Beyond Oasis also know as Story of Thor, The – A Successor of The Light.

As Prince Ali, you are out to stop an evil sorcerer and save the island of Oasis. To do so, you will need your wits, skils and the powers of the four Wild Spirits.

Beyond Oasis is an fast action RPG with special combat moves, unique weapons and spell attacks, cool animations, and lots of puzzles, hidden areas and hidden moves.

There is a ton of different weapons to aquire in the game, including magic bows, bombs, and all different types of swords. In the beginning, you search out the 4 powers of your magical armlet which you can use to summon your spirits, which include a fire spirit, a water spirit, a plant spirit, and a shadow spirit. Each has it's own unique abilities which will help you to fulfill your quest.

Beyond Oasis has a huge assortment of monsters, which in turn are either massive (like the Red Dragon boss) or interesting (like the zombies that split in to, and their torso continues to crawl and attack you). Ali can launch a big combo with kicks and his dagger, but he does some other tricks quite as well, most notably his backflip slash, which silences a lot of bad guys. The fighting is really gratifying, as each blow that you land gives an awesome sound effect and stuns your enemy. You'll soon be looking for more enemies and the most effective and/or fun way to kill them.

There's an inventory in this game, but you won't be buying all your stuff to fill it. You'll find items like food, weapons and stat enhancers scattered through the entire island and from your enemies. One item is more effective than another and soon you'll be thinking which item you should drop in favor of the new found items, as the inventory is quite limited. And you'll have to consider which gauge you want to keep up.

There are tons of secrets in Beyond Oasis, and a few side quests you can venture off and do to aquire more powerful weapons. In many of the dungeons you have to do some figuring. Sometimes there may be switches you must push in order to figure out the secret. Other times, you must strategically use your spirits to help you get out of the dungeon.

The Wild Spirits are elementals you can call to help you destroy the enemies or solve puzzles. The Wild Spirits are a fire spirit, a water spirit, a plant spirit, and a shadow spirit.

Beyond Oasis (US title; released as The Story of Thor in Europe and Japan) is an action-adventure video game released in 1994 for the Sega Mega Drive/Genesis console. 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.

Music for the game was composed by Yuzo Koshiro.

Beyond Oasis Special Features:

• You're Prince Ali
• Save Oasis from the evil sorcerer
• Use weapons and Hidden Super Moves to devastate your foes
• Solve puzzles
• Take on the bosses at the end of each level
• Save up to four games with the battery backup feature

Barring Landstalker, which later gave rise to the Sega Saturn's Dark Savior, and influenced the excellent PSX title Alundra, Beyond Oasis is the definitive Zelda title/action role-playing game on the Sega Genesis. I bought this used about a month or two ago from amazon.com marketplace and am thrilled with the game. Simple but illustrated black and white instruction booklet, along with the same cheap packaging of other late Sega Genesis games cannot hide the fact that a great game series was in the working. Colorful bosses, and challenging puzzles, in addition to a Prince of Persia-meets-Zelda theme give this game real personality, and elevate it head and shoulders over other Zelda-clones on the market. Too bad the game was only followed by one sequel (1996's LEgend of Oasis) before sega stopped producing game machines. All in all, I'm happy to be able to play this one from time to time, and Beyond Oasis is one of the last great Genesis games.

Beyond Oasis combined action & adventure elements, hack & slash dynamics, and RPG elements to make this one of the last best games for the Genesis. When I play Beyond Oasis now it kind of reminds me of Sword of the Berserk: Guts' Rage for the Dreamcast, which is kind of weird considering the time lapse between the games. The graphics are pretty good; the animation runs smooth, some of the smoothest on the Genesis, but the control is rather awkward when trying to pull off some of the special attack moves. There are secrets abound in the game, many of which take a lot of skill to find, but you will find yourself engrossed in Beyond Oasis once you get used to it. If you have a Genesis and like action or RPG's then I strongly suggest looking for Beyond Oasis wherever you can find it. Also recommended are the two best Genesis games on the system; Phantasy Star 2 and Gunstar Heroes.