Completely missed that a demo/the first part of the game is actually out on Apple Arcade, including one of the animated cutscenes showing off the other half-genies.
Don't even recall them saying it'd be released in parts, maybe I just missed that.
It looks off in some motions, being honest
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Oliver Morales
Levi Collins
and the animation
Aaron Reed
Grayson Wright
Mason Gray
Adrian Sanchez
Connor Scott
Michael Baker
I like the Shantae games but I'm still salty about how overpriced the dlc for half genie hero was considering you play all the levels again for EACH character with minimal changes.
Alexander Thomas
Sebastian Bell
Nathaniel Hughes
You could have just backed it at 15 bucks. I think the only thing I didn't get was the blue outfit
Angel Martinez
Henry Peterson
Isaiah Johnson
so i assume this is releasing in a month or two?
Elijah White
>It looks off in some motions, being honest
It looks choppy as fuck, but i guess people are too busy popping a chub to say anything
Brody Hernandez
It looks low budget.
Lucas Jackson
I assume that's due to the platform or the capture device. HGH was butter smooth that I can remember. It's not like it's a particularly strenuous game/engine
>Wayforward widely known for being all about jiggly tiddies
>no jiggle on any of the girls in cutscenes
weird
Aiden Rogers
So is it back to being a Metroidvania?
Luke Jones
Grayson Sullivan
Trigger knew what they were doing.
Noah Russell
I've barely even touched HGH yet, and I was a backer on that one.
Benjamin Anderson
It's a mishmash of every game in the series
>multiple towns, interconnected overworld (original)
>designated challenge rooms (RR)
>Heart Squids, instant transformations/abilities (SatPC)
>HGH artstyle
The Part 1 thing is only for Apple Arcade IIRC. I'm assuming it's to get (part of) the game out for the launch so they can get those Apple bux.
Easton Phillips
The backing period ended before I even knew about the game.
DLC was bad and overpriced and now I won't buy the new game.
Parker Gonzalez
Aiden Davis
Holy shit the music is terrible
Cooper Collins
Wyatt Wilson
this. i hope the stuff they have in is placeholder and they get that dude who did SatPC back.
James Sanders
People will ignore this point, but dont you feel that sidescroller plattformers now feel barren empty because of the bigger field views and the microscopic models, heck if you play New Super Mario bros Wii and onwards and compare the level design and areas to Mario 3 and World, you noticed level design have basically become nothing but tunnels.
Also new shantae looks like ass, including the lame animation, lemme guess, its done by Koreans by Mir and only the intro by Trigger
Evan Williams
Cinematics are in house.
Adam Cruz
imagine all those girls, capturing risky and taking turns on her with their futanari magic
Bentley Hall
>they get that dude who did SatPC back
how do you not even know who that is by now
jake kaufman is constantly mentioned whenever it comes to shantae music as he did the entire series up to hgh at least
Joshua Lewis
oh, of course.
Andrew Flores
Jake? He's gone from WF. He wanted to branch out and do other things and follow his own schedules. Last I heard he was doing shit for CN shows.
So instead we're stuck with this generic ass chiptune trash.
This series was carried by cute girls and good music, and it just lost one of them.
Ian Jones
in house? oh so the intro is all the thing Trigger did.........................thanks for the bait dipshits.
whatever Trigger is nothing but garbage keyframes.
Caleb Howard
Please say you're kidding, I can't listen to the video at the moment and the music in these games is generally always good
Hunter Walker
Nathan Kelly
I wouldn't say it's terrible but it's distinctively not-Jake.
Josiah Nguyen
Tyler Sullivan
cute CUTE
Jacob Anderson
She will never ever be in Smash as a playable character, keep seething Shantaecucks!
Jacob Martin
>oh so the intro is all the thing Trigger did
literally something they told you on twitter
man i miss when people on Yea Forums actually paid attention to things but now they're like mtv girls who chew bubblegum and twirl their hair like moron bimbos
Jaxson Bell
current Yea Forums is the result of constant spoon-feeding, something people used to be rightfully ridiculed for here. It's pathetic.
Same problem with new Yea Forums
Joshua Richardson
The mayor is totally going to be the/a villain based on the fact that he has a portrait.
Grayson Cook
Yeah, he did the theme for the show OK KO: Let's be Heroes, and as expected it's good even if the show wasn't. Didn't realize that meant he straight up left WF.
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Samuel Reed
>rosterfags come into a thread that has nothing to do with smash
Camden Taylor
shantae as smash dlc when?
Thomas White
>comparing in between frames to actual animation
the cutscenes look awful, for once i actually prefer just having the portraits and sprites talking than this shit. i pray its still in development. it needs more frames for sure, and some of the characters shantae ironically look really off model sometimes
Lincoln Diaz
He left WF's payroll and started his own studio (Mint Potion) after Pirate's Curse's launch. He still composed for them up until either Half-Genie Hero or Catgirl Without Salad released. After that is anyone's guess, but he's probably just wrapped up in other projects and his boneitis doesn't help matters.
Christian Perry
Luis Howard
William Kelly
lolwut? it is absolutely Jake. What's hurting the composition right now is that it's all over the place. Some half or even three-quarters chiptune instrument while other songs have none. He usually picks a style/theme and sticks to it. I dunno if the throwback sound is his choice or WayForward's.
Adam Walker
Camden Edwards
Ayden Ramirez
Dominic Stewart
Jaxon Davis
>even if the show wasn't
oh look, it's another Yea Forumsfag with retarded high standards
Alexander Wright
I really hope they change the portraits being aligned to the top instead of just having them on the bottom so they don't awkwardly cut them off.
Either have it only happen with Apple because the controls are down there, or just change it entirely.
Wyatt Powell
Maybe if enough people bitch about it, then maybe. Part 1 may as well be Early Access for SS.
I don't understand how they had a working solution in a demo and went back on it for the final release.
Christopher Lewis
I'm largely just being harsh cause I doubt anyone here wants to hear anything positive about a "calarts cartoon" and going further is pretty off-topic. If you want my honest opinion: I don't think it was that bad, though I do think it had problems that were conceptional rather than due to it being made poorly or any of the common Yea Forums complaints. Half of the few times I tuned in, I did find it enjoyable and fun even if the other half not so much. I dig the vibe they wanted to get across, it just didn't maintain my interest compared to other shows..
Regardless of my opinions, the show was done dirty.
Julian Long
Aaron Bennett
The music is awful
Jacob Davis
Neat, more zombies.
That underwater dungeon reminds me of Earthworm Jim.
Isaiah Peterson
Since when Rotty was a half genie?
Xavier Ross
That's Fillin, not Rotty.
She's obviously pretending to be a half-genie so she can get a free vacation. Either that or it's a red herring.
Ryder Rivera
Based. Based. B A S E D.
Lucas Evans
Would you look at the thighs on that shawnty
Nathaniel Jenkins
>best lwa as best shantae
this is perfect for me
Noah Myers
>only did barbara
where the fuck is hannah
Christopher Jones
lol, you faggots know nothing about animation.
Jaxon Sullivan
lol Studio trigger can't draw or animate for shit.
Sebastian Ramirez
Nice
Juan Gonzalez
Speaking of Trigger, Shantae's opening appeared in theaters today, since the movie came out and it's showed before it
Aaron Collins
did you actually go to see the movie or are you just bringing it up
Owen Nguyen
Can't wait for the rest of our precious giant monstergirls.
Oliver Myers
Just bringing it up
Logan Green
It looks so ugly compared to all the other 2D indie games that have come out.
Jason Morris
Well shit this thing is months away from being released and I already have to avoid spoilers
James Gonzalez
Do you think Trigger Studio should've helped Wayforward with the UI design as well? I don't get it, it looks perfectly fine in River City Girls, why does it look so bad in Shantae?
Luke Bailey
It has to be some kind of intentional meme to just never have good UI
Carson Gutierrez
Arc* but yeah the UI is kind of ugly. I prefer the HGH's E3 demo UI. I feel like wayfoward made way too many other game and put more attention into them, rather than Shantae 5. They should've just made River City Girls and Shantae 5. instead of making 5 games back to back and releasing them so close to one another. I honestly hope the game gets delayed.
Matthew Martinez
Wayforward knows full damn well how it is, and is doing shantae the way it is on purpose. I mean they did a good job on RCG, its not like they can't, they just actively choose not too cause shantae.
Sebastian Jackson
The pause menu UI is fine, if basic. It's the text boxes that need work. I'm pretty sure is on the money and WF/Matt just keeps using the same shitty text boxes as a joke.
Matthew Martin
why the fuck would you think Trigger could do UI?
they can't even draw.
Ethan Wood
>Those thighs
Yes lawd.
Jackson Peterson
So how long until twitter tries to cancel Wayforward?
Brayden Scott
Sell me on this series.
All I know is that it's got platforming and has cute girls and is basically softcore porn
Tyler Reed
John Barnes
likely soon
cancel culture is just an extension of outrage culture: no one is allowed to have fun, you're supposed to be mad at absolutely everything all the time for not being 200% perfect in every way and even then it needs to be destroyed because it's problematic/doesn't adhere to some arbitrary values/is made by people you don't like/someone did a bad thing once/etc.
It's all an excuse to destroy shit.
Isaiah Edwards
this looks super interesting
Jackson Hill
Take from me they always come for the lewd designs and stay for the great humor OST and interesting characters, the gameplay is the only thing that is So-so, also the story has one of the best post-apocalyptic settings.
Until they become mainstream
Luis Gomez
Well that Adam Tierney guy just reeks of "will be #metoo'd" and considering he's been at wayforward for over a decade, that definitely won't look good on them.
Brody Jackson
They already tried to raise a stink over Shantae's age being 16 due to that old ass tweet but that fizzled out.
Leo Garcia
Mediocre platformers With Waifu titites for manchildren slash pedophiles.
Everything Shantae does has been done better (Touhou luna nights, Popful Mail, Magical Pop'n, etc). Shantae is pale immitation.
Andrew Morris
Caleb Brooks
>OST
Might wanna strike that one, Kaufmann left wayforward and was replaced by someone else for this game and the songs we've heard so far are meh and boring
Joshua Butler
Parker Price
so fucking a zombie is necrophilia?
Brayden White
Imagine having a big enough dick for quadruple paizuri.
Brayden Howard
Tierney has worked at WF longer than the average Yea Forums poster has been alive. Given the rate WF rotates staff, if he had diddled someone something would've been said by now.
Jeremiah Watson
Nobody knew who he or wayforward was until Ducktales Remastered came out
William Lee
WHATTTTTTT
Sebastian Barnes
I was under the impression Ikarashi only worked on the OP, so why does all of this look like half-assed copies of his design work? Same for the in-game character portraits.
Juan Kelly
Christopher Parker
At least from the first game, decent game-play, alright dunegons, good sprite work, good music, fun/anime humor, cute girls, hit or miss with whether the dancing is fun or a hindrance. Only issue is a rough start and small camera. After that the games are all average at worst, supported by how much you like the characters and world, and the gimmick of the series, transformations.
Then Pirate's Curse ditches that gimmick but also ends up being a solid somewhat fast-paced platformer, which everyone loves.
Gabriel Ramirez
Ducktales was a different director (Ivansmith).
Nobody gave a shit about Tierney until some Yea Forumsirgin got pissy after he got blocked for calling him a cuck.
Caleb Carter
wait, lemme rephrase this, is fucking rotty necrophilia?
Jose Nelson
Yes
Nolan Hughes
Christopher Roberts
Leo Ross
I was confused about why River City Girls was lacking Jake Kaufman. At least most of the music in that game ended up good (especially the vocal tracks), but the chiptune music for the bosses was mostly underwhelming.
Christian Carter
This is your harem tonight
Jason Carter
Pirate's Curse is very fun. And the original GBC game has retro charm.
Skip Risky's Revenge and Half Genie Hero. Not worth it.
Jordan Martin
Adam Harris
Tierney himself has always been in the background, he only got SOME attention with catgirl. And anyone whose followed him since then has realized he's a hyper sjw prick that nobody likes outside of artists hoping they'll get hired(which makes him even more suspicious) which is probably the reason he'd been kept hidden for so long.
Lincoln Reyes
Isaiah Collins
The portrait positioning is pissing me off
Luke Mitchell
No one got blocked by him, he just made his twitter private because people found the shit like him white knighting a girl who accused wayforward of misogyny and talking about how he hates video games and shit. I don't really like the guy, but part of me hopes that he's just the token SJW at wayforward only kept around so they can deflect them.
Brandon Jones
Character portraits are cut and would look better if they were placed below but that would obscure the character positioning in the game.
It's a compromise that didn't end well.
Julian Cook
shantae is low budget trash made by west cuck SJW faggots from wayforward
the only good game in the series was pirate's curse because they had actual nips working on the game
also fuck river city shills
inb4 they drag that "GIRL POWER XD" shit into the new game
see youtu.be
Colton Cook
I need this
Grayson Mitchell
This sure is uh
A new Shantae game
Is there actually some reason other than porn that this series is popular
Hudson Rodriguez
Then you reframe your scene. I refuse to buy this excuse when they have full control over how to present the scene. This is such a lazy fucking approach to a non-problem.
William Perry
>Shantae
>SJW
Daniel Barnes
Most of WF's leads are left leaning but this really shouldn't be a surprise since the studio is in fucking California. Matt is the only mystery since he only retweets fanart/announcements and posts a random development fact every now and then which puts him above most western devs on twitter by default
Cameron Hill
meant for
Aaron Martinez
You need help. Not everything is SJW you /pol/fag. And RCG is a great game.
Jayden Morris
Don’t you love those contrarians clashing face first against each other like the headless chickens they are? Then again their head where the first thing to go
Nathaniel Rodriguez
With how inactive Bozon is on Twitter(dude doesn't even have a checkmark), wouldn't surprise me if there are people who think fucking James Montagna is the creator of shantae since hes by far the most known and online wayforward employee(despite barely having anything under his belt outside of that bland looking vitamin game they're making)
Jose Green
wordfilter, wordfilter, WORDFILTER?
Colton Morris
This girl right here has seen an remembers when the Pirate master attacked and I hope she offers some insight on how he did it
Aiden Rogers
>he thinks there's going to be continuity
She's probably not that much older than Shantae anyways.
Levi Ross
Pretty strange that such a nothing member of wayforward is so well known, heck, this dude is the reason people can't shut up about smash when people say shantae
Christian Allen
this series has gone to shit since pirate's curse
half genie hero was mediocre at best, and none of this looks good
Grayson Lopez
This game is more bland than bad, it doesn't seem like it will be BAD, just super forgettable and extremely boring since it does nothing to really differentiate itself with the millions of other games out there that are like it. At this point, I feel like this game is gonna rely on the brand recognition of shantae more than its quality. Essentially I feel like wayforward is now acting like your standard corporation now that they've gotten a small taste of success, producing something kinda generic and by the books since they now have enough of an audience to where they can probably break even off of brand name.
Levi Taylor
Part of the problem is that WF hasn't bothered with advertising the game AT ALL (the Promare thing doesn't count).
Look at RCG, which had shit posted CONSTANTLY (trailers, website updates, artwork, etc.) for the two months before it released. SatSS has what is basically a free demo out for everyone with an iPhone and WF...posts about that other game they announced alongside Shantae 5. It's like if Nintendo shadowdropped a new Mario game but only put out commercials for ARMS 2.
Jayden Long
Shilled thanks to shit like smash rosterfaggotry and artists jacking off everything wayforward does since most of them are in the same area and assume that by licking boots, theyll eventually get hired
Mason Price
Again, the assumption is that everyone will buy it off of recognition. We won't get an official trailer or anything until a couple months before the game comes out and they'll assume that people will buy it because they think Shantae is more popular than it really is. They think they'll be able to pull people in with a trigger opening and that's really it. Calling it now, even the trailers for this game will use clips from the 30 second opening instead of any of the in game cutscenes.
Luke Gonzalez
I'd understand him wanting to leave to do other shit but I'd still be surprised if he turned down Shantae specifically. That's pretty much what put him on the map as Jake Kaufman and not "that guy who can sort of imitate old 'house styles' well" Virt
Jeremiah Long
He's also doing the music for that new shovel knight game, I doubt that's the reason he can't do this game though.
Henry Long
Why is Rotty there?
Aaron Baker
No it's totally not rotty believe me, it's Fillin!
Luke Edwards
I think it has more to do with their PR being inept rather than some belief that Shantae is super popular now. Remember that SatPC's big marketing push before launch were a bunch of cutscenes that weren't actually in the game.
However, apparently a lot of developers didn't know that Apple Arcade was launching early with iOS 13's beta, so that could be part of the reason why there's been silence from WF, but still.
Leo Nguyen
>no jiggle on any of the girls in cutscenes
I hope it's not SJW related.
James Martinez
I'm aware that many developers are rushing their announcements out because arcade launched early, but it still makes no sense for wayforward to not do ANYTHING to promote this game outside of that demo that nobody even knows about. Really gives the impression that they have faith in their own popularity, these are the same people who just randomly put out the final HGH expansion and a crossover event with blaster master with literally no warning outside of a quick trailer the day it released.
Benjamin Myers
I doubt it. If it's truly in-house they probably just said "do it tastefully or not at all"
Ryder Kelly
I don't like the chibi flash direction they took with the artstyle. It looks really cheap and soulless for some reason. This was a world with goofiness and character and making it look like generic anime kind of strips away all the charm. I also think Shantaes personality has been changed for the worse. She came off as this strong fierce woman I'm the first few games and now she seems kind of childish.
Zachary Miller
Trying to be anime is basically everything about wayforward. Shantaes personality is basically the stock anime girl lead, her personality now is just the basic quirky and perky bitch, which is common across all wayforward games
Aaron Carter
At least the gameplay is decent overall.
Nolan Ortiz
She's had the same personality since RR. GBC is the only outlier due to how old it is.
Anthony Cooper
It was only until Pirates Curse that they tried making it more anime.
Thomas Parker
Cute.
Owen Jones
Even fan animations have more tiddie jiggles in them
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Charles Fisher
>they're keeping the truncated portraits
damn I was hoping they are going back to the pirate's curse huge portraits, those were fucking glorious
Angel Smith
We're going to kill them right. Please tell me we'll get to kill them. I promised daddy Dagda I'd kill every last god and demon out there.
I hope there's drama.
Juan Nelson
There's bigger problems than misaligned portraits.
Jack Peterson
I got a feelin' she's evil.
Alexander Walker
How do you know the creature isn't like a flamingo?
Austin Cox
Owen Hill
I hate this so much.
Josiah Harris
I don't actually think that's Rotty. She's missing all her staples and isn't doing her typical wiggly dance
Daniel Sanchez
So Shantae still has only a single good looking and good playing game? That being Pirate's Curse?
Landon Cooper
user, bland IS bad.
there are so many games that you could play, why on earth would you bother with something bland?
Xavier Ross
Her name is Fillin the Blank.
There's no way this is a red herring.
Way froward isn't known for being smart, funny nor for good writting.
Lucas Cruz
Sadly yes, I don't understand people's obsession with Shantae and Shovel Knight.
Xavier Adams
>Shovel Knight
While I only liked Pirate's Curse, I consider all of Shovel Knight campaigns pretty amazing, so here you lost me.
Oliver Carter
i knew about wayforward before Ducktales Remastered
one person =/= nobody
Parker Diaz
>all new portrait artstyle
>using the same character models + style from HGH
Mason Howard
No point in re-making all the sprites.
Besides, the sprites have never been very representational of the portrait art or box art renders.
Ayden Miller
still prefer 3
Dylan Davis
GBC is fun, too, but punishing like NES Metroid.
Levi Collins
i mean sprite art to portrait is whatever, there's obvious need to concede detail. i'm pretty forgiving on that. the HGH one pretty directly downscales the HGH artstyle in general, but that doesn't work with the new portraits for SS at all.
Robert Diaz
Risky at least has fun DLC for HGH.
(neutered Pirate items are still better than magic Shantae)
Julian Johnson
>HGH one pretty directly downscales the HGH artstyle in general, but that doesn't work with the new portraits for SS at all.
True, but I'm willing to overlook it since we've already had PC portraits' huge aesthetic shift, but mostly kept the old sprites.
Anthony Gonzalez
based