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Shantae: Half-Genie Hero (PS3/4/Vita/360/XB1/WiiU/PC) Kickstarter [800K/400K Funded]
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Don't worry yet. It'll come up.
To add to the other ways to get past it, the invulnerability magic works wonders.
Letting the player just grab that stuff without knowing what it's for is something I really like about the game. It's a good compromise for what that is. (Imagine how annoying it'd have been if that stuff didn't spawn until that point in the game...) I feel like THIS is how you do fetch quests and other games could take a lesson in how to make it NOT feel frustrating.
Pirate's Curse did the same thing and it's great. Every time I got a new power I'd go back to the previous hubs and look for things and I was usually rewarded
Skeletos311
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I sat down and played through the whole thing on Wii U last night. I had already played through the early access version. I noticed they changed a part in the last stage where you fly over a bunch of lava and spiky blocks. I think it was just this one part that was way harder than the rest that they took out.
It's bad on Vita? Does it run at 60fps with slowdown or is it just juddery looking all the time?
It's 60 fps with frequent slowdowns in most areas, mostly when you kill enemies in very open stages due to their extravagant death animations, I'm guessing.
Zippedpinhead
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I am stuck in hypno baron's castle. I must be missing something, all I can do is go to rottytops' brother, two dead ends that you need the monkey to get to and a chest.
I have Gibbs missing something because that poster apparently isn't available in this chapter.
Edit: figured it out I'm dumb also i'd but that merch
I have Gibbs missing something because that poster apparently isn't available in this chapter.
Edit: figured it out I'm dumb also i'd but that merch
My guess is that, given previous completion times for Shantae games, it's likely that the achievement requires the game to be beaten/completed in 2/3 hours.
Xseed/Marvelous USA publishes the physical version, and they only publish (non-digitally) in America.
I haven't followed too closely since that was announced, but unless I'm mistaken (and do feel free to correct me), there have been no motions towards or mentions of a European physical release. I'm not sure if this is unwillingness on the behalf of European publishers or WayForward, but that's the situation.
Since Rising Star Games, a mostly European publisher, published the Japanese 3DS release of Pirate's Curse in Europe and North America, they might, in the future, pick up this game for a European release, but I wouldn't bet on it.
So for now: No.
Napalm_Frank
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Do we know the price of digital PS4/Vita version?
XxSlasherMcGirkxX
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Do we know when the physical versions release. I heard they were releasing after the digital versions, is that true?
Wayforward finished the game, submitted the finished game to the platform holders (and XseeD), and then announced that they were giving early digital copies to the backers and journalists around Dec 12 (give or take a few days). They announced that they were setting the digital release date for regular folk as being Dec 20. They said that the physical version was XseeD's problem, and it was up to XseeD to provide their own physical release date.
Then XseeD announced that there was no problem. Wayforward gave them plenty enough warning, so Dec 20 is also XseeD's physical release date. The physical Wii U version will be Dec 27 due to an unexpected Nintendo delay (with the digital Wii U version slated as "ASAP").
Thank you for the info! Also, it's XSEED.
Seems like it's like this on the PS4 too, according to a GameFAQs poster:
So we have reports of framerate issues on both Sony platforms.
Sub-30FPS is exaggerating, but it's definitely not smooth at all compared to how the game normally is. It seems like water in general really affects the framerate for some reason
AlexFlame116
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Guy is exaggerating. It's not as bad as people think. But then again, I don't see any framerate issues on Main Street or even in Mermaid Falls. I'm probably wrong again haha.
Sorry about ignoring this the first time. But what I saw was mostly in this thread, IE unusually low performance for a high power computer. But then I guess the issue might be running the wrong renderer too?
I'd say it just feels kinda bad when you're used to it being 60 fps and it goes to 30 fps. But you know, that's still pretty playable, and pales compared to the slowdown we've seen in some 16-bit games. Would be nice if they could put out a patch to deal with that though, at least a toggle to bring it down to Wii U fidelity but at 1080p.
Anyways, beat it despite getting it on PS4 rather than PC so fewer opportunities to readily play! Definitely a great game, I'd probably put it as Pirate's Curse >= Half Genie Hero > Risky's Revenge. I feel the structure actually does work pretty well for this, though items can be a bit annoying to go collect. And I think if they don't just incorporate gadgets later that they could perhaps make some transformations happen contextually, IE double jumping going into spider mode or clinging to a wall going into monkey mode, and save dance transformations for more fully featured alternate forms. It ends up feeling extraneous when they're basically only used for access features, while something like Demon's Crest had them be full on separate combat forms.
It will run all stuttery on refresh rates higher than 60 hz even on a 980Ti desktop. 1920*1080@60 is perfectly smooth.
On a GPD Win on the other hand it's capable of running a perfect 1024*576@60 hz but for some reason I need to switch to a different resolution, then go back to 1024*576 every time I launch the game, else it won't be smooth. Go figure.
Ruud_Luiten
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Yay, Play-Asia shipped the Vita version today!
Cannot wait!
Cannot wait!
Ghost_Messiah
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So this releases tomorrow. Are we going to have an OT for this? Excited to finally try the game.
Robin64
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OniBarubary
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I literally yelled "BULLSHIT" when the platforms got smaller without warning. Fucking lack of checkpoints
I wasn't aware this game had orchestrated music but glad my cash helped make that a reality.
And yeah, Mermaid Factory has that momentous techno snazzy coolness that seems to be a continuous thing for WF (or maybe mainly inspired by the Mighty series) while Mermaid Falls is straight-up ocean-spray Genesis-inspired goodness.
Also: Giga Mermaid might be the most anime-looking character WF has ever drawn.
Not to mention, this game is already giving Dead or Alive a run of their money...err, if you know what I mean...>_>
Coinspinner
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Played through this on Saturday. Oooohhhh, so good!
Only ran into one technical issue on my Wii U, after using the Home button to pause the game for a long time (20 minutes or so) the music would glitch (skip) upon resuming the game. Pressing home again would fix it though.
Kinda weird that the hardest part of the game was early on, the platforming section in the desert killed me more than the rest of the game put together.
Only ran into one technical issue on my Wii U, after using the Home button to pause the game for a long time (20 minutes or so) the music would glitch (skip) upon resuming the game. Pressing home again would fix it though.
Kinda weird that the hardest part of the game was early on, the platforming section in the desert killed me more than the rest of the game put together.
Zippedpinhead
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Ability spoilers. Looking to see if anyone else experienced this.
Came up with a weird glitch (PS4). In mermaid falls I used the
transformation on a location where that transformation automatically uses its ability. This zoomed in and then sent me rocketing through the floor all the way to the water at the bottom of the stage. This broke the transformation but did not zoom back out. The only way to zoom out was to leave the stage. Screen scrolling or advancing the area did not help.
I did not have the waterfall ability.
Came up with a weird glitch (PS4). In mermaid falls I used the
mouse
I did not have the waterfall ability.
Jaded Alyx
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I can confirm no performance issues in the Wii U version.
Damn that's not great to hear coming from someone who was planning to import a physical version for PS4/Vita since both of them are region free. Hopefully Rising Star Games picks this one up.
MagnetoWasRight
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Where is the second, harder to find heart container on Main Street?
EDIT: Got it, there are vids on Youtube.
EDIT: Got it, there are vids on Youtube.
If you are a backer, then contact them right away via support email. If you a member of the press but sent them a message already, do so again. They set out to have codes out to both backers and press by Dec. 20th.
This is important if you backed the game; you should have your copy by now. So hit up the support email and let them you that you do not have a copy yet.
I'm not sure they've sent out EU Wii U codes yet, though - last update on the campaign was that they were delayed, though that was about a week ago. Certainly, I can't remember having gotten any e-mails or anything regarding it, though last I logged into my Backerkit account, I did have a complimentary Steam key added to my account I hadn't otherwise been notified of.
The only time I've seen the Wii U version skip frames is when it is saving the game to my external USB drive, and when there are lots of explosions on screen like when you defeat the
mermaid queen boss
I've returned to Mermaid Falls to get some items and I've seen no performance issues.
They said that Wii U EU backers were getting a complimentary Steam key because of the delay in the very same campaign update. I wonder what's the hold up.
Supaidaman
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Kinda late here but got my code for the Wii U some time ago and downloaded it. Now I'm going to finish Yakuza 5 first and then dive into this.
woopWOOP
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For some reason I thought the WiiU version for Shantae would be moved to Switch too so I was kind of ignoring its release, lol
Went for the WiiU (Europe) backer reward tho so I got nothing yet. No Steam code either. Messaged them about it minutes ago, but looking at some of the replies it seems none of the EU WiiU backers got a Steam code yet? Hmm.
Went for the WiiU (Europe) backer reward tho so I got nothing yet. No Steam code either. Messaged them about it minutes ago, but looking at some of the replies it seems none of the EU WiiU backers got a Steam code yet? Hmm.
As I mentioned above, there was one on my Backerkit account explicitly marked as being a complimentary code due to the EU WiiU delay when I logged in over the weekend. If other folks haven't gotten a Steam code as well, I'm not sure what's up with that.
I didn't get any notification to say anything had been added to my account, though, so if you aren't checking the backer updates or your account, you may not be made aware it's been added.
woopWOOP
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Whoops, yeah that was it. Figured I'd get an e-mail, but it's already right there on my backerkit profile page (forgot I even had that, had to dig around the site to find it)
Thanks for the heads up!
Mithos
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Yeah this is the reason I am not angry/have not panicked or sent an email yet, they gave me a complimentary Steam code to use and like you I found that out myself to when I logged in to my account at Wayforward..
petethepanda
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60fps with frequent slowdown. I've played two stages so far; the first occasionally held 60 but would drop with major effects on screen, and the second seemed to stay 40s-ish for most of the level. Some small areas like the hub taunt you with fantastic performance.
Definitely seems to run way better on PS4.
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