Publisher Limited Run Games and developer WayForward have introduced Shantae Advance: Risky Revolution, the long-lost sequel to the unique sport, is coming.
Shantae Advance: Risky Revolution is lastly getting accomplished and launched for the Game Boy Advance someday in early 2024 after almost 20 years. Ports for contemporary platforms weren’t introduced.
“Restoring the misplaced Shantae sequel has been an unbelievable journey!” says Matt Bozon, Shantae collection director. “After reuniting as a staff, we restored the unique sport demo, and now are working onerous to finish the complete sport on authentic {hardware}! This isn’t a demake or a brand new retro-style sport, however an precise GBA-era title that was misplaced to time. We paused growth in 2004, and now we’re again at it almost 20 years later with the identical instruments, {hardware}, and Link Cables that we had been utilizing again then. It’s loopy, it feels unattainable, nevertheless it’s occurring! We’re on a time-travel mission to avoid wasting Shantae Advance: Risky Revolution, and eventually convey it to the followers!”
Here’s a rundown on the sport, plus its reveal trailer:
Shantae Advance: Risky Revolution — the long-lost sequel to the unique Shantae — is again in growth after being placed on the shelf for almost 20 years. Building off the unique sport code from the early 2000s, this once-canceled title can be accomplished and launched bodily on a Game Boy Advance-compatible sport cartridge.
Shantae Advance: Risky Revolution reunites the design staff of Shantae creator Erin Bozon, collection director Matt Bozon, and programmer Michael Stragey, who’re utilizing GBA-era growth instruments to authentically full the hand held expertise that was deliberate so a few years in the past. Previously current solely in unfinished demo kind, Shantae Advance: Risky Revolution can be launched as a full sport with the entire hair-whipping, belly-dancing motion that Shantae followers have come to count on, together with a number of chapters, quite a few cities and labyrinths, six creature transformations, fierce bosses, and a soundtrack by acclaimed composer Maddie Lim, plus a 4-player battle mode.
Filling within the gaps between the unique Shantae (2002) and Shantae: Risky’s Revenge (2010), Shantae Advance: Risky Revolution sees Shantae defending Sequin Land from a twisted new plot orchestrated by her nemesis, the pirate Risky Boots. Using a secret subterranean machine, Risky is ready to rotate and rearrange the continent, plunging it into chaos and giving her extra coastal cities to plunder. Fortunately, by harnessing this expertise and the information of the Relic Hunters, gamers will be capable of flip the tables on Risky, giving Shantae new paths by environments and an opportunity to thwart the villain’s scheme.
