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Shantae is a half-genie girl in charge of guarding the small seaside town, Scuttle Town. One day pirates attack, and the vile Risky Boots steals a prototype steam engine. What's worse is Risky plans to find 4 magical relics to power up the engine into a mighty weapon! Shantae will visit towns, and search labyrinths in her quest to stop Risky. Shantae's main weapon is her hair, which she can whip at enemies to collect gems and hearts for energy(that they drop). Shantae can find other tools at item shops, save the game, and learn info in the different towns. Shantae will also learn magical dances to change into different animals needed to complete tasks, and to warp to the various towns. Never heard of Shantae? You're not alone. It came out near the end of the Game Boy Color's run when everyone was moving on to the Game Boy Advance. It wasn't out for long, and became a sleeper hit. I didn't get into Shantae until the 2nd game Shantae: Risky's Revenge. It's fun to see how the series got started, but when attacking it's easy to take too many cheap hits. Graphics are very colorful and have fun animations, sound has nice tunes, and control is good.Read full review
Verified purchase: Yes | Condition: Pre-owned
I've never heard of shantae until I played the pirates curse needless to say I got hooked. I had to find out more of the franchise's history. I baught a reproduction copy of the game since I couldn't afford the original which I really wanted the original over the reproduction copy. It's fun & entertaining. I wish that I knew about it when it came out back on 2002.
Verified purchase: Yes | Condition: New
Shantae for the Gameboy Color system is a nice old game that is very hard to find. It features a female genie who sometimes does sexy dances and protects a small town. The prices to have this in your collection are ridiculously high. You may prefer to get a fan-made reproduction. Buy it if you can afford it.
Verified purchase: Yes | Condition: Pre-owned
Now, if you cannot afford the original game, whether it be just the game or complete in box, you can buy it for next to nothing on the Nintendo eShop. Even if that was not the case, the game would be worth every cent buying an original copy. This game is amazing, with graphics and sound that could easily be mistaken as being on the Game Boy Advance. The story and the gameplay is amazing and never become stale. If you have not played this game yet, just find a way, because it is amazing! (:
Verified purchase: No
Written by NY Gamer (brother to Skygrinder, Thanks again for the buy!) I've heard alot about this game from various sources (GoNintendo.Com, Reviews, Etc.) and while I was a bit skeptical on how a GBC game grabbed all of this praise... i dove in to pick up a copy. While the price on ebay may throw some people off (I mean, the game can climb up to a C-Note! I was even thrown from this!!!) I did get a nice deal on it and I'm glad I went ahead with buying this game! Well, onto the meat and potatoes: Gameplay: 10/10 About 16 hours first time, Following Plays about 10 hours. Overworld, 5 towns, 3 money making minigames, 4 Dungeons, Final Area. The game is a platformer and can be an unforgiving one at that with health dropped sparingly from enemies and 1ups allocated to dungeons.) The overworld takes place in 2 different times (Daytime - Enemies are Normal & Nighttime - Enemies have double health and I may be mistaken, but deal double damage as well.) Shantae starts out with 3 Hearts and Her Pony-tail attack. As the story progresses, she picks up 4 transformations (only the elephant can attack though) but fully Powered up, Shantae can collect 7 heart containers for a max of 10 hearts, can collect the 4 fighter items for additional attacks (you'll need alot of gems though) and 4 talismans to enable attacks for her animal forms (all optional pick ups as you can run the entire game w/ just her pony-tail.) Difficulty: 8/10 unless you rescale dungeons for additional 1ups. Your Pony-tail can only reach so far so you have to step up and get in close for connections. Bosses can be hard if you don't know what to expect or their weak spots. Graphics: 10/10 For a GBC game, this feels a bit more like a GBA game, just kicked down. Sprites are very fluid in animation and detailed greatly! This pushed the GBC to it's limits (you may see some slow down in the 3rd dungeon.) Music: 9/10 14+ Tracks. Each tune has a nice feel to it and fits in with the game. You may pull a favorite track from this game. Overall = 10/10 For the GBC's Swan Song (just some really bad timing on Wayforward's part since their game was pushed back) this game is a very, VERY great game to own a hard copy of. If you wish to though, Pick up a DSi and just wait until Shantae's next quest hits before the year's end.Read full review
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