Blog:Shantae and the Pirate's Curse (Game.com)

mh:awesomegames:Shantae and the Pirate's Curse is a platform game developed and published by mh:awesomegames:WayForward Technologies. Aside from mh:awesomegames:Nintendo 3DS, Wii U, mh:awesomegames:Microsoft Windows, Amazon Fire TV, mh:awesomegames:Xbox One, mh:awesomegames:PlayStation 4, and mh:awesomegames:Nintendo Switch releases from 2014 - 2016, the game also received a Game.com port. This version is inferior to the other versions of the game, and is the topic of this page.

Why It's Cursed

 * 1) Extremely low framerate.
 * 2) The game has also a horrible screen crunch. Most of the time you are unable to see something above you, making you lose hearts or a life.
 * 3) Shantae moves very slowly.
 * 4) The portrait sprites look terrible when cut down for the Game.com.
 * 5) The Pirate Gear (Especially Risky's Hat) can be irritating to use with the lack of buttons.
 * 6) There are very few pieces of music in the game and they are ear-bleedingly bad, as expected from other Game.com games. They also play at the wrong levels.
 * 7) Terrible sound effects that, just like the music, are also ear-bleeding and very loud.

Redeeming Qualities

 * 1) Apart from a few secrets, The game is in it's entirety, all the Islands are here, and the story is unchanged.
 * 2) The graphics look decent.

Reception
The game has been panned by critics, with some of them declaring it to the worse version of Shantae and the Pirate's Curse.