Shantae Advance: Risky Revolution Is Bringing The Lost GBA Adventure To Switch Next Year

No real use for the multiplayer mode, but this looks awesome overall. Really miss the classic sprite-based look.

Very much a day one purchase for me.

The 4-player mode looks very cute, very reminiscent of Mighty Flip Champs.
I am very likely going to pre-order the GBA cartridge through Limited Run Games next year, because I am a sucker. 😅

I never get tired of Shantae. I'll be all over this.

might be time to do a series re run. i think i need to finish the last two games.

It's amazing that this game is being released after all these years.

Maybe I’ll get this even tho I have never played a single Shantae game at all.

Which game you all recommend you start with? Pirates Curse where she loses her powers or Half Genie Hero?

Oh great!!
It's good to know that this 'cancel' project of Shantae will return to life, as they say, "better late than never"

Should make for a fascinating end product. Even with the original team involved, game design expectations have changed in the past 20 years and that has to affect their own standards. Think of something as small as checkpointing, which has become far more generous in games.

Definitely interested to see how this goes.

Great, It would be like playing a brand new GBA game.

One of the only good announcements of the Direct. I haven't missed a Shantae game yet, so I'll be picking this up for sure.

I'll take the option to buy the rom instead

I would prefer a new Shantae, but I've always wanted to play this formerly lost game, ever since I saw the screenshots of it in a magazine. It was one of the reasons I wanted a GBA in the first place. And I'll probably buy the GBA module for it. Hopefully it's not too expensive, and hopefully Limited Run Games will deliver this game faster. The last game I ordered from you had to wait nine months until it finally arrived.

Shantae is always solid. Love to support WayForward whenever I can. When they aren’t making licensed games to keep the lights on, they are one of the most consistent devs in the game.

@anoyonmus Can’t go wrong with either, but I’d say Pirate’s Curse then HGH.

Kicking off with Shantae is an absolute win. I don't care how the rest of Indie World went. <3

Nice! I've played the other 5 and enjoyed them all to varying degrees. I'll definitely get this to complete the collection!

@anoyonmus In my opinion, Pirates Curse is the best in the series. Although all of them are good! The 2nd one (or is it now 3rd?), Risky's Revenge is the shortest, so it might be a good place to start to see if you like the series. Half-Genie Hero and Seven Sirens are both lots of fun, but maybe slightly more "by the numbers" games. I personally preferred Seven Sirens, of the two. The original Shantae is probably the hardest game, and can be frustrating by today's game standards, so only start with that one if you're crazy, like I was! 😆

Heck yea! More classic Shantae? Yes please!

@LEGEND_MARIOID This is a new game.

I thought the second game released was the second game created, as I had no idea there was a lost game. This is a nice surprise. I love the fact it shares that original look.

@LadyCharlie Frankly, you and me both. I'll definitely get it for the Switch, but I will splurge for the GBA version as well, since that was how it was originally intended to be played.

@MeloMan Oh, yeah. Risky's Revenge may have been the second game released, but Risky Revolution was in development before that before being cancelled and then revived.

Nintendo has done this before, as well. One of the most famous examples was Star Fox 2 for the SNES. It was weeks away from release when they cancelled the game, citing the N64 being right around the corner. So they remade the first game, taking elements from Star Fox 2, and named it Star Fox 64. It wasn't until 2017 when Star Fox 2 got an official release.

More recently, Metroid Dread is another example. Nintendo had been developing the game since the mid to late-2000s, even teasing the game in Metroid Prime 3: Corruption. But the game was quietly cancelled, then revived after Nintendo was impressed by MercurySteam's remake of Metroid II on the 3DS. Metroid Dread released in 2021 to critical acclaim, becoming the best-selling game in the entire franchise, beating out the original Metroid Prime.

I've only played Risky's Revenge, but this looks suspiciously similar to it. Is that because the franchise is just that consistent or because they reused these ideas when making Risky's Revenge?

I dream of Shantae. 🧞

@Poodlestargenerica sorry, yes. Shantae GBC was the first game of the series I played. Sorry. This is new. Insta-download.

Nice that it's finally coming to modern consoles. If I couldn't find the free rom dump of the GBA version then I'll just buy this on Steam and Switch instead.

Hopefully the port won't be handled by the guy who made the previous GBC version on Switch. It was a hot mess of bugs that were never fixed (and didn't exist in the original) and rough edits to the game's title screen, menus etc. Please make a good port this time.