Console on July 18, 2012. Reception Defenders of Oasis was met with a positive critical reception upon release. Paul Wooding and Adrian Pitt of Sega Force applauded the game: Wooding commended the variety of items and characters and the "highly original and entertaining" plot; Pitt proclaimed the game to be "instantly playable" and "the most user-friendly RPG I've ever played", and praised the visuals as "well defined and colourful" and the dynamic Oriental soundtrack as "some of the best I've heard spout outta the Game Gear". Joe Hutsko of GamePro was surprised by the game's amount of detail in relation to its four-megabyte size, and praised the graphics as "finely detailed, superbly drawn, and practically as good as those found on the Genesis", but noted that the combat eventually became tedious due to the static visuals, and dismissed the music as a "repetitive fantasy flute, common to FRPGs". In its debut month, Defenders of Oasis was the seventh highest-selling Game Gear title at Babbage's, and stayed within the top-ten chart on four subsequent months. Damien McFerran of Time Extension included the game in his list of the best games in the Game Gear's library, determining it to be the console's best RPG in a library that had few titles in the genre. He complimented its mix of exploration, turn-based combat, and a storyline based on One Thousand and One Nights. Notes References External links Defenders of Oasis at GameFAQs Hardcore Gaming 101's summary 1992 video games Game Gear games Game Gear-only games Roc (mythology) Role-playing video games Sega video games Video games based on Arabian mythology Video games developed in Japan Virtual Console games for Nintendo 3DS Works based on One Thousand and One Nights