If you want an example of a clearly lazy and cheap cash grab licensed game, look no further than The Lion King for the NES, released incredibly late in the life span of that system, in fact it is THE last official game to be released for that system. And it's a very sour note to end the console's life on. This version is actually a port of the Game Boy version, which wasn't that good to begin with, but this version is even worse! The graphics don't take advantage of NES's color capabilities, the backgrounds still use one and the same color palette. The sprites, or at least some of them, look even smaller than they were in the Game Boy version, and it's not just because of the system's larger resolution. They really did shrink down Simba's sprites! Not to mention how they chopped half of the levels from that version, you can't play as adult Simba. The music is bad, the gameplay blows, and the graphics are subpar. When the bootleg version of The Lion King is actually better than the official product, that's saying something.

Reviewed on Feb 20, 2023


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