History VideoGame / StarshineLegacy

* HardLevelsEasyBosses: Being the only Boss in the game [[spoiler:Buck is laughably easy.]] However the rest of the level is a living nightmare, especially if you're inexperienced with horse riding games. First you have to ride through the narrow path of Devil's Gap, while timing your jump very precisely or say hello to the [[BottomlessPit Bottomless Pit.]] [[spoiler:After defeating Buck, you have to race against Katja, which means this time you don't have time to carefully observe, you have to beat your rival in a cross-country what is not scripted, meaning if you lose you can start the entire race (or if the game is glitched then the entire level) all over again. And even when you're defeated Katja, you have to ride '''all the way back''', for James.]]

-->''There are times in life\\

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* VideoGameCrueltyPotential: After you're learned the Soul Strike you can easily use It to harm Tin-Can and the game doesn’t even punishes you by doing that.

* HardLevelsEasyBosses: Being the only Boss in the game [[spoiler:Buck is laughably easy.]] However the rest of the level is a living nightmare, especially if you're inexperienced with horse riding games. First you have to ride through the narrow path of Devil's Gap, while timing your jump very precisely or say hello to the [[BottomlessPit Bottomless Pit.]] [[spoiler:After defeating Buck, you have to race against Katja, which means this time you don't have time to carefully observe, you have to beat your rival in a cross-country what is not scripted, meaning if you lose you can start the entire race (or if the game is glitched then the entire level) all over again. And even when you're defeated Katja, you have to ride '''All the way back''', for James.]]

*** And then there is the [[spoiler:"Epilogue". Even if you manage to find all the four Seals first try within ten minutes. If you run out of time then you may have to go back and collect all Golden Stars which isn't easy since then game is unpopular, It's diffcult to find a reliable walkthrough.]]

As of September 2021, in celebration of the tenth anniversary of VideoGame/StarStable, all of the Starshine Legacy games are available to play for free on Star Stable Entertainment's [[official website https://www.starstable.com/en/starshinelegacy]].

Starshine Legacy (SSL or SL for short) is a horse riding adventure platformer game created by Hidden Entertainment, Stabenfeld and Pixel Tales in 2005. Originally It was only accessable by Ponyclub membership. Because of this - and the fact that It's main target is the younger female audience, It has many negative features from It's W.I.T.C.H [[{{Expy}} expies]] to being extremly glitchy and buggy. However, It's unpopularity - especially in America - saved It from being the talk of the negative review filled critics.

* WhatDoYouMeanItsForKids: The series focuses alot on the bonds between horse and rider, so it's not uncommon to forget that the main plot is about a group of teenagers [[spoilers:trying not to get ritually sacrificed to an EldritchAbonimation who is trying to destroy the universe.]]

* SequelDifficultyDrop: The Secret of Pine Hill Mansion is relatively easy, compared to the other three games, since this is the only game where no one is trying to kill you.

* DarkerAndEdgier: While It's downplayed compared to more well-known games, It has very unusual settings and slight difficulty for a kids game. (Dark levels, offscreen violence.

The protagonist of fourth and final game is Alex, a tomboyish girl who loves fixing things. We also meet her timid brother, who is constantly bullied by a boy named Buck. When his younger brother disappears after a race against a sinsiter girl, named Katja, Alex must find a way to get him back, as well as quicky learn to use her newfound powers, since an old enemy returns...

* BigBoosHaunt: Inverted with the Pine Hill Mansion. It has the settings of a haunted mansion but despite Herman's warnings there are no ghosts in the entire level.

* BonusLevel: [[spoiler:After the "Epilogue" there is an incredibly easy horse riding segment where you can do three Cross Country courses. The funny thing is that any rider can ride on any horse.]]

* DarkerAndEdgier: While It's downplayed compared to most Nintendo games, It has very unusual settings and slight difficulty for a kids game. (Dark levels, offscreen violence) If you're looking for a harmless and cheerful horse riding-game for your daughter/younger sister then Starshine Legacy might not be your best bet.

* HardLevelsEasyBosses: Being the only Boss in the game [[spoiler:Buck is laughably easy.]] However the rest of the level is a living nightmare, especially if you're inexperienced with horse riding games. First you have to ride through the narrow path of Devil's Gap, while timing your jump very precisely or say hello to the [[BottomlessPit Bottomless Pit.]] [[spoiler:After defeating Buck, you have to race against Katja, which means this time you don't have time to carefully observe, you have to beat your rival in a cross-country what is not scripted meaning if you lose you can start the entire race all (or if the game is glitched then the entire level) all over again. And even when you're defeated Katja, you have to ride '''All the way back''', for James.]]

* GameMod: In the first game the creators left the Data Folder open (Whether by accident or on purpose It's unknown, though It's most likely by accident since in the other games the Data Folder is very well hidden) so you can freely change characters shape or even cheat by freezing a character when you delete his/her respective san/oan file.

* OnlySixFaces: Both the boy and the girl students of the school have the exact same features just with different texture colors.

* TalkingAnimal: After becoming Soul Riders the girls can understand their horses. It might also implied that they can understand their friends's horses (Like in the fourth level of the second game Meteor notices the car and warns the girls and Lisa seems to understand him.)

** And there is the Goon from the Industrial Complex - who most likely was a Koopa in his previous life, since after you jumped from the platform and wait for him, he tries to go after from you, but he forgets to jump and falls into the green fluid, while his comrade just stands and stare.

* ThemeAndVariationsSoundtrack: The first part of the Cloak Rider is from the Industrial Complex while the second part if from the Hunt music (What is also part of the Main Theme).

The second game: The Secret of the Pine Hill Mansion is about Linda the smartest girl in the Jorvik High School, who has difficulties balancing between her horse-riding practices and schoolwork. One day she discovers a mysterious picture about Mr. Sands where he stands near to a building called the Pine Hill Mansion. Along with her newest and closest friend Lisa they decide to explorer It's secrets - despite being told not to. She also starts having weird visions about the Jorvik Dam being destroyed. What could these vision are trying to tell her and what's the secret of the Pine Hill Mansion?

The third game is about Anne. [[LovableAlphaBitch She is a somewhat snobbish character,]] [[HairOfGoldHeartOfGold with hair and heart of gold.]] She wants to win the Glamour No. 5. competention (As well as the photographer Derek's heart) and be the new face of their Perfume. But when a new enemy Jessica appears and seals his beloved horse Concorde into a strange dimension of Pandoria she must find a way to get him back as well as stop her newfound rival who may be more than what she seems.

The protagonist of fourth and final game is Alex, a tomboyish girl who loves fixing things. We also meet her timid brother, who is constantly bullied by a boy named Buck. When his younger brother disappears Alex must find a way to get him back as well as quicky learn to use her newfound powers, since an old enemy returns...

* CheatersNeverProsper: Double-subverted with Katja and Inverted with Anne. The former because despite she cheated on her first Cross Country against Alex [[spoiler:she still got what she wanted, after Alex won the second race, she disappears and never to be seen again.]]

* HardLevelsEasyBosses: Being the only Boss in the game [[spoiler:Buck is laughably easy.]] However the rest of the level is a living nightmare, especially if you're inexperienced with horse riding games. First you have to ride through the narrow path of Devil's Gap, while timing your jump very precisely or say hello to the [[BottomlessPit Bottomless Pit.]] [[spoiler:After defeating Buck, you have to race against Katja, which means this time you don't have time to carefully observe, you have to beat your rival in a cross-country what is not scripted meaning if you lose you can start the entire race all (or if the game is glitched then the entire level) all over again. And even when you're defeated Katja, you have to ride All The Way Back, for James.]]

* LightIsNotGood: Downplayed with Katja. She wears white clothes but everything else connects her to the Darkness

* SequelDifficultyDrop: The Secret of Pine Hill Mansion is incredibly easy, compared to the other three games, since this is the only game where no one is trying to kill you.

* StealthBasedMission: "The Library" and "The Strange Camera"

* TalkingAnimal: After becoming Soul Riders the girls can understand their horses. It might also implied that they can understand their friends's horses (Like in the fourth level of the second game Meteor notices the car and warns the girls and Lisa apparently understands her.)

* TheGuardsMustBeCrazy: The Goons notice you right away if you ride in front of them, but fail to even sense you when you walk behind them.

* YourPrincessIsInAnotherCastle: You thought that by defeating Katja means you can finally finish the Devil's Gap level? Wrong! You have to go back for your little brother as well! You seriously didn't thought that you are going to leave him out, right?

The first game: The Mystery of the Soulriders is about the young high school girl named Lisa whose father got a new job in Jorvik, have to move to Jorvik where she quickly befriends three other girls and a blue horse named Starshine. Soon she learns about the mysterious organization named Dark Core and meet their leader Mr. Sands. When her beloved horse gets stolen by them, she must gather all her courage to get him back.

The protagonist of fourth and final game is Alex, the tomboyish girl who loves fixing things. We also meet his timid brother who is constantly bullied by a boy named Buck. When his younger brother disappears Alex must find a way to get him back as well as quicky learn to use her newfound powers, since an old enemy returns...

* BeautyBrainsAndBrawn: The three girls before Lisa's arrival:

*** And then there is the [[spoiler:"Epilogue". Even if you manage to find all the four Seals first try within ten minutes. If you run out of time then you may have to go back and collect all Golden Stars which is difficult since then game is unpopular, It's diffcult to find a reliable walkthrough.]]

* EverythingsBetterWithSparkles: The game uses sparkle effects for almost everything.

* CharacterDevelopment: Anne and Alex doesn't seemed close friends in the first game, but when [[spoiler:Derek got attacked by the Goons, Alex's first thought was to contact with Anne to inform her. She even gives her a compliment.

The first game: The Mystery of the Soulriders is about the young high school girl named Lisa whose father got a new job in Jorvik, she have to move to Jorvik where she quickly befriends three other girls and a blue horse named Starshine. Soon she learns about the mysterious organization named Dark Core and meet their leader Mr. Sands and when her beloved horse gets stolen by them, she must collect all her courage to get him back.

The second game: The Secret of the Pine Hill Mansion is about Linda the smartest girl in the Jorvik who has difficulties balacing between her horse-riding practices and schoolwork. One day she finds a mysterious picture about Mr. Sands where he stands near to the Pine Hill Mansion. Along with her newest and closest friend Lisa they decide to explorer It's secrets - despite being told not to. Not to mention she is starting to have weird visions about the Jorvik Dam being destroyed. What could these vision trying to tell her and what's the secret of the Pine Hill Mansion?

The third game is about Anne. [[LovableAlphaBitch She is a somewhat snobbish character]] [[HairOfGoldHeartOfGold with hair and heart of gold.]] She wants to win the Glamour No. 5. competention (As well as Derek the photographer Derek's heart) and be the new face of their Perfume. But when a new enemy Jessica appears and seals his beloved horse Concorde into a strange dimension of Pandoria she must find a way to get him back as well as stop her newfound rival who may be more than what she seems.

* CharacterDevelopment: Anne and Alex doesn't seemed close friends in the first game, but when [[spoiler: Derek got attacked by the Goons, Alex's first thought was to contact with Anne to inform her and their talk seemed more friendly.

* DarkerAndEdgier: While It's downplayed compared to character such as Zero or the ReDeads, It's also important to note that this is a horse simulator game, this is a horse-themed Adventure Platformer with very unusual settings for a kids game. (Dark levels, offscreen violence) If you're looking for a harmless and cheerful horse riding-game for your daughter/younger sister then Starshine Legacy might not be your best bet.

* EarlyBirdCameo: Katja appears in the thrid game as the previous model of Glamour. No. 5

* GameMod: In the first game the creators left the Data File open (Whether by accident or on purpose It's unknown, though It's most likely by accident since in the other games the Data file cannot be accessed) so you can freely change characters shape or even cheat by freezing a character when you delete It's san/oan file.

*** And then there is the [[spoiler:"Epilogue". Even if you manage to find all the four Seals first try withhin ten minutes. If you run out of the time then you may have to go back and collect all Golden Stars which is difficult since then game is unpopular, It's diffcult to find a reliable walkthrough.]]

* LightIsNotGood: Downplayed with Katja. She wears white clothes but everything else connects her with the rest of the Darkness

* OnlySixFaces: Both the boy and the girl students of the school have the excat same features just with different texture colors.

* SequelDifficultyDrop: The Secret of Pine Hill Mansion is incredibly easy, since this is the only game where no one is trying to kill you.

* TheGuardsMustBeCrazy: They notice you right awway if you ride in front of them, but cannot notice a horse walk behind them.
** And there is the Goon from the Industrial Complex - who most likely was a Koopa in his previous life since after you jumped from the platform and wait for him, he tries to go after from you, but he forgets to jump and falls into the green fluid., while his comrade just stands there.

* VideoGameCrueltyPotential: After you're learned the Soul Strike you can easily use It to harm Tin-Can and the game doesn1t even punishes you by doing that.

* YourPrincessIsInAnotherCastle: You thought that by defeating Katja means you can finally finish the Devil's Gap level? Wrong! You have to go back for your little brother as well! You seriously didn't thought that you are goin to leave him out, right?

* DarkerAndEdgier: While It's downplayed compared to character such as Zero or the ReDeads, It's also important to note that this is a horse simulator game, this is a horse-themed Adventure Platformer with very unusual settings for a kids game. (Dark levels, offscreen violence) If you're looking for a harmless and cheerful horse riding-game for your daughter/younger sister then Starshine Legacy might not be your best bet.

* DarkIsEvil: In almost every dialog in the game mentions that "The Darkness must be stopped and It never defeats the power of love and friendship"

* DeathIsASlapOnTheWrist: In Starshine Legacy, no matter who (or what) caught you, the worst thing you'll ever get is (Like when you get caught by the Black Holes of Pandoria) start the level all over again. [[RageQuit Which gets worse as you keep playing.]]

* EarlyBirdCameo: Katja appears in the thrid game as the previous model of Glamour. No. 5

* GameMod: In the first game the creators left the Data File open (Whether by accident or on purpose It's unknown, though It's most likely by accident since in the other games the Data file cannot be accessed) so you can freely change characters shape or even cheat by freezing a character when you delete It's san/oan file.

* TheGuardsMustBeCrazy: It's best seen in the "Strange Camera" level. If you walk with Concorde behind the Goon on the car road he fails to notice that there is a big animal rides behind him but as soon as he turns around you better gallap away as soon as possible.

* TimedMission: "Epilogue"

* ThePowerOfLove: Discussed.
-->'''Starshine''': You have special power, I promise. And you woke me up from a Dark Sleep. But you've already tried to heal me and It didn't work.
-->'''Lisa''': My father always told me, never give up, and I'm stronger now, Starshine. My love for you is so much more powerful, than those dark and evil men.

** [[TheBigGuy The Big Girl]]: Alex

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Starshine Legacy (SSL or SL for short) is a horse riding adventure platformer game created by Hidden Entertainment, Stabenfeld and Pixel Tales in 2005. Originally It was only accessable by Ponyclub membership. Because of this - and the fact that It's main target is the younger female audience, It has many negative features from It's W.I.T.C.H expies to being extremly glitchy and buggy. However, It's unpopularity - especially in America - saved It from being the talk of the negative review filled critics.

The third game is about Anne. [[LovableAlphaBitch She is a somewhat snobbish character]] [[HairOfGoldHeartOfGold with hair and heart of gold]] She wants to win the Glamour No. 5. competention (As well as Derek the photographer Derek's heart) and be the new face of their Perfume. But when a new enemy Jessica appears and seals his beloved horse Concorde into a strange dimension of Pandoria she must find a way to get him back as well as stop her newfound rival who may be more than what she seems.

VideoGame/StarshineLegacy

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* Big Boo's Haunt: Inverted with the Pine Hill Mansion. It has the settings of a haunted mansion but despite Herman's warnings there are no ghosts in the entire level.

The later because in the Dressing competention you can only make the half of the 8 and don't get punished.

Lisa - Star
Linda - Moon
Anne - Sun
Alex - Lightning
** And then there is the [[spoiler:"Epilogue". Even if you manage to find all the four Seals first try withhin ten minutes. If you run out of the time then you may have to go back and collect all Golden Stars which is difficult since then game is unpopular, It's diffcult to find a reliable walkthrough.]]

* EverythingSBetterWithSparkles: The game uses sparkle effects for almost everything.

* SequelDifficultDrop: The Secret of Pine Hill Mansion is incredibly easy, since this is the only game where no one is trying to kill you.

* The Team:
** TheLeader/SixthRanger: Lisa
** [[TheBigGuy The BigGirl]]: Alex
** [[TheSmartGuy The SmartGirl]]: Linda

* VideoGameCrueltyPotential: After you're learned the SoulStrike you can easily use It to harm Tin-Can and the game doesn1t even punishes you by doing that.

AcidTripDimension: Pandoria

AnotherSideAnotherStory: More like: Another Game, Another Story

Big Boo's Haunt: Inverted with the Pine Hill Mansion. It has the settings of a haunted mansion but despite Herman's warnings there are no ghosts in the entire level.

BonusLevel: [[spoiler:After the "Epilogue" there is an incredibly easy horse riding segment where you can do three Cross Country courses. The funny thing is that any rider can ride on any horse.]]

BottomlessPits: Being a Platformer game, It's natural that you have to jump some of these.

DarkerAndEdgier: While It's downplayed compared to character such as Zero or the ReDeads, It's also important to note that this is a horse simulator game, this is a horse-themed Adventure Platformer with very unusual settings for a kids game. (Dark levels, offscreen violence) If you're looking for a harmless and cheerful horse riding-game for your daughter/younger sister then Starshine Legacy might not be your best bet.

DarkIsEvil: In almost every dialog in the game mentions that "The Darkness must be stopped and It never defeats the power of love and friendship"

DeathIsASlapOnTheWirst: In Starshine Legacy, no matter who (or what) caught you, the worst thing you'll ever get is (Like when you get caught by the Black Holes of Pandoria) start the level all over again. [[RageQuit Which gets worse as you keep playing.]]

CameraScrew

CheatersNeverProsper: Double-subverted with Katja and Inverted with Anne. The former because despite she cheated on her first Cross Country against Alex [[spoiler:she still got what she wanted, after Alex won the second race, she disappears and never to be seen again.]]

HardLevelsEasyBosses: Being the only Boss in the game [[spoiler:Buck is laughably easy.]] However the rest of the level is a living nightmare - especially if you're inexperienced with horse riding games. First you have to ride through the narrow path of Devil's Gap, while timing your jump very precisely or say hello to the [[BottomlessPit Bottomless Pit.]] [[spoiler:After defeating Buck, you have to race against Katja, which means this time you don't have time to carefully observe, you have to beat your rival in a cross-country what is not scripted meaning if you lose you can start the entire race all (or if the game is glitched then the entire level) all over again. And even when you're defeated Katja, you have to ride All The Way Back, for James.]]

EternalEngine: Plays straight with "The Industrial Complex" downplayed with the "Dark Core Platform" and the "Dark Core Garnok project"

EarlyBirdCameo: Katja appears in the thrid game as the previous model of Glamour. No. 5

ForcedTutorial: Subverted, since you can cancel the the tutorial in the options menu, but don't blame the game if you have forgotten.

GuideDangIt: In the level "Pandoria" even if you take your time and listen to Fripp's advice, instead of rushing through the texts, you may cluelessly run around in circles of what you should do with the puzzle. First you have to find their name, then click with the left mouse button. By doing this four types of symbols will appear. All you have to do is match the name with the correct symbol:

GameMod: In the first game the creators left the Data File open (Whether by accident or on purpose It's unknown, though It's most likely by accident since in the other games the Data file cannot be accessed) so you can freely change characters shape or even cheat by freezing a character when you delete It's san/oan file.

EverythingIsBetterWithSparkles: The game uses sparkle effects for almost everything.

TheGuardsMustBeCrazy: It's best seen in the "Strange Camera" level. If you walk with Concorde behind the Goon on the car road he fails to notice that there is a big animal rides behind him but as soon as he turns around you better gallap away as soon as possible.

InvisibleWall: The game is filled with these...

LightIsNotGood: Downplayed with Katja. She wears white clothes but everything else connects her with the rest of the Darkness

OnlySixFaces: Both the boy and the girl students of the school have the excat same features just with different texture colors.

SequelDifficultDrop: The Secret of Pine Hill Mansion is incredibly easy, since this is the only game where no one is trying to kill you.

StealthBasedMission: "The Library" and "The Strange Camera"

ThemeAndVariationsSoundtrack: The first part of the Cloak Rider is from the Industrial Complex while the second part if from the Hunt music (What is also part of the Main Theme).

TimedMission: "Epilogue"

ThePowerOfLove: Discussed.

VideoGameCaringPotential: If you stand in front of your horse you can, pet him. In the first game It's important to calm Starshine down. (Un)fortunately It's only required three games out of the four.

VideoGameCrueltyPotential: After you're learned the SoulStrike you can easily use It to harm Tin-Can and the game doesn1t even punishes you by doing that.

YourPrincessIsInAnotherCastle: You thought that by defeating Katja means you can finally finish the Devil's Gap level? Wrong! You have to go back for your little brother as well! You seriously didn't thought that you are goin to leave him out, right?

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