Shantae Advance: Risky Revolution

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Shantae Advance: RIsky Revolution, is the sixth game of the series and is an interquel set between Shantae and Shantae: Risky's Revenge

Story Synopsis[]

Shantae is back in an adventure 20 years in the making! The nefarious pirate Risky Boots has a “groundbreaking” new plan that will leave Sequin Land spinning — by rotating the continent, she can move any town right to the coast for easy plundering! As Shantae, turn the tectonic tables on Risky by taking control of the land itself: shift, twist, navigate, and explore by swapping between mix-and-match multilayered levels! Hair-whip and belly-dance your way through scrambled lands, misplaced towns, monster-filled crypts, and daunting labyrinths. Six creature transformations, fierce boss battles, and a 4-player versus mode await!

Gameplay[]

• Discover the lost chapter of the Shantae saga, fully restored and released after 20 years!
• Fight and explore using your hair-whipping ability, magic items, and belly-dance transformations (including monkey, elephant, crab, and more)!
• Spin and shift Front Yard and Back Yard playfields to create new routes and solve puzzles!
• Visit towns, battle through labyrinths, purchase upgrades, find collectables, and meet with friends like Rottytops, Sky, and Bolo!
• For the first time ever in a Shantae game, four players can compete in Battle Mode!

The game is to feature the Monkey and Harpy forms, swimming without the aid of a Mermaid form (complete with a dive move), a change of pants (some screenshots show her in cyan-coloured pants rather than her usual red ones), and a multiplayer battle mode. Additionally foreground/background level feature similar to the different planes of depth found in areas in Shantae: Risky's Revenge was intended, including the use of something called the Tremor Engine which allowed Shantae to shift the terrain in the background plane to solve puzzles and access new areas.

Development History[]

According to Matt Bozon, Shantae Advance started development almost immediately after the completion of the first game. The game was in development for roughly two year and was originally pitched to publishers around the time of the original Shantae's completion, but due to that game's poor sales, it was rejected and shelved indefinitely.^[1]

For many years Matt Bozon wanted to revive the game but wasn't sure how. Eventually the game was revived by Limited Run Games and a physical Game Boy Advance cartridge entered production in addition to digital releases.

Some of the game's assets and ideas were repurposed for Risky's Revenge, but Matt Bozon remained hopeful that the game would be completed and published properly in the future.

On July 12th, 2023, WayForward announced a GBA cartridge release of the completed game in the near future, courtesy of Limited Run Games.^[2]^[3]^[4]^[5] A gameplay trailer was revealed on November 14, 2023 during Nintendo's Indie World Showcase.^[6]^[7]^[8]

Trivia[]

As Shantae Advance: RIsky Revolution was originally the sequel to the original Shantae for the Game Boy Color before being shelved, It was originally called Shantae 2: Risky Revolution, while Shantae Advance was the game's codename according to Matt Bozon in a 2014 Kickstarter bonus stream^[9], prior to the revival by Limited Run Games.
There's an Achievement in Shantae: Half-Genie Hero entitled Risky Revolution that probably got its name from this cancelled game.
The game was to feature two transformation that made it into later games:^[10]^[11] the Mermaid and the Crab. These transformations later debuted in Shantae: Risky's Revenge and Shantae: Half-Genie Hero respectively, albeit with different visual designs.
Most of sound effects (including Shantae's voice clips) were reused from Shantae: Risky's Revenge.
- This in turn makes it the first Shantae game since Shantae: Risky's Revenge where Cristina Vee doesn't voice Shantae.
This is the first game that showed the 'Sultana of Sequin Land'.
This is the last GBA game that uses Nintendo's MusicPlayer2000 sound driver (along with SpongeBob's Atlantis SquarePantis, Iron Kid and Glucoboy).

Videos[]

Shantae Advance GBA Beta Demo - UNRELEASED!

Shantae Advance GBA Beta Demo - UNRELEASED! V2

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References[]

[1] ttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fYZE_1yJ3Us

[2] ttps://nichegamer.com/shantae-advance-risky-revolution-announced/

[3] ttps://nintendowire.com/news/2023/07/12/canceled-gba-shantae-game-revived-as-shantae-advance-risky-revolution/

[4] ttps://gonintendo.com/contents/23068-wayforward-announces-shantae-advance-risky-revolution-for-gba

[5] ttps://mynintendonews.com/2023/07/12/lost-shantae-sequel-shantae-advance-risky-revolution-back-in-development/

[6] ttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RLgXk2xy79c&t=29s

[7] ttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D41wEMc3_ME

[8] ttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HMb3Rt4xpeM

[9] ttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BHHrzJzW_w0

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