Sailor Moon S is Broken?!

[@bigredradish]

finally, one of these videos where it's not just "this game has some top tiers and some bottom tiers and at the end of the day it is a classic", these women are legitimately fucked up

[@Zwyrx_Hgqfyggz]

we *CAN'T* fix her that dash us fucking disgraceful

[@TheKorenji]

Dis why they all in the same group, of course

[@JadeJoestar-uy6hg]

Its always bugged me how most discussion of older fighting games on youtube specifically is "this game has top and bottom tiers its le broken" idk why it just never sat right with me

[@awesome19ssbb]

​@@JadeJoestar-uy6hg it more like tradition and probably a get out of jail free card not to piss off people

[@ALloydRH]

Uranus being removed from the character select screen is one of the funniest things I've seen in a fighting game XD

[@RabbitEarsCh]

She returned to her home planet.

[@BottomOfTheDumpsterFire]

They watched that one pilot and put her into a wheelchair

[@MrThirtyH]

The real Bury Your Gays moment. She was just too powerful.

[@johnt.190]

This has only happened to two other characters. Iron Giant in Multiversus and Sheen in the Nickelodeon Flash game Super Brawl Fall. Bumbles McFumbles covered Sheen in the most recent episode on the silliest top tiers, but Sheen’s gist is this: INFINITES. AUTO COMBO INFINITES. Also his special, a super fast charge, ignores shields. And since Super Brawl is a single player game, if you’re against him, you’re against CPU Sheen, who doesn’t screw up in performance like a human player would.

[@DrEarthwormRobotnik]

@@RabbitEarsCh Note: Uranus died on the way back to her home planet.

[@nickq8093]

grappler who gets oki when YOU knock HER down. scary shit

[@mozzarellamaniac6300]

every Zangief mains' dream

[@nickq8093]

@mozzarellamaniac6300 zangief mains? Grappler mains

[@appelofdoom8211]

Turns out the ideal grappler build isn't some beefcake built like a double decker bus but a skinny long legged lesbian.

[@Pennywise12528]

I actually laughed when Uranus dashed the entire screen, dashed away the entire screen to dodge a throw, then dashed the entire screen again to punish the dodged throw.

[@akiradkcn]

Funniest thing I ever seen

[@GuileWinQuote]

Genuinely one of the most forward thinking games in the entire genre. Happy birthday Bishoujo Senshi Sailor Moon S: Jougai Rantou!? Shuyaku Soudatsusen!

[@m.k.b.3880]

Don't backdash out of my destructive carnival. Thanks

[@Rukunetsu]

Really enjoy the vids, man.

[@cesarhuanosta3757]

Please do a video on this game 🎮🎮🎮

[@GaioMare]

seeing Uranus felt like if Akuma's Raging Demon was a character HELP

[@Zwyrx_Hgqfyggz]

*GUESS 1000 STRIKE/THROWS* Raiden wasn't kidding, there ARE fates worse than death

[@emberthefox4951]

This game is probably the best example of "If everyone's broken, nobody is."

[@MAYOFORCE]

Except Uranus

[@1inimilian567]

I think it is more “no one is broken if the universal mechanics are broken to.”

[@MusicoftheDamned]

Poor Sailor Mercury got the shortest and fairest section though. :/ Lol at Sailor Uranus being even more broken than I already knew though. Just like different types of infinity there are different levels of brokenness I guess.

[@woomod2445]

@@1inimilian567 This, Everyone has built in defenses/mechanics that make what would be broken in other games fair. "If everyone is broken, nobody is" leads to a pit of everyone just enacting their game plan instead of interacting with their opponents gameplan, but here the core universal mechanics (ie base line defense) are as out there and powerful enough to keep up with the tools handed out as peoples gameplans. (Except uranus)

[@1inimilian567]

@@woomod2445 yeah, people seem to forget that you need good defensive mechanics if you want to make offence powerful . . . strive

[@maliciousbugman]

Uranus is basically a playable SNK Boss. Without the common drawbacks of whenever they're legitimately playable.

[@paperluigi6132]

If SNK ever got the license to make their own take on a Sailor Moon fighting game, they could definitely make a brutal boss (as long as people petition for it, even if it’s a separate mode like KOF XV). And we could also maybe even get Athena Asamiya as a guest character.

[@Ultrox007]

"by Ark System" Ah, yup, that explains why it's broken as hell while paving new ground at the same time.

[@paperluigi6132]

It was their very first fighter, so of course it’s very broken.

[@nobodyinparticular9640]

​@@paperluigi6132and they never released anything better since Lol, just being dumb

[@johnt.190]

@@paperluigi6132 So we have Sailor Moon to thank for Sol Badguy?

[@hailthequeenFM]

It was their 1st game? That's wild.​@@paperluigi6132

[@Slab_Crab]

Proud to have helped take this game from a single setup on a dingy floor in the corner of a bar, to being my region's favorite side game with 30+ entrant brackets at times Hope it lives forever

[@beltube]

my phone put this at 360p and i forgot most of the effects are invisible in this game unless you're looking at it in 60fps lol

[@Gpop119]

Yeah I was wondering why Snake Flare was sometimes invisible and sometimes solidly visible. But then I realized it's an old game and it might've been flickering at 30fps lmao

[@MegaDarkness5000]

Gotta love old games

[@MarcusFigueras]

Legitimately said "what, does she have a forward dash with all the same properties of the 5 frame invincibility backdash?" Seeing that Uranus was banned and I laughed at how fucking fast it is

[@Sai1523]

I remember checking back after tournaments were all just Uranus and seeing that she was removed from the character select one tournament and started laughing

[@TheOpponent]

The training mode even replaces the pause screen with a movelist, which was certainly very forward-thinking in 1994, a time when publishers would have trusted the players to consult the manual for every detail like the basic operation of their character.

[@magicalgirl1296]

I like how the tier list is literally just "idk, everyone is super fucked up, so I guess they're basically on the same level. Except Uranus, she's the strongest lesbian in the universe"

[@itsinvalidity]

@@magicalgirl1296 The mechanics of the game are so centralizing (guard cancels, backdashes, throws) that no character really stands above since you can find counterplay to almost anything at a basic level. This makes everything really matchup dependent, but there's no one character with better matchups than everyone else, except for Uranus.

[@ezmoney4598]

LESBIAN POWER

[@amr-OH]

another fun fact is that is has a "modern controls" option that lets you do specials and supers by pressing one of the shoulder buttons and face buttons. so you can skip having to charge and get instant command grabs and supers

[@thejazzo3595]

Possibly the best setup ever in a game instead of memorising 6+ button steps.

[@radiantansel202]

@@thejazzo3595 You should go learn something else if 6+ button steps is too much for you to handle

[@radiantansel202]

That option genuinely helped me to set this game with people who isn't really into fighters, and Sailor Moon being this surreally popular in Mexico, it was a no-brainer to put this game in events

[@thejazzo3595]

@@radiantansel202 Yeah, and that's what I did. I went to learn something else better.

[@amr-OH]

​@radiantansel202 yeah I used to bring this locals and it really helped get people into the fun broken stuff

[@GarlyleWilds]

This has become one of my favourite fighting game videos ever. There's a very specific vibe that's hard to achieve; where you're showing off all the busted nonsense that *should* make something unplayable, but also in a way that's like "and that's actually what makes this great". It gave me a whole new appreciation for a game that I remember playing like two decades ago on emulators with friends when none of us knew what we were doing lol. And of course, there's such a great sense of humour in the editing with music choices and focal points and all. Top notch work.

[@itsinvalidity]

@@GarlyleWilds Thank you! O-Range and myself worked very hard on it.

[@vfvfblki]

Uranus : If you strike me down, I shall become more powerful than you can possibly imagine.

[@coffeebird2857]

I didn’t know anything about this game before clicking, so When I saw Uranus’s dash for the first time I felt like a caveman being plopped in the center of NYC

[@RabbitEarsCh]

This game genuinely changed my life. So many cool people, so many good events, all because we came together to guard cancel and backdash a whole lot. You're all very special. Thank you for this amazing journey.

[@Pyrobaconstudios]

It's surreal to think at one point people actually thought Uranus was bad

[@itsinvalidity]

I can understand it. If people didn't know about the reversal forward dash tech, she's just a grappler with a forward dash that's easy to just hit her out of, infinite or not.

[@RabbitEarsCh]

​@@itsinvalidityLegitimately if I hadn't taught Vicki about reversal forward dash I'm pretty sure I come home from Frosty 2019 with a top 3 medal lmao, it was not very known at the time outside of Boston

[@retroblue9558]

Not to mention her desperation. Lack of anticipation/reaction and you'll eat a free 70% damage ultra (yeah it's maybe nothing compared to Pluto for example but when you get caught by it in solo when you don't expect it, it's an experience 😂)

[@diamondmetal3062]

I can’t help but feel like this is in character. Like, Sailor Moon has some of the most ludicrously powerful characters in all of anime, so of course they’re gonna be unfairly powerful in a fighting game.

[@skyhawk9710]

So in the Sailor Moon game, everyone is broken, and therefore the game is balanced. Genius.

[@little_rico]

this is a contender for the best “Sailor Moon S is Broken??? By Invalidity” in the year 2024

[@NeedyWolf]

"there was never a 9th sailor scout"

[@BBHood217]

And we don't mean Pluto.

[@MusicoftheDamned]

​@@BBHood217I mean, there was clearly never a Sailor Saturn. Nope.... /s

[@Ebb-2000]

10:34 “Michiru… who is this ‘Brad’ person you’ve been seeing instead of me?”

[@shocksconstant]

No no no at the time they were still "cousins" you see.

[@SNESJW]

I have never seen a video that reflects the will of the community as well as this one. Happy 30th Anniversary Bishoujo Senshi Sailor Moon S: Jougai Rantou!? Shuyaku Soudatsusen released for the Super Famicom on December 16th, 1994!!

[@IanHumito]

"And when everyone's Broken... no one will be"

[@sakarain]

Not even 2 minutes in and this game is even sicker than I thought it was lmfao

[@VilArknights]

The comedic timing here is legitimately impeccable

[@maxmercurythemm827]

Those block frames and "Unblockable!" pop-pups made my day.

[@poptheweasel100]

Never even heard of this game before but its hilarious seeing how busted everyone is yet still somehow being kinda balanced because of that

[@appelofdoom8211]

So long as uranus is banished to the shadow realm anyway

[@Jsslade]

This is how I learned there was a Sailor Moon fighting game

[@khhnator]

there actually multiple of them

[@legs1773]

I love Sailor Moon S, what a special game. SMS was my first game and it will always hold a special place in my heart. I'm so thankful to everyone I've got to play and talk to about SMS. Find your local SMS scene, and if you can't find them, start one!

[@Mohammed1000real]

Too bad that it won't get a remake.

[@legs1773]

@@Mohammed1000real That's fine with me, I don't need one. I have SMS right there and I can plug it in and play it anytime :) I have an active local sms scene, and we have serviceable netplay. I don't think a remake would offer much to me in particular.

[@skylarspeedweed6784]

The Bishōjo Senshi Sailor Moon S: Jōgai Rantō!? Shuyaku Sōdatsusen is the friends we made along the way

[@KremBotop]

Fun fact for anyone unaware, most of the music used in this video are official arrangements of this game's OST that elevate the music to sounding pretty much the same as the show's own OST. Other SM games (the first 2 SNES beaten ups and the RPG) were given the same treatment. Great video btw.

[@PywackettBarchetta]

This is phenomenally well-edited; like, I've played it a bit before and talked about it with friends a lot, but this nails a *lot* of little details in an extremely breezy and fun way. Nicely done!

[@bigtonney]

Thanks Cenciu the Italian sailor ambassador for showing me and others this game

[@RabbitEarsCh]

You're all so real for this. I hope I can play offline with the Italian ambassadors some day.

[@jessemarkham6887]

it's depressing that there aren't sailor moon games anymore

[@CornadaTV]

Seeing Uranus activated my fight or flight response.

[@legodawg2001]

As a Guilty Gear Missing Link head, I’m actually kinda shocked how similar this game is (guard cancels, overhead that whiffs on most of the cast, desperation state, etc) it makes me appreciate it even more. It’s like yall are playing a more deliberate grounded form of Missing Link and that’s wild

[@dopey473]

It's wild to me that people shit on Missing Link but play stuff like this like come on is it really THAT bad?

[@RabbitEarsCh]

This wasn't mentioned in the video, but that would be because this is the first fighting game made by Arc System Works! A lot of the DNA for Guilty Gear, especially the power of backdash throw, is right here in primal form. Fun fact: Daisuke Ishiwatari did QA on Sailor Moon S.

[@Rhannmah]

@@RabbitEarsCh It was, at 12:54

[@yummines]

@@dopey473 Missing Link has insta-kills that you can combo into, and they win you the match. Not the round, the entire 3 round match.

[@DrEarthwormRobotnik]

@@dopey473 As someone that fucking loves Guilty Gear, I'd argue this game is significantly better put together than Missing Link, that game is a proof of concept at best.

[@ryanchase9332]

I'm a diehard Amara/Haruka fan, so I'm not sure whether I'm happy she's at her actual power level... or sad that she's banned into infinity for being stupidly broken.

[@appelofdoom8211]

The sailor moon S community hate to see a lesbian winning (just ignore Michiru being unbanned and fully viable)

[@ArjunTheRageGuy]

Would be funny to me if her forward and backward dashing was in the anime.

[@ryanchase9332]

@@ArjunTheRageGuy It kind of is. She forward dashed and one shot Jupiter. Absolute wreckage.

[@ArjunTheRageGuy]

@@ryanchase9332 oh ok then

[@ArjunTheRageGuy]

@@ryanchase9332 saw a clip about it on youtube just from searching "sailor uranus vs sailor jupiter". Didn't really see a dash similar to the one on the game but more of a parry and punch. It was close tho to the game, even though it was different.

[@shadowopsairman1583]

Realize that Jupiter is physically the Strongest Girl in the series.

[@Ballowax]

10:31 "I remeber vivibly. It was with Brad, the cutest guy in the school" Haruaka: U little shit

[@decoder_main6875]

Thank you for keeping the "Is broken" series alive again ❤

[@j-herogamer4305]

2:25 of course, the main character has a get out of jail free move

[@yusukeelric]

Finally a game where we can have a Uranus Tier

[@Tia_Bea]

This... this was beautiful. It brought tears to my eyes. This game is the best FG ever. Waiting for my Azeron to get here so I can try to master one handed Chibi Moon back dashes.

[@ryarod]

I didn't know Sailor Moon *had* a fighting game until I clicked this video. I've just started watching the show, Season 1, and weirdly enough, this seems compatible with the length of actual fights in the show. The only reason they take as long as they do is the drawn out transformation and power-summoning sequences and Usagi panicking until help shows up.

[@CenciuNC]

One of the best thing happened to me in the COVID era, always love the community and cheers from SMS Italia Ceo 😍

[@skylarspeedweed6784]

Thanks to Arc Systems Works for getting me into the best fighting game ever (and I don’t mean guilty gear).

[@Becca_Underwood]

I was mildly interested when this video was recommended and expected to click off after half a minute but the great editing kept my interest. the whole experience combined with the gameplay shown was almost avant garde.

[@Rutawind]

Imagine being so busted you're hacked out of the game lol

[@RebeCelebi]

Happy birthday SMS, my favourite fighting game ever, a really unique and special game that will always have a place in my heart ❤

[@Agent_Eli]

The FGC never ceases to amaze me with its obsession over detail.

[@OrochiSaffron]

Maybe the real treasure are the friends we Zam Scammed along the way.

[@RicksterLPs]

I’m kinda glad my local runs sailor moon every now and then. Russell is always tough to beat, but lowkey he and many other passionate Canadian players are what got me so interested in sailor moon. Great video btw! The video gave me a better understanding on how broken this game is, but also fun! Gonna start practicing before our next sailor moon tournament :3

[@itsinvalidity]

@@RicksterLPs It's always great to see the Toronto scene still going strong! Canada in general too, now that Atlantic Canada has a pretty big scene.

[@RicksterLPs]

@@itsinvalidity that’s so awesome! Love hearing about the scene growing all around Canada and I hope next year it continues to grow! ^(^.^)^

[@petracide]

the best fighting game ever made, thanks for this vid o-range and inva!💗

[@Mieklet]

this video is edited incredibly well, humorous and engaging THANK YOU

[@nintendoloverin9567]

This felt like showing off the abilities of the next DBZ villain and it just kept on getting better and better. Legit I'm in awe. The freaking way Uranus forward dashes... the sound, the looks.... Menace. ... DK BONGOS????? DUde. What is this video. I can't even- Really, thank you for this video. This was extremly well made and highly enjoyable!!

[@appelofdoom8211]

Uranus dash dancing across the entire screen is what zoners see in their nightmares

[@Rukunetsu]

Vids like these are so great - nice work!

[@darknovastrike]

This video is pure gold. Ty for making it.

[@TheSonicDBZ]

I wish that Sailor Moon anime was like this game with the movement and the crazy moves and all, not like tokusatsu pacing. This game is wild. Even with everyone being broken, almost everyone is balanced, in a way. And of course the short character would be so nimble and untouchable.

[@insertname3293]

didn't expect to find a video/game like this in my feed but glad i found it, uranus being zangief with the satsui no hado is hilarious

[@weebloxian2.011]

a game with high and rich defense mechanisms and even crazier offensive play, this is insane

[@h0ojn-c1j]

10:42 another win for the lesbians

[@appelofdoom8211]

12:28 literal gay erasure. The sms community really hate to see the lesbians win

[@sagittariusa7662]

Funny thing about Sailor Jupiter is that out of the five original Sailor Scouts, she is the only one who has any prior knowledge in martial arts. If the Sailor Scouts were intelligent or Sailor Mercury was the leader, their fights would also be: Mercury: "Jupiter, run in there and destroy everything. Mars and Venus, give her back up but stay out of her way. Moon, just don't get yourself killed." Moon: "Alrighty, Boss." *Thumbs Up*

[@fluxcorenz]

Fantastic vid, explains a lot! Thanks very much!

[@newecreator]

Like watching people play this because it's so fascinating with these wild combos.

[@renatoramos8834]

When everyone is super, nobody is.

[@FhargaZ]

8:08 having the "balance patch" lower the guy is gold 😂

[@SwerveStarEx]

It's wild to me that every single character has a broken mechanic, but Mercury's mechanic is the only one that is negative for HER and not the enemy.

[@itsinvalidity]

Mercury's broken mechanic is her speed (she be zoomin) but that's a little hard to explain in a video format like this.

[@SwerveStarEx]

@@itsinvalidity Hahaha, that makes sense. XD

[@Super-Suchi]

I love that Sailor Venus is like a DBFZ character on crack with that corner pressure.

[@Mohammed1000real]

Sailor Moon S is surprisingly a fun fighting game for the Sailor Moon fans and the amount of jank it has is what makes it special, so yeah, it is broken in some ways for a SNES game but i vastly recommend the Sailor Moon Fighter S mod over the original. Also Uranus is the Akuma of this game.

[@jeffreyweaver3734]

AWWWWW YEAH THE ZAM SCAM 7:58

[@QCCBigZam]

🗣️ ITS FAIR SHE NEEDS IT

[@dedfoker]

That's commitment to the scene to publish a review on broken stuff from a sailor moon game.

[@ArtyDeez]

Thanks for this vid bro. You now have a new contender in the Sailor Moon S scene! (Eventually)

[@atsali2]

Even if they're all over the place, it's always amazing to see early Anime fighting games like this and JoJo and how their DNA is still present today through games like DBFZ. And today I learned lesbians have unreactable strike/throw mix

[@itsinvalidity]

Even Neptune has really great strike/throw mix in the corner. We can't keep letting the lesbians get away with it!

[@JoseRivera-ym3wj]

Wait, don't you mean "cousins"? Eh? EH?

[@MoluskToeCheese]

Thank you for this beautiful breakdown! Now im even more interested in trying this game

[@KitsyKat_]

Never in my life have I seen a fighting game where you can be hit by a ground throw while airborne. Imagine if games still did that. Would be wild.

[@1inimilian567]

Thank you invincible back dashes though

[@maxmercurythemm827]

I didn't think I'd find my way into a Sailor Moon video of all things. Neptune's bae though, guard cancel safe DPs are life.

[@SMTDDR]

Now this is content I'd pay money for 😊 EDIT: Uranus missing from the select screen kills me 😭😂

[@MAYOFORCE]

It's astonishing how fun this game is regarding how broken it is

[@thanib7796]

When everyone's broken, no one is (except Uranus).

[@CureCryptic]

Why didn't Haruka just 66 360HK Galaxia? Is she stupid?

[@appelofdoom8211]

Galaxias moves don't cause knockdowns so Haruka's forward dash was still vunerable

[@catantcha99]

The non scaling damage reminds me of the game touki denshou angel eyes that has damage that scales up with every hit in a combo

[@badgiefplaysbadly1362]

I got to play a bunch of Sailor Moon S for the first time way back at Canada Cup 2018. Absolutely magical game, and you'd see completely new broken/awesome tech in every match you watched. I was surprised at how good and smooth it felt to control, for a SNES-era fighting game. Definitely way ahead of its time in many ways. Most games that end up in (or purposely go for) the "everyone is OP so nobody is" state end up being somewhat unplayable, but this is one of the few gems that comes out pristine for it.

[@1inimilian567]

Well yeah, they got busted defensive mechanics that allow the BS on offense to be ok. Guard cancels are grate (play skullgirls by the way, we got it there two; sort of)

[@appelofdoom8211]

12:28 can't believe sms community would bury their gays like that

[@SNESJW]

we are our gays

[@ht82smash]

If they fought like this in the anime, it'd be even crazier than it already is 😂😂😂

[@ArjunTheRageGuy]

Boutta watch them infinite backdashing and the forward & backward dashing if those occur lmao

[@forestsavior]

What a great video. Thank you Inva and O-RANGE for making it. But no word on Aqua Mirage? I'm kinda surprised by that.

[@lordtraxroy]

sailor moon s is basically the predicesor of guilty gear where all things are broken

[@imfineimfumo3475]

HEAVENLY URANUS BUSTER

[@sodainmycereal]

Love this game. I main Chibiusa and turns out I underestimated her backdash lmao Second Pluto and didn't know about her super being that good on block. Very educational video to degen people out with my gremlin

[@Redhead-pf8le]

What I learned today Lesbians know Raging Demon

[@blackspy8331]

uranus found out her girlfriend was bi and lost her goddamn mind

[@JoLiKMC]

So, It's not really all that broken. It's just different. Except for Uranus. She's *tremendously* broken. (:

[@itsinvalidity]

That's the conclusion we hoped people would come to after watching this video! The mechanics make it possible to find counterplay to almost anything broken (except Uranus, who breaks the system with forward dash). It's pretty balanced once you put time into it, but it is a LOT of knowledge checks haha.

[@FIAVideo]

Toei : It's just a fighting game for girls. You don't need to go that hard. Arc System : (Proceeded to make a game with multiple mechanics that are totally unheard of during its time)

[@krislegionau4997]

Lore Accurate Sailor moon I guess, they did always just one shot each other.

[@ArjunTheRageGuy]

Were there scenes in the anime that had the infinite backdashing and the forward & backward dash tho (lmao)?

[@Mechmainiac]

This was such an amazing video good work man I loved it!!!!

[@Bluzlbee]

I knew Neptune was my girl, nothing beats reversals that are safe on block

[@t_krl]

fun video fun game

[@deadfr0g]

fun video game fun video game video