@Geary You must be fun at parties.

She doesn't look anything like a belly dancer, outside of the clear and lazy attempt to make her look like one. Way Forward doesn't have to butcher other people's cultures when making their shitty games.

So if in your opinion she doesn't look nothing like a belly dancer and the game setting is not in any real place that ever existed why do you care about a magical dance that transforms the main character of a game into different creatures? Now go watch Robogeisha and complain about it.

...Belly dancers still exist in Islamic and Hindu countries. They're a cultural tradition comparable to the Japanese Tea Ceremony, and fetishizing it for the consumption of western audiences is gross and disrespectful.

Cont.

2. It is a fantasy game. Do you complain about Final Fantasy Tactics costumes not looking like European middle age costumes? They are all set in fictional lands with some traits similar to real ones.

@Geary the pre Islam arab is not the same culture as the modern arabs the same way the Vikings are not the same culture as the people who live there now.

1. Shantae's dancer costume looks like an stylized version of the costumes you find on google and wikipedia.

@T You realize Arabian cultures still exist, right? And this looks nothing remotely resembling what modern, authentic belly-dancers wear.

@Geary looks close enough for a fantasy land with monsters magic and tanks. At least people who are not experts on ancient cultures can get everything right and it looks to be based on stuff you see them using when you see belly dance contests.

@T: That's somehow even worse and even less accurate.

@Geary you know that she have a "dancer costume" right? http://shantae.wikia.com/wiki/File:Dancer_Shantae.png

@AUS_Grizzly: Risky chewing something in panel 3 and panel 4 having a large, pink, spherical objecting protruding in from the edge of the screen communicated things effectively enough.

The bubble appearing earlier would have given away the punchline and lessened its impact.

@T: Something that doesn't look like the artist took one look at the costumes in Disney's Aladdin and assumed they then knew all there is to know about Arabian culture?

Geary, she is a half-genie, what a half genie is supposed to wear?

It's always bothered me that Shantae doesn't vaguely resemble a belly-dancer, despite that being what she's allegedly modeled after. Risky's outfit just sorta makes it more obvious that Way Forward are creatively bankrupt.

Ok, if I have to go to Comment Section to find out the punchline's meaning, the joke wasn't fully explained to me. T_T If anything Panel two should have had her 'Starting' to blow the bubble cause the final panel really doesn't explain much...

Risky's secret weapon, earrings that make her have bubblegum. Seriously, she puts on Earrings to chew bubblegum?

@Narf You should check Umihara Kawase, it is pure grappling hook bliss! http://youtu.be/ZhlBOFwxAX0

It is one of those games that are hard but so nice that even losing repeatedly isn't enough to make you mad.

Would be easier to understand if she'd blow a bubble.

@T: Considering how much fun I had with the grappling hook in Just Cause 2 that can only turn out awesomely.

i.. dont get it...
oh wait now i get it!

What if bubblegum actually works like a power-up? The hair becomes sticky allowing her to use it as a grappling hook!

Mad Max is one of the best action movies I've ever watched. It even got me hyped for the game, with might or might't e a good thing... XD

To be fair... having gum on hair is pretty horrid in any way.

Thanks guys, it's pretty funny once you understand it :)

@Sir Phil: Shantae's main weapon is her prehensile hair.

@Sir Phil: Pirate-girl blows bubblegum bubble to counter Hairy-girl's hair.
Gum sticks to hair real bad.

I don't get the joke :(

bubblegum > hair