The Wizard of Oz: Beyond the Yellow Brick Road (2008) — Release Date, Cheats, Price & Requirements

The Wizard of Oz: Beyond the Yellow Brick Road

The Wizard of Oz: Beyond the Yellow Brick Road, known in Japan as RIZ-ZOAWD, is a role-playing video game developed by Media.Vision for the Nintendo DS. The game is an adaptation of L. Frank Baum's 1900 novel…

74 25 December 2008 ESRB E

What The Wizard of Oz: Beyond the Yellow Brick Road is

The Wizard of Oz: Beyond the Yellow Brick Road is a role-playing (rpg) game developed by Media.Vision and released in 2008. It was published by D3 Publisher. It is available on Nintendo DS only. It carries an ESRB E age rating.

The premise, in the publisher's words

The Wizard of Oz: Beyond the Yellow Brick Road, known in Japan as RIZ-ZOAWD, is a role-playing video game developed by Media.Vision for the Nintendo DS. The game is an adaptation of L. Frank Baum's 1900 novel The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, using its characters, locations and plot. The game was originally published in Japan by D3 Publisher on December 25, 2008. Xseed Games published the game in North America on September 29, 2009.

Description from the publisher · source

How it plays

Its themes are fantasy. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.

How it was received

The Wizard of Oz: Beyond the Yellow Brick Road holds a critic score of 74 out of 100. That places it above 44% of the 3,814 rated role-playing (rpg) games in our database, which average 73. Games released in 2008 averaged 65, so it scored 9 points above the year average.

What it launched against

The Wizard of Oz: Beyond the Yellow Brick Road launched on 25 December 2008, within three weeks of Spelunky Classic, Crayon Physics Deluxe, Dissidia Final Fantasy and Shin Megami Tensei: Devil Survivor. All of them reviewed better.

Released around the same time: Spelunky Classic, Crayon Physics Deluxe, Dissidia Final Fantasy, Shin Megami Tensei: Devil Survivor.

The Wizard of Oz: Beyond the Yellow Brick Road — frequently asked questions