Disney Classic Games: Aladdin and The Lion King Reviews

Disney Classic Games: Aladdin and The Lion King is ranked in the 60th percentile of games scored on OpenCritic.
7 / 10.0
Dec 1, 2019

Not a collection for everyone, but for those gripped by this pure nostalgia. These titles haven’t necessarily aged well, but there are enough added features to mitigate some unfair difficulty with; save features, a rewind button, extra difficulty settings, and the ability to watch a game playthrough and jump in at any point. Also with a lot of bonus content with multiple versions of each game, interviews with the creators and a plethora of original art that grounds you in the context to help you appreciate the games more.

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9 / 10.0
Oct 29, 2019

The Final Cut of Genesis Aladdin is the game-playing standout, featuring an array of refinements and improvements for a 25+ year old game. But the actual best part of this package is the Criterion Collection-like additions, specifically the bountiful interviews with the original developers. This is an essential entry into the greater view of video game history and I'm so happy that a collection like this exists.

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B+
Oct 29, 2019

This is a model the entire video game industry should get behind. Disney Classic Games: Aladdin and The Lion King is the new gold standard for compilations. Long live the king.

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6 / 10.0
Oct 30, 2019

Disney Classic Games: Aladdin and The Lion King is a nicely presented collection with some nice features, but don’t expect to be blown away by the games.

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Oct 31, 2019

Replaying Aladdin and The Lion King in 2019 is at once an exciting form of time travel and a frustrating retread through two troubled tie-ins.

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80 / 100
Nov 13, 2019

Disney Classic Games: Aladdin and The Lion King is an interesting package, takes the affective memory and transforms it into bonus content, rewind mode, soundtrack menu, and refined versions of the games. The release slightly lost its timing, which could have been when the two films premiered in theaters. However, I felt a lot more attention was given to Aladdin than to The Lion King, and the lack of more games that marked a generation to be appeal more to new players and to the public who doesn't know how to play the same level many times in a row, listening to Hakuna Matata.

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7.9 / 10.0
Oct 29, 2019

Retro game compilations are rarely as fully featured as Disney Classic Games: Aladdin and the Lion King.

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8 / 10
Nov 4, 2019

However you choose to experience these classics, you'll be glad you did, and you may even gain some insight into why they are so revered.

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8 / 10.0
Nov 6, 2019

Despite the issues with the soundtrack in the main menu (which is going to be fixed in the next update), Disney Classic Games: Aladdin and The Lion King is a rather nice collection for both older gamers looking for a bit of nostalgia and new gamers wanting to play some decent movie-based games of yesteryear. Although a remaster or remake would have been great, simply allowing us to replay the original versions of the games on multiple platforms, and even some never-before-released editions, is a nice treat to those who grew up with these games. All of the bonus features were interesting and the ‘watch and play’ mode is very unique and something all these older games should support. This right here is why Disney shouldn’t stop making games, even if it’s only as a collaborator to another developer.

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7.5 / 10.0
Nov 12, 2019

This remaster of the 16-bit classics is perfect on the Switch and ideal for reliving one's childhood or for introducing it to one's own children.

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7 / 10.0
Oct 30, 2019
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Nov 4, 2019

Aladdin and The Lion King are pieces of many people’s childhoods, for both fun and frustrating reasons, but this collection is a nearly perfect representation of the two, with plenty of variations to try, history to learn and helpful cheats to abuse.

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Unscored
Nov 5, 2019

This collection of Disney video games is a return to the classics, but it won't bring us anything beyond playing on new generation consoles.

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Oct 30, 2019

That's essentially what Disney Classic Games boils down to: nostalgia over the features. The same is true for the multiple versions of the game which, while appreciated, are almost overkill. It'd be a hard sell to have someone play the black-and-white Game Boy version right after they beat a console edition. The bells and whistles are attractive for anyone who's already planning on picking up the game, but if you didn't relish the originals, don't expect to suddenly become hooked on retro Aladdin or The Lion King.

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8.1 / 10.0
Oct 29, 2019

An opening admission (and perhaps given my age this will be shocking), of all the SNES-era games I played in my college years I don't believe these two were among them...

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