Disney's The Lion King: Simba's Mighty Adventure
released on Dec 16, 2000
After his father is killed, the young lion prince Simba must travel through the jungle to find his life's path. Eventually, he will return home and claim his rightful place as the Lion King. On his journey, Simba must avoid such dangers of the jungles and plains as wildebeests and rhinos. When he encounters these enemies as a cub, his roar does little to scare them off. However, maturing into a majestic lion deepens his voice and makes the growl useful as a weapon. As he explores the nine levels, Simba will be able to collect a wide variety of items that will open several bonuses that include puzzles, mini-games, and movies. While the film was animated in 2D, Simba and his world are rendered in three dimensions, and the plot unfolds in cinematic sequences between each level. You've got to help Simba take his rightful place in DISNEY'S THE LION KING: Simba's Mighty Adventure.
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na minha memória de criança esse jogo era muito maior e mais bonito. o jogo tem quase nada de conteúdo e pode ser finalizado em 40 minutos. pra época talvez tenha sido um jogo bom, mas é muito corrido e falha em contar a história do filme
I have a soft spot for The Lion King 2, but even I think presenting an anthology game of both Lion Kings 1 and 2 as a Simba-centric story is kind of an odd choice.
For that matter, trying to make an action game out of The Lion King 2 is an odd choice. Maybe I'm just used to the decisions made in Virgin Interactive's Lion King games, so I think little of (for example) turning the morning report segment of the first movie into the game's intro level. But even so, it's shocking to see the entire first act of Lion King 2 skipped over. Like, I get that the movie is a lot slower and more ponderous than its predecessor, but it feels like the cornerstone element of the movie - the budding of Kiara and Kovu's relationship - is almost completely exorcised. Meanwhile, the fairly disposable scene of Kiara and Kovu being chased by Rhinos gets a whole level, because they're that desperate for things they can have Simba do. And Simba fights Zira to the death, which kinda misses the point of how that movie ended ("Welcome to the Pride, Kovu. Sorry I had to kill your mom."). Maybe this is why other tie-in games for Lion King 2 (Active Play, Gamebreak) were less literal and more loose in their adaptations?
Speaking of Virgin Interactive - while I'll be quick to admit that their work on The Lion Ling is flawed, there's simply no contest in a comparison between 16-bit Lion King and Simba's Mighty Adventure. The Lion King did as much as it could given its like 6 month dev cycle, and the fact that the characters look as much on-model as they could - still backed by Disney animators, no less - is a great visual treat and of a respectable length (even if it's artificially inflated by difficulty spikes). Simba's Mighty Adventure feels impossibly small and unambitious in comparison. Get to the ends of each linear obstacle course with X amount of collectables, and you're good. Maybe some extremely light combat. We're working with budget PS1 models, so no ambition whatsoever in terms of visual presence; the game's just trying to get over the line here. I guess the climactic fights are better in Mighty Adventure (the Virgin Scar vs the Chad Zira?), but it's still kinda weird that Scar/Zira's whole thing is to hop on a ledge where they can go neener neener while rocks and logs or whatever fall on Simba. I guess Scar has geomancy in this iteration?
If you're jonesing for a video game adaptation on The Lion King 2, I guess you're pretty starved for choice. But I'd still say go for minigame compilation Gamebreak over this.
For that matter, trying to make an action game out of The Lion King 2 is an odd choice. Maybe I'm just used to the decisions made in Virgin Interactive's Lion King games, so I think little of (for example) turning the morning report segment of the first movie into the game's intro level. But even so, it's shocking to see the entire first act of Lion King 2 skipped over. Like, I get that the movie is a lot slower and more ponderous than its predecessor, but it feels like the cornerstone element of the movie - the budding of Kiara and Kovu's relationship - is almost completely exorcised. Meanwhile, the fairly disposable scene of Kiara and Kovu being chased by Rhinos gets a whole level, because they're that desperate for things they can have Simba do. And Simba fights Zira to the death, which kinda misses the point of how that movie ended ("Welcome to the Pride, Kovu. Sorry I had to kill your mom."). Maybe this is why other tie-in games for Lion King 2 (Active Play, Gamebreak) were less literal and more loose in their adaptations?
Speaking of Virgin Interactive - while I'll be quick to admit that their work on The Lion Ling is flawed, there's simply no contest in a comparison between 16-bit Lion King and Simba's Mighty Adventure. The Lion King did as much as it could given its like 6 month dev cycle, and the fact that the characters look as much on-model as they could - still backed by Disney animators, no less - is a great visual treat and of a respectable length (even if it's artificially inflated by difficulty spikes). Simba's Mighty Adventure feels impossibly small and unambitious in comparison. Get to the ends of each linear obstacle course with X amount of collectables, and you're good. Maybe some extremely light combat. We're working with budget PS1 models, so no ambition whatsoever in terms of visual presence; the game's just trying to get over the line here. I guess the climactic fights are better in Mighty Adventure (the Virgin Scar vs the Chad Zira?), but it's still kinda weird that Scar/Zira's whole thing is to hop on a ledge where they can go neener neener while rocks and logs or whatever fall on Simba. I guess Scar has geomancy in this iteration?
If you're jonesing for a video game adaptation on The Lion King 2, I guess you're pretty starved for choice. But I'd still say go for minigame compilation Gamebreak over this.
Narrative: 3 - Gameplay: 3 - Visuals: 3 - Soundtrack: 3 - Time: 3
Stars: 3
Stars: 3
This review contains spoilers
This Lion King game is BLAND. The Story is mostly the same as the first 2 movies, except that they skip over Mufasa's death, but the story continues anyway. The Characters are the same as the film, with different dialogue. The Graphics are alright and fun and colorful for the PS1, so I would say this was a success. The Controls are very slow to turn the other way and you have to slowly turn around well running to run in a different direction, this takes out the complete fun the exploring could have. The Gameplay has you collect enough points to advance to the next level, well also completing the level itself, the points feel pointless (LOL) when you still have to do a task to complete the level, so it's kinda weird. The Level design in the game is actually the biggest problem I have with it, because it feels really basic, and not interesting, when playing, it makes it feel like you're JUST supposed to beat the level and not focus on any fun. Music is also uninspiring and is what happens when you write a track without putting any heart in it. Sounds are
Simba tokens can unlock clips from the movie, but you might as well just watch the movie and don't get terrible voice overs in it, (Simba's). Gourds unlock minigames, which give you nothing, the matching game is too simple, the bugs game unfairly has some bugs some down at the same time and the Rafiki game is too slow to enjoy. Simba's mighty adventure is as boring as a lion king game could get away with.
Simba tokens can unlock clips from the movie, but you might as well just watch the movie and don't get terrible voice overs in it, (Simba's). Gourds unlock minigames, which give you nothing, the matching game is too simple, the bugs game unfairly has some bugs some down at the same time and the Rafiki game is too slow to enjoy. Simba's mighty adventure is as boring as a lion king game could get away with.
My sister always wishes for a remake of this game and I cannot for the life of me understand why because, and say it with me folks:
It's just yet another generic Disney platformer that's not much different from the other ones we were being chucked at back then.
And it doesn't even bother with the DTV sequel Simba's Pride much either starting that stuff about halfway through the film so that's an extra point knocked off there.
Still better than it's shoddy GBC counterpart though.
It's just yet another generic Disney platformer that's not much different from the other ones we were being chucked at back then.
And it doesn't even bother with the DTV sequel Simba's Pride much either starting that stuff about halfway through the film so that's an extra point knocked off there.
Still better than it's shoddy GBC counterpart though.
I remember that I got this on my birthday and I finished it in half an hour. It wasn't terrible I guess, but I was like 12-years-old, way too old for it.
It includes like 9 levels taking place during the first two movies, it's interesting that they included the second one as many people don't like it.
It includes like 9 levels taking place during the first two movies, it's interesting that they included the second one as many people don't like it.