Star Parodier (スターパロジャー Sutā Parojā?) is a vertical-scrolling shooter developed by Kaneko and published by Hudson Soft, released on April 24, 1992 for the PC Engine CD-ROM². It is a parody-based spin-off of the Star Soldier series in the vein of Konami's Parodius games, and is the second spin-off title in the series after Hector '87.
The Japanese title is known as Star Paroja, a play on the pronunciation of "Soldier" (Soruja) in Japanese. Online sources would retitle it as Star Parodier to match the ending of "Soldier". An English version of the game, titled Fantasy Star Soldier, was planned for release on the TurboGrafx-16 CD, but it was soon canceled. A PlayStation Portable port of the game, included in the compilation title Soldier Collection, was released in 2008, as was a Wii Virtual Console port; however, this port would be delisted in March 2014. The game was also included in the list of games available for the PC Engine CoreGrafx Mini in March 19, 2020.
Gameplay[]
The player takes control of one of three characters: The "Paro Caesar", Bomberman and an anthropomorphic PC Engine console, and must make it to the end of each stage while destroying enemies and collecting items.