I recently watched through the first season of Sailor Moon, and if you can't tell by my profile (at the time of this being written), I kind of liked it haha. Not sure what exactly but it clicked with me on a real personal level and has became a comfort media for me in a way. Anyway, because of my current brainrot it inspired me to check out some of the games that were released during the era the show released in, and I was SHOCKED at how many of these things exist holy shit.
The first, as well as the shortest Sailor Moon game is this one. I'm not going to write some deep analysis on this game because... it's pretty bad lol. The levels suck, controls are limited and slow, the bosses are just sort of plopped in there, it's a mess. What's a shame is that I really jive with alot of what this game could do, but I'm guessing this game just sort of apparated into existence before any thought was put into how it should be designed. That being said, there's still a bit of charm to this, I like the character portraits during cutscenes for example, and hearing an 8-bit version of Moonlight Densetsu is cute.
Considering this is a licensed anime tie in game from 1993 for the Gameboy of all things, it could've been worse. Luckily this game isn't very long nor difficult so if you want to waste like 30 minutes this isn't a terrible option I guess. This does make me interested in seeing what other games this franchise would spawn, and if you have any recommendations please let me know! This show rocks, and if anyone makes fun of you for liking it, then tell them to fuck off because you are simply too cool for them.