guess.
Brayden Hall
but has it ever been this blatant? The game is literally themed around the new waifus that they want you to beat off to. Other games had fanservice and shit, but it wasn't this bad, the closest thing I can really think of besides this is maybe something like Giga Mermaid where they used her for literally ALL THE PROMO MATERIAL
Leo Cruz
So they're introducing more genies so they can probably make a 4-Swords type spin-off. Or even better a Lost Vikings type.
Gavin Hughes
They could also, you know... hire Yotta to do this.
Robert Perry
I have to draw the redhead Siren
Jonathan Rogers
>people are either lying in the thread or are too retarded to read
It’s going to be open ended like Pirates Curse and not linear trash, accept Shantae will be getting some new powers now since it’s an island of transforming genies
William Ross
>multiple towns
Hopefully this is a step towards making it more like the original. It's kind of sad that it's the only game with multiple towns, a connected open world instead of a level select, a day/night cycle, and it somehow pulled this off on the GBC. Real tired of just Scuttle Town three games in a row.
>the game will be structured like older shantae games and have dungeons >cool, so the overworld is returning and dungeons are back >uh, you can't just assume that stuff you guys retard
PRECISELY unless your a HYPER popular Series like Sonic or Mario, Porn starts to slow to a trickle without a new release I'm not excited for Shantae 5, but I AM excited for A Shantae 5, because it'll mean an increased dump flow, new scenarios for people to draw based on new settings, mechanics, or enemies, AND OF COURSE new FAT TITTIED characters to draw, which already seems to be the case Buying a new Shantae game is like making an occasional 20$ patreon payment I'll probably end up throwing the game in the trash before even opening it, BUT THE ART DUMP WILL BE GLORIOUS
>Instant transformations Good for the game, but also makes the tiny speck of hope I have for Shantae in smash flicker. Her dances would have been the biggest thing dragging down using her transformations in her kit, so if the new game is gonna go back to instant transformations, then Sakurai could point to that to give an excuse for Shantae going monkey instantly to do a neutral air or something.
Hey, Nintendo hired her to voice one of the main characters in their high-profile game, she was just too retarded to not lose the job.
Jordan Perez
why do you think she doesn't get hired by anyone else user... it's because every company learned that she was retarded
Blake King
It literally says interconnected world and labyrinths.
James Reed
What, Fire Emblem?
You realize that series has been a revolving door for California anime voice talent since Awakening, right?
Parker Stewart
>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.
Kevin Edwards
Naw she just collapsed under the weight of her planetary mammaries
Dominic Taylor
Just like how Super Mario Bros USA is the best Mario game because it's the least Mario-like.
>wayforward fags desperately try to shill for river city girls on Yea Forums >fail horribly >goes back to shilling for shantae the absolute fucking state
Was she in the 3DS games? She was one of the voices for the female MC in Xenoblade X so she does have a history with Nintendo anyway. She was also Velvet in Tales of Berseria and Ophilia in Octopath Traveler, so it's not like she doesn't find decent work. It's more like WayForward is the company that always shills her and has her sing the theme songs too.
Kevin Adams
just don't respond
Aaron Hernandez
>Shilling for Yea Forums Why do you honestly think anyone at Wayforward give a shit what Yea Forums thinks when both games have been well received virtually everywhere else?
The description on WF's site also said that HGH's stages were "arcade-like"
Ian Young
>had a whole world to explore And it did, but it wasn't interconnected. Do you even know what interconnected means? It means we're getting shantae GBC and risky's revenge style of overworld. No boat like pirate's curse. No bird like HGH.
Thomas Carter
yes, this soifaggot is literally in this thread right now.
>guys guys I'm so paranoid I think everyone who likes something that makes me shit myself in rage over is a single person who is everywhere at once it scares me
Jackson Moore
What the fuck are you even saying James
Wyatt Rodriguez
I am gonna need a source for that mate
Josiah Sanders
>i'm also imagining everyone who disagrees with me is the person who makes the games I hate somebody please send help
Camden Peterson
>buttblasted he doesn't get to work on shantae it's ok user, me too :-(
Parker Ortiz
Jesus christ think of the doujins. What's the best way to play the pre half genie hero games? I do have a 3ds
Jackson Wright
>western series >doujins I admire the enthusiasm but sadly you won't get much.
Nathaniel Thomas
>Emulate GBC. VC is okay but it doesn't have any of the GBA enhanced features. Not a dealbreaker, but still. >Play the console/PC ports of RR. It's virtually the same game but it comes with a NG+ mode of sorts. >All the versions of SatPC are identical BUT the Switch and physical 3DS versions have an added minigame. Again, not a dealbreaker.
It is though. I don’t know about SS but PC and HGH were both the same.
Nathan Perry
Damn risky still looked sexy in 8bit
Jaxson Cook
>the problem with the last game wasn't the 3d backgrounds. they looked decent. Their engine was garbage and had a high performance overhead for what they did, plus it limited them to DUPLO-block level design. I presume the move back to 2d is to simplify things for their small crew, and to ease up on level creation/editing by using a tiling system vs. mesh based.
Jordan Gray
>Xbox 2 >Call it 360 >Xbox 3 >Call it one wtf bros?
