I covered my history with The Lion King video games here, so I'll keep things short this time around.
Obviously not as good as the 16-bit versions, but Dark Technologies certainly made a game effort of it. There's actually some careful consideration for what would and wouldn't work on Game Boy, and the game's been largely reworked with all that in consideration. The animation's... a respectable conversion, honestly, impressive that the animation principles from before are still at play even if the sprites' still poses are janky. Weirdly, this version does the best at retelling the movie's story, since all levels are presented out of context in 16-bit, while this at least has those interstitial title cards (doofy as the characters sometimes look in those). Since this release is less concerned about the player beating it in a rental, there isn't any shameless padding or difficulty spikes, though "Hyena Lairs" manages to be even MORE annoying than "Simba's Return". There are genuinely things to like about this one that aren't there in the original, which is probably the best you could hope for from this release, honestly.
Obviously not as good as the 16-bit versions, but Dark Technologies certainly made a game effort of it. There's actually some careful consideration for what would and wouldn't work on Game Boy, and the game's been largely reworked with all that in consideration. The animation's... a respectable conversion, honestly, impressive that the animation principles from before are still at play even if the sprites' still poses are janky. Weirdly, this version does the best at retelling the movie's story, since all levels are presented out of context in 16-bit, while this at least has those interstitial title cards (doofy as the characters sometimes look in those). Since this release is less concerned about the player beating it in a rental, there isn't any shameless padding or difficulty spikes, though "Hyena Lairs" manages to be even MORE annoying than "Simba's Return". There are genuinely things to like about this one that aren't there in the original, which is probably the best you could hope for from this release, honestly.