Beyond Oasis | |
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Front cover of Beyond Oasis (North American version)
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Developer(s) | Ancient |
Publisher(s) | Sega |
Designer(s) | Kataru Uchimura |
Composer(s) | Yuzo Koshiro |
Series | The Story of Thor |
Platform(s) | Sega Mega Drive/Genesis Virtual Console |
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Sega Mega Drive/Genesis:
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Genre(s) | Action role-playing |
Mode(s) | Single-player |
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Publication | Score |
CVG | 89% |
EGM | 38/50 |
GameFan | 284/300 |
Game Informer | 8.75/10 |
GamesMaster | 93% |
IGN | 8/10 (Virtual Console) |
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Publication | Award |
GameFan Megawards | Action RPG of the Year |
Beyond Oasis, known in Japan as The Story of Thor: Hikari wo Tsugu Mono (ストーリー オブ トア 〜光を継ぐ者〜 "The Story of Thor: Heir of the Light"?) and in Europe as The Story of Thor: A Successor of The Light, is a 1994 action role-playing video game developed by Ancient and published by Sega for the Mega Drive/Genesis console. The game was later re-released to the Wii's Virtual Console on March 19, 2007 in North America, and April 5 the same year in Europe. The game was also included in Sonic's Ultimate Genesis Collection/Sega Mega Drive Ultimate Collection for Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3; in the European version of the latter, it is entitled The Story of Thor.
The player takes the role of Prince Ali, who has discovered a buried gold "armlet" which once belonged to a wizard who waged a long war against the evil wielder of a silver armlet. The silver armlet was used to create chaos and destruction, while the gold armlet had the power to summon four spirits: the water spirit, "Dytto"; the fire spirit, "Efreet"; the shadow spirit, "Shade"; and the plant spirit, "Bow". Ali travels the land of Oasis, gradually acquiring the ability to summon all these spirits, in an attempt to stop the person who has discovered the ancient silver armlet and is once again using it for evil.