The rest of the changes were very minor edits in effort to appeal to western audiences, such as minor graphical changes to make Ristar and other character's faces look more serious, renaming levels to names more descriptive of their looks, and adding a few non-interactive scenes to show more continuity in the game, such as a skiing sequence before level 5, or putting on anti-gravity shoes to explain why Ristar is floating in level 6. In English-speaking regions, that reference is non-existent, so it was changed to a cold ice monster being defeated by being melted by hot food. In Japan, it was considered clever to use hot food to defeat a cat, due to a Japanese culture reference regarding a "cat-tongue" not liking hot food. In the game, Ristar must grab hot dishes of food, and throw it in Itamor's mouth. The boss of the ice themed level, Itamor, was changed from a large cat robot to an ice monster.
The story was altered slightly in the Japanese version, a Star Goddess, Oruto, summons Ristar's help, where in the English version, Oruto is omitted completely, and Ristar's father, a "Legendary Hero", is referenced instead. Rather than Oruto awakening Ristar, the Legendary Hero was kidnapped by Greedy, and it is up to Ristar to rescue his father as well. Instead, Ristar has a father figure, the Legendary Hero, who is a shooting star that protects the Valdi System. In the English-language version, Oruto is omitted altogether. He must stop Greedy and the brainwashed leaders of each world in the galaxy to restore peace to the galaxy. She awakens one of her children, Ristar, with the sole purpose of granting the wishes of the innocent people.
The desperate prayers reach the nebula of the Star Goddess, Oruto. In the Japanese version, the inhabitants of Planet Neer (Flora in the English-language version) pray for a hero before Greedy's mind control minion, Rhio, snatches the planet elder. In all versions of the game, the events take place in the Valdi System, where an evil space pirate, Kaiser Greedy, has used mind control to make the planets' leaders obey him. A number of small changes were made in localizing the version released for English speaking countries.
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