[FE8] Shantaemblem: and the Divine Fragments [70+ Exclusive custom animations!]

Features
☆By Mek and Stephano☆

  • 14 main chapters with several hidden gaidens to discover and unlock.
  • 12 party members who will accompany you on your journey with several hidden and unlockable units.
  • Over 70+ Custom animations made exclusively for this hack! (Customs, Reskins, Ports) (Animations constantly being updated and improved)
  • A fully traversable semi-open world to explore and discover secrets.
  • Fully functioning side quests to unlock new equipment, chapters, transformation dances, and secrets
  • Over 8 brand new weapon types with unique properties, abilities, and stats in addition to vanilla weapons. Complete with a brand new weapon triangle!
  • Over 9 Transformation dances for Shantae to use to overcome challenges and obstacles, both in chapters and in the overworld.
  • A brand new story in the Shantae universe colliding with other familiar characters from WayForward’s™ other games.
  • Collectable items scattered across the overworld to find, collect, and turn in to receive special rewards that will help in each chapter.
  • Solve puzzles both simple and complex to progress through the story and receive items to help you on your journey.
  • Dozens of NPC’s to talk to and receive info and story beats. The dialogue of most NPC’s will update as you progress through the story, so be sure to go back and talk to them to see what they have to say.
  • Full support conversations with the entire cast so you can learn more about them and their relationships, or lack thereof with one another.
  • !NOTICE! Portraits are under going a major overhaul so any portraits seen are not reflective of the final product. If you would like to assist with this, let us know!

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Story

As the Guardian Genie of Scuttle Town, Shantae’s job is to protect the town from all things monstrous and evil. The villain that constantly terrorizes the town is the beautiful lady pirate, Risky Boots, Queen of the Seven Seas! Many times has Risky invaded the small fishing town, however, this time she is nowhere to be seen. Only her minions, the short statured tinkerbat pirates, are present. Shantae learns that her Uncle Mimic, a world renowned relic hunter, is missing! Did Risky Boots kidnap Shantae’s Uncle, what is she planning to do with him, or is there a bigger player in all this?! Join Shantae and several of her friends to save the town and Sequin Land from a much larger yet familiar threat!

Characters
Sequin Land and the Islands beyond host a cast of very unique characters. While the story and personality of some of the cast we want you to explore for yourself, Here are just a few of the characters you can expect to meet along the way!
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☆Click here to see a few more of the characters and their animations!☆

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There are plenty more than this. Checkout the FEE3 presentation to see all of them!

Transformations
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One of the unique features in the hack exclusive to our heroine is the ability to transform into various animals and creatures to overcome obstacles, solve puzzles, and help in battle. Do you need to slip through a crack in a wall to get to the other side quickly? Transform into a minuscule mouse! Do you need to traverse a body of water to dispatch hard to reach enemies? Transform into a beautiful mermaid!

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Each transformation comes with their own ups and downs to fit the situation at hand. When selecting Shantae, you will have an option to transform! Upon selecting Transform, Shantae will immediately transform into that creature, ditching her hair whipping abilities for one unique to that creature. Shantae will also be fully actionable after this and can fully transform again or revert back into a Half-Genie with no penalty.

As you progress through the story, you will unlock additional transformations to use! Transformations come in two types. There are the transformation’s available through the menu, and item transformations. I hear that a slithering serpent is the one you want to talk to for additional item transformations. These transformations can be accessed through the “Special Transformation” option.

Credits
There are a lot of things that I used or referenced to make this so I’ve done my best to compile everything I could. I know there are still things I have missed but will update this list as I see/remember things.

I want to say here that that everything I have made is F2E. I’ve used so much from other people that its only right to give back, so have at it. Although if you do end up using one of my animations, let me know. The dopamine hit is nice.

All the character art you have seen was done by my partner in crime in this project, Mek. If you like Shantae or just really amazing art, give him a follow!

Q+A

Questions + Answers

Q: Why make this?
A: I’ve been wanting to make a Shantae ROM hack for over 6-7 years. I started with a really bad reskin of a mage as a first attempt. After almost 2 years and a lot of learning later, I finally have something that I think is pretty good and I’m proud of it.

Q: Can I help or playtest?
A: YES! If you love Shantae (or are really bored) then we would love the help. Its hard to nail down exactly what we need. Anything from animations, to map sprites, to music, to coders would be helpful. We have a portrait overhaul planned but have not figured out the direction we want to go with them yet.

Q: 70+ Animations!?!
A: Yeah, its a bit excessive. None of the vanilla or community made animations would work so I had to take it in my own hands. Now many animations are reskins of community made animations to match the characters I’m going for, but there are many custom animations that I made from scratch. I think they are pretty neat.

Q: How exactly do you have an open world… in a Fire Emblem game?
A: While designing this, I wanted to keep as much of the Shantae spirit as possible, so having it be open world was a must. Between chapters, you can explore, run around, do side quests, find secret items, and go shopping! After completing a chapter, that map will be traversable, sometimes with new things added for you to discover.

Q: When can I play this?
A: Not for a while. After around 1.5 years of work, we are have 9/14 main chapters done. Granted, a lot of that time when into animations. There are also quite a few things that need polishing before I release it. If the polishing aspects get taken care of before all the chapters are finished, then I’ll release a demo. If you think you can help with polish, let us know.

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the amount of effort put into all these animation and cgs and art is INSANE. i like shantae a lot; i eagerly await the full release, or even just a demo <3

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Never played shantae, but I’ve noticed the awesome stuff you’ve submitted to the repo. Really looking forward to seeing what you’ve got cooking <3

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It’s just incredible how many creative people are here in FEU, so much effort, passion, in so many different ways! Shantae is a GBC classic, with a lot of fans out there.
We will wait patiently for the things to come!

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The level of polish and love poured into this hack is so apparent already, this is an easy contender for my most anticipated project. And I can’t wait to hear Shantae music in FE8!

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First Crosspost and First Update!

Well, I guess its more of a diary entry. When you work on something in silence for so long, in my case around 2 years, you aren’t really used to people giving you feedback and critiquing your work. I was kind of worried about what people would say but overall it was very positive.

I received some critique on a few specific animations by other folks, and for that I am very grateful. I hope that I can improve the work I’ve already done and create things that people really like. The first improvement I’ve made is to the eldest Half-Genie, Harmony!
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Now rocking a more vibrant color scheme, better hair and hair physics, and an additional animation to better fit the type of magic she uses, which is earth related magic.

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The earth magic won’t really work well on its own though as I had to modify the Stone and Elstone aniamtions to line up with her animation. It wasn’t easy. These animations, which were originally ported by Norikins are included with the animation.

You may also notice she is pretty tall. Well, that’s because she is.

As always, I appreciate support I have been given and look forward to sharing more stuff soon™!

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Man this looks soo sick. hopefully it’ll be finished soon. Love Shantae!

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The creativity it took for you to come up with this and the great animation work showcased really shows a lot of potential here. I don’t really have any technical or artistic skill at all but I’d love to playtest if you’re looking for help with that

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Now, when I say I don’t like porn, I mean I REALLY don’t like porn, but I have to say the gargantuan number of quality custom animations in this hack is mind-boggling. This team did real good.

Hi, thanks for the compliment. It’s been a ton of work, but it’s been fun to do.

I’m not sure what you’ve seen to indicate that these games are NSFW, but to help clarify, they are not. They are 2D metroidvanias getting their start on Nintendo consoles and are still available there.

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Alright, I’m not saying they’re NSFW, just that it’s not entirely my style. Have to clarify that, sorry if there were misconceptions.

I absolutely love this, and again must commend you & team on what looks to be an absolute masterpiece in the making :clap:

If I may be so bold, I think it would absolutely slap if you went all in with the purple/red/yellow motif wherever possible. Example of Battle Screen and Unit Selection Palette 1 and 2 below:

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oh woah as a fan of fe and shantae this is peak
I wonder is there an explanation as to why wrench is huge in this?