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Allright folks. We just got shipment of these in today and I'm wondering what's up with it. I thought it was some RPG for the GBA, but I'm looking at the back and it looks like a platformer of some time. And it also looks damned good. Has anyone heard anything about it? I'm suddenly seriously contemplating getting it now.
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Dude, I ranted about this forever :) .
Originally Legend of Starfi was a GBC game when Nintendo canned the 100% complete game and moved it to GBA. Everything I've heard about suggests Kirby style gameplay as your little starfish can use customes to get extra powers. Famsitu gave it 8,7,7,8 about the same score they gave Castlevania.
The only thing I don't know is how text heavy it is, there's a few shots I've seen wth a ton of text. Save me one Bbob, I'll order later today :) *-neo
Man I must have completely missed your rants. Well hell, if it's Kirbyish I may just have to get one then. We'll have one here for you also. :)Quote:
Originally posted by neoalphazero
Dude, I ranted about this forever :) .
Originally Legend of Starfi was a GBC game when Nintendo canned the 100% complete game and moved it to GBA. Everything I've heard about suggests Kirby style gameplay as your little starfish can use customes to get extra powers. Famsitu gave it 8,7,7,8 about the same score they gave Castlevania.
The only thing I don't know is how text heavy it is, there's a few shots I've seen wth a ton of text. Save me one Bbob, I'll order later today :) *-neo
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For your viewing pleasure, The Legend of Starfi Homepage:
http://www.nintendo.co.jp/n08/astj/index.html
*-neo
Ohhhh man, that looks so incredibly cute. Especially the stuff on this page: http://www.nintendo.co.jp/n08/astj/ride/index.html. The bear suit rules all. Well I'm sold now... I guess I'll be buying it tonight.
Hey, that looks pretty sweet!
I need some impressions on gameplay before I take the plunge though.
Well if I get through all my math homework tonight and have time, I'll try to get some impressions up.Quote:
Originally posted by Kidnemo
Hey, that looks pretty sweet!
I need some impressions on gameplay before I take the plunge though.
Great, thnx much!
OT: I ordered a copy of Ikaruga from you guys last night. I also included along with my order that the only reason I tried you guys this time was due to the repoire you have with the people on this board.
Just giving you the heads up so you can foward the postive comments onto your boss...(maybe it'll help next time raises come around!)
Yep, I saw that order today. But I'm not really out here for work purposes... although I do my share of plugging. I just enjoy the convo's. :) Now what is this raise concept you speak of? Does it have something to do with this odd break and vacation concept that has been spoken of before? ;)Quote:
Originally posted by Kidnemo
OT: I ordered a copy of Ikaruga from you guys last night. I also included along with my order that the only reason I tried you guys this time was due to the repoire you have with the people on this board.
Just giving you the heads up so you can foward the postive comments onto your boss...(maybe it'll help next time raises come around!)
Yea, I didn't think you were hear on behalf of vgd, but it doesn't change the fact that I only dealt with you guys this time because you post here. :)
mmm...vacation time....I have like 3 weeks to use before the end of the year!
Well I unfortunately haven't gotten a chance to try this yet, but I know that Neo should have his now... so where's the impressions?
I was just cheking out some of the Enemy art and the screens, and this game looks like a future classic. It just looks fantastic. I would also like some Impressions. Now all I need is a GBA.
I played it for two hours last night. At work right now so I'll have impressions up in a few hours.Quote:
Originally posted by bbobb
Well I unfortunately haven't gotten a chance to try this yet, but I know that Neo should have his now... so where's the impressions?
It's looking quite good though... *-neo
So I should buy it then?
Not the most complete impressions but I'll give this a shot.
Starfi is a platformer with some adventure elements here and there. The game puts you in cavernous levels and often requires you to find a character and give/recieve a item from them. For instance in one level you have these little animals frozen in ice crystals, you run across some monkeys in what was a hot spring after talking to them you open a door to a area where you rekindle several fires to warm the spring and melt the animals out of ice. There's a lot of text but everything is laid out in a straightforward manner, you see the items you recieve from a character and solutions to problems are fairly easy to see. The game's levels are expansive and provide alot of platforming. There's a boss at the end of each level.
Starfi controls very well. A good deal of the game takes place in water and Starfi swims in any direction with ease instead of the usual platforming gimmick of tapping a button to swim. His method of attack is a spin that later becomes a tornado that can shoot him in a given direction rebounding off walls and the like. On land, Starfi can do the usual running, jumping, his attacks, and he can glide in the air. I'm not sure if there's more to learn yet as there's some parts of the levels blocked by rocks I can't break with my attacks.
Graphics and music are quite good, the game reminds me of Kirby or one of Westone's titles. Everything is drawn nicely and there's plenty of variety within each level.
One thing I don't know is length. Looking in the manual there's a screenshot of a world map but I haven't seen this in the game yet. In fact so far I'm unable to go back to previous levels and within levels there's areas I can't access or at least haven't figured it out. I'm hoping the game branches out at some point and let's you go back to prior levels. Certain areas have outlines of special items you can use like the Bear suit Bbob linked to, but again I haven't gained the ablity or simply do not know how to access these parts.
Good game, if you enjoy platformers it's very well-made and actually sports a challenge. And outside of a blurb in EGM when this game was on Game Boy Color there's been no mention of it in a US publication. *-neo
Well I picked this up finally today also and I might as well drop in and give my 2 cents on it also. I've gotten through 4 levels so far and I am quite impressed. The levels are mostly pretty large, with quite a bit of exploration in them. I think Neo did a pretty good job of explaining how it worked. So far it's been straight forward with no level select for me also, I'm assuming either you get a level select later in the game or maybe after you beat it the first time. From analyzing the start up screen it appears to me that there are going to be about 20 levels in the game, which isn't bad for a platformer considering the levels have been fairly large. You learn new moves and get new outfits progressively as you play. Also one other thing to note, the game is incredibly cute. If you follow the above links you can see just how cute. Personally I love it, I'm a big fan of cute platformers. As mentioned, there is alot of text... but it's not really a problem as you can figure it out fairly easy. Oh and for all you people learning Japanese, it looks to these Gaijin eyes that most of the text is in Katakana and Hiragana with no Kanji, so it shouldn't be too hard for someone just learning Japanese to understand. All in all I would definately recommend this to any fans of cutesy platformers such as Klonoa and Kirby... hopefully this gets a US release, but if not you should definately look into getting the import.
...Why didn't I buy this 3 months ago.
I've searched every online import store I can think of. I checked eBay. I even tried some of those Hong Kong sites. NO PLACE has this game. I can't even find a listing for it telling me it's out of stock. Where the heck did it go? Anyone know a place I can buy it from? (Anyone know where I can buy Klonoa 2, also? That's another one that seems to have disappeared...)
Rummy, I've been looking for Starfi myself, I figured it would be getting a US release, being a very Kirby-ish sidescrolling platformer, so I didn't import it either. I'm also looking for it, can't seem to locate it either.
But if you're looking for Klonoa 2, looks like you can still get it from http://www.therage.com on special order. Hope that helps. Tell me if you find someone still stocking Starfi :)
Hrm.. this game looks pretty interesting... But I think Ristar can kick his arse. ;)
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For a Nintendo-made sidescroller, this game got little attention in NA. I'm going to get it for christmas.
I'm thinking that Nintendo ain't gonna release any GBA games in the U.S. unless they originally appeared on the SNES. Grumble grumble...Is Fusion the first original title they've put out here since Golden Sun? Feels like it.Quote:
Originally posted by Ragnarok the Red
Rummy, I've been looking for Starfi myself, I figured it would be getting a US release, being a very Kirby-ish sidescrolling platformer, so I didn't import it either. I'm also looking for it, can't seem to locate it either.
Thank you very much for the Klonoa 2 help. http://shop.himeya.com/ sez they have "Densetsu no Starffy" in stock for $49, but I've never ordered from them and don't really know anyone else who has. The only time I've seen mention of them was as a great source of hentai games...Yeah. They say the average order takes 7-10 days to ship, but who knows if that's to be trusted - judging by the writing on the site I'm not sure they understand English. Oy.Quote:
But if you're looking for Klonoa 2, looks like you can still get it from http://www.therage.com on special order. Hope that helps. Tell me if you find someone still stocking Starfi :)
I've bought games from Himeya on several occasions, aside from cracked CD case they all arrived in great shape. And Starfi seems a no-brainer for a US release but I guess Nintendo NA only likes to pimp the old franchises. Good game, Metalgun Slinger is another decent Japanese import. *-neo
I really need to pick that game up one of these days.Quote:
Originally posted by neoalphazero
Good game, Metalgun Slinger is another decent Japanese import.