I love how the dialogue before this fight makes a big deal about how your transformations are gone and you'll have to rely solely on your items, despite the fact that using transformations in boss battles is never a remotely viable strategy in these games anyway lmao
On my first run of the game I got stuck on Squid Baron because I wasn't used to his attack patterns and I didn't have the Pike Ball. So I used the Monkey transformtion to stall and jumped down to hit him inbetween attacks.
That's not true, at least not for the first game. Iirc the bosses in the GBC game are best taken out with the most recent transformations you've received relative to them. And if we're looking at Seven Sirens, the transformations are as instantaneous as Pirate's Curse's pirate gear, so no reason they'd be anything short of useful. And on top of all that, I've gotten some use out of the transformations in Half-Genie Hero while playing on Hardcore mode. Only occasionally, but still worth mentioning
If there’s one thing I absolutely love about boss types in a video game, is having them make the player put up against yourself in 1v1 final confrontation (which is honestly a huge given with the lack of bosses in this game). But what I like about it here is having them use the transformations and abilities that you have been using throughout your Journey, utilize them differently in a way of what was once used as a means of puzzle solving and progression, now turned into full on attacks being used against you making you feel inferior by comparison (well…that’s how I felt at least). Which is why I absolutely love Nega Shantae for that! Oh yeah and ofc this final boss theme is kick ass.
The fact that Nega Shantae spams her transformations on you throughout the whole final boss fight makes her the hardest final boss in the whole Shantae Series!!!!!
*Shantae:* I found you, faker! *Nega Shantae:* Faker? I think you're a fake genie around here. You're comparing yourself to me...? Ha! You're not even good enough to be my....... *Shantae:* I'll make you eat those words!!!!!!
The limitations of the DS and GBA soundchips and the music made for them make me think that this would translate to actual instruments in away that'd make it sound even better. For example, 0:26-1:00 (the little portion at 0:46 especially) and its extremely-fast ascending/descending sequences of beeps sound like they'd translate into one of the most ridiculously-amazing electric guitar parts ever put to a video game soundtrack. Like the lovechild of Baby Bowser's theme from Yoshi's Island and the Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance soundtrack, in terms of crazy-awesome wailing electric guitars. I really want to see how insane and adrenaline-pumping this would be on actual instruments, or at least on MIDI/orchestrator software that could get convincingly-close to the real thing. Something tells me it'd be "melt your eyeballs into your skull" levels of intense.
you might know everything I'm going to do, but that's not going to help you since I know everything you're going to do. Strange, isn't it? GRRRRRRRRRRRRRR!!!!!!!!
Pirate master no damage I can agree. With damage wasn't bad. I can mash a button pretty good so I still never seen his first form laser attack personally.
I slightly disagree. The Pirate Master does have attacks that seem unfair at first, but are actually just knowledge checks. If you know where the safe spots are then the boss fight becomes trivial in my opinion. In Risky's Revenge there's no way to buff your damage outside of Magic which is a limited resource, Nega Shantae uses very fast attacks that are genuinely unfair without practice and she runs across the screen creating little downtime for you to actually get some good strikes in forcing you to respect her. Nega Shantae tests your reactions while the Pirate Master tests your execution. Both are still a test of skill.
@@ApocalypseForeseerto be fair, it's the PSN trophy / Achievements that make it hard. Without it, you can spam potions and trivialize all final boss fights
After the fight. Uncle Mimic : Even if you lost your genie half... As long as your heart is your own, you are Shantae. The one and only, Shantae... Shantae : Uncle... Thank you. *walks away* Uncle Mimic : Shantae ! Shantae : It's just me... I am... ...Shantae.
Probably the only thing that annoyed me (not very much, FYI) about the Nega Shantae boss fight is her arrogance. Sure, she can spam all the transformation dances, but the real Shantae can easily defeat her with the hair whip. Nega Shantae never uses her hair as a weapon, and that ultimately costs her.
