Rung Rung: Oz no Mahou Tsukai: Another World

The Wonderful Wizard of Oz is a children’s novel written by L. Frank Baum and illustrated by W. W. Denslow. Originally published by the George M. Hill Company in Chicago on May 17, 1900,[nb 1] it has since been reprinted numerous times, most often under the name The Wizard of Oz, which is the name of both the 1902 stage play and the extremely popular, highly acclaimed 1939 film version. The story chronicles the adventures of a girl named Dorothy in the Land of Oz. Thanks in part to the 1939 MGM movie, it is one of the best-known stories in American popular culture and has been widely translated. Its initial success, and the success of the popular 1902 Broadway musical Baum adapted from his story, led to Baum’s writing thirteen more Oz books. The original book has been in the public domain in the US since 1956.

Rung Rung Oz no Mahoutsoukai Another World is an adventure game available only in Japan for the PlayStation that featured top-down exploration of a world based on Frank L. Baum’s Wizard of Oz books. An anime-styled Dorothy adventures through the Land of Oz, meeting familiar characters and accompanied by dog Toto, all featuring cute new Japanese redesigns.

The game starts when an evil wizard use his magic to steal all the light of the world of Oz and transform all into dark stones even the people of the world of Oz are transformed into stone. Meanwhile a twister appears at Kansas and brings Dorothy’s home to the world of Oz with her and Toto inside. When they arrived a witch appears and let her magic power and his apprentice to help her. Now is up to Dorothy to start learning to use his new powers to transform all things and the people of Oz back to normality and defeat that evil wizard.