MASTER SYSTEM
Por Luciano Coelho
Alex Kidd: The Lost Stars is a platform game released by Sega for the Master System in 1988. It is the arcade port released in 1986, the game features Alex in six stages, trying to rescue the "miraculous spheres" that were all stolen by Ziggurat.
Soon after saving the planet Aries from Janken, Alex explores the mysteries of the Miracle World and discovers that the stars of the Aries constellation have been stolen. Daleda, an old wizard who lives in Mount Eternal reveals to him that Ziggarat had stolen the stars over five thousand years ago. And Halifax Kidd, an ancestor of Alex, traveled through time and space to defeat Ziggarat and return the stars to the sky. Now Alex must follow in his footsteps to save the Ziggarat constellation once more. The player takes on the role of Alex and in the arcade version, the second player controls Stella during co-op. The game consists of six levels, each with a miracle ball to collect at the end. And after all the stages are completed we will have to play them all again, a second "loop" so to speak. Is there a lack of imagination?
The Master System Port brings several differences from the arcade version. We can start with the fact that the Arcade version is obviously better graphically speaking, and also the fact that you can play with Alex and Stella, his girlfriend.
I consider this game to be one of Alex Kidd's weirdest games. He has no power, he can only jump or attack an enemy when he takes a specific capsule that appears flying on the screen, jumps with his legs open and what I find most weird: the enemies of the game. The weirdest thing is the naked Punk that throws a skull out of his ass (and it's no joke).
