This is such a dissapointing game. When I first finished playing through it, I had mixed feelings about it but in the end just wrote it off as being a "nice, chill game that doesn't try to do anything special". Over half a year later and the more I think about it the more I'm realising that I excused boring world exploration, weird design decisions and just a generally half-arsed game as "chill".

It's just bad. The overworld areas are bland and are all the same with just a different tile set applied to each one, the secret finding is annoying and the zelda dungeons aren't that great either. The character art still looks fantastic, the writing is nice and they made a good change to the movement transformations over Half-Genie Hero but the game itself is just a bore and nice character sprites and good music can only distract you from it for so long.

Maybe the reason why I turned so hard on this game is because this was my first Shantae game and I had no other real point of comparison. Then I played Half-Genie Hero afterwards and whilst that game also has its own problems, I was blown away at how it had actual interesting looking levels and set pieces that have unfortunately all been replaced by just a bad overworld map and boring dungeons in Seven Sirens.

Sad!