Fantasia: Music Evolved Reviews

Fantasia: Music Evolved is ranked in the 83rd percentile of games scored on OpenCritic.
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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Ray Carsillo
Top Critic
7.5 / 10.0
Oct 19, 2014

Waving your arms in front of your TV like you're conducting some kind of cosmic orchestra is a surprising amount of fun, but the lack of content leaves the experience feeling a bit bare.

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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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80%
Oct 20, 2014

Fantasia: Music Evolved is a pleasant surprise and one that I'll happily rope family and friends into playing. There are a few niggles, but the gameplay is immensely satisfying and the tracking spot on. When you nail a tricky section and see the explosion of colour and sound that follows you can't help but smile. Give it a whirl, as this has enough Disney magic to pull you in, but perhaps not quite enough content to keep you there forever.

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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

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 / 10.0
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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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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9 / 10.0
Oct 20, 2014

Gameplay not only feels magical, the remixing capabilities for popular and classic songs are just as amazing.

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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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7 / 10.0
Oct 20, 2014

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

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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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9 / 10.0
Oct 20, 2014

When "Fantasia" first premiered in theaters in 1940, the film was a celebration of both music and visual artistry. Fantasia: Music Evolved continues that concept, with the added twist of making it all interactive. If there's a "must-have" game for the Kinect, this is it.

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Ken Barnes
Top Critic
7 / 10
Oct 20, 2014

Disney Fantasia: Music Evolved is a game of highs and lows. The highs are extreme, and while the lows are less so, they are still indeed lows. You'll see the credits roll in single player mode within a few short hours and while there are still plenty of mixes to unlock once that happens, for a few reasons it's tough to see where the replay value will come from outside of the odd multiplayer battle. It's a very, very cool ride while it lasts, though.

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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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Oct 21, 2014

The Guitar Hero score attack crowd might go away disappointed, but this is a genuinely magical musical experience, and one of the best applications of Kinect. Even when you've burnt through the short single-player campaign, you'll keep coming back to explore the realms and try new remixes, conjuring and conducting your way through bizarre collisions of classical works and Carribean rhythms, or chamber music deconstructions of rock and pop hits. It's a game of exploration, both of the realms and of their music, and brilliant fun for music-loving kids and would-be maestros alike.

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Oct 21, 2014

Creating your own crazy remixes makes Disney Fantasia worth considering for Kinect-owning audiophiles, but its core semaphore-based gameplay feels more like glumly directing traffic than gleefully performing magic.

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Examiner
Top Critic
Oct 21, 2014

Music Evolved has the opportunity to be the ultimate party game, as its creative depth, functionality, and fun-factor go unmatched in comparison to any other music game.

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9 / 10.0
Oct 21, 2014

Eventually, the game's catalog will grow to contain dozens of fan-favorite tunes from different corners of popular music. When you feel the beat of your favorite song and then wave your hands to alter that song with various layers and tones from the remixes, "Fantasia: Music Evolved" feels more like magic than a video game. Walt Disney was driven by the need to create new avenues for artistic expression. He would be proud of "Fantasia: Music Evolved." It's worthy of his name.

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9 / 10.0
Oct 21, 2014

Fantasia: Music Evolved is wonderful, colorful, musical fun, both intoxicating and empowering in its approach.

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