I love Sailor Moon: Another Story… warts and all. I agree with the absurd difficulty curve. lol The game is either a total cakewalk OR ludicrously cheap, depending on how you position the Sailors and what levels they’re all at. I haven’t done a proper playthrough of the game in years, but I still have my save file. As a matter of fact, I remember the first time I actually beat the game (both good and bad endings): Halloween night, 2003. But I first played the game in fall 2001. Yeah, I remember. I only got around to seriously playing it, from start to finish, in 2003. Those were while I was in high school. In fact, in my freshman year of high school, some of my friends and I in the computer lab created superhero versions of ourselves. A guy was Spider-Kid, another parodied the Hulk, another Batman, but I… was Sailor Joe. I gave myself big, sparkly eyes, too. Yep.

*Ahem* I ramble. But speaking of that computer lab (and being an out-of-closet fanboy of Sailor Moon), I played a lot of that one puzzle game! What was it? “Sailor Moon S: Fuwa Fuwa Panic!” or so. Your Luna or Artemis chibi head hops from heart to heart and each one you pass by turns into a solid color. You can eliminate colored hearts when there’s more than one heart of the same color, directly touching each other (diagonally isn’t valid). Your goal is to eliminate hearts to clear the field, to bring down the talismans from the top (when they do appear) all the way to the bottom. There were also special moves or attacks that could be performed by activating them, when they show up. The mobile game, Sailor Moon Drops, which is going to be shut down by the end of March, reminded me somewhat of these traits.

Gosh, there’s nothing like talking about Sailor Moon video game nostalgia! Know what’s one of my favorite piece of Sailor Moon music? “Fantasy Attraction.” It was in one of the Super Famicom beat-‘em-ups (in that gnome forest level, if I recall correctly), but it was later used as the theme for Sailor Venus’s ark, in Another Story. There’s also a great Christmas-themed tune from that same beat-‘em-up.

WHEW! Thanks for the flood of memories! I loved this article and I loved reading all the comments. Now, even though it’s NOT Sailor Moon related, I am picking up my copy of Kingdom Hearts III… *Glances at the clock* Soon. If you don’t hear from me for about a half-week, you know why.

Have you played Panic in Nakayoshi Land?