CONTROL: TO BEGIN CLIC ICON SP UP and Down right and left arrows: SELECT MOUSE RIGHT BUTTON: PASS TEXT QUICKER MOUSE SELECTION: ENABLE MENUS FIRST CHOICE GAME BEGINS SECOND IS A SPECIAL ONE ON ONE WITH THE FAIRY TO QUIT LAST CHOICE ON MENU CHOICE 2 TO QUIT WHILE PLAYING WAIT UNTIL YOU ARE IN THE CARD GAME RIGHT CLIC UNTIL YOU ARE THERE YOU WILL SEE THE CHOICES PICK THE LAST ONE TO MAIN MENU THEN FOLLOW THE EARLIER INSTRUCTIONS TO QUIT. COMPARTIBILITY: WINDOWS 95, 98 and XP NOT TESTED ON OTHER OPERATING SYSTEMS THIS GAMES TAKES THE WHOLE SCREEN STORY GRAPHICS AND GAME PLAY: Story: N/A The story from what I can see is pretty minimal. It's about a man who is visited by a tiny fairy who brings him a deck of cards. Any girl he meets he can challenge to this card game. Every time he wins he can control them. So more or less the man goes on a field day playing girls left and right. Graphics: 10/10 Graphics are just amazing. They're some of the best I've seen yet in a game, very detailed, nice vibrant colors, overall better than most games out there. Gameplay: 10/10 Gameplay is the strongest point.The game is played using a weird deck of cards. The idea is to collect sets of cards and perform combos with cards to do damage to your oppenent. I sat there for about 25 minutes with no clue what to do and soon enough I got the game totally down. I have even gone back to this game just to play the card game. The legnth unfortunately is pretty short but the replay value is there. There are a LOT of bonus modes that can be opened. Once you get good enough it'll be a breeze to open them all. And another great thing is that for people who can't read Japanese at all (like me), the game is still totally playable. The weakest point of the game is the music which sounds like music ripped from a porno movie. Bottom line, Star Platinum is a game worth getting. WALKTHROUGH Well, since the card game seems to be the only way to really progress the story, I'd better give what insight I've gotten from this. Yeah, a lot of it seems to be luck. The key thing is trying to get a set of cards before you opponent. The best way to do this is to hopefully have a match of something and that the random card will give you a match too. Often enough though I've had times where I get one or no matches to the girl's getting a double match. When you end up feeding them, I.E.: You put out stuff, and the random card doesn't match, and they go and get a double match, First off, there's the Stardust, which is a min of 10 PLAIN cards. For every card past the 1st 10 is another 100 cusp that gets added on to your total. And yes, you can get dupes of the same PLAIN cards. There seems to be several sets of those. This is often the one to go for if you have shit in anything else and can snag a few double matches in a row. Than there's the cards with the rings on them. If you get 5 or more you get a RING. Same situation as the Stardust. 100 cusp, with an extra 100 for every card past the first 5. There's also a sub set to go for. The Gemini-Virgo-Scorpio ring cards have gems in them. You get these 3, you get jewelry. Worth 600 cusp. There's another set that are silverish, this is the platinum set. Also 600. Another thing to realize is that all ways you win can be cumulative. Say you get a Jewelry set, and you also have two other ring cards, and even possibly a Stardust. All that will be added together. That would net you 600+100+100. That's why whenever you have a victory, if you have any cards left, you have the option of CHARGE or ATTACK. If you ATTACK, you take that victory then and there. If you CHARGE, you both keep going, in the hopes that you can get another victory and add it on to the previous ones. My suggestion for this is, DON'T GET GREEDY! If you can easily make another victory, and the other has shit, go for it. But if they're down to almost nothing in cusp, if they have the potential to make a set of ANYTHING, DON'T CHARGE. I've snatched defeat from the jaws of victory one to many times by being greedy. Even when they were down to 200 cusp. Ok, some other sets I've seen, TRINE, which is the female cards, Aquarius-Virgo-Pisces, 600 cusp, though if you get Gemini in that set, it cranks up to 900. Another set is the Trihorn, Aries-Taurus-Capricorn. There's probably a 4th one for that set but I don't know what it is. Another sub set is the CHART where you get 5 of the animals or things together, it's like the Ring or Stardust. 100 cusp. I know these don't quite match up on the Zodialogical charts and such, but hey, it's just a game. Also there's 6 girls (7 if you count Jemmeny and Emminy separate) and then the main Fairy who came to visit you. Also, in the contents table, the second selection is a separate game that you can play, you each get 1500, but as one looses, the winner GETS the winnings. So that one can go on for a bit. I'll try and do a bit more research and post what I find. Hope this helps all. -------- - Sometimes during the gameplay, you find that some of the cards have a blue tint to them. These are usually the BIG cards, like one of the trihorns, one of the Gold cards, of one of the Jewelry or Platinums. When a card is tinted blue, it is useless in the sense that it CANNOT form any kind of pairing once you have it in your attack hand (ie: if you have a blued gold Aquarius, a normal Pices, and a normal [can't remember the other one], you CAN'T form a trinity). These are still go for collecting cards in play and for tossing out if you can't hit anything on the board. - If you right-click in the game once the main menu is displayed, this - um - thing will start to roll, showing a few of the signs and associated cards, but for those who are patient, after the fifth or sixth sign and card set, it will lay out all of the playable cards on the screen and start to show you the different combinations that can be made and their value. - If you ever get a chance to grab the Chart Libra (the one with the golden scales), DO IT, as it automatically adds one to your Star Dust pile, even though it isn't a faceless card. The nice thing about that is that it also adds to your Chart chances, too. - The sequence that Ceryn posted about all the female cards + the gold Gemini is a square, but there is also a set called a semisquare - all of the female golds + the gold Sagittarius - which is only worth 800. I hope this helps out a little more ------ > I'm trying to get together a guide for playing the card game. > any suggestions? Tips you've found? 1.) Don't get greedy for points. Especially with the first or second girls. There isn't enough room to play with. 2.) Pay attention to the darkened cards. If one of the trine or horn cards are darkened, don't waste time collecting those, unless other matches can help (stardust, ring, etc.). 3.) If you don't have any matches, try to play the lowest card you have that has been played recently. If you throw out a card that hasn't been played the girl is probably holding a match. That's all the tips I have right now. If I come up with more, I'll post them. ---------- The game itself list all of the possable combinations. It's one of the menu options. Option 6 if I remember correctly. Option 4 lets you view all of the CG that you've gotten so far as well as endings.