![]() The wind it created was so powerful that it forced Starfy to fall from the sky and into the ocean. While we’re now all on the Starfy bandwagon, how much do you know about his past? Read on to find out what Starfy did before gracing the shores of America (and Australia, but not Europe) in his fifth official outing, all the way back to his surprising start as an unlikely aquatic hero!Īt the start of Starfy’s first adventure, the clumsy star prince dropped one of Pufftop’s royal treasures (a vase, to be precise) off of a nearby cloud, which mysteriously caused a horrendous storm to ensue. Brawl) helped lay inroads for his eventual arrival to the US. While Starfy’s presence in Super Princess Peach may have done him few favours, his appearances in other Nintendo games (including as an Assist Trophy in Super Smash Bros. Not only was the game’s glossary a jumbled mess but a cameo from Starfy was blundered by the fact that his name was changed to “Starfish”, stalling any really attempts for the series to develop a presence outside of Japan. To be honest, I was more nervous with the Starfy translation than usual because Super Princess Peach, another peculiar game developed by Tose, was surprisingly poor in its adaptation into English. Nintendo’s team, of course, is usually brilliant at doing this, pulling every ounce of character they can muster out of every single string of dialogue (take the Mario & Luigi series and Paper Mario games as two perfect examples of what I mean) and I’m glad to say that they did it with The Legendary Starfy as well. Having been a fan of the Starfy series for several years now (I’ve imported and played the first four and am a translator myself) I eagerly anticipated the first English iteration for two reasons: one being to see how it stacked up to the first four titles and the other to see how Nintendo of America would handle the localization process. The Legendary Starfy series may have recently debuted in the English speaking world ( The Legendary Starfy was released for DS in the summer of 2009 in America) but the franchise has a much longer history in Japan, spanning five games across Game Boy Advance and DS. While we’re probably all very well accustomed with the vast majority of Nintendo’s franchises (after all, this is a Nintendo-centric website) there’s one that you might not be so clued up on. ![]()
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