Breath of the Wild for Sega Genesis [Beyond Oasis Retrospective]

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Beyond Oasis was created by Ancient Corp, a video game developer founded in 1990 by game music composer Yuzo Koshiro. You may know Yuzo from his work on classics like Streets of Rage, Actraiser and the 8-bit version of Sonic the Hedgehog. Yuzo himself did the soundtrack for Beyond Oasis and it does not disappoint.
The fifth game to be developed at Ancient, Beyond Oasis was first released in Japan in December of 1994 and was then called “The Story of Thor: A Successor of Light” despite the fact that the hero does not use hammers at all and he’s a prince… not a god. Lightning isn’t even one of his powers. The name remained unchanged in it’s March 1995 European release but in it’s North American release, just 15 days later, the name was changed along with the main character who became Prince Ali.
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[2] ‘Beyond Oasis’ Review - A Sight for Thor Eyes
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[3] Game Informer - March 1995
[4] Electronic Gaming Monthly - March 1995
[5] Next generation - April 1995
[6] GamePro - May 1995

[@gumpyflyale2542]

Wait you said even as a kid in 1994 but you said the game released in Mar of 1995?

[@FancyGeeks]

I misspoke, Beyond Oasis was released in March of 1995 in the United States but was released in December of 1994 in Japan (as The Story of Thor). I confused the two release dates. Honestly, I didn't remember the actual year, but I knew it was a new game at the time so it had to be 1995. I'll pin your comment to the top to serve as a correction. Thank you for helping me keep the channel accurate and watching the whole video. That's pretty awesome of you.

[@FancyGeeks]

I would like to say that I simply saw advertisements for the game dated December 1994 as they surely existed but that's not the case.

[@gumpyflyale2542]

Its okay we knew what you meant

[@chumorgan443]

I loved baiting the fish to jump out of the water for an infinite food supply.

[@odizm5196]

I was one of those kids had both Sega Genesis and SNES (Super Nintendo) and depending on My mood played both and Both were hand me downs from my older brother

[@FancyGeeks]

They're both great systems for sure.

[@MarvinMonroe]

Same. I got a TG16 for 6th grade Christmas (Dec 90) An SNES for 7th grade Christmas (Dec 91) And then bought a Genesis Core System ( that was the original version genesis, with no game included, for 99$) in Spring of 9th (so like March 94) with my own money just cuz I saw it at Electrons Boutique BUT I sold my TG16 and all the games in Summer 92 so I could buy Street Fighter 2 SNES. It was 69.99. A lot of people seems to have forgotten (or just have never known) that some games were that expensive back then. I hear lots of people act like the 59.99 we pay nowadays is the most we've ever paid for a normal list price for a normal game. I'm sure Final Fantasy 3 (6) was 69.99 or maybe 79.99 also when I got that in 10th grade (Feb 1995). Back when the number of megs was a big selling point. Street Fighter 2 at 16mb was a huge deal

[@mojennith6427]

Such a great game....I finally played it in 2020 and hooked!

[@FancyGeeks]

It really is a great game and it gets no credit.

[@DeimosXVX]

Here in the UK I came across this and Xmen 2 at a market stall in 1995. Memories

[@FancyGeeks]

It may not be on anyone's top 10 list but I have a lot of fond memories of it as well.

[@nelsonnomultiverso]

I wait a new Oasis game until today, i even send some tweets to Yuzo Koshiro's account but, well... He never answered me, hehehe! Beyond Oasis and The Legend of Oasis for Sega Saturn are one of the best Sega exclusives! And the replay factor is high! I love these games!!!

[@goukeban6197]

Do you trust the modern AAA industry of today to capture the magic of simpler times, though? I rather see a spiritual sucessor to this game made by a indie studio.

[@outpostalpha]

Great video, Jay! I've never been a huge gamer, but your enthusiasm for the subject matter really shines through and makes for an entertaining view. I'm happy to get more videos like this if you're happy making them!

[@FancyGeeks]

Thanks NerdPostAlpha! I may do more but it won't be often. :)

[@Wasparcher1]

I love this game! Back when I was a kid I could run it in roughly 2 hours. Never did 100% it, not knowing how deep that well went since the internet wasn't really a thing.

[@mello198229]

Can't stop tears from forming when looking for a modern equivalent (no zeldas).

[@FancyGeeks]

I dunno about modern but there's a sequel for Sega Saturn.

[@THerculez]

This bady needs a rerelease and remake asap

[@MyDumbQuestion]

Welcome back to the tube my friend! Now it’s time for me to finish my latest video. Great job as always!

[@FancyGeeks]

Thanks Shane! I've got our collab mostly complete. It should be up this week. I know I keep saying that but it's been a rough couple of months. lol

[@Kenkenlegend64]

Fantastic review. This is definitely one of the best titles of the 16-bit era. Btw, have you ever played Alundra for the PSone? It's like a darker and more insane version of Beyond Oasis.

[@internziko]

"Dragon Quest if you're nasty" Lol! That earned a sub..

[@FancyGeeks]

Thanks! Welcome to the channel! To date, this is my only video on a game but I was just thinking of doing more! Now, if you like super heroes I got you.

[@internziko]

@@FancyGeeks you should definitely do more game vids. I dig your style.

[@FancyGeeks]

I really do appreciate it (especially since I'm so close to 4k). I've been replaying some old Zelda games and capturing the footage so the videos are coming. :)

[@YoshyRyuDCC]

Solid video! I hope you make more like this later on!

[@FancyGeeks]

Thanks Yoshy! I needed a break from the usually stuff but I wouldn't mind doing it again!

[@djeemy]

Grand Wizard was the easiest of easiest of boss, just use a crossboy And I was 9 when I defeated him Beyond Oasis, great game, great core mechanic, ahead of his time!

[@redbarron1010]

I absolutely adored this game! I still play it on my PlayStation on the second genesis retro game. I even figured out the cheat codes to get all the weapons on my PS3. I Actually found some new stuff when I played it on PS3. And it is so much clearer. I absolutely loved this game. It was such a pleasure to play it again as an adult. Btw you can summon sprite by shooting at the round blood colored spots in the dungeon where they are hopping around. Also you cannot kill the dragon with the fire sword. You cannot fight fire with fire, literally. You have to use a regular sword to kill the dragon and also any fire enemies. When you are on the beach wade into the water then walk out fish will flop out onto the sand and when they die they become fish food.

[@joeyjo-joshabadu9636]

I bet that "grand wizard" joke went over a lot of people's heads lol

[@FancyGeeks]

I'm from Eastern Kentucky... if you know, you know.

[@FancyGeeks]

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[@justocelott]

Glad you uploaded another video dude!

[@FancyGeeks]

Glad you showed up to watch it!

[@1001johny]

Sad I missed this one when it came out

[@FancyGeeks]

I'm just happy you're watching at all!

[@marakarthegreat]

I'd rather play Beyond Oasis over Breath of the Wild for these reasons 1. better music to keep me interested. 2. better boss fights 3. more interesting story (at least for 94) 4. you actually know how much your weapons will last you 5. more variety of enemies 6. challenging final boss 7. better magic attacks 8. more replay value (for those nintendo fanboys who get angry over this comment, at least breath of the wild is so much more playable than Alundra)

[@FancyGeeks]

Thanks for watching the video! My thoughts on Breath of the Wild are probably long enough for a whole video... Hmmm. I'll try to briefly lay them out here. :) I really loved Breath of the Wild and I'm still playing it almost every day but I still agree with a lot of what you're saying here. I hope they fix a lot of this in the sequel. The boss fights do need more work. In the early game the mini bosses are fun and challenging but they get way too easy, way too quickly (with one notable exception). The main bosses are all basically a variation on the same boss. The story is a tough one, it's hard to have an open world game and also have a great story. I want to see a lot more diaries and journals and more cut scenes that aren't flashbacks but mostly, I want to see less "fetch it" side quests and more fleshed out side stories about minor characters. The weapons didn't bother me until Master mode. That's when it got silly. I like the system, but I want to see weapons last longer and a repair system implemented. I think variety of enemies could be an easy one for the sequel, just keep all the ones already there and make more for the new game. I think the final boss was only easy if you had already cleared the divine beasts. If not, Ganon has 4 additional forms. I found beating it once that way to be pretty challenging. I hope the next game does a better job, dark beast Ganon was weak. I don't really have an opinion on magic or the music. I thought both were fine but also would not mind seeing them changed a bit in the sequel.

[@jeromethompson5848]

Awesome review!!!

[@FancyGeeks]

Glad you enjoyed it

[@jeromethompson5848]

@@FancyGeeks it very rare that some one knows about Beyond Oasis, I myself only discovered the game through a friend who had Sega Chanel years .... since then I have buy this game twice because it's awesome

[@carlosnataniel3801]

My favorite genesis and also the first game I’ve ever completed

[@FancyGeeks]

Me too!

[@munjee2]

you showed that golden armour bracelet thing like three time an each time I assumed it was tiny and went on finger tips so when you showed it at 4:18 I lost my mind now I don't know what to do with my life man

[@munjee2]

Now I'll never be batman , thanks

[@FancyGeeks]

hahahahahahahahaha

[@sunjonathan]

I'm positive breath of the wild's development team was largely inspired by Beyond Oasis. Even Beyond Oasis's save file tune is in the breath of the wild E3 2016 trailer, repeated 3 times.

[@FancyGeeks]

I wish I'd known that when I made the video!

[@sunjonathan]

@@FancyGeeks hahaha they were clever to use different sounding instruments to make it less obvious too, but play it again and Beyond Oasis gamers will realise there's definitely a link to the past. 😉

[@amjh4lah809]

One of my all time favourite SEGA MegaDrive games. I absolutely LOVE that whistle noise when you save the game. I've always wanted it as a notification for my phone. ❤

[@NordkapSounddesign]

I remember seeing some screenshots showing areas of legend of oasis/Story of Thor 2 in an old german game magazine back then before the game was released. This areas were clearly not in the game. Maybe cut content or an earlier build. Cant remember wich magazine it was. But I wonder that no one ever in the net until today mention and rediscover it... never saw an article or said screenshots ever again. But I am corious...

[@Shadowheartmk]

I know people like to mention Castlevania SOTN copying Metroid but I feel like Castlevania SOTN took some inspiration from Beyond Oasis too. Even the Faerie familiar Spite looks alike and maybe the winding letters look familiar too.

[@lnsflare1]

According to Igarashi, his inspiration was Zelda rather than Metroid, which makes sense since Zelda games are (usually) basically just open world Metroidvanias with puzzle based dungeons. As for Dytto looking like the Sprite, I think that may have more to do with Dytto having a fairly generic fairy design.

[@cyberpc1333]

60/60 jewels?? 🔥

[@thefatheroflies7921]

Definitely not what I expect from you Jay, but it's not at all an unpleasant surprise! I'm definitely playing this one sometime soon.

[@FancyGeeks]

Yeah, I've been pretty scattered lately. With dad getting sick and passing away, I ended up with several videos at different stages of development and I couldn't finish any of them. I just needed something new. I hope you guys like it. We'll go back to normal now but I wouldn't mind doing one of these from time to time.

[@thefatheroflies7921]

@@FancyGeeks You definitely deserved the reprieve, man. Heck, I think splitting up the main content with palate cleansers is a great idea anyway! Lots of my favorite channels do it.

[@McMurchie]

Great review though I don't buy the 'it's a zelda clone', because there are only a certain few ways you can do topdown RPGs (unfortunately). Personally I enjoy this 100x over most zeldas.

[@FancyGeeks]

I get what you're saying. I mean it's Sega's answer to Zelda but also what else was it supposed to be? How many ways can you make a tile and sprite based top down game what where a hero swings a sword? Plus so many of the ideas invented here made it back into Zelda so it moved the genre forward for sure.

[@FancyGeeks]

Oh yeah and thank you. Welcome to the channel. I've only done the one video game retrospective but I want to do some more. :)

[@McMurchie]

@@FancyGeeks I really enjoyed it! You should definitely do more!

[@McMurchie]

@@FancyGeeks yeah 100% agree, you mentioned that later how it looks like Zelda introduced some of the Story of Thor ideas later one. I'm glad they did, I love this game - so much so i'm working on making my own version!

[@FancyGeeks]

@@McMurchie Keep us posted. I want to play it!

[@Buckpwns]

I liked it I played it on the 360 Sega collection but then again I didn't have a Sega I was a Super NES get to

[@FancyGeeks]

Nintendo does what Segadon't. I think that's how it went, right? 😂

[@dannysvetlick6291]

I'm early, woot, thank God for 3rd shift

[@FancyGeeks]

I had it rendered earlier but it had some glitches and I couldn't bring myself to upload it without fixing them. It only took all day. lol

[@erikdeweerdt9288]

The only bad part of this game is.. . That there are no other 10 or 20 later games. And the size.. part 1 is better then part 2

[@FancyGeeks]

I've recently started playing part two and so far, yeah. Still good though.

[@lnsflare1]

I don't really remember the running jumps being that hard. That being said, I'm currently playing Ys: The Ark of Napishtam, so perhaps I'm just being generous to it in comparison to the hell that is AoN's dash jump, a mechanic that was thankfully tossed into a burning dumpster for all future Ys games.

[@FancyGeeks]

Honestly, it's not hard. I mean, not really. It's just clunky and difficult when compared to the rest of the game.

[@munjee2]

In the sprite art during game play he looks like a blond lord boros

[@FancyGeeks]

Ha! He does!

[@mikeleng449]

Saturn vrsion is whr its at...

[@EliasFigueiroa]

nice review

[@FancyGeeks]

Thank you!

[@realspider4939]

I like Sega genesis better than super Nintendo

[@FancyGeeks]

Nothing wrong with that! I was just kidding around about Nintendo's "obvious superiority". I actually love them both, the SNES just happens to be the one I had as a child.

[@realspider4939]

@@FancyGeeks I had super Nintendo too! But Sega genesis was just beautiful man!

[@realspider4939]

@@FancyGeeks I don't have one and I'm getting one again!

[@FancyGeeks]

Me too! I want to set up a game room like what the guys from My Life in Gaming have.

[@realspider4939]

@@FancyGeeks Same here, but I only want the Sega genesis. Cuz it's just too much video games. I have xbox one and ps4 too. But I don't got no cartridges😳I need to get some games for the Genesis and this is one of them. I got NBA jam so far. I'm gonna just order them offline Cuz they're cheaper online.

[@leonidaschryssinas1723]

Correction : Beyond Oasis/The Story of Thor, as well as it's sequel, DON'T have breakable weapons

[@leonidaschryssinas1723]

also, each gem adds 5 SP, NOT 50 SP

[@FancyGeeks]

No, sorry. Only the knife and Infinite Weapons are permanent. The rest run out of power and break.

[@FancyGeeks]

​@@leonidaschryssinas1723 That's not how I (or any of the guides I just checked) recall it... "Gems are an important part of the game. Not only do they increase your Spirit's power, but they also increase your SP by 50. There is no real tip for looking for Gems unless you look at the section of this shrine, but if you are having a hard time finding one, look around and kill every monster in sight. " shrines.rpgclassics.com/genesis/beyondoasis/tips.shtml

[@leonidaschryssinas1723]

@@FancyGeeks that's exactly what I'm talkin' about, +5 SP for each gem, NOT 50 SP. Also, there's no proof of weapons gettin' "broken", only that the number of shots is limited & they get depleted, anyway. Thus, there are several infinite weapons. So, we may say they get "broken", altho nothing actually depicts this very thing. Thnx 4 your swift response, m8, keep it up, your reviews are fantastic !

[@FancyGeeks]

@@leonidaschryssinas1723 ​ Thanks! I hope you stick around. No, there's no animation of a weapon breaking but the manual calls them "limited use items" and once they're gone they disappear from your inventory... sounds like breaking to me but I get what you're saying. :) In any case, I hope you're having a great day! I mostly do comics but I do want to do more videos on games.

[@sinnohen]

Calling Beyond Oasis The "Breath of the Wild of the Genesis" is pretty misleading. Something more along the lines of "A Link to the Past" would've been much more relevant and accurate.

[@FancyGeeks]

I'm sure we can agree to disagree. I hope you enjoyed the video otherwise. )

[@SKAR__FOX]

I wasn't misled. Were you?

[@juancarlossotobarrera3092]

I just found out this game even exist the name cough my attention and is really impressive even though it clearly struggle with the genesis limitations it would have looked way better on the SNES

[@一本のうんち]

Wtf you talking about 'clearly struggle with the genesis limitations'? You mean not looking like a generic rpg maker crap that all snes games are?

[@YunierViada]

Here to boost everyone should play this game. I need another sequel is been so long.🥹😭

[@FancyGeeks]

Thanks for watching! It really is a good game.

[@YunierViada]

@@FancyGeeks yeah it was one of the firsts games that blew my mind back then