Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon - Another Story (1995, SNES/SFC English Gameplay 2023)
2Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon - Another Story (Bishōjo Senshi Sailor Moon: Another Story) is a JRPG for the Super Nintendo/Famicom. It was Developed and Published by Angel, and released in Japan on 22nd September 1995. The Fan-Translation was first released by Bishoujo Senshi Translations in 1999.
NOTE: This game is set between the 3rd and 4th seasons of the anime and thus cannon to the series.
STORY: 16/20
A sorceress named Apsu arrives from the 30th century. She has formed a group from Crystal Tokyo and orders them to alter the past in order to change the future to her liking, with the goal to obtain the Silver Crystal. Apsu and her followers succeed in changing the fates of defeated villains bringing them all back to life and turning reformed and healed people back to the evil side. With advice from the ghosts of the Four Kings of Heaven, Sailor Moon and the rest of the girls must set out to regain the Rose Crystal, and the Golden Crystal in order to change Sailor Moon's destiny back and to save Crystal Tokyo.
SOUND: 18/20
The music ain't bad, there's a few tracks I recognize and a few new ones, all nicely composed and a pleasent to listen to as you play. There's quite a few sound effects and a few voice-overs used for certain skills, so that's a nice touch also. Some voice-overs I have noticed sound a little garbled in places, i'm not sure if that's due to SNES/SFC limitations or what..? but it's noticeable. Over all though, there's not really much to complain about on this category unless you have a short ear-span and want to listen to your own music whilst you play.
GRAPHICS: 18/20
Graphically, I liked what I seen but if I was to be REAL picky.. then i'd say the out-of-combat sprites for the girls look slightly less detailed than they do in battle as where the enemy battlers and out of battle sprites for them look fine, you'd think the developers would have paid more attention to the stars of the game but nope! The towns, houses, rooms, battle screen are all very detailed and look lived in and cluttered which is nice to see. The train station's bullet train is great, that looks really cool but as with a few other things during hte game.. the angle looks a bit off compared to it's surroundings.
GAMEPLAY: 16/20
SO there's not really much to do in the game, get from point A to B, read the usually text heavy story dialogue, defeat the bad guy and move on. There's not much exploring to be done either as there's not much chests to find and there's NO secrets or anything like that to discover. You get to play as all the girls from the Anime which is nice, and they all have their own skills, uses, attacks, and even voice sounds. The game CAN be a little grindy for the most part so for thsoe who don't like grindy rpg games then I fear this might be a bit of a hit for you. Your skills use crystal points (CP) which you get more as you level over time and they replenish after battle too, these are used to cast skills, spells, and such but can also be renewed through the use of items. This CP system can make some battles a bit of a challenge when you need to manage your CP and use items to replenish them during battles, making some boss battles challenging. The game itself really aint that hard, it's just grindy in most parts and baarely presents a challenge short of managing the CP in battles. There's also a cool system where you can do joint character attacks too but some are such a pain to set u p and get working it seems hardly worth the trouble.
TRANSLATION: 18/20
Whilst the translation for the story is pretty great it is rather long winded, so expect a lot of reading during the playable bits. I didnt spot much in the way of anything untranslated but there were a few minor graphical issues, this could be due to the way I was playing the game. I know a few emulators has issues running this game perfectly still so there's that problem with those of you whoe are going to try this out using emulators. That said, the translation over all is a nice piece of work by Bishoujo Senshi Translations.
OVER ALL: 86/100
It's really not a bad game, JRPG fans and Sailor Moon fans will love this game, but others might not enjoy it due to the amount of grind present. Would I recommend this game today? Yeah! Why not..? It's a decent RPG for the system with a few minor flaws but it's cute, and who can't resist to play a game full of your favourite Sailors.. LOL!
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