Ability

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The abilities menu in The Legendary Starfy, showing the Swim ability

Abilities (Japanese: アクション, actions) refers to actions that Starfy and Starly can do in the The Legendary Starfy games such as walking, jumping or using a Star Spin. Vehicles do not seem to be classed as abilities, but are listed with abilities in Densetsu no Starfy 4 in the Abilities & Vehicles menu.

Menus

There are menus in The Legendary Starfy games that list Starfy and Starly's abilities. In The Legendary Starfy, the menu is simply called Abilities (Japanese: アクション, Actions). In Densetsu no Starfy 2 and Densetsu no Starfy 3, it is called the Abilities List (Japanese: アクションリスト, Actions List), and they are separated from the vehicles in the Vehicles List.

In the ability menus, players can view a list of abilities they have unlocked, with a description for each one and an animation showing how to perform it, as if the player viewed a signboard.

In Densetsu no Starfy 3 and The Legendary Starfy, the player can slow down the animation by holding the L or R buttons. In Densetsu no Starfy 2, the cursor is a pink dolphin. In Densetsu no Starfy 3, the cursor is a blue fish. In The Legendary Starfy, there is no cursor.

In Densetsu no Starfy 2 and Densetsu no Starfy 3, vehicles are not listed in an abilities/vehicles menu and are rather listed on their own Vehicles List.

No abilities menu appears in Densetsu no Starfy. The abilities menu is merged into the Abilities & Vehicles menu in Densetsu no Starfy 4.

Options in Densetsu no Starfy 2

The abilities icon from the Pause Menu in Densetsu no Starfy 2

This section lists the abilities included in the Abilities List menu in Densetsu no Starfy 2.

Options in Densetsu no Starfy 3

The abilities icon from the Pause Menu in Densetsu no Starfy 3

This section lists the abilities included in the Abilities List menu in Densetsu no Starfy 3.

Options in Densetsu no Starfy 4

Icon for the Abilities & Vehicles menu from the Pause Menu

The options in this menu, Abilities & Vehicles (Japanese: アクション&のりもの), are split into three lists, accessible through three tabs. These are vehicles, abilities, and Spill. It is available as the third option from the Pause Menu. It shows all the abilities, vehicles and Spill abilities the player has unlocked. The cursor is an octopus.

There are three sections to the Abilities & Vehicles menu, including Vehicles (yellow menu, Japanese: のりもの), Abilities (yellow menu, Japanese: アクション, Actions) and Spill (green menu, Japanese: スピル). By default, the menu shows the Vehicles section, but the other two can be accessed by tapping them on the Touch Screen. Alternatively the player can use the L and R buttons, with L taking the player to the previous section (or Spill if on the Vehicles section) and R taking the player to the next section (or Vehicles if on the Spill section).

Pressing A on an option that has been unlocked shows a description on the top screen with an animation of the ability, vehicle or Spill ability in action, like when the player views a signboard. The animation can be slowed down with the L or R buttons. Once an option has been selected, the player can exit back to the menu with the B button.

Vehicles

Abilities

Spill

Options in The Legendary Starfy

The abilities icon from the Pause Menu in The Legendary Starfy

This section lists the Abilities included in the abilities menu in The Legendary Starfy. The abilities section is red while the Bunston section is green.

Abilities

Below is a table listing the regular abilities included on the abilities menu with their descriptions.

Name Description
1 Swim The easiest mode of travel under the sea.
2 Entering a Door Press (X) in front of a door to enter it.
3 Turbo Swim Swim through the water at turbo speed with this handy move.
4 Surf Jump Leap into the sky when you surface out of the water with this move.
5 Walk This is how you move when you're out of water. It's as easy as... walking.
6 Dash Use this move to dash across the ground at top speed.
7 Jump Sail over the heads of any nearby bad guys with this jump.
8 Dash & Jump If you dash before you jump, you'll leap farther AND higher!
9 Duck Duck to squish up really small and avoid attacks or fit into cramped places.
10 Duck & Slide Duck while you're dashing to slide on the ground and fit into narrow places.
11 Star Spin Use your Star Spin to attack bad guys or break barriers. Just don't get too dizzy!
12 Mighty Star Spin Use this move just under the surface to pop out and leap into the sky!
13 Ultra Star Spin It's an even stronger Star Spin! This one will spin you farther too.
14 Glide Glide through the sky with this floaty maneuver.
15 Air Jump With this move, you can jump again on thin air!
16 Shooting Star Press down on the +Control Pad during an Air Jump to rocket down like a meteor!
17 Crawl Starly's small size lets her crawl through the smallest openings.
18 Wall Jump Face a wall and jump! When you hit a wall, jump again to get more air.
19 Low Spin Use this move to spin while you're crawling.

Bunston

Below is a table listing Bunston's Powers and their descriptions as they appear on the abilities menu. An option is replaced with its 'Super' equivalent after it is obtained.

Name Description Upgraded power description
1 Spicy Belly/Super Spicy Belly RAWWWR! Use your Spicy Belly ability to belch out scorching flames! Belch out an even more ferocious cloud of flames!
2 Icy Spike/Super Icy Spike Use your Icy Spike to jet through the water and smash through deep ice! Kreeeee! You can now swim up even the fastest currents.
3 Bugawk/Super Bugawk Unleash an earsplitting Bugawk to bombard enemies with a sonic shock wave. Keep jumping to flap into the blue yonder! The eggs hatch too. Bugawk!
4 Vanish/Super Vanish Use this ability to away when you get into trouble. You can now vanish longer! Maybe now you can get to new areas...

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Abilities unlisted in any menu

The following are unlisted abilities that do not appear on the ability menus, but are referenced in the Densetsu no Starfy Nintendo Official Guidebook.