The 3D Adventures Of Sailor Moon is a Sailor Moon PC game developed by 3VR under license from DiC Entertainment released in 1997. Despite its name, its not really an Adventure game, but rather a Minigame Game where the player explores numerous attractions and minigames. This game is notable for being one of the few Sailor Moon games ever developed by an American studio and only released in the West.
The plot of the game, such as is, is that Queen Beryl has taken the transformation items of Sailor Moon and her friends and hid them in each of the attractions... on the Moon. Succeeding in the attraction minigames rewards you with the item. The attractions include the Galactic Moon Library, the Magical Puzzle Room, the Moon Castle TV Show where the player can watch clips of the show, Sing A Long, Crystal Fighting Arena, and the 3D Fashion Salon, where you partake in a Virtual Paper Doll simulation.
This game contains examples of:
- Early-Bird Cameo: An inadvertent example. Sailor Neptune was originally supposed to appear in the game, but was taken out, due to the fact that Sailor Moon S had yet to air in the West (S wouldn't premiere until 2000). But her astronomical sign still appears in the game's World Map as an unusable button.
- Evil Is Petty: Beryl has stolen the trinkets of Sailor Moon and her friends, and mildly inconveniences them with a minigame attraction on the Moon. Not one of her most brilliant or logical plans.
- Excuse Plot: Queen Beryl has stolen the transformation pens of each of the Scouts, and its up to you, as the player, to get them back. You have to play and win each of the minigames, which rewards you with the trinket.
- Game-Breaking Bug: For some reason, playing the Game in Windows 2000 will eventually cause the game to crash as the player progresses. It works perfectly fine in Windows 95, 98, and Windows XP.
- Poke the Poodle: Queen Beryl has successfully taken the transformation pens of the Inner Senshi. And her most nefarious scheme is... to force the player to play minigames on the Moon. Maybe she was just feeling nice today.
- Trip to the Moon Plot: The whole entire game takes place on the Moon. A mysterious Moon Kingdom (Not Queen Serenity's Moon Kingdom) where the player has to play different attractions to get the Scouts' power items back.
- Virtual Paper Doll: The 3D Fashion Salon lets you dress up each of the scouts with different clothes, and lets you look at the model in 3D graphics.
