What was the concensus on Shantae Half Genie Hero? I just completed it and I found it very disappointing. I really like the previous two, but this one felt like a shadow of those games. The metroidvania and Zelda dungeon-like aspect is gone, replaced with 7 pretty simple linear levels, which you replay about 4 times each to find secrets. I thought the story was incredibly weak as well, each level has a paper-thin justification for what you're doing (eg. every character suddenly loses their memory mid conversation for no apparent reason), which is totally unrelated to the overall plot, and then in between levels you're just doing this fetch quest trading game, getting different characters random items in exchange for other random items until you get the one which unlocks the next level. It looks okay but I much prefer the pixel art of the previous games. Really short too, less than 5 hours, and very easy; I was just damage boosting through most enemies in the second half as they did so little damage.
Had a look at the DLC but it all seems to reuse the same levels from the main game so I'm not going to bother with it.
Had a look at the DLC but it all seems to reuse the same levels from the main game so I'm not going to bother with it.