Okay, I'm going to start with an assumption, and then I'm going to make some clarifications with today's Fun Game Friday.
Firstly, the assumption. I'm going to guess that you weren't aware that in 1995, a Sailor Moon RPG was released for SNES. I feel that it's safe to make this assumption for a few reasons. Mainly because, well, it was released only in Japan. Also, I'm gonig to say that anybody who reads this isn't a very big fan of Sailor Moon (as far as I can tell)
Now, the clarifications. Despite what you might think, I'm not a Sailor Moon fan. Yes, okay, I have the dolls, and I import the shows from Japan, but it's not a big deal, really.
No, in all seriousness, the only thing I know about Sailor Moon is that it was a cartoon that was on before Dragon Ball Z when I was little. It was like one of those shows they had to trick us kids into watching.
Despite these things, I was still surprised by the existence of this game. I wasn't really surprised that they would make a video game based on a popular anime. That's to be expected. But what I was surprised by was the fact that this game is an RPG--and a decent one at that.
(sorry for no sound!!! I just can't seem to nail the whole sound part of videos yet...)
Thankfully, it's been tranlated into English so schmucks like us can enjoy it.
Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon: Another Story is built on your basic RPG elements, and plays a lot like a Final Fantasy game. You play through story and fight monsters when the plot calls for it. In fact, one noticable difference from other RPGs is in the fighting system. Instead of MP, you have EP. EP is like a one-time-use sort of thing. What seems like lazy programming at first, actually makes the game considerably challenging later on. You have to balance out which techniques you use on later boss fights, because you only get to use 12 max for the duration of the fight. This is only made harder by having EP resoring items be hard to find.
The world graphics are particularily crisp, bright and snappy, and definitely more than expected. However, the animations are choppy and could use a lot of work.
The story is obviously for Sailor Moon fans, and I hate to say it, but I haven't been paying too much attention to it so far.
Either way,I think you should give it a try. I did find a nice site that goes into lots more detail if you're interested: http://www.fantasyanime.com/animerpgs/pssm.htm
The site has more stuff than you can imagine; music, walkthrough, maps--I actually have my wallpaper set this one right now from the site. Feel free to laugh.
And that's that.
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