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![The Wizard of Oz: Beyond the Yellow Brick Road (DS) Playthrough [1 of 2]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/Dgib_OW7g3w/hqdefault.jpg "The Wizard of Oz: Beyond the Yellow Brick Road (DS) Playthrough [1 of 2]
A playthrough of Xseed Games 2009 role-playing game for the Nintendo DS, The Wizard of Oz: Beyond the Yellow Brick Road.
This video shows the first half of the game, covering the Spring and Summer areas. Part two, covering Autumn and Winter, can be found here: https://youtu.be/VLh5ueggZgs
The Wizard of Oz: Beyond the Yellow Brick Road, known in Japan as Riz-Zoawd (リゾード, Rizoodo), is a Japanese-style role-playing game adaptation of the American novel The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum, and it was the only DS game to be created by Media Vision, the company behind Wild Guns and the later entries in Segas Valkyria Chronicles series.
Beyond the Yellow Brick Road is an entry-level RPG designed to appeal to genre newbies, much like Squares Final Fantasy Mystic Quest on the Super Nintendo (https://youtu.be/OvDTBDEJEQo).The game follows Dorothy traipsing her way through Oz trying to find her way back home to Kansas. With the help of Tin Man, Strawman, and Lion, she has to travel to four lands based on the seasons in search of the magical eggs that the wizard has asked for.
The general flow of gameplay is the same as youll find in most JRPGs: you scour the dungeons, fighting enemies and looking for treasure chests as you build yourself up in preparation for the boss battles while occasionally retreating to the castle to buy supplies and upgrade your equipment.
There are, however, a couple of notable ways in which it differs from the norm. The battles use a ratio system (like Capcom vs. SNK!) that provides you four points at the beginning of each turn to be spent on battle actions. Anything Dorothy or Straw Man does consumes one point, the Lion takes two, and Tinman takes three. The characters all have elemental affinities that make them strong against specific enemy types, and only the active characters in any given turn can take damage from enemy attacks, so theres a fair amount of strategy involved. The game provides a recommended course of action at the beginning of each turn, but youre usually better off ignoring it and doing your own thing.
The touchscreen-based control scheme is quite novel, too. You move Dorothy around with a virtual trackball, and though it sounds gimmicky, it works well and is a lot more fun than merely holding the up button to move forward.
The soundtrack is pretty nice, too, but the graphics steal the show. The DS was not renowned for its ability to crunch polygons, but Beyond the Yellow Brick Road is an absolutely beautiful game. The level of detail in the character models and the environments is second-to-none - not even Nintendo or Square managed this level of fidelity on this hardware - and everything moves at a smooth 30 frames per second. Screen resolution aside, it is a fair step up from anything youd see running on the Playstation or Nintendo 64.
As a game, The Wizard of Oz: Beyond the Yellow Brick Road is a fun and easy RPG romp that doesnt do anything revolutionary, but as a technical showpiece for the Nintendo DS? Wow.
No cheats were used during the recording of this video.
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