

WayForward Technologies · WayForward · Released 2014-02-05
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Shantae and the Pirate's Curse is an action platform game, the third installment in WayForward’s Shantae series. ###Plot The game follows the half-genie Shantae and takes place after an event of the Shantae: Risky’s Revenge. The main heroine abandons her genie powers and stars adjusting to the life of a regular human being. One day she comes across the previous game’s antagonist, a pirate named Risky Boots that tells her about evil and fearsome tyrant Pirate Master sealed long ago by genies wants to revive himself using Dark Magic. Now Shantae must form an unexpected alliance with her past rival to stop Pirate Master. ###Gameplay Regarding gameplay, Shantae and the Pirate’s Curse shares many similarities with previous games in the series. It is a 2D side-scroller that is not divided into several levels but rather takes place in one interconnected world. The game mostly consists of fighting enemies, solving puzzles, platforming sections, interacting with different NPC that can give you quests or sell useful items. Since Shantae abandoned her genie powers, in this game you do not use magic abilities, instead of throughout the game you collect different pirate items such as a pistol, a pirate hat, pirate boots, scimitar, and cannon. Each of them gives player new abilities that help in combat, puzzle solving or open previously closed areas of the game world.
| Minimum | Recommended | |
|---|---|---|
| OS | Windows®Vista™ or Windows®7 | Windows®7 or Windows®8 |
| CPU | Intel™ Pentium 4 2.4 ghz with Hyper Threading | Intel™ Core 2 Duo / AMD™ Athlon 64 X2 or higher |
| RAM | 1 GB RAM | 4 GB RAM |
| GPU | Intel® HD Graphics | NVIDIA® GeForce™ 200 series or higher, AMD® Radeon™ HD5000 series or higher (it must be able to manage Pixel Shader 3.0) with at least 512MB of display memory. |
| DirectX | Version 11 | Version 11 |
| Storage | 1 GB available space | 2 GB available space |
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Shantae and the Pirate's Curse is available on PC, PlayStation, Xbox and Nintendo.
Yes — Shantae and the Pirate's Curse is available on PlayStation.
Yes — Shantae and the Pirate's Curse is available on Xbox.
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Shantae and the Pirate's Curse was developed by WayForward Technologies and published by WayForward.
Shantae and the Pirate's Curse was released on 2014-02-05.
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Shantae and the Pirate's Curse takes approximately 6 hours to complete the main story.