Pure Genies eventually became extinct/disappeared for reasons unknown, while their daughters grew to live alone or with the human side of their families. For many years they remained a complete mystery to the island’s human populace, but once both sides approached each other, their worlds and traditions merged, and eventually Genies began to bond with human men, resulting in the birth of the Half-Genies: spunky, energetic girls who combine their fathers’ mortality with their mothers’ attractiveness and magical powers, except that, for some odd reason, their abilities are always incredibly weird. Sequin Land is a small island located smack dab in the middle of the ocean that has a long history with the ancient, all-female tribe of the Genies: beautiful, immortal women who wielded powerful magic. However, while the aforementioned titles suffer from poor translations and little-to-no story, Shantae has some basic yet creative and entertaining lore to back up your quest, all told in-game by NPCs (it also helps that the game was developed in North America, meaning that it didn’t need to pass through translation woes).
The game shares many elements with these classics, such as a big, peculiarly-structured overworld (it’s a horizontally-oriented endless loop, with no dead ends whatsoever once you’re fully powered-up), several towns to visit and lots of backtracking, both optional and mandatory. Shantae, the Game Boy Color’s swan song and the first original game developed by the now-famous neo-retro developer WayForward Technologies, can be considered the unsung beginning of the ongoing nostalgia-mania that’s affecting most indie game developers, harkening back to a genre known by many and despised by most but extremely influential to the game industry as a whole: the 80’s side-scrolling action-RPG, a style that brought us games such as Zelda II, Simon’s Quest, and the Monster World series).
#SHANTAE GBA MOVES SERIES#
Given a wider audience, the series has since built up a substantial following. While the first game was initially unsuccessful at retail, Wayforward continued to develop and pitch the series to publishers for many years, until they were able to self-publish a new game for the Nintendo DSi downloadable platform.
Taking place in an Arabian-inspired setting, featuring 2D gameplay in an open ended world.
It starred a cute purple hair genie, a character developed by Erin Bozon, the wife of Wayforward game designer Matt Bozon. But seeking to create their own intellectual property, they developed Shantae, released for the Game Boy Color. Wayforward Technologies was founded in 1990, and worked on a number of licensed and education products over the course of the decade.
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