It received its first official re-release on the Nintendo Switch Online + Expansion Pack on July 12, 2024, in all regions for the first time along with the other GBA entries.

While Starfy was heading back home, he encountered some people he didn't know before, such as Moe the clam, and decided to help them with their problems, like finding their missing items, defeating enemies, and so on, until Starfy and his friends fought and brought back Ogura into the Magic Jar to restore peace.

Starfy himself can run, jump, and attack via spinning; he also gains access to various transportation objects and animal familiars as the games progress.

They tried developing a balloon-lifting game, but Hitoshi and Yasuhiro were having difficulties moving the balloon toward wherever they wanted, making the project uninteresting and annoying in their opinions.

As long as things were floating around, Hitoshi and Yasuhiro decided a water-based character would be a decent idea.

[2] In order to make the game successful, Nintendo and Tose aired animated television commercials, as well as selling some promotional merchandise, such as a music album that includes a few songs sung by Becky.

For instance, in the game, Starfy was walking inside the Pufftop Palace while carrying some stuff (including the Magic Jar holding the antagonist, Ogura), until he trips and drops what he is carrying, causing the Magic Jar to fall into the ocean below the Pufftop Palace.

[citation needed] On release, Famitsu magazine scored the game a 30 out of 40,[4] and by the end of 2002 Densetsu no Stafy had sold a total of 291,616 copies in Japan.