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Here is yet another game that they're giving away for free, for whatever reason. (Assuming you can actually access the GOG.com site at the moment, of course, which I cannot at this particular moment as I type this, even though I was able to just a few minutes ago, when I claimed my own free copy.)
I played this one already, via Steam, along with Risky's Revenge (the prequel to Pirate's Curse) and Half-Genie Hero (the sequel to Pirate's Curse). They're pretty cool Metroidvania-ish type of games, i.e platformers that requires you to get various power-ups in order to access difficult-to-reach and/or hidden areas. They tend to be more level-based, rather than a single, continuous world like more traditional Metroidvania-style games are, though, but you'll still require the power-ups gained in one level (or in the hub area) in order to go back and access areas in earlier levels that you couldn't get to before. I guess that still counts as Metroidvania? *shrug*
I've never played the original Game Boy Color game (either legitimately or via emulation, at least not yet, though if I ever do play it, it will almost assuredly be via the latter option, outside of the unlikely event that it ever becomes available on Steam or wherever ¬_¬) in this series, nor have I yet bought and played the most recent Seven Sirens, but I can definitely recommend the others. It's not really necessary to have played the earlier games to enjoy the later games, though there are some plot points from earlier games that will be discussed/spoiled in the later games, such as the reason why Shantae doesn't have her genie powers in Pirate's Curse (hint: it's because of the events of Risky's Revenge). That said, the vast majority of the games is plotless, as it's mostly just Shantae running around doing platforming Metroidvania-y stuff.
Also, all of this is yet another case of "I thought for sure that I had already posted about this stuff, but apparently I didn't, because I couldn't find any previous posts that I thought I'd made but apparently never did, so oh well."
I played this one already, via Steam, along with Risky's Revenge (the prequel to Pirate's Curse) and Half-Genie Hero (the sequel to Pirate's Curse). They're pretty cool Metroidvania-ish type of games, i.e platformers that requires you to get various power-ups in order to access difficult-to-reach and/or hidden areas. They tend to be more level-based, rather than a single, continuous world like more traditional Metroidvania-style games are, though, but you'll still require the power-ups gained in one level (or in the hub area) in order to go back and access areas in earlier levels that you couldn't get to before. I guess that still counts as Metroidvania? *shrug*
I've never played the original Game Boy Color game (either legitimately or via emulation, at least not yet, though if I ever do play it, it will almost assuredly be via the latter option, outside of the unlikely event that it ever becomes available on Steam or wherever ¬_¬) in this series, nor have I yet bought and played the most recent Seven Sirens, but I can definitely recommend the others. It's not really necessary to have played the earlier games to enjoy the later games, though there are some plot points from earlier games that will be discussed/spoiled in the later games, such as the reason why Shantae doesn't have her genie powers in Pirate's Curse (hint: it's because of the events of Risky's Revenge). That said, the vast majority of the games is plotless, as it's mostly just Shantae running around doing platforming Metroidvania-y stuff.
Also, all of this is yet another case of "I thought for sure that I had already posted about this stuff, but apparently I didn't, because I couldn't find any previous posts that I thought I'd made but apparently never did, so oh well."
