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Shantae: Half-Genie Hero - Ultimate Edition (Switch)

Good game! This is definitely the best Shantae has ever looked (up til now, haven't played the most recent game yet), and it's in the running for best gameplay as well, but I might give the edge to Pirate's Curse there.

I do think the story is a big step back. It's like it wants to be a partial reboot, but there are tons of references to continuity and minor antagonists from previous games, so it doesn't even have the main advantage of rebooting. Also, just in terms of personal taste, if you give me a hero that is half-genie and half-human I will find stories where they have to rely on the human side to be inherently more interesting than ones where they can just rely on genie powers, and this game is nonstop genieing after Pirate's Curse was all humaning. Nobody's playing Shantae for the plot but this one does feel pretty unimpressive after Pirate's Curse at least had some legitimate hooks.

I 100%ed the main game because of course I did. There are roughly 43 other gameplay modes in this thing so I'll probably give at least one or two of those a whirl eventually.