Ristar Classic

Ristar is a great game, excellent platformer, and a lot of fun. I've beaten it several times in the past, including all the bonus areas. That said, this port can be unbearable at times due to the touch screen controls. The issue is Ristar requires the use of two buttons, all eight directions on the D-pad, and serious dexterity. You will get hit and die. A lot. And it will be incredibly frustrating. Do yourself a favor and play this game with an actual controller.

A bad port of an awesome game. Now, I absolutely love Ristar. I have it on my Mega Drive and it ranks up amongst my favourite games of all time. And when I found out I could (legally) get it on mobile, I was, obviously, excited. The title screen looks promising, but then I actually play the game. The controls. Awful. Ristar's platforming often relies on diagonal grabbing and flinging. But the controls make that so hard to do! This makes several parts of the game unplayable, so please fix this.

It does recognize a handheld controller, but the moment you start the game itself, it recognizes button inputs like a, b , and c. Not the d-pad, or control stick. I like the feed back a controller provides rather than the flat lifeless surface of a touch screen button. Other than that. It's Ristar. What's more to enjoy than good platforming?

Awesome game. Easy to play. Loved sega in the day and they have the best phone games today. Quality full games, transferred to an easy play phone platform. I disagree what people are saying about the controls. Once you get used to how to play, it is quite easy. And since they put the controls on the screen, it is so much easier to play than your standard phone game. Ristar and Sonic are my favorite. Now they just need to add toejam and earl.

Nothing short of a platforming classic. A great example of how an engaging moveset can go a long way for interesting and fresh level design. The vibrant and colorful graphics still hold up well, and the bouncy and memorable soundtrack is still a joy to the ears. Touch controls don't go super well with it, so I'd recommend picking up an Android compatible controller or playing it on one of the several SEGA Genesis collection titles it's been included on over the years, but still, this is great.

Ristar is a really good game. Solid level design, great controls overall a fun time, but if you want to play it please get a controller and adapter first before you start, playing with toushscreen just does not work and feels awkward so please use a controller, also please fix the save system sometimes an add doesnt work causing the save function in general to not work, pls default to saving when an ad does not work properly

Good old Ristar. This game is a classic and should get more praise. This version is pretty good. The graphics are just like the sega genisis one and the gameplay is just like the original. However the controls fall a little flat as even with remappable buttons I still see it is kinda hard to maneuver them with a touch screen. Everyrhing but the controls are spot on. 4/5

This game isn't as fluid as Sonic, but in its own right, it's quite good. It plays very well with an Xbox One X & S or PS4 Bluetooth capable controller. The controls are decent and the gameplay is fine! I would recommend this game to new and old gamers alike, although a few of us will remember this on the Sega Genesis/Megadrive, and it will bring back some good memories of our childhood, all in all. Its a great game for all the kids

I would give it five stars because it was well and I liked the original but I gave 4 stars because it has way to many ads. For example, You pause the game, ad, when you unpause, ad, when you save the game, ad, and when you load the game ad. Other than the ads it is a good game to get people to like old sega games and new ones too.

Undersung classic from the Genesis. Level design, mechanics, music is fantastic. Great classic 2d platformer reminiscent of the Sonic 3 era of games. Monetization model is great. Main gameplay requires pretty much no ads, save states and rewinds require watching an ad but there are *additions* to the original gameplay, so totally fair. And you can pay a few bucks to drop em forever - well worth it to me!

OMG -- I literally SQUEALED WITH JOY when I saw that this classic Sega masterpiece is now available on mobile!!! When I was a kid, this was my all-time favorite video game -- literally everything about it is perfect. Just utter perfection. Unfortunately, it was only released here in the U.S. toward the end of the Sega Genesis's lifespan, so it mostly went unnoticed. It's an INCREDIBLE platformer though. If you've never played it, then DAMN are you ever in for a treat!! 😄

This is a good game this character should show up more it will help sega and sonic fans plus it game play has some similarities but the game engine is different instead of speed you have your arms stretched to get around and it is one of my favorites but the controls for mobile is confusing and pretty difficult but aside that the game is a good game.

Slightly superfluous UI, and it is a real missed opportunity that I can't plug my Genesis mini controller into this to control it. I also believe that SEGA should sell expansion packs for the Genesis mini. For example, one that includes the other streets of rage, golden axe, shining force, Sonic, and fantasy star games, one that models the power base converter and includes MS games, and ones resembling the Sega CD and 32x.

Please make a new version of this game and don't forget to add a special stage. When the player gets the rest of the power stars (7 on count) he must press A and up Ristar shall get into his super form, with extremely long arms and immunity to everything. the super form would end up when a timer runs out. When you press A and down, a short-distance blast should happen and everything in that blast will melted away.

The game is very good looking like the original, i quite like it, but the Touch Controls do not make it justice, please add proper controller support, my controller is detected, but only the face buttons work, my Directional buttons nor thumbsticks work in this game, this can be a good note to update the game and add full controller support.

Ristar is a really great Sega game but here's my problem with it on mobile. The controls are way to small. I'll be trying to move and Its so hard to go left and right on a small d-pad. I understand they are tryna keep it nostalgic and that's why the added the Sega d-pad but they should make like swipe controls to move. Of course it shouldn't be default controls but at least give a player the option to use swipe controls. Also A, B, and C are kinda small too. They should make those a bit bigger.

I like the game so far, Ristar is cute and cool. The controls can be unresponsive and the enemy placement can be a little cheap, but all -in-all this is a good game. Artstyle reminds me of a mix between Sonic and NiGHTS.

The control pad on the left is really small, so it's sort of hard to handle. Don't like the ads but it's a fair trade for being free I guess. Otherwise the game is really great, I'm glad Ristar can get more attention now!

Very fun! Ad's can be kind of annoying though, especially because 9 times out of 10, you'll have to watch one to exit or enter the pause menu. Other than that, great re-release!

Somehow this game has less ads than the Retro Engine Sonic games. However they are placed in the most terrible place possible. WHY DO I NEED TO WATCH A AD TO SAVE AND LOAD MY PROGRESS OR REWIND TIME FOR 15 SECONDS!? Other than that, it's just ordinary Ristar but with sorta unresponsive controls.

An absolute evergreen and my favorite SEGA game ever. I'd like to have it on my devices and buy it, but unfortunately gamepad experience is terrible. There is noticeable delay between pushing a button on gamepad and taking action which makes this beautiful game pretty much unplayable on Android.

i think my big bro let me play this game on his console when i was younger i was so excited to see that it was available on mobil sadly my excitement was replaced with salt thanks to the long loading screen but it did eventuallu load i played it and it was fun except maybe adjust the save options so that it will automatically save your game at the begining of each level i was on a boss level and it didnt save properly so i had to restart all over again sadly i just gave up and uninstalled it

This game is wonderful. they gave attention to detail to ristar's expressions. And the music aw the music it's so good BUT...the reason why I gave it four stars is because when you get to planet scorch it starts to gets difficult. But otherwise that's all I have to say and this is really good so you should play it.

You have to pay for local saves? is this a thing anymore, I thought it was gone forever. This is the only problem with the game otherwise it's perfect. I wish you could somehow revive this game once again cuz I think it's community is still alive and I suppose it could be a success if you make a sequel to it.

I was personally super excited about this game until I realized how bad the controls were and I am so very disappointed because I was truly looking forward to this game :-( did anyone actuslly test this before releasing it to Google?? Clearly a terrible experience and many people have said the same thing about the controls. I really hope this issue is fixed because this game could be enjoyable for many.

Alright, first off I gotta say that I didn't download this just yet, but I already know it's a great game, because I've played it and loved it. But when I played Ristar I remember Ristar's sprites looking more happy and not so angry. I replayed Ristar a few weeks ago and wondered why this was how it is. I was thinking: "Maybe it's because it's the US version?", but I'm most likely incorrect. Great game overall, five star, keep going with your great work SEGA.

Just installed the game and wanted to play and they put ad straight away...then after ad wanted to skip animation and again ad....so before you can play you have like 3 ads to watch....and then after missions all the time...I uninstall it

When I stared playing this the graphics were amazing I mean when I was playing it I was so happy it made me jump up and down yelling in my mind yessssss the first level was my favorite level Because of the music it was amazing ristar should get a TV show of his own and more games of his own and action figures of his own so kids won't get bored playing it and ristar needs more fans because it's really a great game it's a great idea for sega making ristar I mean its a great game idea