A look back at: Magic Knight Rayearth

This SNES game really didn't take off at all, probably because I don't even recall if this anime series even was popular to begin with. And to make matters much worse, this was a game I beat in literally three days. That includes some grinding which I did as I played along. Magic Knight Rayearth for the SNES was a game that was too short to even have a lot of substance to it. Unlike Sailor Moon: Another Story, this game was too short to actually be enjoyable. It thankfully isn't too long, but it needed to be the right length, which is what made Moon a better game than this.

So this game, three schoolgirls get caught in magic land and become knights to fight off these prestigious bad guys. I don't know. I am not too versed in this series on the whole. Otherwise, it's a fully standard turn-based RPG with spells, random encounters, standard stuff. Oh, and guest characters sometimes come in, usually after you actually beat them in combat first. There's some character interactions as to be expected, but since I'm really not familiar with source material at all, I don't have much to say on them.

The interesting tidbits this game has, well other than the guest characters, are two things. One is that there are two types of critical hits, which is makes things slightly more interesting. The other are a few notable battles in the game which I'll actually describe. One is where you fight as Fuu alone against your other two main party members who end up brainwashed. The problem is that Fuu has to lose this fight, but I found out that it is completely winnable. Another fight has your party against Lafarga, who also was brainwashed then. The main thing about these fights is that winning is a game over in a sense, since you kill your allies. The game also tries to make the final fights of this game interesting too. Just lose against the final bosses to get some different endings if you will. Again, those little things are quite nice, but the game itself doesn't provide nearly enough for me to find it enjoyable.