The Wizard of Oz: Beyond the Yellow Brick Road is such a unique mish-mash of ideas. It’s like Media.Vision decided to create a hotpot of random design elements and dub it an RPG.

And that’s a good indiactor that Media.Vision is developing an iPhone game.

image Media.Vision, out of a myriad of licenses, created a RPG based on the Wizard of the Oz. Why? We asked Nobuo Nakazawa, Director of Wizard of Oz: Beyond the Yellow Brick Road where the idea came from.

Why did Media.Vision name it Riz-Zoawd in the first place? I brought the question to Nobuo Nakazawa, Director of Wizard of Oz: Beyond the Yellow Brick Road.

Speculation over! Xseed is localizing RIZ-ZOAWD as The Wizard of Oz: Beyond the Yellow Brick Road.

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The Wizard of Oz begins with Dorothy in Kansas before getting whisked off to the Land of Oz. Riz-Zoawd cuts to the chase. After you name Dorothy and Toto you start the game on the Yellow Brick Road. Dorothy’s fate…

The touch screen trackball controls are unorthodox, but work decently with Riz-zoawd. If you want to make Dorothy and Toto run towards the Yellow Brick Road you have to rapidly “spin” the trackball by drawing upwards lines with the stylus.…

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Media Vision made an unorthodox decision when they decided players should move Dorothy with a virtual trackball. This was shown in a Riz-zowad trailer, but D3 Publisher came forward with additional information about how the trackball works. You roll it…