Premise:  It's a top-down action game with lots of cute girls, a fair amout of catfights, and the requisite hunk to adore.  It could conceivably pass as a Sailor Moon clone, except that the game engine is far more sophisticated than any of Bandai's efforts on its own franchise.

Comments:  Seems to have been fairly well received in Japan.  As for Western perceptions, I haven't a clue - remember, this game never made it across the Big Pond.  Must be that cultural gap that existed at the time, you know.  An adventure game about a cute, green-haired girl - and you're going to try to sell that to a mostly male audience whose primary interests are shooters and sports games?  Least that's the way most Western folks saw it back at the time.  Today?  I dunno.  Given how big a hit Sakura Taisen became, who can say?

Rating:  6

Variants:  The actual Japanese title is Mahao no Shojo Silky Lip.  It is frequently shortened to just Silky Lip in many references.  This game was originally developed for NEC's PC Engine CD (aka Turbo CD) but never released for that platform.

Sidebars:  Silky Lip's development team experimented with a lot of character and situation concepts in this game that later went into a certain world-famous series of games for the Saturn.  After Telnet broke up as a company, many of its programmers (including the Silky Lip team) wound up in its successor, Nextech - a name that should be quite familiar to both Saturn and Dreamcast gamers - and once again resumed their contract relationship with Sega.  Some Japanese videogame authorities have even gone so far as to say that Silky Lip served as a prototype of sorts for the game that would become the first Sakura Taisen (aka Sakura Wars).