With all three GBA Starfy games — which were originally released only in Japan — now available to play on Switch with a Nintendo Switch Online Expansion Pack subscription, we're updating and republishing this brief introduction to the little star which originally went live a whopping 15 years ago. Enjoy! Since many gamers outside of Japan are not terribly familiar with the Densetsu no Starfy series of games (the Nintendo DS' The Legendary Starfy is the only entry so far to have been released in the West), we thought it would be fun to take a look at the history of the series, complete with some fun facts that might surprise even veteran fans. For starters, there's always been a significant amount of confusion as to exactly what the games are supposed to be called in English.
Densetsu no Stafi was perhaps the most popular before Nintendo officially settled the argument with 'Starfy' for the NSO release (bringing it in line with the DS release), but Densetsu no — or sometimes 'Legend of' — Stafy and Starfi have also been used by fans. The Densetsu no Starfy games are a unique series of platforming titles developed by a small development squad known as TOSE. You might know this outfit for its previous development of Nintendo's Game & Watch series of Game Boy releases or the many games on Nintendo platforms and elsewhere that it's had its hand in since the Famicom days.
The Starfy games use a unique combination of platformer elements with underwater physics and puzzle-sol.
