Shantae games have never been popular, the only thing that keeps them in niche cult following status? It's the fanservice females. That's it. Without that particular design aspect, the series would have died on the Game Boy Color.
Gameplay is seriously not special, story? These characters are fucking annoying (Rottytops does a lot of annoying shit but people forgive her because they masturbate to her). Shantae also never wants to kill the villainess Risky Boots despite how terrible she is, especially in the latest game which should have warranted Shantae to go "Bitch you're going to die for targeting my mother!" But nah the creators know that killing Risky Boots is lower sales because masturbators need to masturbate to her.
They didn't tone down the collecting (actually made it worse), and there's no gravity given to transformations or story (which was half-assed, vague, cliffhanger shit yet again). No substantial marketing. And there's just shirts at Fangamer for merch.
Really let's stop pretending that the Shantae games are worth anything. They're just cheap ass fanservice, and yes the gameplay is also shoddy and mediocre. Superior games have done this style of gameplay before. Shantae isn't special for doing it.
There's not that many decent platformers around, user
Isaiah Ross
>Superior games have done this style of gameplay before
But those games dont have cute brow half genies to masturbate to.
Nathan Ortiz
That's a half lie, user, the original Shantae was pretty damn sophisticated and good for a game boy color game.
Now, modern Shantae, you could have an argument.
Aiden Jones
This. The thing that drew me to the original Gameboy Color game was how technically impressive it was for its time.
Jack Cooper
>cute innocent 16 year old shut in half-genie doesn't want to straight up murder someone gee I wonder anyway is this pasta or did you think this up yourself?
John Bailey
>Shantae also never wants to kill the villainess Risky Boots despite how terrible she is, especially in the latest game which should have warranted Shantae to go "Bitch you're going to die for targeting my mother!" But nah the creators know that killing Risky Boots is lower sales because masturbators need to masturbate to her. Ow The Edge
Ryan Stewart
i want shantae to shit on my chest
Leo Reyes
Pasta has to start somewhere, user. It doesn't grow on trees.
Robert Morgan
>Superior games have done this style of gameplay before. How many of those are playable on PC, without emulators?
Blake Flores
But most people masturbate to Shantae instead of Risky.
That's the sad part.
Nicholas Rivera
>Someone's mad they didn't back HGH It's okay, I didn't too.
Dominic Jackson
I thought that with the new game coming we'd see an increase in Shantae lewds, where the fuck are they?
Brody Baker
Fuck you man I jerk it to Rotty.
Jacob Roberts
More like Shantae: Half Finished Game.
Christopher Gray
>I thought that with the new game coming we'd see an increase in Shantae lewds
Gabriel Thomas
Is the new game gud? I didn't like Risky's Revenge and Pirate's Curse was ok. Haven't played the fist one.
Ethan Price
>mad they didn't back HGH If the few recent HGH threads with the backer early copies we've had recently are any indication, even the diehard fans this series is constantly pandering to are finding HGH to be very short, too easy, and oversimplified (like no real dungeons). There are even apparently a few blatant spots where unmet stretch goals were clearly supposed to go, as if Wayforward either were too lazy to remove or are still planning on selling that unfinished content as DLC.
Shantae has always been an average series, and the game's have actually been getting worse over time. I think the fact WF had to actually beg for money this time rather than getting funded by a long-time publisher/partner like Nintendo should have been the first sign that people just don't care about her apart from a very niche crowd.
James Ward
It's closer to Risky's Revenge than it was to Pirate's Curse.
Leo King
I liked that comic but I still need more
Samuel Price
I've been told that it's not as good as Pirate's Curse
Austin James
>the game's have actually been getting worse over time False, Pirate's Curse was the best to date. And HGH is at the very least better than Risky's Revenge.
Luis Hughes
To me the only thing missing from the newer games is the scope of the first one, I miss having a big interconnected world and several cities, I can understand RR not having this quite like the GBC game because of the problems during development, but the hard-on wayforward have for speedrunning really affects the overall size of the game, it wouldn't hurt to have a shantae game you can't finish under two hours I also miss the full dance minigame to transform but this one I admit it's a personal preference, the current system is better
Matthew Foster
Might as well ask. What the fuck does the Blobfish transformation do?
Jaxson Moore
when were they funded by a publisher other than the first game? there's a reason why they make so much licensed crap and why their original games take ages to release
Jeremiah Hughes
What's your point don't buy it then problem solved
oh no! your whining has magically erased my copy of the games and my enjoyment from existence!
Caleb Barnes
HNNNNNG
Nathan Phillips
>snake oil saleswoman at the bottom user pls
Cameron Flores
I'm sorry I love tuki but come on: it's sky's mom and sky, maybe I should move giga down a bit
Daniel Baker
Man, don't you feel like a huge pile of doodoo for enjoying games that have cute girls in them? I sure would!
Sebastian Ward
The first game is a zelda-like metroidvania on the GAMEBOY COLOR, has open world (well, basically the overworld loops) with towns that have minigames and NPCs to talk to, it has a day-night cycle, dungeons and tons of secrets. It's a technical marvel and the soundtrack is fucking juicy. It was published by capcom and bombed, this game is a definition of a cult-classic and for a reason.
It has lots of problems, but listen, that game and all that came after, are fucking juicy. The gameplay is fun and juicy, the dialog is fun and juicy, the soundtrack is fun and juicy and the graphics + girls are fun and juicy. The reason for cult following is the fun gameplay and the reason you only think about the porn is only a warning sign that you have been using Sup Forums too much.
Hating these games makes you worse than Stalin, fuck you.
Samuel Butler
Juicy?
Are you just fucking pulling out random words out of your ass to describe games?
>even the diehard fans this series is constantly pandering to are finding HGH to be very short, too easy, and oversimplified
If only there was someone who could have warned them.
Leo Bennett
Speaking of magic mode, magic sux on this game, it takes forever to kill anyone with any spell
Tyler Richardson
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Robert Davis
I wish she would have sex with me
Gabriel Bailey
The magic sucks until you get the Magic Tiara where you turn on the invincibility bubble and just never turn it off.
Isaiah Rodriguez
What are you talking about? Pike Balls are STILL OP.
All these games later.
Matthew Clark
I want Shantae to turn me into a savage wolf for trying to rape her and then get my revenge by raping her
Jeremiah Cooper
HGH is a bit lacking, but it is better than RR, and there's still the character and costume dlcs (free I believe?) to make a proper NG+, so I'll reserve full judgement till then
Caleb Lee
I want to be Shantae and get gangbanged by all the anons ITT
Lincoln Allen
Why does she barely dance in the game?
Christian Morgan
this but I'm sky
Leo Taylor
>there's still the character and costume dlcs (free I believe?) to make a proper NG+
Not a launch.
Which given how long it takes Way Forward to do anything means it isn't coming out for quite some time.
I wouldn't be surprised if the Wii U shop servers close before they finish.
Jace Jones
They were stretch goals so they'd sure as shit better be free. Then again, the "stretch goal" levels turned out to be the only areas in the game so who knows at this point.
Juan Garcia
>Destructoid's review complains about the slide and chase sections, comparing them to the Turbo Tunnel
I refuse to believe people can be this casu-
>watch someone play the Vita version >they get stuck on the block pushing part of Burning Town, forget that they can duck and swim, and game over on the first section.
Joseph Morgan
I only used it to cheap my way on the slide
Jeremiah Lee
Good
Jordan Wilson
>tfw casual and had to buy bikini armor
Bentley Rogers
yes, not being at launch definitely isn't a positive in the game's favor, but as long as they're free and not blatantly held back from the base game I'll generally let it go once the final product with all post game content is there in the meantime it is a big issue though
Alexander Rivera
Can you use it to cheese the achievement for avoiding all of the gears in the final section? The last set is such a colossal pain in the ass I couldn't even be bothered.
Michael Smith
Launch is actually on the 20th, backers got it early
Jordan Ward
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Jack Morgan
What would a lap dance from Shantae feel like?
Gabriel Flores
Yes, the gears can't touch you when you're invincible, also there's no hud but you still can cycle through the spells and activate when you jump
Jaxon Hernandez
imagine a really lose silky blanket on your bed and rubbing your dick in it and once in a while you might feel the mattress
Logan Thomas
pure now rotty or sky? would break down and just fuck you midway
Matthew Jones
Like a sweaty mudskin covered in satin rasping her way up and town your thighs.
Owen Morales
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Jason Turner
Shantea?
Jacob Peterson
Rotty is playful, she would just keep going and have fun Now that desperate sky would definitely jump on your dick as soon as possible
Juan Brooks
It's safe to assume that the version backers and reviewers have is the launch version.
Luke Morgan
Am I the only one who doesn't fap to Shantae characters? The artstyle just doesn't do it for me. I just like the gameplay and the music.
Christian Hughes
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Wyatt Fisher
no user don't
Bentley Anderson
maybe, but I think rotty would at least give you a detached handjob afterwards or something, sky would just rape you on the spot
Brayden Butler
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Luke Mitchell
Is there an ETA on the extra characters? I hunger for more.
Jack Kelly
shen why
Brayden Murphy
that's not shen is it? did he have a stroke or something?
Aiden Watson
Never ever
Noah Gonzalez
soon
Tyler Williams
sex sells.
Notice how no one in Senran Kagura games talk about the actual games. It's just waifuwars
Also, Wayforward is a mediocre dev. Their best game was a Contra clone.
Joseph Reyes
There are tons! Shantae isn't one of them. Jesus Christ do some branching out or some research for christs sake.
Ian Reyes
Delicious brown is life
Liam Morgan
He draws human faces weird for some reason.
Blake Rodriguez
>Their best game was a Contra clone You mean the one called Contra?
Nathan Turner
Shantae wasn't good until Pirate's Curse, cause they dumped the shitty transformations and just made a regular Metroid.
Except it's not as good as Metroid.
Colton Peterson
I've never heard of this 'game' until I saw a play through of it on SGDQ. And now every day theres a post about it on Sup Forums and then theres a bunch of porn.
Literal meme game
Asher Thompson
but it's usually passable or stylized well enough, I mean you can't really fault a guy for having an off day but why did it have to be on shanty and atmosphere?
Wyatt Thompson
Yes. Contra The Greatest Hits.
Joshua Johnson
You being ignorant about the franchise doesn't make it a meme
Owen Lewis
I'm honestly surprised Shantae even made it into a GDQ.
Must of been before they went fully sanitary.
Angel Ross
you should know the ETA by now
Adam Jackson
Well done Sherlock, you cracked the code
Anthony Lewis
Shantae is fantastic for speedrunning (Especially Pirate's Curse) so it makes sense.
Matthew Peterson
why hello there
Gabriel Collins
What do you guys like about Shantae?
Elijah Martinez
the character or the game?
Daniel Mitchell
There's like a dozen posts giving you the answer in this thread alone bro
Elijah Brown
so does Hero mode change anything other than having transformations at the start? Do you take increased damage or are there any different story things?