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''[[Ristar]]'' (known as '''''Ristar the
If that funny little yellow thing in the picture looks familiar, it should. ''
▲If that funny little yellow thing in the picture looks familiar, it should. ''[[Ristar]]'' derives from the same original character model (a kind of rabbit thing with prehensile ears) as [[Sonic the Hedgehog]], before he became, you know, a hedgehog. If you pay attention to the game's art style and soundtrack, you can see some other similarities to the Sonic series besides the protagonist's appearance. Although this game never took off the way its estranged relative did (it didn't even get a sequel), it's still widely considered an excellent game.
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* [[1-Up]]: Collecting 100 stars or 30,000 points will give you an extra life.
* [[American Kirby Is Hardcore]]: Ristar's angry eyebrows, originally only present in the boss fights, are always present in the American version. The enemies have meaner expressions
** Although, curiously, the ending went from the Japanese version's slightly badass image of Greedy and his henchmen looking annoyed on some rocky world, to the English version's significantly cuter "Dad!" and implicit embrace between Ristar and his (way, ''way'' bigger) father.
* [[Band Land]]: Planet Sonata, which is made of giant musical instruments and inhabited by sapient musical instruments and [[Cool Shades]]-wearing avians.
* [[Bonus Stage]]:
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** In the [[Game Gear]] version, the bonus rounds are accessible at the end of each world by finding icons that resemble the [[Sega Saturn]] logo. In these bonus rounds, Ristar must collect as many stars as he can before he falls to the ground.
* [[Boss Rush]]: Entering a specific password unlocks the Boss Rush mode.
* [[Brainwashed and Crazy]]: The first boss is the leader of a friendly tribe on Flora, and is in fact the one who sent the call for help to Ristar in the first place. He is being controlled by a minion of Greedy riding on his back.
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* [[Escort Mission]]: Played with in that it's an item and not an NPC. In the first stage of Sonata, in order to wake up the birds blocking your path you have to carry metronomes over to them and hit them with them. Since holding the metronome prevents you from doing anything else that involves Ristar's all-important arms, this leads to potentially frustrating puzzles where you must go through elaborate sequences of steps to get both yourself and the metronome from point A to point B.
* [[Eternal Engine]]: Planet Automaton.
* [[Every Ten Thousand Points
* [[Everything's Better with Spinning]]: The star... handle... things. The trick is they can send you very far if you're spinning really fast, but then it's harder to time it for the angle you want.
* [[Everything's Even Worse with Sharks]]: Ohsat, the end boss of Planet Undertow.
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* [[Gratuitous English]]: ALL the text in the Japanese version is in English. Most of it is exactly the same as the English version. Additionally, Ristar's voice clips (such as the [[Terminator (franchise)|"Hasta la vista, baby!"]] he delivers after the final boss) are in English in both versions, and sound exactly the same.
* [[Green Hill Zone]]: Planet Flora, which is subdivided into a [[Ghibli Hills]] area and a [[Jungle Japes]] area.
* [[Groin Attack]]: This is what your attack inadvertently becomes when you fight the airborne bosses Riho and Greedy.
* [[Idle Animation]]: One for each world.
* [[Lethal Lava Land]]: Planet Scorch. Somewhat subverted, in that although it's entirely underground and there's fire, earthquakes, and other evidence of volcanic activity everywhere, there's no actual lava to be seen.
* [[Load-Bearing Boss]]: Greedy, whose Black Hole destroys his palace when defeated.
* [[Meaningful Name]]: Ristar, Greedy, and the planets all have pretty unsubtle names. (The planets have different names in the Japanese version, though.)
* [[Mega Neko]]: Freon's boss, Itamor, is a big cat in the Japanese version. Elsewhere, it got turned into a snowman.
* [[Mini Boss]]: At the end of each first act, you encounter one, ranging from a Snake creature on Flora, to the [[Wolfpack Boss|enemy groups you face later]]. Two of the Mini-Bosses are actually mini-games, one of which is a quick paced memory game, and can become [[That One Boss]] if you can't keep up. Another is a classic [[Snowball Fight]], which, Ristar happens to find deadly. That particular boss can lead to a [[Guide Dang It|frustrating moment or two]] if you can't actually figure out how to FORM the snowballs, mind.<ref>Just stand still, and Ristar will make a snowball on his own.</ref>
* [[Nintendo Hard]]: The regular game isn't so bad. Super Mode, on the other hand, may be hazardous to your controller, your wall, and your sense of self-worth.
* [[One-Hit-Point Wonder]]: One of the play options unlockable with a password is Super Mode, where along with having only one [[Hit Point]] (you normally have four), you have only one ''life'', and all health items and 1-ups become gems. However, as compensation, the game gives unlimited continues in this mode, meaning death only sends you back to the start of the level with your score returned to zero. Approaches [[Kobayashi Mario]] territory.
* [[Painting the
** The game loves the music distortion effect so much that one of the cheat passwords allows you to unlock this effect for ''all'' the songs in the sound test.
▲* [[Painting the Fourth Wall]]: When Ristar takes a hit with one hit point left, the final star falls off the health meter and hits him on the head, killing him. Planet Sonata supplies two musical examples. The first stage on that planet starts with suspiciously minimalistic-sounding background music, and as you proceed through the level you wake up sleeping birds who sing, and by doing this you gradually create the stage's true background music. Also, while the boss of Sonata is singing, the background music becomes distorted.
▲** The game loves the music distortion effect so much that one of the cheat passwords allows you to unlock this effect for ''all'' the songs in the sound test.
* [[Playing Tennis With the Boss]]: A variant. The boss of Automaton can be damaged by causing the mechanical claw attempting to grab you to hit it instead.
* [[Polluted Wasteland]]: The last planet, Automaton.
* [[Prophetic Name]]: If you name your child "Greedy", his career paths are fairly limited, are they not?
* [[Punny Name]]: Itamor Lunch (the boss stage of the fifth world).
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* [[Slippy-Slidey Ice World]]: Planet Freon, with a snowy first area and an icy lake second area.
* [[Spikes of Doom]]: These are found in many areas, but they're especially frequent on Sonata and Automaton. They also show up a lot in the bonus areas, but as you're invincible there the only thing they do is cause you to recoil as if you've taken damage, which wastes time.
* [[Storming the Castle]]: Greedy's [[Space X|Space Castle]] at the end of the game.
* [[Super Not-Drowning Skills]]: But hey, why would a star need to breathe?
* [[Teleport Spam]]: Greedy does this throughout the fight, but special mention to his final phase, where he instantly appears right in your face with no fade-in animation whatsoever and drops a huge column of lightning on you.
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* [[Violation of Common Sense]]: There's really not much else you can call chucking an oversized metronome at a giant sleeping bird's head.
* [[Wall Jump]]: Used in a rather weird fashion: Ristar can grab onto any surface in the game that isn't spiked or otherwise harmful to touch, but he can't hold on unless there are rungs or other handholds; otherwise, he will bounce off. However, by grabbing a wall over and over again in rapid succession, it is possible to bounce up the wall. Unlike the typical [[Wall Jump]], only one wall is needed for this, although it can be done with two opposing walls as well.
** This is also impossible on [[Slippy-Slidey Ice World|Planet Freon]], presumably because the walls are made of slippery ice... ''cold'' ice, that causes Ristar to withdraw his hands in discomfort upon touching it.
* [[Wolfpack Boss]]: In particular the Planet Automaton's miniboss. There are some earlier examples in the game as well.
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