What if OG Gaiden came out four whole years after OGs, but still cockteased you and dicked around setting shit up for later instead of doing anything actually substantial? That's what Moon Dwellers essentially is. OGG gets a bit of a pass considering it only came out like 6 months after OGs, but there's a whole four year gap (I guess more like three if you count Dark Prison) between 2ndOGs and MD. They really don't do hell of a lot in this game - after juggling ten million different things in the previous game, MD only really features J and GC, padding out the rest with original enemies called Lamalice (who are a fucking pain in the ass to fight) tied into the Dark Brain Generals. We get meager scraps of Alpha 3 foreshadowing when they really could have just done it this game. Half of the game just feels like filler with what feels like endless stages of just fighting Lamalice over and over. The pacing is all fucked up because they give you 90% of the cast before Stage 20 out of 47, leaving you with too little deploy slots for most of the game and very little to actually look forward to getting once you get to the midgame. Compared to 2ndOGs's excellent pacing where it always felt like you were getting new shit every stage with so many things happening everywhere, MD just really feels like chaff. The gameplay is fine, and essentially identical to 2ndOGs - the animations and music are about on par too, the relatively small amount of new shit they give you this game IS still really damn good as per OG expectations. I just can't help but feel that this game could have been so much more than it is.

oh yeah the fucking translation's hilarious, quality ranging from stilted, dry, yet passable enough english, to WHAT A DAMN ITTY OPERATOR DOING HERE AMEBA YARO SUCH WORDS EVEN I COULD...? only a complete damn mashed sweetened chestnut fella could have been behind this dumpster fire