Fantasia: Music Evolved Reviews

Fantasia: Music Evolved is ranked in the 83rd percentile of games scored on OpenCritic.
IGN
Top Critic
8.6 / 10.0
Oct 20, 2014

Fantasia: Music Evolved pairs conducting with music customization to create a fun, unique music game.

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Oct 20, 2014

With great rhythm gameplay and creative composition, Fantasia: Music Evolved is a colorful title that earns its Fantasia name.

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8.3 / 10.0
Oct 21, 2014

Simple and unabashedly joyful, Fantasia is a game unafraid to explore new ways to interact with music

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8 / 10
Oct 20, 2014

Fantasia is an excellent and joyful game that turns rhythm gameplay into performance art.

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7 / 10.0
Oct 20, 2014

Music Evolved's structure can get in the way of its fun

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Unscored
Oct 21, 2014

Buy it for the kids. Rent or Twitch it for the remixes.

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4 / 5.0
Oct 21, 2014

The magical combination of two creative powerhouses in Disney and Harmonix has produced one of the best Kinect rhythm games to date. Like no other to come before it, Fantasia: Music Evolved combines the required accuracy of the best of the genre with wholly enjoyable remixing tools that allow players to create new compositions on the fly merely with their hands.

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86 / 100
Oct 19, 2014

Rock Band and Guitar Hero are about playing music. Disney Fantasia: Music Evolved is about playing with music. While it won't have the party appeal that comes with instruments, it's a more intuitive, beautiful, and creative experience. Disney loyalists hoping for fan service in the same style of Kingdom Hearts of Disney Infinity might be a little disappointed, but this is one of the most interesting music games to come out in some time.

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8 / 10.0
Oct 23, 2014

A totally unique music title that will get even the most tone-deaf gamers enjoy composing and remixing tracks.

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7.8 / 10.0
Oct 27, 2014

Fantasia: Music Evolved reminds you why you bother keeping the Xbox camera around. If you and your loved ones enjoy music at all, there are a lot of reasons why this game will make you happy. But compared to a dancing star or a rock god, a melody magician doesn't have the same prestige, and the simplified gameplay is evidence of that. Like everything Disney inspires, it's the colorful and playful energy that will keep you coming back. It's just tough to stay excited about waving your arms around for very long.

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Oct 20, 2014

The Disney magic shines brightly in Fantasia: Music Evolved, and Harmonix has delivered another great reason to own a Kinect.

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8 / 10.0
Oct 20, 2014

I definitely understand what Harmonix seeks to gain from mixing in Justin Bieber with timeless tunes like "Night on Bald Mountain" in Disney Fantasia: Music Evolved, but at times, it feels like a waste of the license. I'm just glad that the gameplay is so solid and feels so new that the sound of a less-than-desirable song is still something worth playing.

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Oct 20, 2014

Disney Fantasia: Music Evolved is a solid, entertaining game that's not too challenging for kids and whose main story I completed in about six-and-a-half hours.

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8 / 10
Oct 26, 2014

My complaints about the game are few and are more nitpicking than anything, but at the end of the day, if you own an Xbox One and a Kinect, you should not hesitate to pick up Disney's Fantasia: Music Evolved.

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Oct 21, 2014

The diversity of music, and the implementation of the movement controls in Fantasia: Music Evolved really are fantastic, and prove that Harmonix still has what it takes to re-define the genre they love so much.

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8 / 10.0
Oct 20, 2014

Music game master Harmonix teams up with Disney to deliver virtual music conducting experience that fun for the whole family

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Oct 20, 2014

When everything clicks into place (and sometimes it will), Fantasia: Music Evolved is a delightful experience that's part rhythm action, part exploration. It's a game capable of delivering real moments of magic, but is too often marred by inconsistent Kinect controls that can turn those feelings of joy into frustration.

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ZTGD
Top Critic
8.5 / 10.0
Nov 5, 2014

[A]fter I spent some time with this game, I truly found myself having a ton of fun and didn't want to stop. Added in with the remixes and my own beats added in to the songs, this game really should not be missed by fans of the genre.

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75 / 100
Nov 3, 2014

While there is much room for improvement, Fantasia: Music Evolved is still fun, and despite the issues I had with the game I still consider it one of the better games to play on the Kinect.

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Buy
Nov 3, 2014

Disney Fantasia is a fun, family-friendly way to interact with and enjoy music. It's a great use of the Xbox One's Kinect sensor as well, one that shows how much fun the sensor can be to use and how much we're missing out on as it fades away. This is likely the Kinect's last big new title – aside from some possible Just Dance and Dance Central updates – but it's a very good one. If you're craving a way to use your Kinect or get your Harmonix fix, this is the way to do it.

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