#Aladin 1993 movie#

The Desert is not as memorable, but it’s gorgeously designed and vibrant in its colors. It’s just so much fun fighting your way through these tough guys on the streets of Agrabah in a beautifully recreated One Jump Ahead scene from the film. It’s highly nostalgic to me as I played it so many times as a kid. Still, the game’s long enough at ten levels, all actually not being as linear as you’d expect from a 90s side-scroller.Īgrabah Market is a terrific first level. They were fun to play against, but most were repetitive in their attack patterns and too easy to finish off with apples.

I just wish that the bosses were a bit more difficult. The game is exceedingly fair at awarding you with extra items if you are a completionist in particular. This level is a lot of fun and the rewards are terrific. There is also a bonus level if you collect a certain Abu Token. It’s a luck-based mini-game that rewards you with items, such as lives and apples. If you collect enough Genie Tokens, you can receive a bonus machine. When you trigger Jafar’s lamp, it destroys all enemies on screen while the gems are important during the Peddler encounters where you trade them for a bonus item. All of these power-up items are so wonderfully balanced so as not to make the game either too hard or too easy, though it gravitates toward the latter a bit too much at times. However, there are power-ups in the form of Genie Hearts that replenish your health. You get just enough lives, though you run out of energy rather quickly. That was a brilliant decision that paid off as otherwise the bosses would have been too difficult. Why they chose apples as a dangerous object is beyond me, but they actually give you additional apples during boss fights when you deplete them. The game, thus, gives you both a short-range and a long-range option to play it, which was quite unique for the time. Slashing your way through the enemies was a lot of fun and the human enemies, though repeated a lot, are all different from each other, which was great to witness.Įven more important than the sword are the apples that you can throw at the enemies from a safe distance. The addition of the sword worked despite not being in the source material because it lent more gameplay variety to the experience. The gameplay is this very unique mix of platforming and action-adventure elements, especially focusing on sword fights.

#Aladin 1993 movie#

We get the majority of songs from the ‘Aladdin’ movie played here, resulting in a dream come true for any fan of the film like myself. The various sounds in the game are instantly memorable and they made the experience highly atmospheric while the score is superb. When it comes to the audio department, it also scored a huge win. It’s just a beautiful game to look at and it genuinely feels as if you are playing a real cartoon. The details are vibrant, the characters are expressively animated and the movements are highly fluid. Yes, the overall palette is very similar to the other Disney games from this period, but the animation is absolutely brilliant, and understandably so given that the actual animators that worked on the movie worked on this game too, which was an unprecedented move that paid off gloriously. The result is a highly cinematic gaming experience that is especially important for the Disney fans out there.Īnother huge selling point is the game’s aesthetic. Not only is the basic plot of the game the same, but all of the levels are set in a place that was fully taken from a corresponding scene in the film itself. It’s so extreme, in fact, that I’ve never seen anything quite like this. One of the best things about the Genesis game objectively speaking is its faithfulness to the source material. That one is totally different, so I am going to focus only on the Genesis game this time around. This was the time of huge rivalry between Sega and Nintendo, so this particular Disney classic received two game adaptations, the other one being released on the SNES. “ Give me the scarab, street rat, and I will show youĬonsidered one of the best Genesis games for many valid reasons, Disney’s Aladdin was a huge hit back when it was released and it’s still revered to this day. It’s one of the best Disney gaming adaptations of all time. ………………………………………………… Disney’s Aladdin Game Reviewĭisney’s Aladdin is a 1993 platform video game developed by Virgin Games USA for Sega Genesis.