Shantae: Risky's Revenge - Director's Cut
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Shantae: Risky's Revenge - Director's Cut is an adventure developed by WayForward, released 15 July 2014 on PlayStation 5, Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4 and PlayStation Vita. The main story takes about 8.1 hrs to finish.
What Shantae: Risky's Revenge - Director's Cut is
Shantae: Risky's Revenge - Director's Cut is an adventure game developed by WayForward and released in 2014. It is available on PlayStation 5, Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, PlayStation Vita, Wii U, Xbox One, Google Stadia and PC (Microsoft Windows).
The premise, in the publisher's words
During the annual Relics Hunters Expo, Shantae and her friends watch her Uncle Mimic unveil his latest find: an ordinary-looking lamp encased in stone. As they wonder its purpose, Risky Boots and her pirates crash the expo and steal the lamp. Shantae battles her, but is knocked out, allowing Risky to escape. Blaming the half-genie for the town being in disarray and failing to do her job properly, Mayor Scuttlebutt fires her as Scuttle Town's Guardian. Despite no longer being a Guardian Genie, Shantae still decides to take responsibility to stop Risky Boots' newest plot. Mimic reveals to Shantae that three hidden magic seals are necessary to release the lamp's magic, and Shantae sets out to…
How it plays
It is played from a side view perspective. Its themes are action and fantasy. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. There are 26 achievements to unlock.
How it was received
Shantae: Risky's Revenge - Director's Cut holds a critic score of 78 out of 100. That places it above 59% of the 7,530 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2014 averaged 69, so it scored 9 points above the year average.
How long it takes, and what that costs
The main story runs about 8.1 hrs.
What you need to run it
The minimum specification calls for Intel™ Pentium 4 2.4 ghz with Hyper Threading, 1 GB RAM and NVIDIA® Geforce 9600GT, AMD® Radeon™ HD 3870 or higher (it must be able to manage Pixel Shader 3.0) with at least 512MB of display memory. At 1GB of RAM, it will run on essentially any working PC — that is below what a budget laptop ships with today. Install size is roughly 1GB. Both tiers are compared side by side on the requirements page, and you can check your own parts against them without installing anything.
What it launched against
Shantae: Risky's Revenge - Director's Cut launched on 15 July 2014, within three weeks of The Last of Us Remastered, Shovel Knight, Shovel Knight: Treasure Trove and Divinity: Original Sin. All of them reviewed better. It was a PlayStation 5 launch-window title.
Released around the same time: The Last of Us Remastered, Shovel Knight, Shovel Knight: Treasure Trove, Divinity: Original Sin.
Cheats and codes
We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for Shantae: Risky's Revenge - Director's Cut yet. Rather than reprint a list we have not tested, this section stays empty until one is verified.
Official trailer
Sourced from the publisher’s YouTube channel.
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