Shantae and the Seven Sirens

Shantae and the Seven Sirens
Developer: WayForward Technologies Publisher: WayForward Technologies Platforms: iOS, Mac OS X Released internationally: September 19, 2019 (iOS), October 7, 2019 (Mac OS X), May 28, 2020 (PC, Xbox One, PS4, Switch) This game has unused graphics. This game has unused cinematics.

This article is a work in progress. ...Well, all the articles here are, in a way. But this one moreso, and the article may contain incomplete information and editor's notes.

To do: The files for Part 1 are no longer accessible, so we can't get any more unused stuff from them. Someone find someone who turned off auto-updates and never played part 2 so we can get a dump.

The dancing genie's HD adventure continues! ... but does an apple a day keep the backers away?

Unused Graphics

The overall art style is reused from Shantae: Half-Genie Hero but the character portraits were redrawn and don't necessarily reflect the proportions of the in-game sprites anymore, instead having them not match like in Shantae: Risky's Revenge.

Several unfinished portraits are left in the game's data, and were eventually colored in for the game's release on home consoles on May 28, 2020.

Risky Boots Portraits (portrait_risky.pak)

Rottytops Portraits (portrait_rottytops.pak)

All of these were originally unused prior to the game's console release on May 28, 2020, implying that Rotty used her HGH portraits as placeholders until her SS ones were completed in March 2020.

Shantae Portraits (portrait_shantae.pak)

Sky Portraits (portrait_sky.pak)

To do: Character portraits leftovers from Half-Genie Hero

Unused Cutscenes

Vera Cutscene

To do: Add the unused Vera art from David Liu's Twitter account

On June 28, 2020, artist David Liu shared three of his works from some of the cutscenes for the game. Two of these are screenshots respectively are from Coral Siren's cutscene and the ending, but they seem to be earlier versions; the former seems to lack Coral's giant belt (likely implying that the animator added it last minute), while the latter has Sky's head look thicker, Rottytops' eyes look slightly narrow and both of them plus Shantae have much more shading. However, out of these three, the most mysterious is the unused artwork of Half-Genie Vera posing. This is likely from a cut cinematic.

Unused Shops

To do: The shops data has entries for five shops, only three of which exist in the final game. Document the Underwater and Haunted shops and their inventories.