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Yes, the Genesis is doing resistance.
It was what we could tell by seeing this title "The Story of Thor"
Because graphically it teared everything to pieces,
it really was the top of the range for the Genesis.
Hi everybody! Today I introduce you The Story of Thor (Beyond Oasis)
An Action/Adventure game released for the Genesis in 1994/1995.
I'm going to make you discover this game
Which i think is excellent, even if it has defaults,
unfortunately it has defaults.
Listen to these
I like these trumpets on the title screen.
Yuzo Koshiro's epic music, you can see that on the bottom
Yuzo Koshiro's music. He's a very famous guy in Japan.
In a nutshell he made the musics of Streets of Rage
or Shenmue so he isn't some random guy.
So I'm going to show you the beginning of the game
and then for the 5 last minutes if we'll have time
but we'll have time because I timed myself
I'll show you the 4 spirits of the game
4 very important things of the game.
I'll show you the stars of the game at the end.
So, the story: I'm Ali, the character you're seeing on the screen.
You can see I have an armlet on my left wrist
a gold armlet, in fact I just found it
as you could see on the intro at the beginning.
Oh, the rascal...
To begin, look at the way to fight,
because it's pretty original in this kind of game:
Fights happens the same way as a Beat 'em all
which means like in Streets of Rage or Final Fight
and this is what is really original in this game.
I'm a little hopeless but you're used to it.
Come on!
I'm gonna beat him.
For God's sake...
There!
Ok, so you see how to fight?
Fights doesn't happen like in other RPGs and that's what's cool.
I'm gonna turn down the sound.
There.
Fights doesn't happen like in other RPGs and that's what's cool,
that's really an excluded style.
This game is a mix of Streets of Rage and Zelda 3.
I think that's the main asset of the game
It's really original, it doesn't look like any other game.
Ali has a life bar that you can see on the top-right corner,
he has mana, even if it isn't used the same way as other games:
it's used by the spirits, but I'll explain you this at the end of the game.
I'm directly going to...see? This is the map, not very well done
but we can see the flag at the bottom left
it's where we have to go, so we're going there right now.
I'm going to hurry up because I want to show you the first temple entirely
then show you something else, so I'm not really going to visit these sites
I'm hurrying up, I'm going directly where I have to go
but you have to know that from the beginning
almost all of the map can be explored: one can go almost anywhere.
There's a lot of secret passages in this game, some side quests
that we can do from the beginning if we want.
So, now I'm going...oh but I haven't told you about the story.
So, I'm playing Ali, Ali who found the Gold Armlet in the introduction
which had the effect to wake up the Silver Armlet.
The Gold Armlet symbolises good and the Silver Armlet symbolises evil
it's once again a story of "Good against Evil".
So I'll have to destroy evil which means the Silver Armlet
and to do that, I'm going to use the power of this armlet
and the power of this armlet is 4 spirits, 4 elementaries:
water, fire, shadow and nature, I don't know if I forgot one, it's not a problem...
that I'm first going to find in four sanctuaries, four temples
and then the quest will really start.
And so, stars of the game are theses 4 spirits
Right now I'm going to stop the video and see you again a few seconds later
for me a few minutes, for you 2 seconds
in front of the water sanctuary, the 1st sanctuary of the game.
Later!
So we get together in front of the water sanctuary.
Look, it's beautiful, isn't it?
Here I use the key that the King gave me.
It's beautiful! It looks like a interactive comics
I love that!
Ok, I'll do this temple quickly, it's really really short
well, it's the 1st temple, it's normal.
We can pick up items...Look at this: a chest fell.
There's a lot of chests in this game,
you must know that there isn't any money in this game
that's also rare, there's no money, there's no cash.
There's no shop. In villages you can't do anything
it's really anecdotal, it's a 100% action game
It's action, action, action.
Look at this, there's a little secret, a little secret passage.
You can squat like this, and still can do an attack.
And there I pick up the 1st real weapon of the game.
Why do I say "1st real weapon"?
Because...
look at this...
in the inventory we can have 8 differents weapons,
there I picked up a sword,
but except our knife, our dagger from the beginning
which has infinite amount of hits,
the swords, bows and bombs we can get
there's 3 styles of weapons
For example 50 hits.
There - 1 hit
- 2 hits
If I get back to the inventory
you can see 48 hits are remaining.
It means that each weapon of this style will have to be economized.
I'll take my dagger...
There.
You can do quite a lot of things, attacks, combos
that's really good...that's excellent.
It's like Streets of Rage, I love it.
Well..oh! A fish.
That's useful for healing,
we have 4 + 4 = 8...16
so we have 16 slots to keep the objects of the game.
For example: PO +1/4 heals 1/4 of Ali's life
this heals 3/4 of it
this heals one half of it.
There's also the status...
yeah Rank 1 because there's level ups in this game
but it's really anecdotal:
at the beginning of the game Ali has 200 HP, 200 Health Points
at the end of the game he may have 300 HP if he is at Rank 50.
All of this to tell you...
Wait...
Well, they're a little irritating to kill...
Anyway, all of this to tell you that levelling up is a joke
it's not important.
The 1st boss already, that's why I wanted to show you...
I'm gonna take the sword so he doesn't beat me.
That's why I wanted to show you the first dungeon:
it's because it's really beautiful.
As for the bosses, they aren't too bad,
there's quite a lot of bosses.
I won't talk too much, I don't want to fail...
...like I just did there.
But you must suck to lose there...
So, bosses, there's quite a lot of them
I'm thinking of...
There's a dragon at about the half of the game in the volcano dungeon
this dragon is huge, almost all bosses are rather big
but I remember the dragon like it was yesterday
however I've done this game 10 years ago
there I just...
AAAAHHHH!
He is almost dead, we can se his life bar on the left,
in yellow, he is almost dead now.
And I'm almost dead as well.
Come on!!
Will I get him? FOR GOD'S SAAAAKE!!!
***! I'm dreaming!
...I'm dreaming right now...
I'm almost dying!
Phew! Got him!
***!
So, what else can I say...
Oh, yeah, the spirits, the 4 spirits, I'll show you.
Right now I'm going to get the 1st spirit
Now the armlet is activated.
Look at the Mana bar increasing on the right
now I can use it, I can send out an energy ball
that will be used to summon a spirit.
They're the real stars of the game.
I'm going to show you that right now
Right now I'm getting the 1st one who is Dytto.
There.
So we'll get together a few seconds later
I'm going to load a game where I'm almost at the end to show you the 4 spirits.
Later!
Ok, so we're together almost at the end of the game
to show you the 4 elements, the 4 spirits who are tied with the armlet.
So, you have to...To summon them, you must have a summon source
by that I mean that you don't just have to use the armlet like this.
See? Nothing's happening.
You must aim a source, for example:
here you can see a torch,
I will use the armlet on this torch
that will have for effect
to summon the fire elementary
Ifrit, the fire spirit.
That's somehting really great in this game
They are surely the stars of the game, widely.
Plus here it's Ifrit, who is well animated.
You can't control directly the spirits, they follows Ali.
If I go there he'll follow me.
The spirits follow Ali even if you can't control them.
You can tell them to do some attacks.
I'm going to show you that.
For example:
You can tell them to do an attack of this kind,
You can tell him to do another attack like this
however look at the Mana bar on the left
of course each attack costs Mana.
Like this!
And another attack: he can explode this way
so each spirit has 2 or 3 attacks.
I'm going to show you that right now.
By the way listen to the music
I've never listened a music that creepy, that strange
it sounds like it came from beyond,
listen to it if you can.
Look at this, what's also good is that he attacks enemies automatically
look at the punches he does to them!
He's doing such hits, they're awesome!
He's going to be smashed.
That's what's the elementaries are and he's awesome.
Ifrit is the best for me,
he's the best so far,
plus he is really handsome
He's very charismatic, look
also he really helps
so, I will...Ali can only have 1 spirit at the same time
so, I cancel the summon
and I'll use those small blue slimes
to summon the water spirit Dytto
if she wants to come this way...
there.
So she can restore my life (not mana)
by pushing -A- 2 times,
she can do a whirl to attacks the ennemies this way.
Once again yoiu can't control directly the whirl,
it goes where it wants.
And she can do a small attack like this
...I missed
there, a ball
either to extinguish fires or to attack enemies
Here I can show you all of them...
Ow, watch out!
You rascal!
I don't have enough space...
Yes because, look at this
I've got the best weapon of the game with infinite hits
the Omega sword with infinite hits
that can be gained in a quest
one of the best quests in the game
there's 100 levels, it's in a secret passage
100 levels with an item to pick up every 10 levels
and the infinite Omega sword at the 100th level,
the sword of fire with infinite hits.
Now look at this. I'll cancel the...
Look at this. It's an ice cube or a glass cube
I can see my reflection in it
so I can summon Shade, the spirit of shadow
He isn't bad as well.
With him I can go to inaccessible places, like this
or I can be invisible for the enemies, like this
so I can go anywhere I want without being annoyed by the enemies
Or...err
I don't remember his last attack, what was it again?
I don't know anymore, no problem about it.
And the last one, but there isn't any plant near here
so I'm going to use an item to summon him
it's Bow, the spirit of plants.
So here I used an item.
Look at his mouth and tell me if that isn't cute.
Of course I can make him come to me
He can attack enemies by pressing button A
there he isn't attacking because there isn't any
so he isn't happy, he's angry because there isn't any enemy,
and he can explode
which makes the game slows down a bit
besides I shouldn't have done that because it slows down everything.
I'll show you one of the examples of riddles
for example there: you've seen thet there's a closed door on the left
I'm going to take a bomb and throw it on the button
But I can't do it this way! I can't believe it!
As I used the plant's last attack all the game is slowed down
Oh, there, it's over...
I had to throw a bomb on the button over there to open that door
it's the kind of riddles there is.
I was saying in the beginning that it has defaults: that's true!
In fact, the biggest default is it's lifetime to me
it takes 10 hours max to finish this game, it's really short
and the storyline is really really badly worked out
there's a poor amount of twists
There's almost no side characters
that's really a pity
We would have liked side characters!
I'm going to try to do a combo which is pretty difficult
Yeah, I did it!.
That's difficult enough to do, it's one of the hardest attacks in the game
You also can do it with swords
I was talking about the storyline...
Alright, that's awesome.
I was talking about the storyline, it's really average
but it's not a problem becuase like I said, this game is pure action.
The storyline could almost hold on with the intro and the end of the game
which are by the way magnificent.
But almost nothing happens in the game:
it's a succession of dungeons, about 10 dungeons, with bosses,
a lot of action, weapons to pick up, and everything.
I don't have any more time, I'll see you next time, I hope you enjoyed.
That was The Story of Thor for Genesis.
Bye !