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.

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.

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.…

D3 Publisher said their RPG based on the Wizard of Oz was coming out this winter and its on target with an odd release date. Riz-Zoawd is tentatively scheduled to come out on January 1, 2009. Yes, this is New…

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…

Dorothy doesn’t casually stroll on the yellow brick road. Monsters like giant mushrooms attack her. It looks like there is a Dragon Quest style combat system where you choose characters and attacks with the touch screen. The top screen shows…