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The game’s story is actually much simpler than most Shantae games nowadays. Now Risky’s Revenge has been ported to Windows, PS4, WiiU and, finally, the Nintendo Switch, so you gotta think: this might be fantastic. That was a year that Ghost Trick, 999, Final Fantasy: 4 Heroes and freaking Golden Sun: Dark Dawn came out, and this DSiWare release beats them all. This game somehow got so much attention on such a tiny marketplace that it got ported to iOS a year later after the original DSi version won “Best DS Game” from IGN for 2010. Determined and bolstered by the cult status of their first game, WayForward created Risky’s Revenge on the highly awesome, but massively underappreciated DSi Store as a digital download only.

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After the original Shantae was released in 2002 on the Gameboy Color (which I’ll have to unpack THAT piece of information later), there was an eight year gap in which WayForward was finding their footing and parting ways with Capcom, who was busy trying to figure out how to make Street Fighter II sellable again. Risky’s Revenge is a particularly great piece of video game history due to helping showcase the sheer tenacity of the series and of WayForward. Well, if there’s a request, WayForward will make it happen, so players are now able to take a look at the fantastic series instalment from 2010, Shantae: Risky’s Revenge – Director’s Cut. Despite there being a whopping three different, modern and fantastically animated Shantae games currently on the Switch (including the newest Seven Sirens), fans have called not only for the older Shantae games to come to the Switch, but to come without being retouched in any way whatsoever.

They love the Shantae series, but apparently not as much as their fans. For WayForward, however, there’s a sort of benevolent disbelief that comes with their games. Not that they’re alone in this: Bethesda and Rockstar both appear hell bent on milking the exact same games upwards of fifty times before finally moving on to a new sequel.

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Sometimes, it’s justified: After all, Nintendo has shown they could easily bring some of their old titles to their new consoles with minimal effort, but they actively choose not to and dispense the games in very limited, slow fashions, sometimes as very unintuitive extra pieces of software and sometimes as very expensive modern versions of the same game. For some people, the concept of “ports” really seems to rile them up.