Sailor Moon and Sailor Moon R (16-bit)

Sailor Moon and Sailor Moon R
Protagonist(s): Sailor Moon Sailor Mercury Sailor Mars Sailor Jupiter Sailor Venus Tuxedo Mask Sailor Chibi Moon (Sailor Moon R only) Genre(s): Beat 'em up Platform(s): Super Nintendo Entertainment System Mega Drive Release Date: SNES JP: August 27, 1993 EU: November, 1994 Mega Drive JP: July 8, 1994 Sailor Moon R December 29, 1993 Developer(s): Angel (SNES) Arc System Works, TNS (Mega Drive) Publisher(s): Bandai, Angel (SNES) Ma-Ba (Mega Drive) Country: Japan

Sailor Moon and Sailor Moon R is a beat 'em up games developed by Angel for SNES, Arc System Works and TNS for Mega Drive and published by Angel and Bandai for SNES, and Ma-Ba for Mega Drive. Sailor Moon for SNES released in 1993 in Japan and 1994 in Europe (specifically in france), Sailor Moon R, on the other hand is released only in Japan on December 1993.

Good Qualities

Main

1. Both game is stay to source material from Anime and Manga
2. Both of the graphics are good for 16-bit game standards.
   • The sequel is even better with slightly improvement for the graphics, like having nicer, smooth and clean graphics.
3. Sailor Scout does have signature attack to increasing damage the enemy player.
4. The difficulty is absolutely balanced, while some of them are easy, it's absolutely fun to play.
5. Both of the ending of these game is absolutely decent and it's stay to the source material.
6. The soundtrack is absolutely good of both games.
7. The voice over sounds is clean and easy to hearing it while you're playing this.
8. The bosses of both games is very interesting and well balanced. These bosses has own attack patterns to dodge.

Sailor Moon

1. The game have 5 characters, each characters have different special attack and basic attack. For example:
   • Venus have a whip and it considered the easiest character.
   • Jupiter can Suplex the enemies.
   • Moon can headbutt the enemies.
2. The Genesis version have the opening cutscenes.
3. The Genesis version have Queen Metalia as a Bonus Boss that you can beat if you play on hard difficulty.

Sailor Moon R

1. The gameplay is once again like predecessor, but there's new devastating attack for each character. Each character has own abilities.
2. There's new Chibiusa mode, this mode is good for newcomers.
3. There's new Battle Mode, you fight against player and it's very fun to play.

Bad Qualities

Main

1. A lot of monsters are become the enemies, but it makes sense that the monsters are just filler from the anime.
2. The stage design is pretty mediocre and pretty basic.
3. Some soundtrack is ranging from mediocre to pretty dull.
4. While the difficulty is challenging, is somehow pretty easy to get through, especially for hard difficulty.
5. Weak sound effect on both games.

Sailor Moon

1. The french version has a lot translation and grammar error. This is the reason why this game is poor sales in France and the sequel of this game is never localized and published due to poor sales and translation issue in that country.

Sailor Moon R

1. Sailor Venus is no longer uses whip, instead they uses melee attack, making this character is almost useless.
2. While graphics is good, it seems that this game looks like a reskins from previous Sailor Moon games.

Reception

Both of them are received mixed reception for critics at launch and retroactively for gamers are received positive reception. It praised for gameplay, vocal, controls, and the story are grasp to the source material, while it was criticism for difficulty and lack of replay value that people want to play again.

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