Ristar 32: Midnight

Ristar Midnight, as it is most commonly refered to. Was made as a spiritual succesor to Ristar 6, a fan favorite for it's lack of Ristar inclusion, and open world gameplay. Unfortunately the developers did infact add Ristar in this one, as a secret character. Dampening the people's rating of the game. Although more recently it has become a cult classic as NoRistar% speedruns became more mainstream, leading people to think he wasn't in the game at all. And romhacks excluding his inclusion all together. It revolves around Barkely the Corn Bread Demon around the time of RIstar 31. As he must stop Pizzar from ennacting his plans of world domination in his universe.
== Gameplay ==
Barkely must travel along multiple worlds in the Italiano system to amass an army to rival Pizzar's, going around 8 different open worlds doing sidequests, fullfilling missions, and finding the secret pasta ingredients to unlock the secret final weapon. Peppino. The planets are as follows.
Mussulton: A coastal planet where most land masses are small but close together, creating a mass transportation and isolated society. However as of late the planet has been slowly heating up, causing mass swaths of salt to form and encrust all the beaches, ports, and boats. Causing travel to be at a near standstill, collapsing the economy and killing thousands. When Barkely arrives he ends on the island of Guillrmor. A local crop growing community due to its high soil density and relatively low beach count. The salt has begun encroching on the soil and seeping in, causing all the crops to die and shrink. Before Barkely can go to other islands he must find a way to purify the soil so the people will give him a boat. One of the last trees left, a lime tree contains the solution, as the lime sucks out the salt in the soil, a temporary solution but for now it works as Barkely obtains a ship to go to the next of 3 islands. Cluns: A island being attacked by leeches. Beckinrid: A town with an salt ridden water system. and Hulestd: A colony where the air is so dry it chokes you to death. After helping all 3 islands Barkely learns of where the heat has been coming from. A remote island on the other side of the world where Pizzar has set up a green gas emmision generator, destroying all of the ozone on the planet. When Barkely disables the machine he realizes the planet may never fully recover, but he has convinced the people to assist him in his quest. And so he continues. The secret ingredient on this planet cannot be obtained until Delstross has been cleared, allowing enough time for the ozone to somewhat come back. As Guillrmor can grow crops again, they hand Barkely Oregano.
Planar: A world made entirely of glass after a meteor struck it billions of years ago and melted all the sand. Now however the glass citizens have discovered that deep within "The crack" a large crevice of cracked glass leading thousands of miles into the planet sand particles have been found floating to the surface. Causing coarse ground near it scratching and sanding the glass people, slowley killing them as they walk by sliding. Many sidequests are in the town of Fracture but you will be restricted until Barkely stops the sand from flowing. The massive reflection of the sun off the planet causes slow heat damage on Barkely if not in The Crack or until he beats Stratus where Lan Vilmer gives him an umbrella opening much of the planet up. In The Crack Barkely comes across half glass/half sand golems, ancient people from when the meteor hit. They have been trying to reach the surface and join their bretheren but the suns reflection is so hot it nearly melts them into all glass, killing them in the process as it's too painful to bear. With sand on the surface they can block the reflections and cool the planet. Unknowingly killing the glass people in the process. Pizzar had given them a large bellows to blow the sand to the surface. But for Barkley to stop it he must convince the Mayors of both people to meet and plan a way for each side to meet and co-exist. The secret ingredient can be found in the Depths of Crag when Barkely helps Hulf lift a boulder of ore to the capital. If Barkely walks into one of the cracks in the ground made by falling stalagtites he will find a cave of crystal glass, and laying on an alter. Dough. The Dough can be cooked in the sun on the surface by plaing it on the ground for 1 minute.
Stratus: A gas giant where the insides of the planet have somewhat solidified due to the sheer density and cold of the planet. Causing clouds that can walked on. Ameba like creatures inhabit the entire planet filtering the chemicals in the air and releasing dense Argon clouds, the clouds can only be stepped on for a few seconds before falling to the center of the planet and dispersing into the atmosphere. Only one person is found here. Lan Vilmer, a single celled organism from the center of the planet studying life outside the cloud. He cannot leave the planet or else the lack of pressure from space will cause him to rupture and shred apart. Barkey can either travel to Planar or Delstross (Delstross opens at the same time as Stratus). In Planar he can get a pressurized glass suit that Lan can slip into, or in Delstross he can get a deep depths suit similar to his own to acclimate Lan's pressure at all times. Both fullfill the task and have no differences incase the player has not gone to Delstross yet. When Lan exists the atmosphere he hands Barkely a gravity umbrella, allowing him to float to the center of the planet. At the center he finds more single celled organisms but none sentient like Lan. That is until Barkely comes across what seems to be a building made of dense cloud. The only one seen so far. Inside is Lan's writing on neon lights, detailing his plans of stealing all the intelligence on the planet and leaving to live a life of excess and "Off this lifeless gas giant". At Barkely reads this all the organisms enter the room and begin joining into a multi-celled organism. It has limited speech and describes how Lan would never form a multi-cell prefering to use his own intelligence instead of combining many. The organisms can now only think when together and barely at that. Promising Barkley they will assist him in any way possible. The secret ingredient can be found when Barkely first enters the center of the planet, turning around and entering the Xenon Drifts Barkely will see a flame tucked in the corner before The Winds if he picks it up he will acquire the eternal flame.
Delstross: A water planet where all life only lives within the lightless depths. The very who live on the limited land space tell Barkely that lately the light from the sun has been breaching the water deeper than ever, sun burning and bleaching the people below. They hand him a spare Pressure Suit, a rare item allowing Barkely to enter the depths without fear of being crushed and drowning. In the city of Phores Barkely recieves no hints at what to do next. The player can do sidequests but the main goal is unknown until fullfilling at least 5 sidequests unlocking the final one for the area at the time "Ocean Man". The angler fish Glgglg tells Barkely of an area of mass light off the Flrsh Dorp Crags, an area of heat vents from deep underground volcanic activity. At the Flrsh Drop Crags the tube worm people restrict Barkely from entering, hearing tale of his quest to help the people. However the increase in light allows them to acquire more heat, and has recently made the heat vents light up themselves proving a maelstrom of chemicals to eat. With Barkely's inability to enter the heat vent den, the true location of the light. He must get an ink bomb from either a rare drop from the Dpthrd Squid or if Stratus has been completed, a ball of chemical gas. The ink will blind the guards or the ball of chemicals will daze the tube worms by exploding due to the heat. In the center of the heat den the vents give off a large amount of light nearly blinding Barkely. Pizzar had placed an electrical blast cap in the vents causing most of the chemicals in the water to burn in a chemical reaction, creating a massive burst of light. When Barkely disables the device the electric shock disables Barkely's pressurizer giving him 5 minutes to escape the heat vent den and go back to the surface. As he does this he sees the bottom of the water slowly darken as he no longer can see it. The surface people assure him they will not forget what he has done, and they will help him. However they take his pressure suit to try and fix it in the meantime. The secret ingredient is found in the Underbeach after completing Ocean Man where a randomly generating fish man will give Barkely a can of Anchovies he found.
Botox Borat 4: A planet pretty similar to earth. The society however is made up of 10 seperate continents, Comicord, Botox Borat 1-8, and Afteral. Throughout history all the Botox Borats have been at war with eachother whichever winning naming the planet after their rule. Comicord and Afteral have remained neutral for the entire war. Scholars from each have deemed the true name of the planet MasPain, when before the war started it was one of the few names left in historical record. Barkely is unable to travel to any of the Borats as they are once again in a war and arrives in Comicord. The king Chalmer asks him to stop the war, and all of the warriors will be at his disposal. However Pizzar has gotten to them first, and whoever wins the war will become the planet ruler for the rest of time. He leads Barkely to a large map with toy figures on it detailing the positions, armies, and strategies of all 8 Borats. The game enters an RTS style mode where Barkely must co-ordinate the armies of Comicord and Afteral to defeat and take down all 8 Borats in 16 seperate missions. When winning all mission Barkley can travel to the final level Botox Borat 4, the winner of the last war. Upon completing the final mission you exit RTS mode and can now freely move in Botox Borat 4, and Comicord Castle. The king of Botox Borat 4 Andrew trips on the stairs when charging at Barkely killing him instantly. And making Barkely the winner of the war, and king of Botox Borat 4. He names the planet MasPain for all of time and recruits all the soldiers from every country to his army. The secret ingredient is found in the kitchen of Comicord Castle where the chef Kiroby hands Barkely cheese.
Halodren: A planet where it constantly rains, making the ground a constant mire and humid beyond belief. Thanks to the umbrella Barkely got the rain doesn't bother him much. After exploring the Murk Fields Barkely comes across a village of mosquito people. They warn Barkely that recently the rain has begun corroding the ground, and killing the plants. Acid Rain says Barkely. But the mosquitos don't know what that means and just request Barkley stops it. There is barely any sidequests on the planet as it's mostly barren marshlands. After exploring the Hollow a mudslide traps Barkely within a cave slowly filling up with water. As Barkely escapes the cave he exits on the top of a mountain looking over the entire, almost barren landscape. Only a few swamps and peat moss plantations remain in view. That's when Barkely comes up with an idea. He returns to Mussulton and gathers salt from the massive salt storage in Beckinrid and plants it in the ground by the village. As the ground becomes less and less wet as the salt is so plentiful the rain cannot stop it, he sees things rising to the surface. Trash, carcasses, and other vile. The planet hadn't been touched by Pizzar, he had most likely skipped it. It was worthless land. The mosquitos had been to blame for poisoning their own ground. At the top of that mountain Barkely realized that this place fucking sucked and nobody but the inhabitants would want to be here or use this place. The mosquitos promise to change and hesitate to help Barkely, but say they will. The secret ingredient can be found in the Phosorma Mallows beneath the willow tree. Under it had grown a vast variety of mushrooms.
Jylstryde: A molten region of former volcanic activity. Pizzar had drilled into the planets core and cooled it. Causing all the lava chambers to solidify and the planet to freeze over. All that is left is a frozen wasteland of rock and mountains. The entire planet has no sidequests, or hints as to where to go. By going to the Phyndra Wastes, passing into Dyllzyf Barkely finds a frozen town, all the houses are empty, the inhabitants a race of igneous rock people. Did not move, they had been frozen in place due to their body temperatures lowering to much. They had all died from a form of asphyxiation. Past the town lies a massive crater, where pressumably Pizzar had entered the core. Barkely is unable to enter the core, it's too cold, and too deep into the earth, he would be trapped inside. And so he leaves, unable to do anything. The secret ingredient is in the 5th house of Dyllzyf, in the chest inside the kitchen he finds a tomato.
Italiana 5: Homeplanet of the Pastafarians, the planet itself remains a mystery to nearly everyone. It's location is somehow unknown. Barkely however found a leftover note on Jylstryde of it's last known location, perhaps left by one of the last people to live on the planet. Before he can enter Italiana he must go to all the other planets and get his army. It is optional but at this point Barkely can grab the people of Jylstryde and put them on his ship. If you do so they will regain consciousness before the final battle, and join you. Italiana is a planet made entirely of cheese, at the epicenter rests the castle. "The Hut" it's named. Because nobody outpizzas it. When Barkely lands on the planet with his army and all out brawl begins with the Pastafarian army Pizzar had amassed. As that happens Barkely storms the castle and confronts Pizzar.
Pizza Tower: A bullet hell labyrinth filled with pizza enemies off the coast of the landing platform on Italiana 5. An ancient and important part of the Italiana people's history and religion. Every month on the 4th the denizens gather around it to bask in it's shadow. Nobody knows why they do this. The Pizza Tower has been infested overtime with a rotting cheese fungus infecting the local flora and fauna creating the hellscape inside. If people did enter it for religious reasons, it would be considered ritual sacrifice. Although some do venture inside as either a test of strength or perhaps suicide. Many corpses can be found inside on almost every floor. Preserved by the cheese by creating a almost corpse mold on each body. Perhaps mummifying them, or simply mimicking their appearence to draw people closer. Each floor gets more dangerous as the mass of cheese grows ever the smellier. Barkely must travel each floor destroying all enemies and blasting the cheese off the doorways to the next floors. At the top is the cheese mass guarding whatever was sealed at the top of the tower for whatever reason.
== Cutscene ==
==== Talking with Lan ====
Lan: It's a hard life Barkely, knowing you are the only one on this barren air who has the chance to leave it.
Barkely: Is there none other like you?
Lan: ...No, for a single celled organism to gain such intellegence is quite a feat in itself I have learned.
Barkely: Trust me there are some multi-celled organisms I am surprised are somehow intelligent (he glances off for a moment).
Lan: Such is the price of sentience, but on your planets you have the ground, weather, animals, trees, all those interesting things. All those. Brains.
Barkely: Do you not have a brain? In a sense.
Lan: No, my superior thoughts are simply just some close electrical connections. Nothing...More.
Barkely: The planets of which I have visited. They are filled with chaos, I used to deal in such. Chaos. I try to be better now. Being here fills me with a calm mindset. It's like a spring breeze. As I watch thunder clouds in the distance.
Lan: Thunder is the only weather we get around here. I've grown tired of electrical discharges. The winds blow but they do not blow anywhere, the clouds shift but they do not shift for any important reason. The storms rage on different clouds, but those clouds have no reaction to them. This planet is but a barren waste to me. I could live thousands of years, millions even given the right mindset. And yet not even one of those will be different than the others. I could live thousands of your lifetimes Barkely, and none of them will even compare to a single week to you.
Barkely: So you have grown tired of existence?
Lan: I have grown tired of this Planet. Living is something I am fine with, I have already lived this long, it is only recently I have had the chance to think of something more. But once again this planet limits me to a life of destitution. I know how I can escape, a pressure suit. But as you can see barely any solid material exists here. Aside from I, those similar to me, and perhaps the rare stone that lands. Of course I cannot make a suit out of the other living beings, they have the same limitations as I. This planet is so massive it gives off immense pressure, I get too close to the surface and my skin ruptures. I rip apart at the seems. It is the same with everything here.
Barkely: What would you do if you ever got out?
Lan: ...That I.. Do Not Know.
Barkely: There is not much here for me either it seems, not so far. If anything I can help you get off of here.
Lan: Yes that is perfect. Please, all I need is a pressurization suit. I can do the rest. In return I can give you something I was able to craft. An umbrella that will allow you to descend at any gravity. It will allow you to enter the center of the planet without the strongest gravitational pull ripping you through the clouds.
Barkely: Sounds perfect for me. I'll see what I can do.
Lan: Yes, perfect. I'll see you then.
==== Final Cutscene ====
Barkely: Pizzar I have finally arrived to defeat you!
Pizzar: Silly Barkely, why would you spend your time in a dimension such as this? I thought your silly multiverse gun made you uncaring of any world.
Barkely: You threaten my home Pizzar, my true home. You knew this would happen, how else would you have drained my multiverse juice. I'm stuck dead in the water here.
Pizzar: I know nothing of your sily multiverse juice. But yes it is true, I was going to attack Planet Ohio, cornbread capitol of the universe.
Barkely: Wrong Capital
Pizzar: What
Barkely: With an A.
Pizzar: Fuck off *He fires a sauce beam at Barkely*
Barkely: So whats your plan here? To take over the worlds? The galaxy? You know that's an impossible feat!
Pizzar: Impossible sure, however with power comes influence, you already saw how I manipulated those planets. I could do it do more and more. Selling the cure for the faults they never knew I created. It's an infinite loop Barkely.
Barkely: That's just what the war on drugs was you dumbass
Pizzar: Than call me Rinold Reastar because i'm starting the war on the universe!
Barkely: I'm not calling you that
Rinold Reastar: Too late!
Barkely: NOOOOOOOOOOOOO
Pizzar: Ok so do you have a plan to stop me or are you gonna stand there?
Barkely: What oh yeah, THIS! *He pulls out the emotion ray, which he had the whole time*
Pizzar: What? I don't get it
Barkely: I've been saving this thing for over 40 years to use on somebody, and it looks like i'm about to cash out!
Pizzar: Impossible. A meer trinket cannot possi-
Barkely fires the emotion ray at Pizzar causing him to cry and scream in anguish as his mind melts in a fine sauce as his brain overloads on emotion causing total collapse, Pizzar dies from what can only be called. A Mind Fuck.
Barkely: Heugh, that'll teach you to mess with my corn. *He places Pizzars melting corpse in the Multiverse Gun*. This should last me enough time. Enough time to save...Him. I'm coming Ristar!
Barkely opens a portal in the multiverse and jumps in.
==== Post Credits Scene ====
Barkely is seen traveling through the portal, the sides show a rainbow of colour as he passes each second, and yet it all seems in slow motion. Before his inner monologue.
Barkely: I may have saved my home planet. But was it truely worth it? Pizzar was right, I do have an almost infinite pool of universes. And yet...I always find myself coming back here. While the multiverse may contain an infinite amount of adventure and attonement for me. Perhaps I know I can never truely make up for what I did back then. Make it up to myself. Or perhaps it's a calling to me back to villianly. As time goes on I see myself going either direction... Maybe I just need to stay in this dimension for longer. To know my version of Ristar and Dark Ristar. These 2 seem to be the most important afteral. Their fued never ends as most Ristar like villians. And yet why do they seem to be of a grander scale? Maybe one day I will have to explore the dimension of which I have only heard of existing here after I help Ristar. Ghost Town. Perhaps then I will find my answers for what I seek on what makes these 2 so special. But that will have to wait. I have buissiness.
== Peppino ==
If all secret ingredients have been found then upon landing on Italiana a hidden temple will rise from the ground, entering the Pizza Dome is the final dungeon of the game. At the top a man in a chefs hat is encased in frozen pizza sauce. Next to him lies an oven. By combining all of the ingredients Barkely makes a pizza and places it at an alter. The sauce slowely melts releasing Peppino from him tomb. He stares at Barkely and utters one sentance "In your time of need I will come again" as he jumps into Barkley's pocket not to be seen for the rest of the game.
== New Game + ==
After Unlocking Peppino New Game + is added if you create a new game. Making Ristar a playable character, replacing Barkely's projectile moveset with his guns and portal hopping with a melee physics based moveset with a higher jump instead of a double jump. Only one cutscene was changed however if you play as Ristar. This also unlocks a difficulty slider option, allowing you to customize most enemies health, damage, and AI.
Upon beating Pizzar with Ristar a new planet is unlocked Planet Ohio.
Planet Ohio: The entire planet is just a cornfield. You can explore it for hours on end and nothing will happen. There is barely any scenery and no hills or mountains. No people. Only the wind rustling the corn can be heard. It is unknown what secrets, if any, it may hide. Or if there is a deeper meaning to it. However if you continue for walking for an hour straight. Ristar starts talking, and eventually runs into someone.
Ristar: I fucking hate Ohio, why does it just gotta be all cornfields.
Ristar: ...I'm not gonna find anything here am I?
???: Ristar
Ristar: Oh goddamnit as soon as I say something, yeah what's up voice in my head?
???: I'm not a voice in your head... uh maybe.
Ristar: Mhm come on reveal yourself im not gonna talk to corn for an hour.
As Ristar says this a white looking spirit appears infront of him, another Ristar
???: Greetings Ristar I am Watchful Weary Whitestar, I have come to help you.
Ristar: How so, i'm pretty sure New Game + isn't canon.
WWW: Nows not the time to be meta Ristar, nobody likes that anymore remember Rick and Morty?
Ristar: Yeah I fucking hate the new seasons Rick is just a reddit monger now.
WWW: Yeah I know right? Anyway shut up for a second. I am your "Guardian angel" So to speak
Ristar: Is the angel uncapitalized for a reason?
WWW: Yeah, i'm not that much of an angel just more so a Guardian.
Ristar: Yeah makes sense I mean religion isn't real anyway.
WWW: Yeah everyone knows that I said shut up dude.
Ristar: You keep giving me thing to talk about here i'm so bored I can talk about basically anything you know.
WWW: Oh god please stop talking I swear.
Ristar: I'm just saying if you wanna say something just say it.
WWW: Well thats wh-
Ristar: Please go ahead.
WWW:...
Ristar: ...
WWW: Anyway, as you know the memories of everyone are in great danger. But I fear there is much more at stake going on right now Ristar.
Ristar: How much we talking here?
WWW: Paragraph worthy.
Ristar: Oh god
WWW: When Ghost Town became Neo Ghost Town the realm known as Ghost Town remained intact. It's essence and being was not written over, it was simply displaced. Allowing Leukemia Larry and Clown to return as their souls were simply brought back from where they were displaced. The original Ghost Town remains and has began a transmutation. While the original residents of Ghost Town now reside in Neo Ghost Town, the original Ghost Town has new residents. Time Rippers. Ghost Town was vital point in the dimensions, a lock on a many chained fence so to speak. While all universes converge into it, it itself is one single entity, only one Ghost Town existed. But now that there is two Ghost Towns the universe balence has been shaken. In the dimensional weakness of Ghost Town has allowed for being beyond time and space to tear into its fibers and enter our dimension. Imagine it as a sandwhich. The multiverse is the insides of the sandwhich, a multifacited ever changing form of filling, all put together in such a way that it can be called a sandwhich by one thing. The bread, Ghost Town. Beyond that sandwhich lies a higher sandwhich, but this sandwhich is mismatched, the bread is in the middle, the tomato inside the bread, green olives instead of black, and other such sandwhich things that means its just a higher wronger sandwhich. Ghost Towns displacement linked the two sandwhiches with a straw, allowing the Time Rippers to enter. To enter a stable dimensional fold. They will displace this dimension and set time on an infinite and permantly ended loop. It will be an endless agony that you experience every second. A century will be a second and all of it will be pain. They wish to deconstruct our dimension to summon their dark lord. Time Feel. You must not allow them to find a way out of Ghost Town and into Neo Ghost Town, it will give them acess to all other dimensions as they begin to destroy all of them.
Ristar: But how do you know this?
WWW: I am this sandwhiches Time Feel so to speak. You may consider me God.
Ristar: You just agreed that religion isn't real.
WWW: I'm not a religion cause i'm real pay attention.
Ristar: But how can I stop this from happening?
WWW: What you need to do i-
As that happens the screen fades to black like an old TV turning off. The screen zooms out to show Ristar in his bed. He promptly wakes up.
Ristar: Oh must've been a dream... Oh was it just, a fake memory? Oh I don't know anymore...
END
== Trivia ==
* It is unknown how Barkely knows about Ghost Town, however in the cut content found within the game a ghost NPC would be found on Jylstryde the only one there. It is presumed he would mention Ghost Town in some capacity.
* Midnight is the first game not to have any reference to dark ristar at any point. Nobody even says the word gay.
* All explorable areas of Jylstryd have a Y replace one vowel however it is unknown what the proper vowel would be for each Y.
* Despite MasPain being seemingly the largest planet in the game, you can only actually explore 2 main areas. The developers thought it would make people spend too much time trying to explore to gain nothing if they allowed for full exploration.
* Grey Ristar doesn't make a cameo like in 6, this is due to him being dead in Ristar 31. A rare bit of continuity.
* In the end credits if you got 100% you can see Lan floating off the distance in his suit. It is unknown if he will ever land on a planet.
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