(There’s also a Tinkerbat form exclusively for donors to the game’s Kickstarter campaign, though it’s not nearly as powerful as it was in the original GBC game.) Among the new ones, the Mouse lets you crawl into tiny areas, though it’s only used in a few spots, while the crab lets you access underwater areas, at least before you get the Mermaid form. There’s the Monkey, Elephant, Crab, Mermaid, Spider, Harpy, Bat, Mouse, and Blobfish, along with some other dances with various functions, that let you turn into a Dryad to spawn fruit, or into a jug to spill out jewels. There’s also a lot more transformations here, drawing back all the way to the Game Boy Color game. You can also find items to unlock a humongous gallery, which includes a whole ton of art, both official and provided by fans. Some of these veer heavily into collect-a-thon territory (like grabbing the many “sunken souls” found hidden in the game), but the map screen is good about keeping track of how many items are present in each level and how many are left to find. Before the final level, you’re given the option to run some quests for some of the previously defeated Barons, none of which are mandatory but must be complete to get the good ending of the game. Still, the game isn’t exactly thin on content.
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It doesn’t help that the game is completely missing dungeons, which were a welcome change of pace in the previous games. Perhaps it would have been better to keep all of the level revisiting to the end of the game, rather than sending you to replay old stages after each one is completed.
As a result, these elements feel more like padding, rather than a natural part of the game structure. Half Genie Hero is pretty short – only six hours, and even with all of the retreading and optional quests, it can be beaten within a matter of a few hours. This seems to be a result of the game focusing on its high definition visuals, which are more expensive to produce. The game very quickly gives you a warp dance, which lets you zoom between the major areas, and of course there’s new areas to find (and a lot of hidden stuff), but it can’t help like feeling you’re just playing the same levels over and over again. However, since you’re always required to revisit certain areas, it makes it more tedious to navigate, compared to the level designs of the older games, which were designed to be run across over and over. So the first time you play a level, it’s much more engaging than in previous games. This is particular evident in the fourth area, which begins as a magic carpet race, before then moving into a fight with Ammo Baron’s fleet in the skies. In de-emphasizing the open world nature of the previous games, the level designs are more focused on platforming and other action elements. This is actually a little unusual, because it comes with both positives and negatives. This requires replaying sections of a previous level to look for something specific, usually with a new power-up to reach other areas. After beating a level, you’re usually sent on a subquest to find other items, similar to the previous games. Mirage Town is still the central hub – the camera is even presented so you run around it in a circle, similar to the Game Boy Color game, though the viewpoint doesn’t change. The levels have been slightly restructured in order to give the game a more arcade-like feel. Owing to the focus on platforming, Shantae moves a little bit slower than in Pirate’s Curse, too. With that, all of those pirate items are gone too. With her powers returned, the magic system works like the old games, rather than the single use items of Pirate’s Curse. Taking place after Pirate’s Curse, Shantae has gotten her old genie powers back, but now faces a new threat to the Genie Realm, as foretold by a dream at the outset of the game. However, it still uses the 2.5D perspective, and the game fundamentally plays the same.
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The fourth game, Half-Genie Hero, is the first game in the series primarily developed for HD platforms, with high resolution sprites and 3D backgrounds replacing the pixel art of the previous titles.
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The initial three Shantae games were primarily designed for portable platforms, with the console and computer releases done as ports.
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