Video Game Odds & Ends

Rock Robster!

The July 1994 prototype of Beyond Oasis (The Story of Thor in Japan) has a lot of interesting differences. But as it's in a very unfinished state there really isn't a lot to do. It's still fun to mess around though.

The prototype gives you a nearly full inventory of food items. But at this point in development they don't do anything yet. You'll also notice that several of them didn't make the final cut. And that includes this guy:

Robster! XD

I’m sure it would have been fixed if this lil’ guy made the final cut. But he didn’t. He’s off chilling in oblivion with Elza Walker.

Besides Mr. Robster here the other nixed food items include the bread, egg, scallop, coconut, watermelon, banana, chicken, poison mushroom, death mushroom, corn, turnip and carrot.

There really is an excessive amount of food here. So it's not surprising that many items got the axe. But if you ask me that pear is really strange looking. I think it looks more like a champagne mango. Also known as the Ataulfo. Are those called pears anywhere? I thought I heard something like that. But I'm not sure. Maybe it's just really lopsided. Maybe it's radioactive.

Personally I would have kept the bread because it goes well with the cheese. And I think the chicken looks much better than the ham. As a trade off I'd get 86 that weird looking ham and the lopsided pear. I might jettison the mushroom for the banana too. However, if you take a look at the item list over at RPGClassics.com you'll see that the food is all grouped up a certain way with four foods in each category restoring a certain amount of HP, SP or both. Cheese and meat for HP, fruit for SP and veggies for HP+SP. Well actually the veggies are more like two fungi, a bulb and lettuce. XD

Maybe the point of the poison and death mushrooms were to make things a little harder by adding toxic pick ups to the mix. Imagine accidentally using it and dying or at least being badly damaged. It's like eating the rotten sashimi.

I guess it all works out pretty well in the end. Robster may never get his chance to shine. But he'll live on in our hearts forever as hilarious engrish.

For more info on the Beyond Oasis prototype check out its page at The Cutting Room Floor.