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Ristar

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Post by Heroine of the Dragon » Thu May 11, 2023 4:52 am

Have you played Ristar?
What are your favourite levels?


Much like other games from the same timeframe, the game's story varied between the Japanese language release and its English language counterpart. In all versions of the game, the events take place in a far off galaxy, where an evil space pirate, Kaiser Greedy, has used mind control to make the planets' leaders obey him. In the Japanese version, the inhabitants of Planet Neer (Flora in the international version) pray for a hero before Greedy's mind control minion, Riho, snatches the planet elder. The desperate prayers reach the mother of shooting stars, Oruto. She awakens one of her children, Ristar, with the sole purpose of granting the wishes of the innocent people. He must stop Greedy and the brainwashed leaders of each world to restore peace to the Valdi System.

In the international version, Oruto is omitted altogether. Instead, Ristar has a father, the legendary hero, who is a shooting star that protects the constellation of Valjee. Rather than Oruto awakening Ristar, the legendary hero was kidnapped by Greedy, and it is up to Ristar to rescue his father as well. The Japanese version of the game ends with Greedy and two of his underlings, Inonis and Uranim, stranded on a deserted planet, with a picture of Ristar appearing in the space, while Greedy simply stares at it. The ending scene in the international version shows Ristar being reunited with his father once again.
-https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ristar



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Re: Ristar

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Post by I REALLY HATE POKEMON! » Thu May 11, 2023 8:12 am

Ristar is one of those "I want to like it" games, but the gimmicky gameplay doesn't feel good, and I never cared for the character design. Maybe I'll try it again at some point.

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Post by Shane » Thu May 11, 2023 9:59 pm

I heard this was supposed to be good, but I never heard of it back when the Genesis was out and never played it. I do own it on Steam and at least one disc collection.
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