Shantae: Half-Genie Hero - Pirate Queen's Quest is an adventure developed by WayForward Technologies, released 29 August 2017 on Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, PlayStation Vita and Wii U.
What Shantae: Half-Genie Hero - Pirate Queen's Quest is
Shantae: Half-Genie Hero - Pirate Queen's Quest is an adventure game developed by WayForward Technologies and released in 2017. It is available on Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, PlayStation Vita, Wii U, Xbox One and PC (Microsoft Windows).
The premise, in the publisher's words
"Raise anchor and set sail for a total re-imagining of the base game’s play style, theme, and storyline. You’ve played the genie-half, now experience the other side of the story! As the villainous pirate Risky Boots, you quest is to travel Sequin Land in search of the components needed to conquer Sequin Land and defeat the Half-Genie brat!"
How it plays
It is played from a side view perspective. Its themes are action. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.
How it was received
Shantae: Half-Genie Hero - Pirate Queen's Quest holds a critic score of 60 out of 100. That places it above 15% of the 7,530 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2017 averaged 71, so it scored 11 points below the year average.
What it launched against
Shantae: Half-Genie Hero - Pirate Queen's Quest launched on 29 August 2017, within three weeks of Destiny 2, Divinity: Original Sin 2, Divinity: Original Sin II and Uncharted: The Lost Legacy. All of them reviewed better. It arrived 4 years into the PlayStation 4's life, so it was built for hardware developers already knew well.
Released around the same time: Destiny 2, Divinity: Original Sin 2, Divinity: Original Sin II, Uncharted: The Lost Legacy.
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