Ristar
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» MEGA DRIVE » 1995 » SEGA If you weren’t aware of just how much a copy of Ristar costs these days, you might be tempted to think of it as somewhat underrated. The platformer, starring a stretchy-armed chap who looks like a star, is a great example of what the Mega Drive was capable of in its later years. It looks and sounds wonderful, Ristar himself controls brilliantly, and it plays very differently from the likes of Sonic. Contemporary critics recognised just how good Ristar was – albeit grudgingly, as they were evidently weary of the platform game boom. They weren’t the only ones that extended a less than warm welcome to Ristar, mind.I greeted Sega’s new platform hero with some real hostility back in the mid-Nineties, largely because I saw a Sega Pro cover that said “Sonic’s Dead! Long live a new hero!” and got very defensive of my existing favourite character.