Plot
Long ago in the world of Beyond the Beyond, a battle raged between the 'Beings of Light' and the 'Warlocks of the Underworld'. (((Longtime readers of the blog will have noticed that.))) Before the planet was destroyed, the two sides signed a treaty leaving the surface world to the Beings of Light and underground to the Warlocks.
After hundreds of years of peace, inexplicable happenings begin to occur. The player must control Finn, a young swordsman, to stop the evil power that has broken the treaty and invaded the surface world.[3]
Music
The soundtrack was composed by Motoi Sakuraba, who is well-known for his work on other Camelot Soft titles such as Shining Force III and the Golden Sun series along with other series' such as Star Ocean and Valkyrie Profile. The music did not take advantage of pre-recorded redbook audio, instead relying on the MIDI format.
Characters
Playable
▪ Finn - the 14-year-old main character, in training to become a knight after his mother's death.
▪ Steiner - a baby dragon that Finn keeps and has the potential to assist in battle.
▪ Annie - a 13-year-old friend of Finn's and daughter of Galahad, she fills the healing role during the game as a Cleric. It is implied that she has a crush on Finn.
▪ Percy - a 20-year-old knight at Marion Castle and Annie's older brother.
▪ Samson - revered for his bravery, the 32-year-old soldier is cursed and loses much of his strength shortly after appearing.
▪ Edward - a 13-year-old magician and the prince of Marion.
▪ Domino - a 28-year-old pirate collecting treasure throughout the world who joins the party in order to pay his debt to Finn, who saved his life.
▪ Tont - a young summoner who is living with his parents in the Village of Simone, he was accidentally transformed into an anthropomorphic blob by a potion. (((You'll be seeing more attention paid in future to the posthuman anthropomorphic blobs.)))
▪ Lorele - a monk and the Princess of the kingdom of Barbaros.
Non-Playable
▪ Galahad - the 50-year-old former leader of Marion's knights, Finn's guardian and father of Percy and Annie.
▪ Kevins - at age 39, he is leader of the Marion Knights and as such was forced to entrust his son Finn to Galahad's care, he supposedly sacrificed himself by staying in Hell at the end of the game to prevent Akkadias's forces from invading the surface, but was brought back to the surface world by Finn, who flew to Hell on Steiner to save him.
▪ Shutat - a mysterious man serving directly under the emperor of Bandore, he was taken over by an evil being named Akkadias.
▪ Ramue - a cold-hearted witch reporting directly to Shutat, she has strong magical abilities. She places a curse on Samson in Marion to render him weak, in order to make the heroes appear as frauds to Zalagoon's king.
▪ Dagoot - another of Shutat's 3 generals, he is an expert in archery.
▪ Yeon - a strange goblin-like being, he is the last of Shutat's generals and has magic rivaling that of Ramue, he is a minion of Akkadias sent to monitor Shutat. (((Be fair – Yeon's no stranger than most of the other goblin-like beings who get blogged here.)))
▪ Zeon - the Village chief of Simone as well as the strongest magician in the world.
▪ Glade - adviser to the king of Zalagoon, he planned to betray Zalagoon with the Bandore forces by using Samson's curse against the party, but once his scheme is exposed, he went insane with fear and turned himself into a monster with Shutat's pill. (((We all have days like this.)))
▪ Akkadias -A evil being that fills the "Devil" role and is the ringleader behind the "Vicious Ones" and is the final boss of the game.
Reception
Despite being almost universally panned by critics, Beyond the Beyond has nevertheless garnered a certain amount of underground praise from fans on the Internet. [citation needed] ...
