The Challenge Of Releasing A Shantae GBA Game 22 Years Late
We don’t know when the next Shantae game will be announced, but we do know one nobody’s seen before is coming out. There was a long wait between the release of the original Game Boy Color game and the first sequel, and that’s because no market existed yet for a small company to release an independent creation on a modern console or handheld. What would’ve been Shantae: Risky Revolution for the Game Boy Advance initially depended on a major publisher agreeing to eat the physical production costs in hopes of sharing the profit. But due to the low sales of the original Shantae, no one was biting, and the GBA Shantae had to be scrapped mid-development. It’s only now, when the half-genie has a fervent fanbase AND Wayforward can publish games on their own, that they can think about pulling this lost chapter out of storage. Shantae Advance really is coming out, though depending which way you want to play it, you might have to wait longer. The physical GBA