Nintendo has made an fascinating addition to the Nintendo Change On-line GBA catalog. The primary three Densetsu no Starfy video games have been added to the service, which makes it the primary time they’ve been out there exterior of Japan.

If Starfy sounds acquainted to you, it may be as a result of one recreation from the sequence was localized. That may be 2008’s The Legendary Starfy for DS, which is the fifth recreation of the sequence. There have been 4 earlier than that one.

The Starfy video games had been made by Tose and revealed by Nintendo. They’re cute platformers in the same vein because the Kirby sequence. Whereas I don’t actually have a extra compelling solution to describe them, they’re fairly beloved video games. Whereas solely having one recreation attain exterior of Japan, the sequence has cultivated a fanbase in different territories.

There’s one caveat right here. The video games are nonetheless in Japanese. Nintendo launched the video games as is with out bothering to translate the textual content. That’s not likely something new, because the firm has been filling out the NSO catalogs for a lot of of its consoles with Japanese video games, it’s only a bit disappointing that they don’t go the additional mile. It means most of those video games will stay a curiosity once they might have a greater likelihood at reaching a brand new viewers.

With that in thoughts, the Densetsu no Starfy video games are platformers and may be loved with out understanding the story. You’re simply not getting the total story, and that’s unlucky.

Densetsu no Starfy, Densetsu no Starfy 2, and Densetsu no Starfy 3 are all out there on the Nintendo Change On-line Growth Pack GBA service.