Shantae Advance: Risky Revolution

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Shantae Advance: Risky Revolution, is the sixth game of the series in release order but 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!

Plot[]

To protect Scuttle Town, Mimic begins developing a new invention called the Fan Cannon which generates powerful winds to repel invading ships from the ocean and plans to install them through the coast to eliminate the threat of pirates from Sequin Land. However, Risky Boots arrives in a hot air balloon and reveals she has a new plan that the Fan Cannons won't be able to stop. Shantae gives chase only for Risky to trick her with a pit trap and escape after dropping them both deep underground. Along with Skye, Bolo, and Rottytops, Shantae pursues Risky Boots into a massive underground cavern that spans all of Sequin Land. Risky then reveals her plan to use a device called the Tremor Engine to rotate entire sections of Sequin Land and expose landlocked villages to the sea for her to plunder. Shantae and her friends are forced to escape when Risky activates the Tremor Engine.

Chapter 1: Lost Relics[]

Shantae returns to Scuttle Town and informs Mimic of Risky's plan, but the land shifts while they're talking and Scuttle Town is moved to a desert. Mimic suggests consulting three of his fellow Relic Hunters to find a way to undo the effects of the Tremor Engine. However, a Tinkerbat secretly spies on their plan and reports it to Risky Boots, who has a contingency plan in the form of three monsters called the Muck Lords she orders to hunt down the Relic Hunters. Shantae travels using Skye's giant bird Hatchet and goes to Mining Town, which has been moved to Scuttle Town's previous location and is being flooded by the sea. There, she learns one of the Relic Hunters is in Bramble Maze and heads to Orc Orchard to find the maze. While searching Orc Orchard, Shantae finds a crypt and, after defeating its boss, is awarded a Wish Charm that unlocks the Crab Dance. With the power of the Crab Dance, Shantae is able to spy on Risky Boots setting up a Tremor Switch, a device that activates the Tremor Engine and rotates the land. Using the Tremor Switch, Shantae unlocks Bramble Maze where she finds another Wish Charm that she uses to unlock the Monkey Dance. At the bottom of the maze, Shantae defeats the first Muck Lord, MishMash, to rescue the Relic Hunter Boris Holes.

Returning to Scuttle Town, Shantae is informed by Mimic that the other two Relic Hunters, Professor Pepperpex Mcmanstache and Doctor Cornelious Crust, have likely been captured as well. Shantae sets out to rescue the remaining Relic Hunters while Mimic and Boris study the effects of Risky's scheme to try and track her down. By recovering a missing part from Bolo's baby brother Pongo in Mining Town, Shantae is able to reactivate machine a machine Bolo found which is revealed to be a Tremor Switch that restores Scuttle Town and Mining Town to their proper locations. With the towns restored, a grateful miner gives Shantae a stone that Boris identifies that came from Lava Town, where he suspects Risky Boots is trying to capture Professor Pepperpex.

Chapter 2: Molten Mix-Up[]

When Shantae reaches Lava Town, she discovers it is freezing over from being relocated by the Tremor Engine and most of the inhabitants have been encased in ice. She finds a villager not yet frozen who reveals that Professor Pepperpex was heading to Musuem Town, a normally freezing town which was relocated by Risky to Lava Town's volcano to plunder. Shantae arrives just after Risky robs the village and the Musuem Curator tells her Professor PepperPex went to Naga Cliffs. In another crypt at the cliffs, Shantae acquires another wish stone she uses to unlock the Elephant Dance. After unlocking another Labyrinth, Shantae finds another wish stone which unlocks the Spider Dance. With the power of her new dances, Shantae is able to reach the bottom of the maze, defeat the second Muck Lord FlimFlam, and rescue Professor Pepperpex, who is actually a woman instead of a man like she was told.

When Shantae brings Professor Pepperpex back to Scuttle Town, Mimic reveals that the woman she rescued is an imposter. The imposter admits that the real Professor Pepperpex passed, and she used his name to try and swindle money from debtors who owed him. Fortunately, the imposter has researched the original professor's findings and offers to help. After freeing the frozen villagers of Lava Town, Shantae is awarded a missing part for a Tremor Switch in Museum Town which restores it and Lava town to their proper locations. For restoring Lava Town, Shantae is awarded another stone. The imposter examines the stone and reveals it is a piece of the King's Pillar, a massive underground support column holding up Sequin Land. She continues that every time Risky uses the Tremor Engine, it wears on the pillar and it will eventually result in all of Sequinn Land collapsing into underground magma. Mimic adds that the final Relic Hunter, Cornelious, may have a solution and Shantae is given a map to Bog Town where he was last seen.

Chapter 3: A Royal Pain[]

Shantae arrives in Bog Town just after Risky finishes robbing the town of its Royal Jelly the local insect villagers need to pupate their young and the town's relocation prevents them from making more. Using a map given by one of the villagers, Shantae travels to the Royal Palace, now located in the swamp that used to hold Bug Town, to seek help from the Sultana in finding Doctor Cornelious. The Sultana reveals that Doctor Cornelious is being held captive in an Abandoned Prison in Haunted Grove and gives Shantae the help of her soldiers to free the Relic Hunter. However, the ghosts inhabiting the Haunted Grove possess the soldiers, turning them into enemies, forcing Shantae to continue alone until she finds another crypt. Inside the crypt, Shantae obtains a Wish Charm which unlocks the Mermaid Dance. Using the new dance, Shantae accesses the Abandoned Prison where she obtains another Wish Charm and unlocks the Harpy Dance which she uses to reach the bottom of the prison. There, she defeats the final Muck Lord, Hogswoggle, and frees Doctor Cornelious.

Upon returning to Scuttle Town, the Relic Hunters reveal that they have developed a risky plan to save Sequin Land. The plan is to shock the King's Pillar with one of Mimic's inventions and trigger an underground eruption that will force the underground magma to flood the hollow caverns and create a new foundation for Sequin Land. After finding another missing part for a Tremor Switch in Bog Town, Shantae returns it and the Royal Palace to their proper places and is awarded a Tremor Stone needed to complete Mimic's invention for saving the Bug Town eggs. When Shantae brings the stone to Mimic, he discovers the stone is too weak to affect the King's Pillar so he has Shantae gather three Shock Eggs to strengthen it. Once Shantae gathers the eggs, Mimic is able to complete his quake generating invention, the Tremor Engine Micro.

Chapter 4: Risky's Fault[]

Shantae and the Relic Hunters return to the Chasm and place the Tremor Engine Micro on the King's Pillar. However, Risky Boots appears and reveals she's already stolen everything she needs for her master plan. Shantae pursues Risky and defeats her, but the latter reveals her secret weapon developed from resources she stole and piloted by the Muck Lords: a drilling machine called the Tinkerworm. Though Shantae destroys the Tinkerworm, Risky refuses to admit defeat and orders the Muck Lords to attack her. However, the Muck Lords refuse to fight on the losing side and abandon her, forcing Risky to try to escape in her hot air balloon. The Tremor Engine Micro causes a massive earthquake through Sequin Land and triggers an eruption which propels Shantae up the chasm where she battles to Risky again. Shantae destroys Risky's air balloon and is saved by Sky and her friends while the Relic Hunter's plan works, stabilizing Sequin Land. Shantae and the Relic Hunters are summoned by the Sultana to be thanked for their efforts and Shantae requests that the Relic Hunter Expo be restarted as a reward.

After the credits, Risky is revealed to have survived and is licking her wounds while plotting revenge.

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 features six different forms, swimming without the aid of the Mermaid form (complete with a dive move), and a multiplayer battle mode. Additionally, the main mechanic of the game is a foreground/background level gimmick similar to the different planes of depth found in some areas of Shantae: Risky's Revenge, including the use of something called the Tremor Engine which allows 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, initially, cancelled game.
The game was to feature two transformations 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 the 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 shows the 'Sultana of Sequin Land'.
This is the first game in the series where the release order and story order differ, being the sixth game released but the second game in terms of story, filling in a narrative gap between Shantae and Shantae: Risky's Revenge.
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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