The Legendary Starfy (2008)

The Legendary Starfy is a platform video game developed by Tose and published by Nintendo for the Nintendo DS in 2008 in Japan. In 2009, it was released in North America and Australia. This is the fifth installment in The Legendary Starfy series. This is the first Starfy game to be released outside Japan, and, so far, the final Starfy game.

Plot
In Pufftop, Starfy is seen sleeping in his bed. However, he is suddenly awakened by a rabbit-like creature in a spacesuit, who crashed through the ceiling, who is known as Bunston. This made Starfy shocked, and he tried to talk to Bunston, but he did not respond to him. Starfy didn't know what to do. Suddenly, a group of pirates known as the Terrible Trio try to capture Bunston, but Starfy uses his Star Spin to stop them. However, while Starfy was attacking the Terrible Trio, Bunston has escaped and fell into the ocean. After Starfy's best friend, Moe asks him what was that noise and what happened, both of them fell into the ocean too, beginning Starfy's new adventure.

Why It's Legendary

 * 1) The thing that would be expected from the Starfy games, are colorful graphics, and The Legendary Starfy has them. The graphics are awesome and colorful, which still hold up to today. The sprites itself are also colorful and impressive for DS standards, which is completely acceptable for 2008 standards.
 * 2) The plot itself is interesting and is written very well. Basically, this is what would you expect from a Starfy game. And since every game from the series has a interesting and great plot, this game obviously belongs in that category.
 * 3) The soundtrack is something obvious that you would expect from every game in the series. The soundtrack itself is catchy and incredible. It's completely on par with every game in the series. Each theme is very enjoyable and is fun to listen to the soundtrack.
 * 4) As typical for a Nintendo platform game, one of the main things that shouldn't be screwed up, are the controls. And the game's controls are typical as they should be for a platform game. They are tight and responsive. Starfy is very controllable, and the Star Spin itself is responsive and fun to use. The Dash is also tight to control by pressing the "Y" button while walking.
 * 5) The animations themselves are great and are extremely well-animated, without any chance of being stiff or even having too few frames, especially since every game in the series have great animations without any chance of something bad happening to them. Also, there's no way the animations will become stiff, not even for a little moment.
 * 6) The level design is pretty neat. There's a good hand of things that are in the levels to use Star Spin, especially if you loved that move. Plus, there are also some of the characters' diaries, which tells the player what happened during the game. Also, the enemy placement is great too, and there's a great hand of them.
 * 7) There is a hand of great minigames that can be played by selecting "Case" on the map by pressing "R". For example, in "Coin Slinger", you have to tap the coin that is the exact same color as you, which is basically the color of Starfy you are playing as in the game, and you must score 40 points first to win.
 * 8) There is something in the game that will transform Starfy into something different. It is called "Transforming Stone". And it is in several levels of the game. Touching them will transform Starfy into something different, such as Monstar if you touch the Spicy Belly, or Starpedo if you touch the Icy Spike. Also, each one of them has great attacks.
 * 9) The bosses are really fun to fight. Using the Star Spin to attack them is something that can make those bosses fun to fight, especially how obviously the Star Spin is very fun to use, as mentioned before. Also, if you have the Transforming Stone, you can defeat the bosses in different way of attacking, rather than using the Star Spin if you don't have the Transforming Stone if you want to use different attacks.
 * 10) Neat comic-book cutscenes, which involve Starfy and some other characters talking to each other, and sometimes you can even get something, like a quest, or something else that the game will give you.

The Only Bad Quality

 * 1) There's not a high chance of getting a Game Over, unless you are actually playing something challenging in the game. The difficulty itself is way too low for a platform game, which makes it even harder to get a Game Over, much like New Super Mario Bros. 2. Also, there aren't that much challenging things in the game.

Critical reception
The Legendary Starfy received positive reviews from critics and players. On Metacritic, it has a critic score of 75/100, based on 25 critic reviews, while it received a 8.4/10 rating from users, based on 30 ratings. Nintendo Life gave it 9/10, while Nintendo World Report gave it 8/10. On GameFAQs, the game received 3.82/5 stars from 412 users.

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Trivia

 * While this is the fifth installment in the Starfy franchise, the game icon in the DS menu's filename is the same as the fourth game in the series.