I was curious: do other people think this game is hard? Or have I grown from an incompetent child into an incompetent adult?Īs it turns out, The Lion King’s difficulty was added by design.
I purchased the game on the Nintendo Switch last night, and was immediately re-familiarized with the infamous “You died” screen. It’s designed to be a warm hug of nostalgia - the music, Simba’s incessant “cool!” - but the game itself feels more like a slap in the face. The Lion King’s detailed 16-bit pixel art, which, by the way, looks fantastic on a big screen TV, were drawn by Disney animators. It’s actually cruel how hard this game is.
The Lion King is still ridiculously difficult. It features some upgrades for modern platforms, including “upscaled graphics” and save states, as well as an “interactive game viewer,” that lets you watch a playthrough of the game and jump in whenever you’d like to start playing yourself.
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“The king has returned”ĭisney Classic Games: Aladdin and the Lion King is out now on Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, Windows PC, and Xbox One. I was finally ready to beat a video game that’s over two decades old. I was thrilled when publisher Nighthawk Interactive announced in August it was re-releasing The Lion King in a bundle with Aladdin. Retro Aladdin, Lion King games coming back in $100 cartridgesįor a long time, I thought the problem might have been that I was simply an incompetent child.