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Sailor Moon Another Story chapter one does a pretty good job at introducing characters, enemies, and stakes. It& #39;s quickly paced and concise, thrusting you to the multi-part chapter 2.
Mercury& #39;s part of chapter 2 is weird. Within a level up you can quickly use a spell that targets everyone to OHKO all random encounters. Encounter rates are super high, but there& #39;s zero challenge... until...
When I first encountered the Nabu, the Oppositio counterpart to Mercury, she gets defeated quickly within a few rounds. After a lengthy cutscenes she fights again, poisons me, barely takes any damage, and I die.
So I grinded up a few levels, bought a ton of items, and challenged her again. Her first form is defeated in 2 moves. Ok, maybe this will go well. Round 2 takes almost an hour. She was only taking 12 damage per hit with my best spells and I quickly ran out of MP restoratives.
Ok, Mercury& #39;s section is down. I& #39;ll use the lesson I learned to make Mars& #39;s section not so bad. I decide to stop grinding pretty early at level 16 and take on Nergal, Mars& #39;s Oppositio, to see where I& #39;m at and hoping not to over-level so there& #39;s still good challenge.
Nergal is defeated in one hit. I don& #39;t know what lessons I should take from this... Maybe the game isn& #39;t quite as good as I remember. Hopefully Jupiter& #39;s section is better. She is my favorite. I& #39;ll try not to grind I guess.
What& #39;s up with all the casual sexism from NPCs? I get that this was made in the early 90s, but Sailor Moon should be a bit more girl power especially in the 90s! Gimme some Riot Grrrl!
EXCUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUSE ME?!‽ I& #39;M SORRY, CASUAL SEXISM, CASUAL RACISM, AND THIS GROWN ASS CANADIAN MAN IS MAKING A PASS AT A 15 YEAR OLD?! OH MY GOD, IS THIS THE TRANSLATION& #39;S FAULT OR WAS THIS IN THE ORIGINAL?!
Ok, so this seems to be a Romeo and Juliet story that takes place across to hidden villages inside a Canadian National Park. Appropriate for the love hungry Jupiter. I love her, I am her.
At first none of the girls in the village talk to you thinking that you& #39;re going to get in the way of Romeo and Juliet... I mean George and Mary. Militant devotion to their OTP.
I liked it better when they didn& #39;t talk
I think Marduk is my favorite of the Oppositio. Hey design is cool and she works well as Jupiter& #39;s counter. This chapter is really weird though.
I once again OHKO the boss and what I thought was going to be a love story grinded to a halt since the big twist is George and Mary are cousins unbeknownst to them. I love we& #39;re at least getting some good back story on the Oppositio motivation and drive.
Oh yeah, they& #39;re Canadian. I forgot. Well, let& #39;s celebrate a mission well done with poutine and a cheap beer!
Despite some real cringe moments Jupiter& #39;s section of chapter 2 is my favorite so far. The plot of it was fun.
While I have played through this game before I haven& #39;t done so since high school and I& #39;m using the new translation that dropped last year, so a lot of this feels fresh and new. The new translation so far reads naturally and I would say it& #39;s a really good.
I& #39;m going to continue this thread, but from what I& #39;ve played so far even if you have already played through this game in the past I think you should play it again with the new translation. I mostly think it& #39;s for sailor Moon fans to enjoy, but it& #39;s an ok RPG.
A lot of the flaws would have been more excusable had it come out early in the SNES life, but this game came out in & #39;95. In the US we got Chrono Trigger and Earthbound that year. While it never got an international release I don& #39;t think it would have reviewed well.
But it would have been a good idea to localize if only for the fact that Sailor Moon was airing stateside and as I recall was marketed to hell and back. Anyway, I& #39;ll be getting back to playing and reacting now.
