Thread 11866827

Let's talk about sailor moon related games.

>>11866827 (OP)
the beat em up for Genesis is mid, I got bored and turned it off after three stages
the SNES fighters are complete kusoge, I love them

I frequented this general electronics store that also had video games, lots of games. Many of them were bootlegs from china, especially for Mega Drive, there were practically no official Sega stuff here, it was all bootleg, even the consoles.
I kept seeing the Sailor Moon box art, and I remember not knowing what to think of it, they looked very weird (probably the first time I saw a shoujo-style anime girl, or an anime girl at all other than Heidi and Lyn Minmay maybe). At this point I didn't know what it was, just a random game, looked too girly for me to even care, but the cover and the sailor scouts stood out to me, clearly.
Fast forward some months, maybe a year, and Sailor Moon starts being aired on TV. Initial reaction: "lol, for girls, stupid", but somehow kept watching, it was entertaining. Kind of hated the main character though, I thought she was actually too whiny and stupid.
I ended up watching the whole thing and becoming a fanatic, the last 2 episodes were incredible, 10/10 (I'm talking season 1, didn't know there was more).
It's around this time when I finally came across the game again, and I got it, and I loved it. Played it religiously, loved the graphics, the music, the levels, everything. In my kid mind, it felt as if I was "destined" to play this game, so to speak. It felt special to me.
https://youtu.be/sUWvNY_Ne-8?si=LzVpZEiZNbmvIN_s

It still amazes me how much more massively 'epic' Sailor Moon feels compared to every other anime. The way it builds up the characters' lives as regular people, makes them feel like they naturally are part of a larger world where they co-exist with everything, and at the same time incorporates it all part of this millennium spanning story that involves the rise and fall of kingdoms, it's something nothing else convincingly pulls off.

With something like Legend of the Galactic Heroes, there's not remotely the same sense that the directors understood how to convey the "sense of life" you get from Sailor Moon, so you end up with this absolutely massive narrative, but where the individual parts feel so much more stale and mechanical. Even with something with a much more similar premise, like Please Save My Earth, the focus is much more on this kind of almost petty shoujo style drama, and it never really conveys the "sense of significance" that SM does.

It feels bizarre how this thing is somehow tied with such a lame and repetitive MotW format that is at odds with both the subject matter and its scope, even if it greatly succeeds at doing far better than 'just' being such a show.

Sailor Moon fighting games and beat em ups are inaccurate because these girls never threw a fucking punch.

>>11867072
90s anime magic. Sailor Moon was made with actual shinto magic (see: sailor mars) the same kind of kinomagic that was applied with Urusei Yatsura a decade earlier.

>>11867081
That's why it's fun that the games lets you do it with them.

>>11867072
Yeah the first season especially is excellent

>>11867072
DESU any show that runs for 4 years or so is going to feel "epic"
You underestimate the MotW format. I really believe some of the greatest stories in japanese TV are in the sunday morning all-year-long blocks

>>11867115
>DESU any show that runs for 4 years or so is going to feel "epic"
That isn't quite what I'm alluding to. Like, Dragon Ball is even longer and escalates in scope at least as much, but it definitely lacks the same kind of character. Like, the way Sailor Moon builds up the characters and their connection to the world around them and has their ultimate actions play into various themes is something you don't see in DB to close to the same degree, Dragon Ball builds things up over time into final finishing episodes, but usually the focus is just on having the characters become more powerful to tackle whatever enemy they're facing, and not on exploring their worldviews and motivations and conflicts between them in any more significant way.

Like, watching Sailor Moon, there are scenes where a character might transgress against another's moral values in a really impactful way, and it's often handled with considerable thought put into how the scenes are portrayed. You really end up feeling this stuff because of how well directed it is.

I booted up and beat the SNES beat em up the other day for no reason. Never played it before.
I "like" how bosses randomly have invincibility windows with no indicators. Either that or the hitboxes randomly apply. I assume the former?

>>11867170
IMO it's different ways to handle it.
DB is more macho so there's less words and personal drama and more action, but there definitely are certain key moments that give the story, characters and the world in which they exist a great sense of genuine substance. Or maybe it's just being clever with the direction (both on manga or anime) and how certain scenes and setpieces can become iconic and connect with people on an emotional level.

>>11866836
>>11867176
The arcade game is a step above those two in everything, graphics, music, number of on screen enemies, though it is much more difficult, you got to set the difficulty to lowest if you want a console like experience. Definitely worth a play.

>>11867193
That's a bit more than a step up in graphics.

>>11867170
I wouldn't compare it to DBZ because they're different genres. Shounen fighting manga is about the fights.
This all really boils down to people assuming a genre like magical girls, which is perceived as something for little girls, is going to be simple and childish and have aesops and stuff and then it turns out to have some really well thought out stories and characters and shit that stays in your heart.

>>11867081
Doesnt jupiter?

if you like this shit you are 100% a faggot

>>11866827 (OP)
Is dragonmoonx still a website? I jacked off so much to that!

>>11867262
>cooming to girls is gay
da fuck?

>>11867227
Not really. Any time a Sailor throws a punch or kick is very, very rare. Their style is spellcasting from a distance first and foremost.

>>11867320
>cooming to girls is gay
no, but consooming media made exclusively for young girls is pretty gay. next you'll tell me that putting on a dress and playing tea time with your barbie doll isn't gay.

Sailor Moon and Ranma 1/2 were the original trans-gateway anime. Seriously, I'd bet that the majority of Gen X and Millennial trannies were fans of one or both of these shows prior to transitioning.

>>11867325
I fucked two girls dressed up as Sailor Moon characters back when I was 22, stay mad.

>>11867382
You seem an awful lot familiarized with the topic of transitioning

Which Sailor Scout's skidmarks we sniffing?

>>11867429
From dirtiest panties to cleanest

Jupiter>Moon>Venus>Mars>Mercury.

>>11867573
Based Merc

The arcade game is great. The MD one pretty boring

>>11867314
cartoon porn is only on soulless boorus and deviantart-likes now

>>11867072
>The Sailor Moon equivalent of the Psycho Rangers
They should have stuck around in the franchise.

>>11867314
I would love to know more about the artists they had, the quality really ranged from 'okay' to 'this is awful'. They also made really low-quality animated features.

Wasn't there a vhs game where you have to use the phone?

>>11868042
I don't remember these girls.

>>11866836
The music for this one is really good, even though the actual game is ass. They also gave the long range character the grapple special, lol.

>>11867386
Which ones. You can't just say that and leave us hanging.

>>11868612
They're from the SNES RPG.

>>11867193
Nice to see Usagi cake checks.

>>11866827 (OP)
>>11867001
>>11867072
Otaku thread!

>>11866836
The first SFC game is legitimately terrible, just try actually hitting the first boss, or any of the bosses really. Don't question their hit boxes, because they don't actually exist.
Sailor Moon R is ok, some bullshit enemies (like those slime girls that can grab you whenever the fuck they feel like it), but it's nothing terrible. Chain throwing bosses is fun.
The Genesis one sounds good, but like you said, it's pretty "mid" otherwise.

The arcade one looks great, shame it's so damn unfinished.

>>11867573
What about Terra and Sol?

>>11867608
>>11869341
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2xTdL1uYrjg

>>11868038
Don't forget the ESL thirdworlder commission artists on social media.

>>11868042
>>11869021
We won’t get remake?

>>11867573
Usagi probably tends to forget to bidet and wipe.

>>11867321
which is why the RPG is the most accurate to the series.

>>11869237
This seem goofy found from Pokémon.

>>11866827 (OP)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SxRN1I0s_Q0

>>11870992
That anime babe FUCKED UP Vectorman.

>>11869237
>Babomb, I choose you!

>>11866827 (OP)
>Pretty Guardian

fixed

>>11871172
Poor v-bros

>>11871264
their transformation themes explicitly say Sailor Soldier in engrish. 'Senshi' is a military term. The implication of Sailor Senshi is they're basically like the Moon Kingdom's Royal Guards. Guardian kinda works as a translation but it loses the distinctly militaristic tone of Senshi. Guardian is too mild.

>>11866827 (OP)
I want to give Rei a cute teenage baby bump no pedo

>>11869301
Otakuthreadposter!

>>11869237
ohtaniiii

>>11871764
Only shit you will get is a black eye and broken teeth from me, her husband, if you ever approach her, you stupid zoomer cuck... go play with your action figures and minecraft, you idiot... not that you ever had any chance in first place, virgin.

Who is the most solid of the Pretty Soliders?

>>11872115
Sailor Caelus

>>11872115
Gold Saint

>>11866827 (OP)
>>11867072
Liked Another Story, the SNES RPG. It's probably the only game I would recommend in this franchise.
And yes the 90s show goes hard, highly recommend both for people who already like their magical girls, or want to get into them.

>>11867092
R too, even better overall even if gets a weaker ending.

>>11867001
>Kind of hated the main character though, I thought she was actually too whiny and stupid.
Usagi's retardation and how various characters react to it is why the show is so good, among other things.

>>11873351
or just play ToP and star ocean

>>11867072
Watching the series now with my kids, I watched it back when I was a kid and it was on TV but I only remember certain moments and episodes. We are a few episodes past the Ail and An arc and I'm finding it super enjoyable. The show is legitimately funny.

One strange thing I noticed, R starts with really high quality animation for the Ail and An episodes. But right after that the animation quality drops back to season 1 levels. It's not bad but it went from looking like a movie or high quality OVA back to regular TV levels. We are watching the recent Blu-ray release.

Speaking of the recent Blu-ray release, really liking the new dub outside of Chibiusas voice. Way too adult voicing a kids voice sounding to me.

>>11873390
what? Sandy Fox sounds more like a little kid than Kae Araki does. Kae Araki only got the job as consolation after her gig as Kotono Mitsuishi's stand-in was over.

>>11873396
Gonna be honest, I don't know who any of these people are by name. Just find her new voice grating, but my kids also consume a lot of media with grown women doing little kids voices.

I'm also struggling to remember the real names vs the original DiC names. I'll never retain Molly's and Malvin's real names.

>>11873401
Mitsuishi is Moon's VA. towards the end of S1 she had to go into rehab for surgery and couldn't do voice work, so Toei brought in Araki as a voice double. when Mitsubishi came back, Araki lost the role. when Chibiusa got introduced, they brought Araki back to voice her.

>>11873415
Is this the DiC or Viz dub? Because watching the Viz dub I can't tell anyone who changed from last season

>>11873419
>>11873415
>>11873390
Have you watch it on tubi?

>>11873509
Nah, watching the recent Blu-rays. I do have a few DiC Sailor Moon VHSs kicking around as well

>>11873401
>Molly's and Malvin's real names.
Naru and Umino

>>11873542
Never gonna remember that

>>11873390
Chiba Usa's second voice actress (after dic) sounded just like a real kid. Rare anyone can get that accurate

>>11873603
As someone who has a daughter more or less the same age as Chibi Usa, no she doesn't sound like a real kid.

Also, when I first saw Rini's real name was Chibi Usa, I thought it was Chibi USA as in Chibi America and never made the connection until watching this new dub

>>11873613
Chibiusa is such a dumb name
and dumb character
with a dumb season
God why.

>>11873635
The way the show explains it I kinda like it. Still early in her episodes but so far she's been funny, especially when she pulled that 1911 on Serena

>>11873642
Supposedly her actual name is just Usagi, although they call her smol lady instead.

>>11873648
Yeah, they explained this in the show. Both of them are named Usagi, Sailor Moon called her Chibi Usa as a cut but then Daren said he thought it was cute so it stuck.

My 8 year old daughter understood this on the first watch, why are you repeating it like it's some arcane knowledge

>>11871741
>Guardian is too mild.

And Usagi and her friends are the farthest things from actual soldiers.

>>11873419
it's the original Japanese dub. does Kotono Mitsuishi sound like an apple pie name to you?

>>11873785
they're reincarnations is why. their original Moon Kingdom versions were far more professional.

>>11866836
>the megadrive version made the curvy like the anime and made them flash panties.
>i liked the snes version because was more censored
Fag

>>11873942
Dunno, I don't do dubs

>>11873968
based deaf watcher

>>11873972
Sorry about that, meant to say I only do dubs

>>11873968
Subtitles for life

SAILOR!

>>11867072
>It still amazes me how much more massively 'epic' Sailor Moon feels compared to every other anime
lol. lmao. holy shit, retards really watch 1 (one) magical girl show and just go
>"EPIC"
without a shred of fucking irony.
Sailor Slop Moon does fuck all except waste your time and drag on with boring shit. Even the most basic bitch Pretty Cure season gets more shit done in less time because it has to due to the self-imposed constraints of the format. Yes, I am saying that objectively, even a slop season like Suite or Happiness Charge is superior to the whole Sailor Moon series.
It's a shame the Pretty Cure games are almost exclusively garbage though.

>>11875460
NTA, but as somebody who was casually exposed to many MG series(including Precures) as a young lad back when I had no interest in it, I made a conscious choice to fully watch the one I remembered to be more engaging many years later. And yes it's Sailor Moon.

>>11875460
it's pasta, I've seen it a dozen times on /a/

>>11875534
He isn't wrong though. SM defined "epic" in the MG genre, before that it wasn't even a thing, and after that you got all these inferior attempts at replicating the same feeling like precures.

>>11873648
>>11873635
>>11873656
Chibiusa is the least stupid thing when you realise people name their children after themselves. It's like Homer Junior, and the kids could call him HoJu.

>>11875539
But she is called Usagi like her mother.

>>11875542
Usagi 2 or Usagi Jr. is awkward is my point.

>>11875546
For me it's the part where apparently everyone in Crystal Tokyo including her parents and Pluto called her "small lady" instead.

>>11875542
the implication is that Usagi is childish and uncreative.
Also, the way the Sailor Moon powers work is that each successive generation is basically a reincarnation of the previous, so Chibiusa is functionally a clone of Usagi, and when she was born Future Usagi lost her ability to transform because the silver crystal transferred to Chibiusa's spirit

>>11875552
>spoiler
They should have used that premise to set up for a "Chibiusa grows up and becomes the new Sailor Moon" sequel/spinoff, although the way the plot works doesn't really allow for this to make any sense without further contrivances.

>>11875571
there are a few side stories the mangaka wrote after SM ended that are basically her running her own sailor team, but they're not canon and only one-shots.

>>11875589
>basically her running her own sailor team
Kinda cool. I need to check them.

>>11875589
How are they not canon if she created it?

>>11875592
because they're explicitly 'what if' stories. Takeuchi had a habit of creating silly side stories just for the fun of it.

>>11875571
So a new shaman king flower, Saintia Shō and half-demon princess?

Play Another Story.
And read up about formations if you are getting steamrolled. You also have 2 very broken abilities.

>>11867573
you're really gonna diss my boi Jupiter like that

>>11867573
Blasphemy. Jupiter works her hardest to be the most perfect wife for the perfect boyfriend. She doesn't live like a slob.

>>11873785
>furthest
Ftfy

>>11877093
>works her hardest
Prove it.

>>11873953
not the snes version of the beat em up, dipshit, the fighting games

>>11867072
It's one of the few anime that consistently makes me laugh, which is pretty amazing because there's no stereotypical cringe Asian "humor" bringing it down. It truly feels unique.

>>11877191
They were at the top of their form during Sailor Moon S. Lots of great little moments/episodes.
What you posted, Usagi getting drunk at the party, Minako running off with her "pure heart", all the various antics of Dr Tomoe and the Witches 5.

Just genuinely funny stuff.

>>11877414
Always found it weird how 3(4?) out of 5 witches get btfo instantly. Eudial was carrying these retards so hard.

>>11877943
I think what happened is the writers dragged the development on too long and didn't realise until it was too late that they had burned all the season's episodes on the first two.

>>11878029
Really messy, especially when they could already juggle the heavenly kings and the entire black moon clan.

>>11878035
wait until you get to SuperS

>>11878037
Bold of you implying I didn't already suffer through that.

>>11878035
At least they all fare better than in the manga where each one gets killed off instantly in the chapter theybappear

>>11877191
Does any version of Sailor Moon have the correct colour temperature?

>>11878168
The collections on nyaa were fine.
Also any streaming site uses the correct version probably.

>>11875460
Lol, why are you trying to act like I've never seen or enjoyed Precure (which is underrated and overlooked in the west, though even Heart Catch doesn't peak as hard as Sailor Moon, not that this is a mean feat) or don't watch other magical girl shows? There are absolutely parts where SM drags, and quite badly at that, but it does an awesome job at making its events feel significant and I don't believe there's another anime that "gives as much" as it does.

>>11875460
>no Precure fighting game
robbed

>>11878257
Once again I came to save the day

the RPG one is giga comfy

>>11878294
Definitely the best out of SM games. Deserved a sequel or remake to go along with Crystal

>>11878236
Cheers.

>>11866827 (OP)
>>11870026
Play real manly games
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hr5yzgdJSd8

If you guys could game for the franchise what would it be and why?

>>11879413
I'd like to answer your question, but you need to phrase it such that I know what it is you're actually asking.

>>11879523
Would you make a game for the franchise. If yes what kind of game would you make?

>>11879547
cyberteam in akihabara beat em up

>>11879547
I'd be fine with a remake of Another Story in a modern 3D engine

>>11879547
Imagine winX club games in Megaman X engine

>>11879646
Will it be base on the 90's or crystal?

>>11879750
the draw of the original is that it combined the best elements of both the manga and the anime. the only real change I'd want to make is also include the story and characters from the Dead Circus saga and the Shadow Galactica saga.

>>11875539
Usagi naming her daughter Usagi, I can understand that, and besides she has two or three other names she can go by before she offically adds Chibi-Usa to the list.
What cements Usagi as dumb as fuck is that in one timeline, she named her first daughter Usagi, and then named her second daughter Usagi.

>>11879849
>in one timeline
What?

>>11879852
one of the side stories posits a what-if where Usagi becomes a normal housewife rather than Neo Queen Serenity, and in it she has two daughters.

>>11879852
Sailor Parallel Moon, the last story Naoko wrote.
In a world where the girls became housewives and such instead of the whole Crystal Tokyo thing, Usagi's second daughter Kousagi find a pink cat that turns her into a magical girl, as well as the Inner's daughters, all of them carbon copies of their moms except they're mean cunts.

>>11879869
>mean cunts
How big of a cunt are they?

>>11879413
Probably another beat em up, but for arcade and on more powerful hardware than the board that they used for the existing SM arcade game (but still 2D)

>>11879901
Is this for Crystal? Also would be able to support four or six players?

>>11879880
They trick Kousagi into carrying all their schoolbags, and the cat, then run off to get sweets without her.

>>11875460
DESU it's rare for precure to have better characters than SM. Especially when it comes to villains. I can remember every single villain from SM but can't remember the ones from two precure seasons ago.

>>11879869
>Ami Jr.
>Rei Jr.
>"Kousagi" literally just means "child Usagi", also looks 100% like Chibiusa but isn't the same person
What the fuck.
Naoko what's your problem? I get that they literally have magical genes but nigga really now.

>>11880471
she's an uncreative hack who had to be carried by Toei and her editors

>>11867072
I'm reading the anime right now and loving it. Do any of the games expand on the story as sequels or side-stories?
I missed out completely on this universe as a kid because it was "for girls".

>nothing else convincingly pulls off
Alita did it for me

>>11867087
I would like you to know that I appreciate your point.

>>11880651
>I'm reading the anime
Enjoy your "read" then.

>Do any of the games expand on the story as sequels or side-stories?
Another Story, the SNES RPG. The premise is that the villains are trying to change the timeline of the first 3 anime seasons, classic to S.
You get some cool lore about Dark Kingdom at least.

>>11867087
>see: sailor mars
Rip off silent mobius

Will there ever be game based on the crystal series?

>>11867197
Sooo want the sprite sheets for this game. I’ll make my own sailor moon game

>>11883119
Will you animate some up skirts?

>>11880682
>>11878294
Now play bleach 3rd phantom, inuyasha secret of the divine jewel and naruto akatsuki rising

>>11883164
But I don't like any of these franchises.

>>11883178
Why not?

>>11883196
Because reasons, but that's not really relevant to a thread about Sailor Moon.
I'm usually willing to try licensed games if I already like the source material, but otherwise really only if they happen to be very good games.

>>11883202
>but that's not really relevant
It anime games, anon…

>>11879869
/u/fags on suicide watch

>>11884041
/u/fags still have the outers.
The inners were always straight

>>11869341
>just try actually hitting the first boss
Just mind their long wake-up invincibility frames, SFC Final Fight port had the same issue with bosses but you get used to it. The genesis game is worse because even regular enemies have wake-up iframes, so dumb.

>>11884175
also use the infinite combo

>>11867072
I wish I could snort slop straight to the dome as much as this dude.

>>11866827 (OP)
Thought on blue reflection

>>11884041
for real

>>11885504
Cool premise, but pretty boring to actually play.

>>11884041
Of course they're all straight, Black Dog showed me.

>>11886508
>muh shitty incel fanfiction!
you outed yourself as a virgin and a retard with shit taste... unironically neck yourself

So when new samurai x games?

Wish there was some big mahoushojo franchise in vidya.

>>11866827 (OP)
I remember playing the SFC puzzle games, brawlers, and fighters. Thought they were okay, but then there was this segment in a youtube video which brought attention to specifically one of those games and I'm really curious: https://youtu.be/ZbjSeBOP-MA?si=xARgR99QX4k75shD&t=639

>>11889049
>devil hunter Yohko
old men please gather

>>11866827 (OP)
i played the rpg in the 90s with a printed out translation script
very decent experience

>>11889049
Hm, do she hunt futa succubus?

>>11872039
You call?

>>11890541
Does Minako really

>>11890580
Yes she will indeed attempt to date two men at the same time and feel no shame about it.

>>11890631
That too, but I meant watching porn in movie theaters

>>11890631
>attempt to date two men
Rei and Ami please.

>>11867193
>6 credits into stage 3
>counterstopped credit counter by stage 5
>this much damage taken on the first stage 3 screen
the person who made the collage needs to git gud ASAP

>>11867193
The graphics remind me of DBZ Hyper Dimension

>>11867325
a TV with this much of leggy baits and leotards can not be aimed 100% at girls.

captcha:N0wUgaY

>>11891108
No, just Minako. Watch the series retard.

>>11869420
>>11868038
lol if you think that's bad wait until everything becomes AI made

>>11891176
>says while posting fanart
Fucking idiots the whole lot of you
>captcha:N0wUgaY
Underage moron confirmed

>>11891187
Not showing proof shame also read the reply again.

>>11891190
what posting fanart has to do with what I wrote retard. they wear leotards.
>Underage
u wish, pedo.

captcha:p3d0rauS

>>11891197
Ah it's you, the fucking girly spammer... of course you haven't watched the series dumbfuck... kill yourself

>>11891206
Yes, you are mentally challenged
>captcha:p3d0rauS
Thanks for proving it

>>11891176
Takeuchi did mention that the Anime had too much of a male angle because the majority of the staff were guys.

>>11871764
You are a castrated faggot. The only dick you have is the one up your own asshole. Also she is taken... by me. Kill yourself.