Shantae: Half-Genie Hero

Shantae embarks on her first full HD adventure! When a mysterious crime wave sweeps Sequin Land, it’s up to Half-Genie Hero Shantae to save the day! Use Shantae’s devastating Hair-Whip Attack to send monsters flying, or Belly Dance to transform her into more powerful forms!

Shantae: Half-Genie Hero is a female protagonist, platformer and metroidvania game developed and published by WayForward.
Released on December 20th 2016 is available only on Windows in 6 languages: English, French, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain and Japanese.

It has received 2,380 reviews of which 2,154 were positive and 226 were negative resulting in a rating of 8.7 out of 10. 😎

The game is currently priced at 9.99€ on Steam and has a 50% discount.

The Steam community has classified Shantae: Half-Genie Hero into these genres:

Female Protagonist Platformer Metroidvania Cute Action Side Scroller Singleplayer Anime 2.5D Hand-drawn Adventure 2D Indie Funny Kickstarter Fantasy Comedy Action-Adventure Crowdfunded Great Soundtrack

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Requirements

These are the minimum specifications needed to play the game. For the best experience, we recommend that you verify them.

Windows

OS *: Windows 7 Service Pack 1
Processor: 2.2 GHz Dual-Core CPU with Hyper Threading
Memory: 2 GB RAM
Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce 310 or equivalent (it must be able to manage Pixel Shader 3.0) with at least 1GB of display memory
DirectX: Version 9.0
Storage: 2 GB available space

Reviews

Explore reviews from Steam users sharing their experiences and what they love about the game.

Sept. 2024

Good, but not the highlight of the series. Does suffer from some issues. It seems to want to return to the series “walk to the right” roots while also have the exploration and backtracking from the previous title. Which would be okay if they included a map for tracking stuff you can't get at yet. It's very common to unlock a transformation from level C, go back to level A to unlock a new ability for a different transformation, then use that ability in level B for a plot critical item. There are also too many transformations, and most of them only have one purpose. Often to the point where you only need them for a single challenge and then never use them again. You'll often find yourself constantly transforming back and forth for some challenges, which gets tedious quickly. Most notably with having two different ones for underwater, and having to surface to switch between them. The game also lacks a central villain for most of the game. You're just beating every bad guy from all the previous games in their own self-contained stories, while also helping Uncle Mimic finish a machine in the background. It would have been nice to have all these adventures be connected in a more solid way. Overall I did enjoy it. But I still feel like Pirate's Curse was better. And biased on some reviews I've read Seven Sirens does fix a lot of these issues.

Aug. 2024

the main story is a bit short, and becomes wayyyy to easy after a collecting a lot of heart containers, but still has that clasic shantae charm, cant wait for shantae advance 2025!!!

Aug. 2024

After playing Seven Sirens, I can appreciate this game more. It's not the best one, but it's definitely more fun and polished than Seven Sirens. well hop i go to play King Knight!

March 2024

dont let my hours decieve you this is a pretty short game its just that 30 hours of my playtime were spent gooning to rottytops

Jan. 2024

A fun platformer. The first couple of bosses were jiggling bikini girls, yes, but incredibly, the next one wasn’t.

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