{"id":20215,"date":"2020-06-26T00:01:25","date_gmt":"2020-06-26T00:01:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/?p=20215"},"modified":"2020-06-13T04:57:20","modified_gmt":"2020-06-13T04:57:20","slug":"shantae-and-the-seven-sirens-ps4-switch-xbox-one-pc-mobile","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/26\/shantae-and-the-seven-sirens-ps4-switch-xbox-one-pc-mobile\/","title":{"rendered":"Shantae and the Seven Sirens (PS4, Switch, Xbox One, PC, Mobile)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>I\u2019m a HUGE fan of the Shantae game series.\u00a0 I even still have the original game on Game Boy Color, box and all!\u00a0 But who is Shantae?\u00a0 She\u2019s a half-human, half-genie dancer who can magically transform into different animals to help her get past obstacles in her 2-D platforming adventures.\u00a0 In her newest escapade, Shantae and her friends travel to a tropical island for a much needed vacation.\u00a0 Other Half-Genies will be there, too, so Shantae is especially excited to meet more of her kind.\u00a0 But shortly after she arrives, the other Half-Genies disappear.\u00a0 Risky Boots, the nefarious she-pirate and Shantae\u2019s arch-nemesis, has been snooping about the island as well.\u00a0 Could she be behind all of this?\u00a0 It\u2019s up to you to find out in Shantae and the Seven Sirens.\u00a0 It\u2019s available for pretty much anything you can play a game on, but reviewed on PS4 here.<\/p>\n

Shantae can run and jump like any 2-D heroine, and her main attack as always is whipping her purple-haired ponytail at enemies.\u00a0 Foes will drop health items and money that Shantae can use at shops to purchase magic spells to help her beat more bad guys.\u00a0 At certain points in the game, Shantae will learn new magic transformation spells that\u2019ll help her travel to different areas.\u00a0 In past games, Shantae would have to dance to transform, but here the changes are more streamlined and part of her move set. For instance, she can turn into a wall-climbing newt just by dashing.\u00a0 But as soon as she hits the ground, she\u2019ll be Shantae again.\u00a0 Other transformations let you drill through dirt, swim, bash rocks, and double jump.\u00a0 Shantae will still learn dance magic, and these new spells will let her see hidden objects, heal, or fill the room with electricity or a powerful earthquake.\u00a0 Not only are these moves handy for defeating groups of enemies, they\u2019ll also let you solve puzzles and bypass obstacles, but they do use up a bit of your magic meter.\u00a0 Play control is super solid as always.<\/p>\n

In the past two Shantae games, you would choose different areas on a map, but here the map is interconnected, kind of like a Metroid game.\u00a0 It\u2019s also similar to the first two games, which I\u2019m happy about.\u00a0 You\u2019ll be able to explore more of the island when you learn different spells, and there are also dungeons you\u2019ll explore like the ones in a Zelda game, except from a 2-D sidescrolling view.\u00a0 In these dungeon mazes you\u2019ll defeat enemies, find keys, solve puzzles, and defeat a boss using the new skill you learned in that dungeon.\u00a0 In the last Shantae game, they experimented with 3-D backgrounds, but here they\u2019re all 2-D and look very much like the game before it: Shantae and the Pirate\u2019s Curse.\u00a0 One new thing they added was fully animated and voiced cutscenes.\u00a0 The intro was even done by Trigger, who also did another one of my favorite video game intros (Namco X Capcom).\u00a0 Makes me wish there was a Shantae cartoon!\u00a0 Overall it\u2019s a heck of a lot of fun and definitely my kind of game!<\/p>\n

There are a few minor problems hardly worth mentioning, but I will anyway.\u00a0 Some may complain that the game is a little too easy.\u00a0 Me personally, I\u2019ll hardly every complain if a game is too easy.\u00a0 But I sure will if it\u2019s too hard!\u00a0 As long as the game is fun, I don\u2019t mind if it\u2019s easy.\u00a0 With that said, I did still beat the game in less than ten hours and had little to no trouble with it.\u00a0 But there were a couple of platforming sections that were unusually hard, so difficulty is a bit imbalanced.\u00a0 This is one of those games that\u2019s meant to be replayed to complete faster while finding all the items, though.\u00a0 The in-game map is handy, with markers for things like dungeons and save points.\u00a0 But I still wish it let you put markers of your own at points of interest, as there are caves all over the place that you must come back to later to uncover their secrets.\u00a0 Goals are usually pretty clear, but there were a couple of times I wasn\u2019t quite sure what to do next.\u00a0 And it\u2019s not really a problem, but since this game is set in a different location, you don\u2019t get to hear another cool remix of the \u201cBurning Town\u201d theme when you start.\u00a0 Aw man!\u00a0 But otherwise, this is still a fantastic game and if you enjoy titles like Wonder Boy in Monster Land or Metroid, you\u2019ll definitely want to check it out!\u00a0 It may be a bold statement for me to say, but I think I enjoy Shantae games more than many Mario titles!<\/p>\n

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Shantae and the Seven Sirens is rated E-10 with ESRB descriptors of Fantasy Violence and Suggestive Themes.\u00a0 Shantae can hit enemies with her ponytail and magic spells, and the baddies will either explode or turn into bones when defeated.\u00a0 Shantae and her friends wear some slightly revealing and skimpy outfits, too.\u00a0 Reading skill is helpful for the text, and younger gamers may need help with some of the more difficult parts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I\u2019m a HUGE fan of the Shantae game series.\u00a0 I even still have the original game on Game Boy Color, box and all!\u00a0 But who is Shantae?\u00a0 She\u2019s a half-human, half-genie dancer who can magically transform into different animals to help her get past obstacles in her 2-D platforming adventures.\u00a0 In her newest escapade, Shantae […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":20200,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20215","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-game-reviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20215","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20215"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20215\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20217,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20215\/revisions\/20217"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20200"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}