Overview

Number of Players
1 (Single Player)
Genre
Release Date

Wii (Wii Shop)

  • US 4th Dec 2006, 800 points
  • EU 15th Dec 2006, 800 points
  • JP 2nd Dec 2006, 600 points
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Reviews

  • Review Ristar (Virtual Console / Sega Mega Drive)

    Ristar proves that being unique and different can sometimes be a good thing.

    Sonic the Hedgehog and Ristar actually began life as basically the same game. When Sonic Team began developing the game that would become Sonic the Hedgehog, they initially envisioned the character having the ability to reach out and grab things as part of the game's core...

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About The Game

It's a father-son kind of thing in outer space. Again. Whilst relaxing deep in his watery planetary star home, little Ristar receives a panicked message from the strange wormlike people who wear Fezs, going something along the lines of "someone's kidnapped your father, the great leader, and enslaved the local populace. Er, help!".

Rising from his stupor, Ristar prepares for an interstellar mercy mission. His cute five-pointed look is deceptive - only one person ever called him 'Twinkle' at school, and they only ever did it once, because Ristar was Alpha Centauri head-butting champion three solar cycles on the trot. Evolution has given him an exceptionally hard forehead and extended arms to match. This so-called 'evil tyrant' is going to wish he had never been born…