Over twenty years later on , a scratch Shantae game is releasing next yr . Why now ?
More than twenty years later , the canceled sequel to the Shantae series , Shantae Advanced Risky Revolution , stand up from the ashes for a 2024 release . With Shantae subsequence relinquish over long catamenia since its debut , why did this one take so long to return ?
What we know about the story of Shantae Advanced Risky Revolution’s development
The game started developing before the exit of the original in 2002 . It was for the Game Boy Advance , yet poor sales shelved it in 2004 when a publisher could n’t be found . Then came another sequel , Shantae : Risky ’s Revenge , which was slated for a 2009 release but was finally delayed to 2010 . sequel then suddenly issue forth out a simple two or three year apart , leading us to the sudden revival of Shantae : Advanced Risky Revolution promulgation in July . What start as the first continuation is now the sixth .
It ’s a really inspirational story for me to hear about . The creators hoped all this time to finish up their lost continuation and in conclusion reassemble their original developing team to see the plot finished to the remnant . The restored 8 - bit graphics make a blast from the yesteryear , seeing the Game Boy Advanced epoch port right onto the modern Switch . It ’s quite rad , to say the least .
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The timeline of game releases alone suggests Shantae pip fad classic condition in the 2010s and beyond . Even then , Advanced Risky Revolution is correct where it would be in the timeline if it had been released chronologically . Why did the developers move on to other subsequence and not revive the original sequel back in 2009 ?
Reviving a sequel
My guess is Shantae Advanced Risky Revolution was n’t profitable back then . The geological era of the Game Boy Advanced was over and the Wii was still all the rage . I feel old just typing that . The prison term period likely demanded something new and new to push Shantae back into the spotlight and mental testing if the original had leave enough impact on the great unwashed for subsequence . Perhaps the squad could n’t reassemble before now to eat up the original sequel , or it was a matter of console restriction .
Perhaps now the GBA is nostalgic enough to give it the unintended coat of shiny rouge to be revived . Imagine scrapping your plot for so long that it became nostalgic and retro when you finally got to end it .
Yet this testify us sometimes perseverance , interest , opportunity , and Bob Hope hold , allow a miracle of biz growing to come back from the burial ground . In a landscape that is littered with unfinished , unrealized , and dispute ideas that just ca n’t make it , I ’m happy to see one come back , however it managed to do so . How will it sense to play over twenty year later ?
