History VideoGame / ShantaeAndTheSevenSirens

** Cacti drop Roasted Pineapples.

* HeKnowsAboutTimedHits: The pigtail-ed girl at the left most of Arena Town says that Shantae can use the Dance Button to suck up loot from a distance:

** Poke Bowls come from Jumping Frogs or Bats.

* HealingSpring: The bathhouses in towns, which cause Shantae to [[RegeneratingHealth restore her health to full, over a few seconds]] when she enters the water.

** Spiders may drop Pulled Pork Sandwiches.

* AirDashing: The point of the Dash Newt transformation beyond WallClimb. It actually can't dash on land.

** Crabs and the minibosses of Water Lily's Den may drop Golden Crabs. The first miniboss may be guaranteed to drop a Golden Crab.

** The Attract relic creates, and its upgrades extend, a proximity where loot will automatically move to Shantae.

** Jumping Frogs may drop Poke Bowls.

* RandomDrop: Enemies randomly drop gems, life restoration {{Heart Symbol}}s, or mana restoration, and their Monster Cards, and may even drop a consumable item and a Monster Card at the same time. For consumable drops:
** Canned Tuna may be dropped by Crabs, Muckmen, or Ceiling Bugs.
** Slime Wizes may drop Canned Tuna or Salmon.
** Jumping Frogs may drop Poke Bowls.

* RandomDrop: Enemies randomly drop gems, life restoration {{Heart Symbol}}s, or mana restoration, and their Monster Cards, but for non-obvious drops:
** Crabs may drop Canned Tuna.

** Muckmen drop Canned Tuna.
* SaveTheVillain: [[spoiler: After defeating the Empress Siren, Shantae stays aboard the now-crashing airship to rescue Risky while the other half-genies (and Rottytops) escape. She succeeds, and much to Sky's chagrin, the Pirate Queen lives to see another day, if only to retreat in a particularly humiliating way.]]

* SpidersAreScary: The spider-like enemies that shoot {{Energy Ball}}s at Shantae, are not regular spiders, but Spider Monsters.

* TimedMission: The Squid Pit, at the bottom of the Sunken City. To get to the Squid Pit, Shantae had to [[spoiler: reactivate the ship,]] and because of the fact all the energy is being centralized to the Squid Pit, the entire Sunken City is at risk of getting blown sky-high. Shantae needs to spread the energy through the entire city, but needs to also activate the button in the Squid Pit that will let her do so. Problem is, it's out of power, requiring Shantae to restore power down eight hallways each crawling with enemies. She has a little under six minutes to do so, as Sky and Bolo are trying to slow down the energy on their end. She can get clocks that give her more time at the end of each hallway, but you're likely to cut it somewhat close due to the prevalence of enemies that can only be damaged ''after'' avoiding their attacks in this area.

* RandomDrop: Enemies randomly drop items or gems, and their Monster Cards, but for non-obvious drops:

* HeartsAreHealth: Shantae's LifeMeter is formed of {{Heart Symbol}}s.

* HealingSpring: The bathhouses in towns, which heal Shantae when she enters the water.

* RandomDrop: Enemies randomly drop items or gems, and their Monster Cards.
** Crabs may drop Canned Tuna
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* LotsOfLuggage: From the movie when starting a new game, after Shantae reveals that they're only on Paradise Island for a week, Bolo says that they bought enough luggage for a month. Shantae says its to supply a festival, while Mimic says he bought some unfinished projects. When the luggage is seen, it's a triangular pile that's at least three times as tall as any character.

* NonMaliciousMonster: The Water Lily Siren doesn't appear to be hostile, unlike the other sirens. In fact, she doesn't even seem to be aware of Shantae's presence and is a threat only because moving around causes her to send out dangerous spiked roots and seeds that grow into aggressive plant creatures. [[AvertedTrope Averted]] in the game's "Definitive Mode", where her new pre-battle banter has her threaten to ''eat'' Shantae.

* AbsenteeActor:
** Out of all the barons, Squid Baron is the only one to come back in here, although Ammo Baron is mentioned through dialogue with his brother Armor Baron.
** Mayor Scuttlebutt also sits this game out. Of course, since this game's not set in Scuttle Town for once, it's a JustifiedTrope.

* PaperThinDisguise: The half-genie named "Filin The Blank" is [[spoiler:a dead ringer for Rottytops, down to having the same design, and that her disguise isn't even in the visual with the other half-genies.]] Shantae realizes this when she finds out the name she [[spoiler:gave to Harmony was 'Ima Goodgirl'. So a lying, attention-starved, cosplaying troublemaker. Shantae figures out that this could only be Rottytops.]]

* PuzzleBoss: The Octo Siren's boss fight consists of Shantae having to figure out the correct pattern to strike the six brains to make the Octopus Siren vulnerable, rather than a more traditional boss fight that would involve dodging different attacks until she enters a vulnerable state. Luckily, the Seer Dance makes this pattern obvious.

* RevisitingTheRoots: In addition to the game being fully in 2D ([[TwoAndAHalfD compared to ''Half-Genie Hero'' being halfway]]), it brings back the pure {{Metroidvania}} structure of the first game.

** Skye insists that she's on vacation and therefore not going to do anything even as the situation continues to deteriorate, much to Shantae's annoyance. Shantae eventually calls her out on this.

* SuperMovePortraitAttack: Each time Shantae uses one of the fusion dances, we see a cut-in, not of Shantae herself, but of the genie whose power she’s using. Plink’s mother is dark-haired and has a serious expression, much in contrast to her daughter; Vera’s mother is a [[PlantPeople Plant Person]]; Zapple’s mother has a cobra-like hood that leads into a long tail; and Harmony’s mother weilds a giant hammer.

* InevitableMutualBetrayal: Both Risky and [[spoiler:The Empress Siren]] planned to betray each other from the start. The latter turned on the former without knowing [[spoiler:the former had poisoned her]].
* GambitRoulette: While Risky's plan this game mostly falls under XanatosGambit, one part fall under this. Namely, [[spoiler: Rottytops being in disguise as a Half-Genie. Risky herself states at the end that she wanted to keep Shantae around so that she could defeat the Empress Siren should she stab Risky in the back... However, if Rottytops hadn't been there, Shantae would have been taken. Hence, it was purely dumb luck that Rottytops did what she did. It's possible that Risky intended to only give the Empress Siren 4 half-genies (as she had convinced her that Shantae's magic was tainted), but that would not have fulfilled their bargain as it was described.]]

* GambitRoulette: While Risky's plan this game mostly falls under XanatosGambit, one part fall under this. Namely, [[spoiler: Rottytops being in disguise as a Half-Genie. Risky herself states at the end that she wanted to keep Shantae around so that she could defeat the Empress Siren should she stab Risky in the back... However, if Rottytops hadn't been there, Shantae would have been taken. Hence, it was purely dumb luck that Rottytops did what she did. It’s possible that Risky intended to only give the Empress Siren 4 half-genies (as she had convinced her that Shantae’s magic was tainted), but that would not have fulfilled their bargain as it was described.]]

* {{Irony}}: [[spoiler: Risky tricked the Empress Siren into believing that Shantae was a dud half genie, which resulted in her not getting captured. Not only is Shantae very much a real genie, one of the half genies that the Empress Siren did take was actually Rottytops, who ''was'' a dud.]]

The game was released in two installments. Part 1 released for [[UsefulNotes/IOSGames Apple Arcade]] and UsefulNotes/MacOS in Fall 2019, with Part 2 released in March 2020; the full version of the game released for UsefulNotes/PlayStation4, UsefulNotes/XboxOne, UsefulNotes/NintendoSwitch, and PC in May 2020. The game also received a free update in Novermber 2021 that reblanced the difficulty and added new game modes.

* NonMaliciousMonster: The Water Lily Siren doesn't appear to be hostile, unlike the other sirens. In fact, she doesn't even seem to be aware of Shantae's presence and is a threat only because moving around causes her to send out dangerous spiked roots and seeds that grow into aggressive plant creatures.

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