Moonlight Lady

Moonlight Lady is a video game in the action genre developed by Shin-Nihon Laser Soft Co., Ltd. and published by NEC Home Electronics, Ltd. originally released in 1993. It is currently playable on TurboGrafx CD.

Hiwako, the daughter of a convenience store owner in a small Japanese town, is an ordinary Japanese teenager, actually a spoiled brat. Or so she thought, until one day, a talking bird named Nike (after the Greek goddess of victory, not the shoe brand) told her that she possessed unique powers that made her transform into the glorious lady warrior Artemis. No, Hiwako never stopped being a spoiled brat; but as Artemis, it is now her duty to protect her hometown from a demonic invasion, and she doesn't intend to give up.

Moonlight Lady can be described as a 'pseudo-RPG'; its top-down view and city exploration make it look like a representative of the Japanese branch of this genre, but it is actually an action game with light adventure elements and no real RPG system.

During most of the game, the player controls Artemis and two other heroines (Aquarius and Minerva). Attacking is done by pressing one button for the main character's attack and another for the simultaneous attack of the other two girls. The player can change leader at any time. The girls can also charge their attacks to execute more powerful ones.

The dungeons are populated with normal enemies, but there is no reward (in the RPG sense of this word) for defeating them; in fact, the player can try to avoid them altogether and head straight to the boss battle.

Some items can be found and used throughout the game, but there is no real weapon and armor management, nor a financial system of any kind.

It is possible that we have multiple downloads available when different versions exist.