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Just a bad hair day.



<span class="bold">Shantae and the Pirate's Curse</span>, the cheeky platformer/metroidvania where the purple-haired genie gets rubbed the wrong way, is available now for Windows, DRM-free on GOG.com with a 50% launch discount.

Shantae is not having the best of days. She has lost her genie powers and her blissful bubble bath just got rudely interrupted. Oh and it seems like she'll also have to join forces with her arch-nemesis, the feisty pirate mistress Risky Boots, in order to save the land from an evil curse. Great, just great. At least she still has her audacious belly-dancing moves and her lethally fabulous coif to help her get through the day. And eliminate the man-eating beasties.

But being a pirate turns out to also have some cool advantages, as Shantae can now use more than her hair-whips to dispose of enemies and traverse the treacherous levels. All these new weapons and moves will soon come in handy, because the place is teeming with monsters, traps, and bosses who didn't get the memo about the overconsumption of carbs. There is also a diverse cast of colourful characters to interact with, and among the frenetic platforming and the relentless fighting, Shantae is determined to have a good time, while saving the land and getting back her mojo. Even if that requires an uneasy alliance with, like, the most untrustworthy pirate ever.



Wipe out pesky monsters and scary bosses with your hair-whips, and rebottle your missing magic powers in <span class="bold">Shantae and the Pirate's Curse</span>, DRM-free on GOG.com. The 50% discount will last until March 4, 10:59 AM GMT.
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NuffCatnip: I wish the game wouldn´t have that 50% discount...I´d still have my 10€. :P

I´ve bought far too omany games in the last 3 weeks. xD
"Ooooh, only 15 bucks and there, only 30 instead of 80... " Thats been me for quite some time now. :`)
All of us gamers think the same way. You are not alone... ( ゚▽゚)/
So, as dtgreene hasn't got his question answered yet (at least not visibly), I'll repeat it:

Does this game work in Wine?
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Maighstir: So, as dtgreene hasn't got his question answered yet (at least not visibly), I'll repeat it:

Does this game work in Wine?
I haven't had a chance to test it with WINE myself since WINE and Ubuntu 15.10 do not mix easily.

I swear I had less issues with WIne on Mint save for deprecated dev-libs...
This is a nice change of pace. Shantae and the Pirate's Curse is legitimately one of the best games in this genre. It is awesome.
So how does this game compare to Risky's Revenge?
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joppo: Shantae! I loved the first game, will definitely grab this one too sooner rather than later.

Wishlisted in wait for a decent US$ <-> BRL conversion rate :-(

So many great games lately... Congrats GOG
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deonast: I must be lucky on GOG the conversion rate if going by the steam prices is true is good here for me. Aud $11.49 for the game on half price. Steam half price would be US $9.99 and the Australian conversion rate via paypal works out around AUD $14.39 . So I do much better to be here on GOG.
I'm glad it works out for you and therefore all the australian people. Whatever can attract steamers to abandon steam and join GOG is always a good thing IMO.

Steam does very compelling regional pricing for Brazil tho. If it wasn't tied to that lame-ass DRM it could be my choice of store and platform. Still, when it comes to how GOG's regional pricing directly affects me I can't really complain. I still get the game much cheaper than people in the US do. (It's the conversion rate that kills the deal and that's beyond GOG's control)

Now if only the brazilian government's combined brains had two brain cells to rub together our economy could be in a decent state and I'd probably get the game right away. But I digress...
Oh well, not a problem. I'm a patient guy with a backlog large enough to keep me busy for years after all. :-)
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IronArcturus: So how does this game compare to Risky's Revenge?
RR is closer to a classic metroidvania, with you constantly going back and forth between areas of the map and unlocking new paths as you get new abilities.

PC has a bunch of different islands (maps) that you access by boat, they unlock by beating the boss of the previous island. You still need to revisit earlier islands and use new abilities gained to progress. Due to story events Shantae doesn't have her magic for this game and instead has to rely on pirate equipment she finds to gain abilities.

Overall, I like Pirate's Curse more than Risky's Revenge.

As a minor bonus, the artist made OST for both games available for free:
http://virt.bandcamp.com/album/shantae-riskys-revenge-original-soundtrack
http://virt.bandcamp.com/album/shantae-and-the-pirates-curse-ost

He's also the guy behind the Shovel Knight and Double Dragon Neon OSTs.
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joppo: Steam does very compelling regional pricing for Brazil tho.
I think I've seen one or two posts on Reddit about that too, Brazilians mentioning they'd buy more here if GOG had regional pricing for Brazil (or I guess "more competitive" regional pricing).
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joppo: Steam does very compelling regional pricing for Brazil tho.
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tfishell: I think I've seen one or two posts on Reddit about that too, Brazilians mentioning they'd buy more here if GOG had regional pricing for Brazil (or I guess "more competitive" regional pricing).
It's weird. Sometimes they do offer a lower price, sometimes we get the base price for games with regional pricing, and there's no way of knowing why a particular game got it and other did not. No clear logic behind it. Maybe it was the publisher's decision?

At least we never get a higher than base price so I'm okay with it.
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tfishell: I think I've seen one or two posts on Reddit about that too, Brazilians mentioning they'd buy more here if GOG had regional pricing for Brazil (or I guess "more competitive" regional pricing).
For that to happen, GOG would need to introduce support for the Brazilian currency (Real). Currently, GOG does a crude form of regional pricing for Brazil, where they just set a USD price lower than the USA one. Problem with this approach is that the price is still affected by currency fluctuation and with the Brazilian Real having been weakened quite a bit, the games' prices are significantly less attractive when compared to Steam.
Regional brazilian pricing and portuguese support is coming far sooner than you think :

https://www.gog.com/work#/marketing-product-manager-brazil
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Grargar: Brazilian Real having been weakened quite a bit
Quite a bit seems to much "nice guy-ish". Man, this currency is bad, not Zimbabwe bad, but bad.
BAD.

;(
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MacArthur: Regional brazilian pricing and portuguese support is coming far sooner than you think :

https://www.gog.com/work#/marketing-product-manager-brazil
I know nothing about modern day PR but heck I do know a lot about the brazilian pc market.. Good ol' MSX days, Brasoft Games, our classics, Steam, challenges, currency issues... the fact that 80%+ pc people game on laptops and translations are quite a big deal.
Some (people say) 2nd class voiceovers were not welcomed at all etc.
So, huge and untamed market out there but only for the brave. As Tom Jobim once said, I hereby quote: "Brazil is not for beginners".
Period.
Post edited February 29, 2016 by vicklemos
I really like the Shantae artstyle (and dem tiddees), so I changed my wallpaper:

http://vignette3.wikia.nocookie.net/steamtradingcards/images/c/cd/Shantae_and_the_Pirates_Curse_Artwork_02.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20150915233743

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tfishell: I think I've seen one or two posts on Reddit about that too, Brazilians mentioning they'd buy more here if GOG had regional pricing for Brazil (or I guess "more competitive" regional pricing).
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Grargar: For that to happen, GOG would need to introduce support for the Brazilian currency (Real). Currently, GOG does a crude form of regional pricing for Brazil, where they just set a USD price lower than the USA one. Problem with this approach is that the price is still affected by currency fluctuation and with the Brazilian Real having been weakened quite a bit, the games' prices are significantly less attractive when compared to Steam.
Thanks for the info, I'll try to remember that.

gibe moni plos

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PaterAlf: When you introduced regional pricing, you said you'll only have to do it for some selected AA+ games. Now (about two years later) almost every indie game that arrives here is regionally priced, while we are still waiting for the promised AA+ games.
I have similar feelings about this, but with my backlog I probably wouldn't buy any that came anyways (aside from FPSes like the first two Call of Dutys), so me pestering GOG about this could be misleading. We have gotten some good games b/c of this admittedly.
Post edited February 29, 2016 by tfishell
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WingedKagouti: RR is closer to a classic metroidvania, with you constantly going back and forth between areas of the map and unlocking new paths as you get new abilities.

PC has a bunch of different islands (maps) that you access by boat, they unlock by beating the boss of the previous island. You still need to revisit earlier islands and use new abilities gained to progress. Due to story events Shantae doesn't have her magic for this game and instead has to rely on pirate equipment she finds to gain abilities.

Overall, I like Pirate's Curse more than Risky's Revenge.

As a minor bonus, the artist made OST for both games available for free:
http://virt.bandcamp.com/album/shantae-riskys-revenge-original-soundtrack
http://virt.bandcamp.com/album/shantae-and-the-pirates-curse-ost

He's also the guy behind the Shovel Knight and Double Dragon Neon OSTs.
Interesting! Do you know if SatPC works with an Xbox 360 controller?
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tfishell: gibe moni plos
We're not all gibe moni plos in here, pal!!! :P
Been living here for the past 30 years and Brazil is a unique place. Amazing history, music, art, cuisine, people. So distinct. Things are all different in here. There's no comparison to any other latin american country and don't even start to compare its background to the US, China et al. Complete waste.

I personally dislike online gaming a lot. Compared to the pc gamers out there, I'm highly educated; heck, in here, in the Brie cheese of pc gaming while these gibe moni plox youtube kiddos are like expired baloney from previous xmas, so... ;D
Jokes aside, there are tons of, uh, gamers with nice taste in here. But they're not the majority, I gotta say. Taste is personal, mmkay. Whatever.

Steam (yup, steam) however brought a new chapter for my personal gaming log of gamers (yup), since it showcased a lot of sophisticated BR folks who love some nice games. That's splendid. So nice to see some huehuebrr dudes playing like Dominions IV, Alea Jacta Est, Sovereignty and some more well known gems (to me!) such as Edna & Harvey, Locoland, Patrician series and etc.
What's more puzzling is that none of these are popular in here and still people find out about them. Great to see that.

But our gaming past was somehow kinda glorious, you know? Tons of 1st world game cases with amazing art and manuals, nice prices for budget titles, Big N producing its cartridges in here, official products, lots of magazines.. way before this colossal political/economical/ethical crisis. Its has a lot to do with our change in lifestyle: the outdoors became scary, the indoors are safe and warm, so consoles (a LOT of consoles were a major hit in here) became a must.
Well that's enough. No gibe moni plos to ya. Think of - some- us as Outlive dudes ;D