

In Mega Drive versions outside Japan, Oruto is not seen. He must stop Greedy and the brainwashed leaders of each world in the galaxy, to restore peace to the galaxy. She awakens one of her children, Ristar, with the sole purpose of granting the wishes of the innocent people. The desperate prayers reach the nebula of the Star Goddess, Oruto. The inhabitants of Planet Neer (Flora outside Japan) pray for a hero before Greedy's mind control snatches them. An evil space pirate, Kaiser Greedy, has made the planets' leaders obey him. The game takes place in the seven-planet Valdi System (also known as the "Vadji" System according to the back of the European box). The name also went through further changes during development of the Western versions, going from Ristar the Shooting Star to Dexstar, and finally to Ristar. After some changes in the main character, and going through several names (including "Volt"), that game eventually became what is now known as Ristar. The rabbit resemblance in Feel was already phased out and the character no longer used his ears, but his arms. Some years later, the game starring that rabbit-type character was developed separately from Sonic, and eventually evolved into a prototype called Feel. Hedgehogs can roll themselves into a ball, so we decided to go from a rabbit to a hedgehog. I remembered a character I had thought about years ago who could roll himself into a ball and slam into enemies. As the game got faster and faster, we needed to come up with a special characteristic to give our character some power over his enemies. Yuji Naka, head of Sonic Team, recalled in 1992:Īt first we used a character that looked like a rabbit with ears that could extend and pick up objects. Ristar developed from an idea originally put forward during design talks for the character who would later become Sonic the Hedgehog. It can be unlocked by playing 30 times of Blue Sphere, Knuckles in Sonic 2, Sonic 3 & Knuckles and Flicky. On Sep 13, 2010, this game was released on Steam.

The game is also available on Sega Megadrive Collection for PS2 and PlayStation Portable and, as of December 4, 2006, it is available on Wii's Virtual Console service. A Game Gear version which features different levels to the Mega Drive versions was also released. It was originally released on the Mega Drive, and was also included as an unlockable game in Sonic Mega Collection for the Nintendo GameCube and on the Xbox and PlayStation 2 and C as part of Sonic Mega Collection Plus. The game stars a cartoonish humanoid star who uses his hands to both move and combat enemies. Ristar ( Ristar the Shooting Star in Japan) is a platform game published and developed by Sega for the Sega Mega Drive in 1995. Screenshot of the first round of Planet Flora.
