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The Legendary Starfy series
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The Legendary Starfy series, known in Japan as the Densetsu no Stafy series is a series of games starring the "legendary" Starfy, a starfish like creature with traits of a celestial star and the prince of a floating kingdom high in the sky, above the ocean called Pufftop (Tenkai in Japan). Joining Starfy on his adventures are Starfy's best friend Moe the clam and his younger sister Starly (in Densetsu no Starfy 3 and onwards).
The games are officially known as "Marine Action" games. A lot of the time the gameplay has Starfy or his younger sister Starly swimming across the water in a way that feels like gliding across the screen. A lot of the time there are platformer elements that take place out of water, however.
All games in the series have a plot element that causes Starfy to fall from Pufftop into the ocean to explore stages, help out other characters and learn about them, fight against enemies and bosses, investigate and eventually fight against an arch-villain (Ogura in the first two games, Evil in the third game, Degil in the fourth game, Mashtooth in the fifth game).
Games
| Game | JP release | NA release | EU release | AUS release | KOR release | Platform | |||
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Main Games
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| Densetsu no Starfy | 2002 | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | Game Boy Advance | |||
| Densetsu no Starfy 2 | 2003 | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | Game Boy Advance | |||
| Densetsu no Starfy 3 | 2004 | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | Game Boy Advance | |||
| Densetsu no Starfy 4 | 2006 | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | Nintendo DS | |||
| The Legendary Starfy | 2008 | 2009 | N/A | 2009 | N/A | Nintendo DS | |||
Development
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This article is a short summary of The Legendary Starfy series. Starfy Wiki features a more in-depth article. |
The untitled balloon/bubble pushing games were prototypes for what would become Densetsu no Starfy, and then Densetsu no Starfy (Game Boy Color), before being converted to the Game Boy Advance version. At one point Starfy was not conceived yet and a jellyfish-like character was an alternative consideration that was ultimately not chosen, but may have become a similar character in the final game such as the Jueri.
In a Nintendo Space World prototype (not located today) of a Game Boy Color demo/build, the character Moe (Kyorosuke) was instead called Kyororon.
According to two unearthed prototypes, one dumped; localizations of Densetsu no Starfy were planned or considered for the West and China (iQue). The English prototype matches up with a Nintendo Treehouse account of profanity by Moe (Kyorosuke) in a The Legendary Starfy game (though they do not specify which), which was rejected within the group.
During development, the first game had a debug menu, and a debug menu with an access method still present in the final version was datamined by User:Torchickens and Nensondubois for The Cutting Room Floor. An account at the time states a debug menu was shown at Space World as well, and the later discovered English prototype appears to have a debug menu like the final version, with additional later documented debug functions. In fact, it was discovered TOSE use the same type of debug menu for Game & Watch Gallery 4 and curiously the non-Nintendo game Dan Doh!! Tobase Shouri no Smile Shot.
The fifth game The Legendary Starfy was localized for North America and Australia, and there are obscure Canadian variants, but it's believed while packaging is different they are all the same ROM (the North American and Australian dumps are exactly the same, at least).
For unknown reasons, the fifth game was not released in Europe. A trademark for The Legendary Starfy in South Korea was applied, but the game was never released there either.
In a 2009 teleconference between TOSE, Nintendo and Nintendo Life, when Hitoshi Yamagami was asked about a sixth game, he is stated to have replied with "Yes!" with a long pause and then a laugh, but no sixth The Legendary Starfy game has materialised.
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