#The lion king game how to
#The lion king game movie

#The lion king game how to

It's a game that doesn't know how to space itself correctly to keep the experience enjoyable, even while still being challenging. The dreaded hyena is just copy-pasted multiple times into areas far too small for the player to manage, leading to some Capra Demon levels of endless raging restarts. Aladdin suffers less, but The Lion King is seemingly stuffed with horribly unfair ways to kill Simba, where a couple of light touches between pixels can carve a huge chunk of health off, if not kill the king-in-waiting outright.

It's a pretty damning example of how difficulty was sometimes managed in games of the early 90s. In these games enemies can be seemingly metres apart from the player character and still land a blow, while some platforms seem to just meld into the backdrop just when the player needs to land.

In attempting to recreate painterly Disney backdrops, the developers failed to make well-defined platform edges and appropriate hit-boxes - something that in-house studios at Nintendo and Sega tended to focus on. Before these games came to market players had already been spoiled with well-constructed side-scrolling platformers, sacrificing some visual complexity for solid interactivity with platforms and with enemies. Unfortunately that can't make up for the glaring gameplay faults, even compared to contemporary releases. If you are in the mindset of someone able to appreciate artistic merits on old technology - and surely any purchaser of this bundle would be - there's a lot to love in the colour palettes and the animation attention to detail.

#The lion king game movie

Sure, it's blurry and ultimately limited by the capability of the original machines, but a lot of talent and processing power has gone into making sure the characters move how players would expect, having watched the movie and demanded the game version for Christmas. In both cases though, players can get an insight into how Disney animators attempted to replicate the same animation style from the movies directly into the games - and it still shows today. One of the few notable additional features in this bundle is the inclusion of a couple of featurettes - Aladdin's is far a more recent catch up with the development team, while The Lion King's documentary is a hideous reminder of Saved By The Bell era fashion choices. If you were close to these games as a kids, prepare to have your heart-strings tugged almost immediately the games are presented in pristine and unchanged condition, meaning that those familar, chirpy, low-fidelity versions of some of the greatest tunes in Disney feature animation history still resonate.