"Beyond Oasis: The Story of Thor" is Ancient and SEGA's answer to "Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past", from the same developers who brought us the excellent "Streets of Rage 2" and "Streets of Rage 3". You can see some of the beat 'em up influence in its gameplay, but beyond the surface, it remains another Zelda clone. Weirdly enough, the game has no mention of Thor anywhere in the game, except it's title, ironically, the main character is named "Prince Ali" and has an appearance reminiscent of the Prince of Persia protagonist. The game's story resolves around two amulets, the gold amulet and the silver amulet, Prince Ali finds the gold amulet and is sent on a quest to stop the bearer of the silver amulet, bent on destruction. What follows is a Zelda clone with great graphics, the sprites and environments are rich in detail and smoothly animated. Most of the game is spent navigating through dungeons, defeating each bosses and collecting special items, throughout the game, the player frees four genies, gaining unique summoning abilites.

Reviewed on Jan 29, 2022


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