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Controls
- A button: Throw Things to Pop Balloons
- B button: Get Help from Tuxedo Mask/Use Super Move
- X button: [not used]
- Y button: [not used]
- L button: [not used]
- R button: [not used]
- Start: Pause
- Select: [not used]
Sailor Moon returns with the Outer Senshi, and this time they're fighting... each other. This game can be best
described as a reverse Tetris with balloons versus an opponent (or a reverse Puzzle Fighter - LAC).
You get to choose from Sailor Moon, Sailor Mercury, Sailor Mars, Sailor Jupiter, Sailor Venus, and Sailor Chibimoon in
the normal game mode (first option on the screen). The second option lets you set up a 2-player versus mode, winner
being the one who takes two out of three matches. The third mode is a timed trial, making you empty the pit in
the alloted time. When you select any of these three modes, the options Start and Continue will appear.
The game play is simple; two senshi walk along the bottom of the screen and pop balloons that continue to rise in the
pit preventing the ballons from stacking beyond the pit. By destroying a balloon that is next to a balloon of the
same color, they will all blow up and depending on how many blow up, they will turn into a silver balloon. This silver
ballon is unbreakable unless it is next to a set of balloons when you destroy them. This silver balloon will go over to
your opponent's side. By blowing up single balloons, it will fill up the gauge on the side of your pit. By filling it halfway,
you can get assistance from Tuxedo Mask, who will take a row from your pit. This will lower your gauge. If your gauge
is completely filled, you will then be able to pull off a super move just like they do in the show, affecting either your or
your opponent's pit. For example, Venus uses her Love and Beauty Shock to change her last four rows into
balloons of the same color, while Mars makes some of her opponent's balloons turn into silver ones.
A word of warning is that popping a set of like balloons lowers your gauge, and emptying it completely will cause you to
untransform, leaving you able to only break one balloon at a time. The game overall is quite addictive and
extremely sweet, with high-pitched super move cries and SD-characters as far as the eye can see. - Roger Nystrom |
