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As was the case in the early nineties and still is the case today actually
video game companies tried to cash in by making video games based off a movie that
were coming out at the time.
But the game I'm looking at today is actually a bit a puzzler.
The game is called Fantasia and was released on the Sega Genesis in 1991.
Why is this game a puzzler then?
Well for one the film Fantasia actually came out
in the year nineteen forty. Fifty-one years before this game came out in 1991.
What is even more disappointing is that Fantasia
isn't really even really a good game. How can you makea game based off
Fantasia anyway? It's a musical. It doesn't really lend itself to be made into a
video game in any form.
I mean this would be like if they tried to make a video game based off the movie
Wayne's World
Oh wait, they actually did that. Let's face the facts
this game was actually made and based off the sheer lack of information that I
could find about this game,
it must have slipped under the gaming population radar for the most part.
I guess that's a pretty good thing if you haven't noticed already
this game is based off primarily one part of the whole Fantasia film.
The Sorcerer's Apprentice.
Why didn't they just called his game Sorcerer's Apprentice?
Are you honestly telling me there was a a particular reason
to title it Fantasia? Maybe Disney was gonna
oh I don't know in another 20 years make a flop
movie called the Sorcerer's Apprentice and make a video game based off of that
but I digress.
Let's get to what actually makes its game so bad.
Number one: the controls. This game has such awful control that it practically
hurts your hands as you play it.
It really does. For one thing you have to press the down button when you land on enemies to
kill them.
And sometimes when you're holding the down button the enemies will still
hurt you.
You'll bounce all around, hit other enemies. It's crap.
They're pretty stiff too.
This part of the game is pretty infuriating
in and of itself but then it leads me to number two
the music. The music in this game will have your peers bleeding
Oddly enough the music is what made the original film so magical
It just pierces through the solitary environment of the game.
It may even make your ears bleed like I said before
not really, but in my opinion the 16-bit recreations of these classic
compositions is half assed and awful
number three this game story makes no sense
in the film different musical compositions take place in every universe
in different time frames.
They are out of order too I might add.
Number four the enemies are ridiculous
from burning heads to walking broomsticks to witches
the enemies in this game are almost a satire of the film itself
which doesn't really make a whole lot of sense at all. The last and final problem
with this game
is the ending. When you finish the game you get to shake hands with Leopold Stokowski
That too was a pretty *** poor way to end the game.
So what do you get when you play Fantasia? An overwhelmingly hard video game with no
cohesiveness
no story, poor controls
goofy enemies and really no way to cheat that's right
there are no cheat codes or for codes or anything to get you to higher
levels in this game.
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