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Shantae: Risky's Revenge - Director's Cut coming to PC next week

WayForward is re-visiting the second game in the Shantae series with Shantae: Risky's Revenge - Director's Cut, revealing a PC version that will hit Steam next week.

Ozzie Mejia

July 9, 2014 3:00 PM

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Developer WayForward has been known for digging into gaming's past with games like DuckTales Remastered and Contra 4. But now the studio is about to dig into its own past by re-visiting Shantae: Risky's Revenge. The second installment of the Shantae series is set to hit Steam next week with Shantae: Risky's Revenge - Director's Cut.

Wayforward made the announcement on their Twitter account yesterday, but added no other details in terms of features. Since then, the developer has slowly begun to divulge some of what the Director's Cut will contain, adding another tweet that reveals a special Magic Mode. Magic Mode will give Shantae a wardrobe change that cuts her magic consumption in half, but has her take double damage, adding to the game's challenge.

Risky's Revenge is the sequel to the original Shantae, which was released on Game Boy Color. The second game in the series was released in 2010 as downloadable title for the Nintendo DS and later released on iOS.

There is no active Steam listing at this time for Shantae: Risky's Revenge - Director's Cut, but it will release on July 15 for $9.99.

Ozzie Mejia

Senior Editor

Ozzie has been playing video games since picking up his first NES controller at age 5. He has been into games ever since, only briefly stepping away during his college years. But he was pulled back in after spending years in QA circles for both THQ and Activision, mostly spending time helping to push forward the Guitar Hero series at its peak. Ozzie has become a big fan of platformers, puzzle games, shooters, and RPGs, just to name a few genres, but he’s also a huge sucker for anything with a good, compelling narrative behind it. Because what are video games if you can't enjoy a good story with a fresh Cherry Coke?