The Legendary Starfy Swims Again!!
Today’s post will touch on a few points of my most recent handheld purchase… The Legendary Starfy!
Get to know Starfy here!!
The idea is simple enough, the game is a classic platformer with a few added quirks 
This was my first romp into the Starfy series but this is actually the 4th Starfy game to come out. Well if you want an unbiased opinion compared to the other games you’ve come to the right place. My first impression of this game was a good one, bright colorful and full of cheer… i expect the game to be rather easy at this point.
The top bottom views are great for this game and offer a lot of fun play expereinces that you may be familiar with if you have played the Mario and Luigi titles for the DS. Boss battles will almost always take up both screens and it makes for a much larger environment for you you to swim around in.
The game itself handles really well, the added movement complication of swimming is a breeze to become familiar with as are starfy’s famous spin and other special moves. My one complaint here is that occasionally when I find myself moving boulders and such i want things to go faster…. i spend a lot of time waiting for things to drop… realistic i understand but this is rather annoying.
The Fun don’t stop there though! New to the game are the character Bunston the rabbit seemingly from space and his ability to help Starfy change into a variety of different forms. To the right you see Starfy in his dragon form which is the first form you become familiar with. Blowing fire in all directions and halping starfy take on his first boss in Big Squiddy. This concept is very reminicest of Mario and his powerups fire power, the raccoon suit, frog suit, bee suit, etc. but hey I love Nintendo and their gimmick rehashing ways.
Rehashed or not its fun, it works and unlike Mario you can’t get powerups and keep them, rather you can only use them when Bunstons around and only for that particular segment of the level. No dragons don’t swim in this game.
All in all this game is entertaining. Though if cute and fuzzy aren’t your things this is one to stay away from. It oozes with adorableness that younger kids will just eat up. If you can deal with that and you love platformers, pick it up you won’t regret it. Its not terribly long, but there is enough to keep you busy for a good couple of rainy days.
