This is the Game Gear version, which has its own unique features.
Colourful and upbeat platformer where you play as Ristar the Shooting Star, a fantastical creature who stretches his arms out, grabs and whacks his face off things and is able to catapult himself into outer space towards other planets just by swinging on poles.
In this game stages take place across 6 planets, rich for exploring and you're not scored or under pressure for time so it is worth exploring to find treasures and trying everything out. At the end of a planet's stage you fight a boss before hopping to the next planet to right the wrongs of the game's main antagonist Greedy.
Stages get pretty hard as the game progresses and you can often find yourself addicted to slowly climbing a wall by stretching out and bashing your face off of it!
But it's all in good fun. Everything appears nicely on the small screen.
There's also a password system with 6 digits. If you enter KUMI you get access to a debug mode, where you can skip to the next level by pressing B while the game is paused and then unpausing. Also, if you hold UP and B and then unpause you gain access to a level select screen.
Oh, Ristar! I always wanted to play this on Mega Drive, but never got around to it. Never knew there was a Master System version, so that's cool. Poor Ristar never got his due.
ReplyDeleteNo this is on Game Gear. Yeah there really is a lack of love for Ristar which is a pity.
DeleteAhh, I thought to guess that, but it slipped my mind. Still, its great there's another game to play.
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