Shantae’s Cancelled GBA Game Is Back As Shantae Advance: Risky Revolution

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Wayforward and Limited Run Games have announced Shantae Advance: Risky Revolution, coming exclusively to the Game Boy Advance.

This Shantae game is the missing link between the original Shantae from 2002, and Shantae: Risky’s Revenge. As Wayforward lead developer Matt Bozon revealed in the Limited Run Games LRG3 event, fans who played the Shantae series would know that they got introduced to Shantae’s group of friends, including Rottytops, Sky, and Bolo.

Shantae Advance: Risky Revenge was the game that would introduce these characters properly. However, when WayForward shopped the game around different publishers, they couldn’t find the interest. It may seem crazy now, but at the time the first Shantae sold poorly, and so they couldn’t find the interest.

For those gamers who don’t remember this period, WayForward would then spend the next few years making many licensed games, as well as outsourcing work. Notable WayForward games that did get published on the Game Boy Advance include Sigma Star Saga, Tak: The Great Juju Challenge, and Justice League Heroes: The Flash.

Now, some fans reading this may wonder if Limited Run is making some kind of fake lost game, the same way Marvel Comics made a fake lost character in The Sentry. So, we will link here to the Fandom page about Shantae Advance as proof that this really was an old game that never got released, at least until now.

In Shantae Advance: Risky Revolution, pirate Risky Boots finds a new device which allows her to ‘rotate’ the world, allowing her to plunder parts of Shantae’s home she couldn’t access before. Shantae will eventually find a way to use Risky’s device against her, but the team at Wayforward have something even more special planned.

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