/vr/ - Retro Games

Shantae?

Shantae...

The dancing was a lot of fun in this game. It's a shame they did away with it in the sequel. Not the best game ever but neat and fun enough, and the sequel is really fucking barebones, even if I love the animations.

>>8426248
I never really understood the cult appeal to this game, but to each their own. Admittedly it is gorgeous to look at, but whenever I tried playing I dropped it within a hour due to boredom.

I'd rather play Donkey Kong Land

>>8426248
>Game Boy Color
>published by Capcom
And there's people who consider this shit "indie"

>>8426784
Shantae is a good starting point for people wanting to play platformers and very light metroidvania type games. If you played the Metroid series, it certainly is not gonna satisfy you.

>>8426248
amerijank

>>8426248
>>8426276
>>8426278
Missing PCE home port
>>8426915
People are always retard.

>>8427059
I think the devs said they couldn't port the Gameboy ones because of some legal issues with Nintendo.

>>8428383
WayForward ported the GBC game to 3DS Virtual Console just fine. All they had to do was edit out the Capcom copyright.

>>8426784
>I never really understood the cult appeal to this game

> exotic 1001 night motif
> cute heroine
> easy-to-pick-up gameplay
> nice music
> titties

Gee, I don't know.

>>8428386
Yeah, but that's a Nintendo console.

I always jack off at some point while playing Shantae games.

>>8426248
I bought a copy of Shantae back in 2009~ for $4.99 form a used game store. They must not have known the value even back then. Its label is faded a little. Should I sell my copy on ebay for a quick buck?

>>8428471
Eh, I'd keep it just because it's an uncommon game that lots of fools want, but one fool will not get because I have it instead.
You wanna make a quik bucc, sell benzodiazepines to young chicks. You'll even get blowjobs out of the deal. Keep Shantae as your one true love!

>>8428520
ok i wont sell it
until it reaches $1k

>>8428396
Relatable

>>8428520
Anyone who wanted it bought the Limited Run version.

>>8429223
and it's readily available in the repro market.
this one for example doesn't even need a battery to save, it saves to the flash rom and even dumped it and patched it to fix the dance parlor bug.

>>8428396
Based. I actually fapped to the bath house girls in the original.

>>8426248
I loved Shantae's old design.

>>8426248
Always thought that logo looked weird. Like there's enough space to write some more text under "Shantae" but then they forgot to or something.

>>8429235
Disgusting

>>8430351
yes! her gbc design is the best.
you posted her first redesign from risky revenge though.

>>8426784
Its literally coom. I first saw this in an ad in early 2000s Nintendo power and the look alone made me want to get it, but never saw a copy in store even when new and was too retarded to think to use ebay back then.

Flash forward to now, and i have played most of them and they feel rather bland to me in how they actually play. All visual flaire and the fact they keep with every installment upping the deviantart wannabe-anime look, makes me think thats a heavy selling point they want to focus on.

>>8431587
Fucking soulless ass wayforward altered this original art in the recent rereleases of the first game.

>>8431609
I know, right? The original Shantae looked like she was ready to fuck you up if you tried anything funny. Now, she looks like a wimpy blowdoll.

>>8426915
Late GBC capcom releases are weird. RE Gaiden, Shantae, an actual Dragon's Lair port. Letting Nintendo of America do a Bionic Commando reboot.

>>8431613
I can not stand the art changes they keep doing. Original is sexy and cool with a bit of that 90s mascot tude' in her design. The design they did with seven Siren or whatever the fuck its called is fucking atrocious.

One thing i hope the dick sucking LRG and WayForward do to each other leads to is a GBA release of Riskys Revenge. Pretty sure they showed off a mostly complete version of it in their possession.

>>8431625
They are trying to push the game onto Japanese market, I presume. Hence studio Trigger is made opening for Seven Sirens.
Japanese love waifushit.

>>8431634
And they are succeeding. They announced a nendoroid for Shantae a couple weeks ago.

>>8428392
>>8428396
>>8429328
>>8431607
Kill yourselves.

>>8431665
no thank you

>>8431665
Before or after having sex?

>>8428386
Why not just release the 1st game on Steam?

>>8431617
They were licensed, not developed.

>>8431710
Some legal issues with Nintendo, apparently. Similar to how some developers cannot port Sony exclusives before a set amount of time.

>>8431725

>Nintendo

Try Limited Run. The ports of Shantae, Xtreme Sports, and River City Girls Zero/Banka use an emulation engine owned by them. LR is most likely staggering releases to get the most money

In my experience, the recent release of this game and the GBA one are really bad. The emulator will crash eventually (And that's how everyone plays Switch, leaving it in sleep mode), taking down any saved games made that session. Closing the application at the end of every session is incredibly lame, might as well play it on a PC emulator.

>>8426278
>The dancing was a lot of fun in this game.

They kept removing one dance pose in every sequel. I think you have like 3 of them total in the last games, there were like 6 or 7 in the original.

>>8431587
She looked the best in the original, I agree. Anime moeblob shantae looked interesting in Pirate's Curse, but they also made her more retarded with each game. And she just looks crap in the games after that.
I want to play seven sirens but I'm not giving Wayforward any money after the bullshit they pulled off with the DLCs for half genie hero (the anniversary edition).

>>8431980

>>8432309
>>8431980
how did this go by ninty

>>8432317
Nintendo occassionally enjoys bouncing ass and titty.

>>8432317

it was a different time

>>8431625

The GBA demo they showed several years ago was hardly complete.

>>8426248
>>8426276
>>8426278
It hurts that I know exactly what kind of autism caused this game to be created. but at least it didn't slide into the terminally cringed veriety of that sort of fanfic and stuck to the basic tone of the show.

>>8427012
as a metroid fan I liked the pirates curse. I dont understand the appeal of the other games.

>>8431587
vest shantae is best

>>8432498

what did he mean by this

>>8432503
Pirate's Curse has by far the best graphics. The appeal otherwise is that they are fun, above average platformers with a cute main character.
Half Genie Hero has a cool bonus mode that turns it into a linear style action platformer, as well.

>>8432491
a shame they cancelled it, the graphics looked really good for being a GBA game developed by a western indie studio

>>8432510
other than the copious ammounts of healing dropped on you via items pirates curse is actually a fairly difficult game with power ups that naturally progress your ability to move and open up more options for how you get around. the dancing shit in the next game as well as the much slower enemies and faster shantae really makes it look boring as hell. I had a lot of fun doing a hyperkick only run on pirates curse and it's cemented in my mind that overfunded games will always be bad. Pirates curse is far and above anything thats come after.

>>8432516

The game was being passed around way too late in the GBA's life cycle. Any sensible publisher would see that history would repeat itself if they picked it up. A lot of concepts from GBA were carried over into RR and later anyways.

>>8432302
Don't forget doing away with all the saucy parts like Bolo being implied to hit on his grandma or Sky wearing only a loose drape around her waist.

Is Pirate's Curse really that good? I only played Risky's revenge and it was meh.

>>8432589
I wouldn't hype it up as some sort of masterpiece, but yes, it is an actually fun game, unlike Risky's Revenge. Graphics are fantastic, music is good.

>>8432589
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bcZ9gnnp9Vg
just listen.

>>8432592
Yeah, Jake Kaufman's music is really good, tt's the soul of Shantae games.

>>8432565
It also helped them embrace online markets faster and get a head start on self publishing.

If things had gone different, Sigma Star Saga wouldn't be stuck with Namco.

>>8431576
it werks!
i wanted the rom and a way to play it on my gbc seamlessly, not the added useless value the original cartridge goes for.

>>8432606

I find it interesting that Psyme popped up on WF's trannycord logo when normally SSS is excluded from those kinds of group shots they do. It probably doesn't mean anything, but I wouldn't be surprised if we see Limited Run trying to sell Sigma Star Skateboards and Pogs down the line.

>>8432309
Why are these games so horny

>>8432739
Because they made by straight men.

>>8432741
But the original character designer was a woman...?

>>8432749
All the best lewd content is by women anyway.

>>8432749

Erin only did the initial concept and sketches for Shantae herself. The rest was Matt.

>>8432660
>xhe doesn't own a flashcart
Embarrassing

>>8426248
My favorite vidya girl

>>8432580
Making her wear pants was criminal.

>>8431980
>emulation engine

You mean emulator? I bet is just a stolen core, nintendo even used VirtuaNES and GoodNES at one point

Have any of your bought the LRG reprint cartridge? I have and it's pretty neat. Can't figure out how the fuck you're meant to place it on the acrylic display stand though.

>>8433708
>nintendo even used VirtuaNES and GoodNES at one point
no they didn't

>>8432491

I remember that stream, clearly that was more of a proof of concept then an actual demo, even begin with stock dev intro or something, there used to be high quality screenshots of the gba title but i am pretty sure those were just mockups.

>>8432565
As we all know, RR was tiny as shit because it was supposed to be episodic but they knew and had zero budget to continue it, which sucked, so they marketed the 1st part as the full game which was a big mistake, everyone could see it was just a third of a game at best.

The Dancer outfit was a nice consolation addition.

PC which is considered the best isnt even that great when you consider they faced out the dancing, they have an even sexier version of the dancer outfit and they didnt even ocurred them to being avle to use it again after its particular scenario, and nleven worse, not havin an scenario of the girls all dancing with it, WHY NOT? that would it been very fun!.

>>8433790

I think you're referring to the Shantae DS "screens" which were obviously mock ups.

>>8433858

forgot pic

>>8433445
i do. two actually (chink everdrive and ez junior if that matters).
but i wanted to have shantae on a dedicated cart.

>>8433718
The plastic piece sticks into the connector spot.

>>8432589
Risky's Revenge was a mediocre GBA game that got canned and released like 8 years later with tacked on touchscreen tier menus.
Pirate's Curse is far better than that; better maps, upgrades, graphics, everything. It's a proper game.
Half Genie Hero is... ok, but some of the upgrades are brutally tedious, and the new graphics engine makes Shantae look like a flash game. Unfortunately they fucked a lot of buyers with the DLC (they released 3-4 DLCs for $10 each, then a few months later an Anniversary Edition for $25 which had all DLCs AND more exclusive content... and previous buyers did not get anything, you had to re-buy everything).

>>8432606
To be honest Sigma Star Saga was a really shit repetitive game (Wayforwards games tend to be super repetitive and riddled with bullshit puzzles), including both the overworld and the shooting parts. The ONLY thing it had going for it was the character design/artwork and maybe the story.

fun fact, Psyme's race wear an alien bat/octopus thing as a symbiote. So she is dressed up in a space lizard grabbing her tits and crotch, and is otherwise naked.
There's a part in the game where the symbiote is evolving and Psyme is getting morning sickness, so the protagonist thinks she is pregnant.

>>8433914
And then came Seven Sirens which tried to mix the first game's open map with the better pace of Pirate's Curse, but you can tell this one was hastily slapped together from HGH assets just so WayForward could score the Apple Arcade deal. At least it got a free update recently to help correct the nonexistent challenge.

>>8433914
>and previous buyers did not get anything, you had to re-buy everything
unless you were a backer like me and got extra codes for steam on top of your selected platform (unless you selected steam) and annyversary edition when it released.

>>8433929
sigma star saga is good by the experience really.
if you disect it into individual parts it's nothing too special, but everything together it works very well.

>>8432590
Fun but with missed potential in some things >>8433804, HGH wad just so an so, and SS (Shantae 5) was the first one to be a full on metroidvania, but not a very good one, you know how many modern metroidvanias suck balls because they misunderstanding the Dark Souls mechanics by making them FUCK YOU hard with sponge damage enemies with jacked up stats, cruel hidden punishment mechanics, bad enemy placement, and ridiculous grinding that doesnt matter in the end cause enemies still beat you up in few heats snd you still take ridiculous amounts of damage cause "LOL MUH PERFECT NO HIT RUN GIT GUD FAGGIT"?.

Well SS isnt like that, its the opposite, in fact, do you know the false equivalence strawman of "SOTN IS TOO DARN EASY CAUSE ALUKART ACTUALLY FEELS STRONGER WHEN YOU LEVEL UP AND YOU HAVE MULTPLE OPTIONAL TOOLS, THEREFORE ITS SUCKS CAUSE NOT MUH SOULS LIKE HYUCK HYUCK" welp, its more in that polar extreme but without the level up system and without the fun.

>>8427012
>>8428392
Monster World IV is better

>>8434007
i love both.
shantae is the handheld experience while asha's game is the home console experience.

>>8434020
>>8434007
I want to see these two fingering each other, with their wet pussies turning their pants transparent.

>>8434032
Not sure why some people want to make Shantae Desi when she's clearly some kind of Persian/Arab.

>>8432491
why the fuck have they not released this rom yet?

>>8433804
sauce?

>>8434196
bro, your googlefoo?
https://twitter.com/lesserisbetter/status/1212673583484456960?t=Gt_gjs98K0iV8MH21IsadA&s=19

>>8434219

>>8434219
nice thanks. google failed me.

>>8432309
>that slime enemy that engulfs and PG-13 rapes Shantae
>it only appears once in a single tiny room in the game

>>8434246
The pink one?

>>8433914
The GBA Shantae demo that was shown on Twitch looked more fun and interesting than the final Risky's Revenge game, it could have been a really awesome game had it been completed.

>>8434042
Persians are almost always lighter than Arabs. Sounds like you know what you're talking about.

>>8434714
I wonder if they would consider a kickstarter to finish it, assuming they still have a lot of the assets and not have modern design input fuck it up.

>>8434042
Persians are infinitely closer to northern Indian (in the broad sense; incl Pakistani) people then Arabs, you fucking retard

>>8434857
Persians are lighter skin than Arabs and far lighter than Indians

>>8434857
the arabs conquered persia...

>>8426248
what is that oval supposed to be

>>8434857
and yet persian music is similar to god-tier arab and turkish music rather than shit-tier indian music. explain that one.

>>8434887
He's retarded if he thinks Persians have more ties to Indians over Arabs
The Persian language is written in the fucking Arabic script

>>8434890
so is Urdu

>>8434890
nah he's kinda right, but they have ties to both. farsi is an indo-european language.

>>8434895
indo-aryan

>>8434042
I thought she is Turkish

>>8434890
Whoa, Zulu is written with the Roman alphabet, they must be European just like us!

>>8434887
>>8434890
>>8434042
Look up "Indo-Iranian" and educate yourselves.

>>8434970
>us
I'm not like you
>>8434972
samefag

>>8434868
Artist's depiction of her clit

Felt like a knock-off asha made by someone who only experience of the middle east was watching white women belly dancers. Mw4 itself wasn't as good as dragon curse which sets the golden rule.

Women suck and furries rule.

Hence why furry alucard is better than samus

>>8435490
The fuck man?

It's a shame they abandoned the nice pixel-art style. It was peak soul.

>>8436571
The animation of the GBC game was legendary.

>>8434913
no, she's Persian

>>8436841
Wrong, Central Anatolian.

>>8436812
it's actually crazy how fluid and detailed it is for such a small sprite

>>8436886
The reviewers in the local gaming mag pointed out that they'd loved how even her eyelashes were animated, and this was all just on a GBC.

>>8436841
Obviously Mexican

>>8437018
Most mags seemed positive, while Game Informer fucking hated Shantae and said the only good part was seeing her dance in "a bad Britney Spears impression". Their opinion of her has not changed much over the decades, at best just calling her mediocre.

>>8437035
To be fair, the games are fairly mediocre. They aren't bad (mildly annoying at some parts), but none of them are anything I'd re-play.

>>8432865
of course matt did it. see>>8432498
why would he not shit scribble his glass transparent expy donut steel?

>>8437286
>>8432498
Sorry, I do not know what either of you are refering to. Explain, please.

I love Shantae!

>>8438754
I'm sure she would grant your wish anon.

>>8440259
I want to put a baby in her.

tummy

She is cute and her games are fun.

I want to ____ Shantae.

I liked the GBC game, the mini game for the DSi, and Pirate's Curse. They should have stuck with pixel art.

>>8442691
You want to do WHAT? You sick fuck

>>8442924
play

Why did the GBC game flop?

>>8442964

>A GBC game 2 years into the GBA's lifespan
>no marketing outside of an ad in Nintendo Power
>only 10k copies were produced

>>8429235
I sure do love having fucked up sound

>>8431665
Fix your broken penis. Those antidepressants are causing you to lose your erections.

>>8443031
???
works just fine, same as a flashcart or the og cart I bet.

>>8426248
>The whole game was drawn and animated by one guy
Impressive

>>8440445

>>8443804
post the rest.

>>8433860
Shantae's lighthouse home is SOVL.

>>8442964
Because nobody knew it existed

>>8426784
coomers

>>8436886
The ones where she spins around in the air after getting the dungeon item were really impressive to me.

>>8444241
https://gelbooru.com/index.php?page=post&s=view&id=5009367