The Wizard of Oz (SNES) Playthrough - NintendoComplete
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- A playthrough of Seta's 1993 license-based platformer for the Super Nintendo, The Wizard of Oz.
Awhile back, someone suggested (in a somewhat tongue-in-cheek way) that I play The Wizard of Oz. I knew virtually nothing of the game, but I was down to try it. I abstained from looking at the videos that people seem to love referencing when talking about it until after I had finished it. I wanted to form my own opinion before I took everyone else's on-board.
And you know what? I'm glad that I did. Because really, it's not that bad of a game. Plenty of games out there better deserve being glued to the ceiling with a well-aimed parvo jet than The Wizard of Oz.
It's a simple platformer with a plot and a presentation that vaguely resembles the movie and cartoon it was based on. Dorothy travels through different countries collecting ticket pieces so that she can gain access to the Emerald City (wasn't this the same basic plot setup that we saw in the Genesis version of Beavis & Butthead?), and along the way assembles a motley crew of lifebars that can be swapped at anytime with her own: these damage sponges take the form the scarecrow, the lion, and the tin man. They each have different abilities, but you'll rarely need them. Dorothy is easily the most capable of the group.
The gameplay is generally fine. The platforming is a bit uninspired and is driven entirely by collecting items, but the controls are generally solid and the game isn't very hard at all, though unavoidable, cheap hits can get annoying. The enemy designs are certainly strange, though - most buildings are filled with psychotic La-z-boy chairs, while the outdoors tends to be home to violent topiary, giant birds, wind-up teeth, and other such fondly remembered Wizard of Oz icons. The level designs are simple and generally straightforward, so once you get a feel for the floaty jumping mechanics and figure out the ticket piece locations, you won't have too much difficulty getting through the game.
The graphics are a bit odd - The Wizard of Oz can paint some surprisingly picturesque scenes, but it has a number of ugly moments, too. The Emerald City stands out to me as what has to be one of the least attractive stage designs that I've seen in an SNES game and the intro is hideous, but the farm stages look pretty nice, and some of the weird enemy sprites are worth a chuckle or two. The same can't really be said for the sound, though. It features low-tech renditions of some popular tracks from the movie but they all suffer from gratingly harsh instrument samples, and the annoying sound effects quickly become tiresome.
The Wizard of Oz isn't a great, nor even a particularly good, game, but it's not terrible either. The cutesy graphics would probably appeal to little kids, and the simplistic action makes for a pleasant distraction if you're looking for something that goes light on the challenge. It's completely mediocre, but fans of the movie or of "girl games" that don't star Barbie will probably find The Wizard of Oz to be a solid choice.
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My mom rented this game for me when I had the flu as a kid...It was like a bad fever dream and I couldn't even get past the second level...
I had the game when I was a kid too as well brings back a lot of memories
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Did it make your illness worse then I feel sorry.
It's a shame when the flu is more bearable than a video game.
Same here. I got this game back in '95 and I sucked at it! At that time I blamed the game for sucking, but it might have been all my fault. Anyway, you aren't the only one who didn't make it far!
The game is really hard, but I can see they really tried.
-The graphics look nice.
-It has a good portrayal of the Oz characters
-the music is excellent like over the rainbow.
-A cat cactus.
What happened?!
The developers didn't play test for any glitches. That's what happened
I gotta admit, if someone gave me a pair of shoes and told me they were magical, my first guess on how to use that magic would be to kick things while wearing them.
You wouldn't throw them at someone like the guy in Austin Powers?
@Rico Williams Oh jesus, seriously? The actor? Eww.
@@NintendoComplete Who rapes a woman's shoe? Honestly now!
My first thought if I had magic slippers would be to get my revenge on the people that did the dirty on me by playing cruel pranks on them people I hate but who hated me first through for no reason and no fault of mine definitely not!!!! 😤 Then click them heelz an get the hell outta this dismal miserable weather country I've lived in for the passed 34 years. 😖👠👠🌪️🌈⛱️🍹🍹🗼🎪🔊🎶🎵🎶🎠🎡
kids these days will never know the true horror playing this game was.
It was the Dark Souls of our time.
My friend and I played this a lot and although we went far we never made it to the end.
We were 9 years old (around 1995) and we lived right next to each other... man the memories.
RIP my little friend Marcos.
thanks for the upload man brought many memories back.
Between the bad midis, her kicking cute small animals, and that unsertling intro this game makes you think its one of those ones that surprise you by becoming a horror game out of nowhere.
Hahaha Monster Party in Oz would be sweet
To me, the game just feels bizarre & creepy by itself.
The sad thing is, visually, the game looks like fun but then you start playing and realize how dirt hard it is.
But it’s hard for the wrong reasons.
In the game manual, it’s revealed that the Cowardly Lion is a vegetarian. Makes sense since he’s afraid of sheep.
“ASSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS”
AVGN
What a bizarre licensed movie tie-in game to come out sixty years too late
That's the wild thing about the game for me.
I'm still waiting for a game based on Woman Tied to Railroad Tracks 2
@@NintendoComplete Looks like it was coded back 1940 on a valve radio...
I'm still waiting on that Casablanca video game.
I have a theory the game was originally intended to be an RPG/Adventure, but it was too cumbersome and was changed to a simple platformer due to time constraints. That would at least explain the inventory, the broken difficulty, the unfitting valleys, and the fact that there is one character in a jump 'n' run game that can't jump
At least we got the Oz RPG on the DS that was pretty fun.
I had this game as a kid, and looking back on it now, I can appreciate that even though this game isn't great, it honestly wasn't a shoddy cash-grab or, like, a lazy or unambitious game. There are a good number of levels with a variety of mini-games, interesting environments, four characters all with special attacks that could be swapped between for different situations, and even a pretty darn good soundtrack.
There is definite effort on display here to make a fun and interesting game, and while its flaws don't really outweigh its merits, I do at least appreciate now, in 2024, that there was at least some love and soul put into it.
Just in time for the classic film's 80th Anniversary! ;-)
Oh wow, I had no idea. That's neat :)
0:00 Intro
1:48 Shy Village
5:10 Gamboge Gorge
7:50 Maize Meadow
12:46 Saffron Fields
17:17 Xanthin Farms
19:04 Lemon Trees
21:04 Citron City
27:42 Yellow/Red Border
28:51 Rouge River, Noth Fork
30:05 Poppy Fields
32:19 Cinnabar City
35:05 Carnelian Forest
36:57 Scarlet Marsh
39:47 Rouge River, West Fork
41:56 Crimson Caves
43:20 Carnelian Forest (again)
53:01 Red/Blue Border
54:11 Zaffer Forest
1:01:13 Azure Hedges
1:04:43 Navy Village
1:05:42 Smalt Furnace
1:07:57 Indigo Palace
1:10:24 Cyan City
1:11:42 Blue/Purple Border
1:12:47 Mallow Marsh
1:14:49 Mauve Castle
1:18:11 Amethyst Mountains
1:19:24 Lilac Forest
1:20:49 Lavender Gardens
1:24:56 Mallow Marsh (again)
1:34:37 Yellow/Purple Border
1:35:54 Emerald City
1:39:54 Ending
How did this game even come into existence?
"Hey Steve?"
"Yes Dave?"
"Why don't we make a video game based on a 50 year old movie on the SNES?"
"I don't see how that's an odd decision in the slightest. Should we put effort into making the game fun and well designed"
"Nah Dave you know time is money and I'd rather spend the afternoon putting onion rings on my dick."
That's my best guess.
Actually just reading this now. The Wizard Of Oz 1939 movie was 85 years ago. Your way off with math! 🤨🧐
@@Halfscotboy_39 It waz 50 years old at the time it was made.
@@thelivingdrawing2262 Are you talking about the time after L. Frank Baums death because that was only 20 years before the MGM classic film. Soz abit confused as to what years toward the making of the film? If you are referring to his written stage plays before he invented Oz from the mid to late 1800s until the time after he died then yes.
"glued to the ceiling with a well-aimed parvo jet"
Someone's been watching AVGN. ;)
Hahaha damn, I'm caught
@NintendoComplete He's the reason I got back into retro, tbh. His early stuff is especially good, though not always factually accurate.
@@tartuffethesprywonderdog5883 I've never watched him for actual information, but I do sometime watch because it's so absurd that I can't help but laugh. Glad he got you back into the fold
hello everyone from GameGrumps,
the timestamp you are looking for is he timestamp you are looking for is --1:36:18
Emerald City drove me batshit when I tried playing this.
Yeah, I'm not a big fan of mazes either
@@NintendoComplete And for Wizard who was supposed to be great you think he would try to add some directions so that way nobody can get lost.
After watching the AVGN's review of this monstrosity MANY years ago, I went to see if anyone actually managed to do a LP of this game, and man do I take my hat off to you. Here's just some of many reasons why this game is absolute torture:
1. That mortifying version of Somewhere Over The Rainbow. Ear rape at its finest, murdering one of the most famous songs in existence.
2. The game's pickiness, like if you don't touch the arrow you restart the level - like what even?
3. TIN. MAN. God what were they thinking? As the AVGN said, "Why not make a character in a platform jumping game, that CAN'T JUMP?!?!"
Don't know why but I like this game 🤔😚
It's far from being awesome, but I was pleasantly surprised by how not terrible The Wizard of Oz game turned out to be.
I dropped down here to basically say almost exactly that. "It looks surprisingly not terrible!"
@@IWLDELJ
But it PLAYS terrible
Try Wiz-Road a turn-based RPG on the DS, it's a very good twist on the ol' tale.
@@Invidente7 Good tips! Thanks.
@@Invidente7 Lmfao, Wiz Road? Please tell me the road is still yellow.
Is this The Wizard of Oz or Peewee’s Playhouse?
The Wizard of Oz
Growing up, I thought the yellow bricks were supposed to be sticks of butter.
Good example why not all popular movies need a video game
Good example of how movies and games should remain apart...
It could have been decent if they just toned down the difficulty
There should have been a lot more licensed games based on 1930s movies. Can you tell me you would not play a Gone With the Wind video game, or one based on Duck Soup?
Or 40s classics for that matter. I'd be all over a Citizen Kane video game!
O filme e gravado no final dos anos 30
Game here to see what arin was doing wrong. So fucking funny Dan was right about the windows
I mean, technically it was a door, but yee.
Seta REALLY should have had Datam Polystar develop the SNES Wizard of Oz video game and have it be based on the 1982 Too anime film rather than the 1939 movie and it would be an action RPG game.
1:09:59 lol wow, did they really just pull a "sorry but our princess is in another castle" moment?
Poor Arin
I know this game is bad but I love it.
Had this game as a kid. One of the hardest games I've tried to play.
But in all negative ways
Somewhere, over the rainbow...
I just played through the end credits of OFF, so this is perfect timing! Anyway, I find this adaptation charming, if anything, I rank it only _slightly_ worse than _Crystal's Pony Tale_ for Genesis! I enjoy that Dorothy's whole crew gets some playability, even if they're useless and their abilities badly underutilized. The art is definitely inconsistent too, but I think there's some appealing settings like the first level. It's not awful, for the most part.
You don't need a brain, a heart, or the nerve to play through this one to the man behind the curtain himself (spoilers), just follow the yellow brick road! But as stated before, I find a certain nostalgic charm to it all. Why? Because, because, because, because, _BECAAAUSE!_
Basically the whole moral of The Wizard of Oz is: Home is where the heart is. Do you remember that moral? When Dorothy Gale says “There is no place like home.” That's what the movie taught us. Convincing? 😀😀😀😀😀😀😀😀😀😀😀😀😃😃😃😃😃😃😃😃😃😃😃😃
It's an ambitious game! Not bad artwork.
Where do you see the "ambitious"??
@@eduardopacheco6068 Multiple characters with different abilities, not just a Mario clone, difficulty remarkably high...stuff like that
Well most of there attacks are the same and toto and Dorothy look like hell spawn at the start.
I feel like Judy Garland would either love this or hate this so much.....
the music during the puzzle game segments is sort of like a war crime
I'll get you my pretty and your little dog, too! hahahaha!
Never had the displeasure of playing this one as a kid. There really are some things that do not need to have a video game. And I love the movie!
I'm tearing this game apart. It's actually rather impressive some of the gameplay rules they have in place.
- Characters take damage differently depending on the enemy. Scarecrow won't take damage from the unicycle corn throwing corns. Or he takes 1 damage from saws unlike Dorothy.
- You can only carry 2 sub weapons. Still looking into the numbers and use. There's also a max. carrying capacity for each item. 20 for the yellow blocks and you pick up 3 each time. It's all rather interesting.
I never play this game since i wasn't born in the 90's i always wanted too, i know a lot of people say it shit but it seem like a great challenge for me and the music of "Somewhere over the rainbow" in the beginning i just love it so much it seem chillin when people turn on there snes.
As much as AVGN did a great review on this game, he did err slightly seeing how at 36:05 Scarecrow can shoot ammo. Also, remember the scene in the movie when Scarecrow smashes the shit outta a giant rusty 🚂 mecha?
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The jump defies the law of physics😂
Cactus kitties?! Okay, that's genious enemy design🤪
It's a bit bizarre hearing a 8 bit rendition of The Wizard of Oz.
Don't you mean 16 bit?
I am surprised there are people that like this
I can believe that
Same lol
@@lucariothehero500 Dorothy still got plenty of fanbase :-)
Yessir! I can confirm that!
There were a lot of enemies from the book they could have used. Kalidahs (creatures with bodies of bears and heads of tigers) and fighting trees and hanmerheads and there were different enemies in the other books like the wheelers and giant jackdaws
If I made this game here’s what I would have done.
I would have made the enemies obstacles created by the witch to keep Dorothy from getting to the Wizard.
I also would have made the enemies different like instead they could have been trees orr kalidahs or Hammer-Heads like in the book.
I would have had them arrive in the Emerald City before they destroy the witch and the Wizard sends them to the get her broomstick.
The witch would have been the final boss of the game.
The game would have ended with a cut scene of Dorothy and her friends discovering the Wizard is a fake and Glinda telling Dorothy to click her heels to get home.
Yeah but glinda should of got a kick in the ass for not telling dorothy the red shoes were magical...BUT then again, we wouldn't of had a great movie like WOZ like it still is today. My fave character is the wicked witch now as my life has become so unbelievably overbearing and overwhelming that I literally don't give a F what I say or do now!
My sister and I had this game as a kid and never managed to get very far. It's so dingdang hard! Not only that, but as I'm watching this and seeing how far the player was, I looked at the timestamp and it was only 23 minutes.
At least I know where to get infinitely spawning bricks, apparently.
3:00 its angry chairry!
This has a good soundtrack.
The Wizard of Oz had a game ? Another discovery.
I didn’t know Dorothy could hover like that.
This is like Elf : The Movie : not a masterpiece but cute enough to be played by kids.
Maybe she's Peach's mom. That would be a hella trippy twist, dontcha think?
NintendoComplete i agree😊😊😊😊.
Some of the graphics look nice, while others could have used more tweaking. Some enemy designs are admittedly creative. The music is pretty nice, too.
But, the game mechanics could have used a lot more fixing, particularly with collision (I.e., falling through platforms), hit detection and the unnecessarily scarce supply of power-ups throughout the game. Also, as AVGN said, what good is a character who can’t jump in a platformer? At the very least, give Tin Man some springs for his boots!
So this game could have been decent, but I imagine this was a rush job.
Proof that more often than not, great movie = bad game.
So glad I didn't have the money to buy this when I saw it on a store shelf all those years ago.
This game does a horrible job (at so many things) of letting players know what are doors and platforms.
Parts of this game seem super relaxing.
You say that kids would've found enjoyment out of this, but for me, I would've been creeped out. Not by any jumpscares, blood or what other things common in actual horror games(which is why I don't really like horror games, they tend to not be able to scare game like how this game would), but moreso the atmosphere, music & graphics. The graphics look bizarre, like someone tried to make them look cutesy for kids, but ended with stuff that looks deeply unsettling... or just ugly looking, but mostly the latter. The music uses soft instruments that can make for some nice music, right? Well, get ready to hear an unintentionally creepy sounding version of Somewhere Over the Rainbow, which sounds like we're in a place that is empty & has lost what it once was, essentially making it a Ghost Town. Barren Land sounds like some weird creepy moment in an obscure JRPG for the PC-88, yet it's in THIS game for some reason. The soft bass having an echo of its own that feels so mind bending to the ears, the beginning making one thing that it'll be a peaceful tune before venturing into creepiness & the vaguely rock 'n' roll inspired high pitched instrument that sounds out of place yet syncs so well with the rest of the track. Just... what?
The graphics actually get more weird & creepy when you notice some small details: the stretched out springs stolen from Sonic 2, Dorothy's tiny square dot eyes that don't mesh well with the rest of her, the walking sentient chairs as if they contain once-human souls, the unrelated pink college hat(IDK what that's doing here, I don't remember a scene of the movie having that), those weird flowers on unicycles, heck there are times where it looks there are 2 somewhat different art styles clashing in subtle, yet also noticeably jagged & unsettling ways.
The combination of the graphics & music make for a really bizarre atmosphere that feels so wrong. Like the game feels weird, creepy & overall unsettling in just so many ways. Keep in mind, I've watched the 1939 movie as a kid & I was a big Sonic fan as a kid, so if I were to have stumbled upon a site where I could play SNES games on my browser as a kid & found this, I would've been a little creeped out by it & I would've had some haunting memories of it.
This is further exacerbated by the fact that despite the AVGN covering it, there is little information regarding this game ANYWHERE online. Not even The Cutting Room Floor has a page on it, which I find bizarre because I FEEL LIKE there's something hidden inside this strange game. This game has a weird sinister feel to it & I'm not sure on if it was intentional or not(likely not, but still).
The graphics and music is good just seems like the game play sucks.
A game so bad you'll wish a tornado had blown it away.
No way! I didn’t know there was one.
Oh snap, it's this. It's no "Noseferatu", but hey, it's still oddly charming in its own way.
Impressive, for making it that far - I wonder if this may prove GameFAQs wrong on how "difficult" they made it out to be? Definitely looks somewhat better compared to Wolverine: Adamantium Rage and Last Action Hero!
Thanks :) I really didn't find the game very hard at all, tbh. Once you figure out the quirks, it's pretty straightforward until you get to the Emerald City. But there's no question, this is miles better than Adamantium Rage. It's been a long time, but I don't remember hating Last Action Hero. Maybe I ought to revisit it.
@@NintendoComplete, a bit of my opinion stems from this here...
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I have this game. I can't play it. It's not that it's hard, its' that it's impossible. Yes there is a difference. It's practically unplayable. Unless you have a lot of patience, or you have 87 thousand subscribers on TH-cam and you basically get paid to play through this game, it's not worth it.
I think you grossly overestimate the amount a video typically makes
Since Angry Video Game Nerd reviewed this I kinda wanna see someone else play it lol
As bad as this game is. The imagery is still charming and the music is pretty decent.
This is one of the most frustrating games I've ever seen
>This 🌈 *_magic wand_* 🌟 will guide you!
>(KICK)
Glad to know I wasn't the only one who had trouble with this game... I thought I was just an idiot lol.
The parts with the carnelian forest.........i was all like 🙄
Is this Wizard of Oz or Pee Wee’s Playhouse? - AVGN
Sorry dude, what do you use to capture your SNES games?
I wonder if this game will be on the Nintendo Switch Online Service
"Obligatory AVGN quote!"
This game has no heart, no courage, and no brains behind it, a truly terrible game that should've stayed lost in Oz.
1:10:06 thank you Dorothy but I am in another castle
Thank you for playing this so we don’t have to
wizard of oz for ...nes? discoveries everyday on tis channel.
I watched the game grumps play this. I think Dan said something along the lines of, “how can something so milquetoast be so strange?” I have to agree with him.
The art looks good, not so much the level design.
Although, they mixed up the colors of the four regions of Oz. I swear East was blue, North was Violet, West was yellow and South was red...although then again, I may have mixed them up as well, but I swear North was purple.
Never played this lmao
How’d Dorthy survive the tornado if she wasn’t in her house……..Unless…….Maybe she’s dead and her returning to Kansas is the After life and Oz is a purgatory. 😮
How am I supposed to get under that flame? Piss on it!
I played this game at my dad's house when I was 7 years old
Follow the yellow brick road
DOROTHY BACK TO KANSAS
I hate this game. Never passed the first level. Extremely hard
The only good thing about this turd that plays like a game is the 16-bit rendition of Somewhere over the Rainbow. I must admit it sounds good.
The graphics are all right in general, but really, what was up with how Dorothy looked in the opening bit? That was lazy!
The music... I can't shake the idea that if they had a better sound mixer, that it would be much better. It's on the VERGE of being nice, but it's just... I don't know, something is holding it back. I think it's the back notes. They're too emphasized.
True. the game looks good but the music, OMG it’s so bad that if i have it i prefer turn off the volume of the game and play The Wizard of Oz OST movie instead
It's weird not seeing a lot of comments about the nerd reviewing one of the worst super Nintendo and movie license games 😳
i just found a new game in watching the game, finding graphic weird things.
at 36:22 i see a small part of tree in the grass which was cut out right there obviously because it otherwise would be taller than the grass.
0:19 - The alphabet minus AEIOUY.
i love the music in the wizard of oz.
This game was pretty bad let’s be honest, but it’s one of those bad games that you can tell the developers tried their best
1:37 most boring level ever... And it is supposed to be the final "dungeon"?
How do you fuck up Wizard of Oz? Well yeah, there was The Wiz with Michael Jackson that did that. But I mean as a game! A Super Nintendo game nonetheless!
it blows my mind this is from seta when you compare it to nosferatu on the snes
I'm here because of avgn
music is so bad that it seems unplayable
Very Long Gaming.....
the music is quite... electic
you can destroy saws with a stick...makes sense to me
...a few seconds later...what is happening ? what kind of drugs were they consuming ?