History VideoGame / SailorMoonAnotherStory

* HeelFaceTurn: [[spoiler: The Opposito Senshi, towards the end]].
** FaceHeelTurn: [[spoiler: Sailor Saturn temporarily, but this is so the Season Three retraux can play out normally]])

** Hard to say whether or not it was this game that came first or ChronoTrigger, but both games have a mechanic that lets a player use two or more characters for an attack.

*** HP refills after every battle in FF13, as it does in Another Story. There's no MP in Final Fantasy XIII (characters can use magical spells indefinitely, as long as they know the spell and they aren't dead), which makes that somewhat the same as in Another Story (you would have to use items to refill CP in Another Story if you ran out during a battle, but they are refilled after each battle is won).

*** How the name of the spell or attack appears right on the sprite of the mob or toon that's using the attack. Square didn't start using this until FF13, but Another Story is clearly using that small aspect.
*** HP refills after every battle in FF13, as it does in Another Story. There's no MP in FF13 (characters can use magical spells indefinitely, as long as they know the spell and they aren't dead), which makes that somewhat the same as in Another Story (you would have to use items to refill CP in Another Story if you ran out during a battle, but they are refilled after each battle is won).

*** FF13 divides the story recaps that you find in the Datalog into "chapters", which Another Story also divides the game into.

** Hard to say whether or not it was this game that came first or ChronoTrigger, but both games have a mechanic that lets a player use two PCs for an attack.

* TheNotSecret: Major characters get portrait sprites alongside their speech boxes. For the first part of the game, Apsu's portrait is drawn to conceal her appearance by making her look like she's in the shadows. This is a bit undermined by the fact that her ''character sprite'' is fully visible the whole time.

* FanSequel: It was so popular there is actually a fan-sequel called SailorMoonAnotherStory2 made with RPGMaker XP.

** GratuitousJapanese: Many specific terms are left in romaji, mainly to match the Japanese anime's subtitle.

** GratuitousJapanese: Many speciic terms are left in romaji, mainly to match the Japanese anime's subtitle.

* AwesomeYetPractical: Sailor Star Maker's attack and Sailor Mercury's debuffing Shabon Spray.

** BadassCrew: The Sailor Senshi of course.

* AwesomeYetPractical: Sailor Pluto, see Gamebreaker on the YMMV page.

** BadassCrew: Two. The Sailor Senshi and their counterparts.

* ClassicCheatCode: One of the few [=RPGs=] in the existence where they have a direct effect on the main game: they can be used to start the game with everyone at noticeably increased levels.

* DeathByAdaptation: Both Professor Tomoe and the Ayakashi Sisters (who die in the {{manga}} but live in the {{anime}}) are killed; it's implied that this was their "fate" all along and that the anime sparings were deviations.

* ShipTease: Mars, Venus, and Mercury all get one.
* SparedByTheAdaptation: Inverted, both Professor Tomoe and the Ayakashi Sisters (who die in the {{manga}} but live in the {{anime}}) are killed; it's implied that this was their "fate" all along and that the anime sparings were deviations.

* ContinuitySnarl: The game combines elements from the manga and anime seemingly at random. Possibly the worst case with this the part with Professor Tomoe and Germatoid. In the anime, Professor Tomoe was a more-or-less innocent victim ''possessed'' by the evil Germatoid, who later left the professor's body to fight Neptune and Uranus. The professor, however, lives. In the manga, Professor Tomoe was an evil man who willingly transformed ''himself'' into his Germatoid form and gets KilledOffForReal. Sailor Moon: Another Story has Tomoe still alive, which means he should have been ''possessed'' by Germatoid, yet when you meet him later on, he ''transforms'' into Germatoid. Defeating Germatoid will result in Tomoe's permanent death, with the implication that it is his fate. Even the fact that the bad guys are messing with the timeline doesn't explain this blunder.

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* AwesomeButImpractical: Super Sailor Moon and Super Sailor Chibi Moon. The stat buff really isn't that great for characters that are built more for support (which they lose when they transform).

* HopelessBossFight: Super Beryl initially before weakened in the cutscene. Before, her offense and defense stats are actually higher than Demon Apsu's.

* NoExportForYou: The game was never released outside of Japan, though thanks to a fan translation, many English-speaking players have gotten to experience it anyway.

* PsychoRangers - The Opposito Senshi are basically a Babylonian mythology theme named EvilKnockoff version of the Sailor Senshi (who are Roman theme named). Also, each character on the Opposito Senshi Team is a DarkerAndEdgier reprise of each member of the Inner Senshi team (save Ishtar, the Sailor Venus knockoff, though her outfit is just as dark as the other Opposito Senshi's)

** FragileSpeedster: Sailor Chibi-Moon, whose other stats and single technique are so sub-par that she almost qualifies as a JokeCharacter.

''Sailor Moon: Another Story'' is an RPG based ''mostly'' on the ''SailorMoon'' anime, taking place after the S season. The girls' enemies are the Oppositio Senshi, a team of EvilKnockoff [[ThePsychoRangers psycho rangers]], who are led by the mysterious Apsu. Apsu and the Oppositio Senshi are futzing around with time, resurrecting previous enemies of Sailor Moon. Well, we obviously can't let them get away with that, now can we?

** The Salior Senshi's attacks are also a mix of the anime and the manga.

** The Salior Senshi's attacks are also a mix of the anime and the manga.

** FragileSpeedster: Sailor Chibi-Moon, whose other stats and single technique are so sub-par she borders on a JokeCharacter.

** MasterOfNone: Sailor Pluto; all of her stats range from mediocre to terrible. Sailor Neptune as well, although she is all-around average.

** StoneWall: Sailor Mercury and Sailor Saturn. Mercury's skills in particular will barely do above ScratchDamage even late in the game.
** Sailor Moon herself is somewhat hard to classify; her defense and attack make her a lesser StoneWall, and her link techs are geared towards healing and status buffs.