Bishoujo Senshi Sailor Moon

"The only Sailormoon game for Genesis."

This game is pretty much the same thing as the first Sailormoon game for SNES only with better graphics.

The graphics for the intro is awesome! Very detailed! I especially loved the shot of Sailor Moon! Anyway, the game is a side-scroller. You get to play as one of the Inner Soldiers.

You get normal attacks like hit and jump. When you press C, you get a special attack that hits everyone in the surrounding area with a sacrifice of a small amount of your health. To kick walk left or right, jump(B) and then hit(A). Instead of punching, you get a kick. You can also get a kick when you jump up and press A. To perform a magical attack, press A for a long time to power up and then release. This isn't very useful as the villains move around a lot and when you're powering up, you can't move and the villains can attack you.

If you choose the easy version of the game, you can pretty much defeat everyone in several hits. The strongest soldier is Sailor Mars. The bosses are pretty easy. The hardest boss is the final boss, Queen Beryl. She releases several blasts that goes straight in front of her so don't stand in front of her for too long! And she also releases a thunder attack that goes around and around the screen which you can dodge only a few times.

There are several items you should pick up in the game. There are food items that restore part (or all) of your health. There is a rose in the first few boss fights that restores all of your health. Don't pick it up unless you are about to die! There's also a sphere where it increases your health bar. The Sailormoon doll gives you an extra life.

When you are through with each level (at the end of each boss), you get a critique. If you can read Japanese, this is pretty much useless. Tuxedo Mask does give you an overall grade (in English of course) ranging from A to E whereas A is the best while E is the worse. This is judged by how many damage you took, how many lives you lost, etc.

Basically, this is just your average Sailormoon game. Besides the superb graphics, it's just the same as the SNES version (when you play the easy mode in the SNES version, you can only play 2 levels). Also, for this game, there is only the side-scroller, nothing else.

Reviewer's Score: 6/10, Originally Posted: 05/19/03, Updated 05/19/03