Reviews from

in the past


A bit of a childhood game for me as I remember playing this one a long while ago via a double pack with Disney Princess of all things.

This platformer based on the incredibly amusing Lion King 1 1/2 (one of the better Disney DTV offerings) takes some inspiration from Blizzard's Lost Vikings where you constantly switch back and forth between Timon and Pumbaa as they go through the events of the film.

Nothing too amazing and it's over quicker than it starts but it's not a bad little game to pass the time if you've got nothing else better to do. Also this has very short clips from the film as a bonus and my young mind was always blown away by the fact that Vicarious Visions managed to put small video bits onto a GBA cartridge.

Granted it's not as big as say having the entirety of the first two Shrek films on the GBA but still...

I have been doing a marathon of the Disney direct to video sequels and decided to play one of the games based on them. I was surprised by how this had almost identical gameplay to other Vicarious Visions GBA games (The Shrek 2 game might be a reskin of this.) It is pretty generic and the level design is stale. These levels feel like they are made around being able to move both characters at once but you have to move both individually. I think the game has an oddly abrupt difficulty spike around the halfway point but it just kind of remains passable. Wouldn't recommend it but I could see someone having some fun if they had to play it.

used to terrify me, holds up today