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  "Shantae: 1/2 Genie Hero" is a 2016 2D Sidescroller/Metroidvania by Wayforward. It is the fourth game in the Shantae series which started on the Gameboy Color. This is the first HD one! It was successfully kickstarted back in 2013 and came out on pretty much all platforms! As the name suggests, the games feature a Half Genie called Shantae. Who attacks with her purple hair! This one in particular has some super beautiful art and levels. HGH is a little more dialogue heavy than your typical Metroidvania but no worries, the writing is mostly great! The game basically feels like it was made for me, as it somehow features most of the things I put in a Game-jam game I made myself years back.  I'll be playing the PC version. It's not a very long game, it has 5 linear levels you can revisit (and will revisit often) and a final 6th one. So the videos are delineated by level (like 1-1 and 1-2 to finish out the first level). Usually there's some set-up before the next level unlocks. The game also features many different kinds of modes and DLC. They mostly re-use a lot of content/levels. I won't be playing through all of them, maybe show off a few modes or DLC after the main run. Pandariots aka Sinatrapods or simply Pods will normally be joining me for (most of) the playthrough. Let's Play & Break? Not this time! There's not really much to break. It's just a fun, very tight game we're gonna enjoy. Any place to support you? Yes! I have a patreon at https://www.patreon.com/jaffy. You can also find my previous stuff on the kilobops website. Alternatively on LPArchive.org or on my YouTube channel itself. Finally, you can join my discord if you wish! https://discord.gg/8hgEeuR                      
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Chimera-gui posted:Steven Universe isn't post apocalypse as it is a world that narrowly avoided an apocalypse, Monster Hunter can be considered post apocalypse though. morallyobjected posted:Seven Sirens
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Jan 8, 2021 21:38
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We didn't see much actual game play yet, I didn't want to leave you hanging, so.... Time for P.O.O.P. T.O.O.T.!
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Jan 8, 2021 22:08
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Coolguye posted:it seems like a bit of a tease to comment on how good the music is in this game when you've got it turned down so low that only people who are part bat like me can hear it. DoubleNegative posted:Also if you want to hear the song from the update more clearly, the woman who sang it uploaded it to her personal channel
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Jan 9, 2021 01:49
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morallyobjected posted:I don't know if your recording/editing process supports it, but have you ever tried auto ducking? I feel like that used to be popular to do with video LPs. or maybe you do that and I just didn't notice Anyway I'm raising the game audio in the act 2 vids, so let me know then if it's any better. Chimera-gui posted:While Risky isn't a Genie, at least not to anyone's knowledge, she does possess magic albeit dark magic presumably hence her pale skintone and ability to control the Tinkerbats.
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Jan 9, 2021 21:44
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Time for Act 2! Is the audio mixing an improvement? All Monkey Business here.
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Jan 13, 2021 22:32
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Nidoking posted:Fun Kickstarter facts: Holly's existence in the game was one of the stretch goals. There are two chapters in the game that were added that way, which leaves me wondering how much of the game there would have been had they not met those goals. They also had two chapters that weren't funded, so there could have been even more. Ohh I didn't know that. As I wasn't a fan of the series just yet, I didn't follow the kickstarted closely. I do know the DLC's that did come were stretch goals.
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Jan 14, 2021 19:33
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Beartaco posted:Why did you decide to LP this one, specifically? Simply because it's the first one I played and then promptly fell in love with. Still didn't go back and play the older ones, haha.
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Jan 15, 2021 21:24
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Jan 16, 2021 21:28
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Carbon dioxide posted:That Blobfish transformation is absolutely horrible. Psycho Knight posted:This level has always been one of the more potentially horrifying things in this normally goofy game series. Like, a ton of mermaids must have been sold as food for him to have a "demand is high, supplies are low" situation. There's also no way that Shantae stopped a production facility designed to turn girls into faux mermaids faster than they could be sold. At least some of those missing girls were eaten by monsters. I don't recall there being any handwave about it either.  What am I supposed to write here again?
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Jan 20, 2021 23:05
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quote:The franchise's fan service -----  WIIIIIILLLL-BURRRRR!!!
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Jan 23, 2021 23:39
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Nidoking posted:I experience only mild pain watching you Pike Ball your way through screens full of archers and get pelted with arrows, when I'm pretty sure Bubble just negates them completely.
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Jan 24, 2021 23:11
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I'm beginning to think this game gets darker the more you think about it! So let's not think, Let's race! Time for The BIG RACE!!
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Jan 27, 2021 22:14
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Nidoking posted:The race is the other chapter that was a Kickstarter stretch goal. I don't know whether we would have gotten a shorter level without that, or whether this level wouldn't exist, but either way, it feels like this game would have been way too short without the stretch goals we got. Ohh that makes sense. I like short games these days. I’d say this game is a pretty good length. Could probably do with less mandatory item hunting but I’d see why they wanted to stretch it out that way.
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Jan 29, 2021 09:07
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A little late, sorry for the delay. SUMMON THE BOYS!!!!!
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Feb 3, 2021 22:01
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The fetch questing ramps up. In which we get Down with The Sickness
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Feb 6, 2021 22:08
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Nidoking posted:So when you say the game needs a secret tracker, do you mean one aside from the one that shows you what items are in each stage when you select it on the map? Because I don't think there are any collectables that aren't shown on that. ----------- Late again! Sorry scheduling commentary with Pods has been hard. So while we wait for the next episode of the HGH LP; Let's take a peek at the game that started it all!  VICIOGAME channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/viciogame/featured
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Feb 15, 2021 20:18
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Ohh, didn't know Half Genie Hero was such an outlier. I played Seven Sirens Part 1 and now that you mention it, I can recall the different structure. It was buried in my mind though haha.
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Feb 18, 2021 13:01
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 In this episode: UNSPEAKABLE DOOM! And monster girls!!
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Feb 20, 2021 20:11
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Nidoking posted:Squid Baron's been a fixture since at least Risky's Revenge. He was the first boss there, somewhat deflated by showing up so early in the game and thus clearly not being any challenge at all. In Pirate's Curse, he was more of a character, even indulging Shantae in a bit of questing before turning up as the third boss, claiming that appearing at the game's midpoint meant he was halfway to greatness. I'll leave it to your imagination what role he might have in Seven Sirens. Clearly that must mean the Squid Baron game featuring Shantae is in the works!
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Feb 22, 2021 23:59
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Feb 24, 2021 20:24
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 Would YOU like to get Norted?
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Mar 7, 2021 20:52
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Thanks both for the info. Very interesting! But wait, is she actually called Nega-Shantae? I just... pulled that out of my rear end. Okay! Haha.
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Mar 9, 2021 09:17
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Nidoking posted:It's canon. From the campaign: That's rad.  We're right at the end of the game! The finale will premiere on YouTube tomorrow! Check that out here: https://youtu.be/qXCRg_sTzUc Just A Friend fucked around with this message at 20:46 on Mar 12, 2021 |
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Mar 12, 2021 20:43
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 That's it for the main game! Thank you so much for joining us on this LP! Look forward to the Pirate Queen DLC videos and whatever's next!!
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Mar 13, 2021 21:25
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Chimera-gui posted:I wouldn't be opposed to you playing Risky's Revenge, Pirate's Curse and/or Seven Sirens. I know I've spoiled some major plot elements from the first two and something that was implied in the third, but these games are still worth playing from gameplay and charm. Seven Sirens might be a possibility in the (not very near) future. The rest of em probably not. There’s only so many games one can do!
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Mar 15, 2021 16:00
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 I wanted to show off this DLC as I quite liked it! I mean, we play as the villain!!
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Mar 21, 2021 20:00
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 We tackle levels 3 and 4 in this one and get some more cool abilities.
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Mar 25, 2021 20:31
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Commander Keene posted:I think this DLC implies that Shantae just beats these guys up and leaves when she shows up and they're committing a villainy. No "you're going to jail!", and she doesn't even confiscate any stolen/illegal/villainy-integral stuff they have. She just gets bored and walks away once they're lying in a twitching heap on the ground. Yup that's the way I look at it too.   We finish up the DLC, and with that, the LP! A short bonus video for concept art non-withstanding.
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 A last little video showing off the Art Gallery in the game. See you soon for the next series!
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