History VideoGame / SailorMoonAnotherStory

* GirlishPigtails: Worn by Oppositio Senshi Sin.

* ImprobableAccessoryEffect: Wearing ''jewelry'' increases your stats.

* 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).

* SpottingTheThread: Chibi-Usa realizes that Pluto isn't who she appears because Pluto never called her "Princess."

* MightyGlacier: Sailor Mars, whose attack rivals that of the {{Glass Cannon}}s but is much slower.
%%* StoneWall: Sailor Mercury. Her skills will barely do above ScratchDamage even late in the game.
* SupportPartyMember: Sailor Moon; her defense and attack make her a lesser StoneWall, and her link techs are geared towards healing and status buffs. Also Sailor Pluto, who has mediocre to terrible stats...and the Time Stop ability, which more than makes up for that. Finally, Sailor Chibi-Moon has some useful link techs with other characters despite her own attacks being completely worthless.

** Many players get stuck in Sailor Jupiter's part of Chapter 2, because it isn't exactly obvious that you have to talk to a minor NPC (George's mother), probably ''again'' before you can advance the plot.

%%* TimeTravel

%%* DeadAllAlong: [[spoiler:Faregg.]]

%%* JadeColoredGlasses: Marduk.

* TakenForGranite: In Sailor Venus's side of the Hi stone search, [[spoiler: a curse turns the inhabitants of the village of Rias to stone]].

* AlternateCompanyEquivalent: Apparently, Creator/SquareEnix was also playing this game, because they borrowed quite a few gameplay elements (so many, in fact, that one might have to wonder if they secretly owned Angel during this time).

** VideoGame/FinalFantasyXIII, though, has at least three different elements that Square can thank to Another Story for implementing:

** Speaking of Final Fantasy, Apsu's main goal (to make time go in reverse) sounds an awful like a neutered form of time compression, which was what a [[VideoGame/FinalFantasyVIII Final Fantasy villain was trying to do]].
** Oh, and this was also one of the first [=RPGs=] to feature special victory poses for each character (as opposed to the "jumping jacks" that [=RPGs=] did up to this point), which a LOT of [=RPGs=] began to do after.
*** One of the first major [=RPGs=] to use those personal victory poses after SM:AS? [[VideoGame/FinalFantasyVII Some game on the PS1 that you might've heard about]]... and [[VideoGame/ChronoTrigger that other one involving time travel]]
** Actually, if you want to add the LevelGrinding trope in here, too, you can probably curse or thank this game, depending on how you feel about Blizzard and how they make you grind tirelessly for the rewards in ''WorldofWarcraft'' (where one piece of gear could make all the difference in some raid boss battles).

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* AlternateCompanyEquivalent: Apparently, Creator/SquareEnix was also playing this game, because they borrowed quite a few game play elements (so much, in fact, that one might have to wonder if they secretly owned Angel during this time).
** Hard to say whether or not it was this game that came first or VideoGame/ChronoTrigger (both came out around the same time, but its tough to know which was in development first, last, or longest), but both games have a mechanic that lets a player use two or more characters for an attack.

* DeadAllAlong: [[spoiler:Faregg]]

* [[DubInducedPlotHole Translation Induced Plot Hole]]: Darcy compares Minako to a goddess and refers to her as beautiful in almost every sentence he says to her, and she even says she's glad he thinks she's beautiful; eventually he calls her beautiful during that same exchange, and she has an embarrassed freak-out, flabbergasted that this guy who's been calling her beautiful... called her beautiful.

* FaceHeelTurn: [[spoiler: Sailor Saturn temporarily, but this is so the Season Three retraux can play out normally]])

* HeelFaceTurn:
** [[spoiler: The Opposito Senshi, towards the end]]. This is played straight.
** It's averted instead in Chapter 4. During the Sailor's visit to the North Pole Kingdom in the past, they discover Queen Beryl as the queen of the kingdom, but she has yet to do her FaceHeelTurn, instead showing signs of sadness and normality. Usagi is visibly upset that she is not allowed to change Beryl's destiny despite showing willingness to do so. [[note]] This wouldn't be the last time a Sailor Moon story line played with this trope for Beryl in an official setting; ''Series/PrettyGuardianSailorMoon'' played with the trope being used on Beryl, too.[[/note]]

* JadeColoredGlasses: Marduk.

* LevelUpFillUp
* LostForever: the best equipment in the game can be easily missed. You're also screwed if you happened to miss one hidden puzzle piece.

** [[spoiler: Anshar and Chibi-Usa, if you beat Sin with Chibimoon's team.]]
* StandardStatusEffect

* TimeTravel

* {{Badass}}: Every fighting character.
** BadassCrew: The Sailor Senshi of course, and the Opposito Senshi.

*** One of the first major [=RPGs=] to use those personal victory poses after SM:AS? [[VideoGame/FinalFantasyVII Some game on the PS1 that you might've heard about]].

* AndThisIsFor: Opposite Sin, orphaned in the war between Crystal Tokyo and the Black Moon Clan, gets her chance to kill Prince Diamond personally after he leaves Hell Destiny's service for independent villainy.

* ScrewDestiny: Opposite Senshi Team and Apsu's purpose on invading the past.

** Hard to say whether or not it was this game that came first or ChronoTrigger (both came out around the same time, but its tough to know which was in development first, last, or longest), but both games have a mechanic that lets a player use two or more characters for an attack.

* ContinuitySnarl: The game combines elements from the manga and anime seemingly at random. Possibly the worst case with this is 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 (and for extra snarl points, it's the plantlike anime Germatoid instead of the humanoid manga 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.
** There's also the Barasuishou (Rose Crystal), created before the Golden Crystal, but essentially the same thing except for the fact that the Rose Crystal is red and shaped like a rose.
** The Sailor Senshi's attacks are also a mix of the anime and the manga.
** A flashback about Marduk's motives reveals the battle against the Death Busters happened because of the ''Silver Crystal'', as in the manga. In the 90's anime, the battle happened because of the ''Holy Grail'' and ''Chibi-Usa's pure heart''.

* FindTheCure: When Mamoru is injured, the Senshi search the world for the Shitennou's Hi stones, which have the power to bring forth the Barasuishou, which can cure him. Also, while in Switzerland, Mercury must find some halyomoss to cure a character's mother of a rare illness.
* GameplayAndStorySegregation: The climax of ''Sailor Moon S'' reveals Pluto will either lose her life or face severe consequences for stopping time. Well, that doesn't hold much importance here, as you can use this ability as much as you want as long as you have MP for it.

* GuideDangIt: Many players get stuck in Medias Village/Mishii Village because it isn't exactly obvious that you have to talk to a minor NPC (George's mother), probably ''again'' before you can advance the plot.
** The game features a sort of quest where you pick up puzzle pieces around the world and from defeating monsters as you play through. Completing the puzzle will get you a reward later on. What they don't bother to tell you is that some puzzle pieces are "hidden" in normally-uninteractable scenery sprites like barrels and jugs.
* HopelessBossFight: Super Beryl initially before weakened in the cutscene. Before, her offense and defense stats are actually higher than Demon Apsu's, and her speed stat means that she'll attack first and wipe your party before gets the chance to attack.

* MinionWithAnFInEvil: Anshar. Of course, he was technically just tagging along with his big sister.
** Ishtar might qualify too.

* NintendoHard: The game has several instances where you're so weak a 1-hit attack from a random monster is enough to kill you. The bosses are so hard you'll be forced to wander around and spend some time battling monsters just to level up in order to beat them, and they still take ''hours'' to beat. Made even worse by the fact that once you reach a new area, you'll be forced to play with a new character and have to level her up all over again. Oh, and don't even ask about Sailor Mercury's chapter.

* NintendoHard: The game has several instances where you're so weak a 1-hit attack from a random monster is enough to kill you. The bosses are so hard you'll be forced to wander around and spend some time battling monsters just to level up in order to beat them, and they still take ''hours'' to beat. Made even worse by the fact that once you reach a new area, you'll be forced to play with a new character and have to level her up all over again. Oh, and don't even get me started on Sailor Mercury's chapter.

* PreAssKickingOneLiner: The InTheNameOfTheMoon speech gets used twice in this game, being used the first time as just a MythologyGag. The second time, however, it is used as this as Sailor Moon cannot hold her anger back any longer.

* PreAssKickingOneLiner: The InTheNameOfTheMoon speech gets used twice in this game, being used the first time as just a MythologyGag. The second time, however, it is used as this.

* AlternateCompanyEquivalent: Apparently, SquareEnix was also playing this game, because they borrowed quite a few game play elements (so much, in fact, that one might have to wonder if they secretly owned Angel during this time).

** FinalFantasyXIII, though, has at least three different elements that Square can thank to Another Story for implementing:

* ContinuitySnarl: The game combines elements from the manga and anime seemingly at random. Possibly the worst case with this is 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.

* ArtifactMook: The game uses as {{Random Encounter}}s monsters that were originally monsters of the week in the show. Some of the monsters in the show were either transformed people (Phages, some Youma) or transformed objects (Daimons), so it doesn't make sense that there would be armies of them.

* AndThatWasFor: Opposite Sin, orphaned in the war between Crystal Tokyo and the Black Moon Clan, gets her chance to kill Prince Diamond personally after he leaves Hell Destiny's service for independent villainy.

* ClassicCheatCode: Can be used to start the game with everyone at noticeably increased levels and having modified stats. [[note]]However, it BARELY matters by the time you get to chapter 5.[[/note]]

* ArtifactMook: The game uses as {{Random Encounter}}s monsters that were originally monsters of the week in the show. The monsters in the show were either transformed people or transformed objects, so it doesn't make sense that there would be armies of them.

* VideoGameCharacters: With a playable cast of ten, all the RPG character types are represented.
** FragileSpeedster: Sailor Chibi-Moon, whose other stats and single technique are so sub-par that she almost qualifies as a JokeCharacter. Oh, and she ''has'' Pink Sugar Heart Attack, before you ask.
** GlassCannon: Sailor Jupiter, Sailor Uranus, and especially Sailor Venus.
** LightningBruiser: Sailor Saturn is a borderline example. She's medium speed, but with very high attack and defense.
** MasterOfNone: Sailor Neptune is all-around average.
** MightyGlacier: Sailor Mars, whose attack rivals those of the above three Glass Cannons but is much slower.
** StoneWall: Sailor Mercury. Her skills will barely do above ScratchDamage even late in the game.
** SupportPartyMember: Sailor Moon; her defense and attack make her a lesser StoneWall, and her link techs are geared towards healing and status buffs. Also Sailor Pluto, who has mediocre to terrible stats...and the Time Stop ability, which more than makes up for that. Finally, Sailor Chibi-Moon has some useful link techs with other characters despite her own attacks being completely worthless.

** A flashback about Marduk's motives reveals the battle against the Death Busters happened because of the ''Silver Crystal'', as in the manga. In the 90's anime, the battle happened because of the ''Holy Grail''.

* ClassicCheatCode: Can be used to start the game with everyone at noticeably increased levels.