Fantasia (Genesis) Playthrough - NintendoComplete
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- A playthrough of Sega's 1991 Disney-license based platformer for the Sega Genesis, Fantasia.
Played through on the normal difficulty level.
After the smashing success Sega saw with Castle of Illusion, the outlook was quite promising for future Disney titles. So how does this Infogrames-developed effort fare?
Well, it doesn't benefit from the comparison, that's for sure. It looks great - right about on par with Castle of Illusion. It seems like the graphics received the lion's share of the development resources. The music, while it does stay faithful to the classical soundtrack of the Disney movie, sounds pretty rough, and the controls feel like they've been coated in sludge, making the game infuriatingly difficult for no real good reason.
It looks nice, but really, keep to admiring screenshots and videos of it. It's not entirely broken, but the slow controls and wonky hit detection make it a chore to play. I don't want to think about how long I had to play this to get good enough to beat it.
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No cheats were used during the recording of this video.
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One of the most poorly-programmed games I’ve ever seen. I think I remember the instruction manual actually saying something like, “if something weird or unexpected happens, it’s because anything can happen in a dream!” Good save, guys.
🤣🤣🤣
Worse than Pokémon Gen. 9?
They’re not wrong , and half the time I’m in jail in my dreams.
Wow, so they pulled a Sonic 3. That's hilarious!
Yeah, the programming is very poor. For example, there is a special jingle that's meant to be played when you die with no lives left (you can find it in the Sound Test), but you can never hear it in-game due to the sloppy programming.
The Dark Souls of Mickey games
We have it in sega if i remember we never pass the game
thing is though this is hard datk souls isnt
More like Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde the NES game!
That's right
oh yeah and the remix isn't much better.
Fantasia looks incredible, but don't be fooled. The controls are a sloppy mess and the game is inordinately hard, especially for a kids' title. Too bad, really - Fantasia should have had a better game.
NintendoComplete I'm not the only one who thinks the music horrible?
It's from GEMS?
Oswald Epic Loquendero It's pretty rough. Too bad the Gyruss NES music couldn't be used in the intro instead ;)
alxxpspqr For sure, it was a huge disappointment. It verged on pissing me off tbh lol. By 1991 most games had endings that were better than the NES's oh-so-common one-screen ones. That bs handshake was hard won, for sure.
NintendoComplete Even Amagon has a better ending than this.
Its just Mickey and some Kind of Composer shaking their hands.
That was in the Movie?
Well, the game (Fantasia) was developed by Infogrames, the same guys who botheched River City Ransom and renamed Final Mission as Action in New York (Still better than S.C.A.T).
I think this is probably the first time I've seen anything past level 2. lol
A funny story... back in the day I used to have Castle of Illusion, albeit via a pirated cart (these were [and still are] super common over here in Argentina) that for whatever reason had a label for Fantasia instead. The amusing part comes in when sometime after I got that, I see that my cousin, who at the time lived a few blocks away from my house, had an also pirated copy of Fantasia... with a Castle of Illusion label. It was odd, although I believe we had purchased said games from the same store, so it kinda makes sense.
Jajaj algunos juegos que tengo también tienen cualquier cosa pegada. Igual de chica no me importaba, yo jugaba nomás
Yeah lol, those pirates were funny as hell. I had a pirate cartridge of a beta version of "Daffy Duck in Hollywood" with a "Daffy Duck: The Marvin Missions" sticker on it, a game that didn't even exist on the Mega Drive lol.
Philippines has a lot of those pirated games too, really awesome
This game was insanely hard. Even as a little 6 year old gamer who could get all chaos emeralds in all Sonic games and generally beat any game put in front of me, this one I struggled with the most. Just take a look at the last level for example. You can't even tell what is a safe platform to jump on most of the time.
Absolutely. As a kid I beat Aladdin and The Lion King on Difficult but I could never even finish this game. I once almost got to the "final boss" (if we can call it that, lol) and died, I'm pretty sure I cried lol.
0:11 this part scared me as a child
Q-chone 27 Same here, I'm glad I'm not the only one who thought that. 😓
What was so scary in that 🤔
@@yuvarudra6602 the soul is leaving the body. Terrifying. Also the music.
@@jakshybala4113it’s like an out of body experience
Game was impossible to beat.
I beat it when i was 12. It was probably due to the fact that Genesis games were expensive and since i was stuck with this crap, i had the mindset that i was going to at least beat it...and i eventually did.
i loved castle of illusion and finished it, so i got fantasia. ended up giving up on it after a while, not fun. i think i got to the jungle stage and it became a chore to go any further.
I beat it once. It was terrinly difficult
But i'm beat him!
Because it was broken since development was rushed!
That last level in hell is just unbelievably impressive. This game is just awful, but the art design for that last level is just mind bending.
Came back to this after the torture it put me through as a kid, came here to see how far I got.....all the way to the last screen before game over lol
you are not alone. This is definitely not game for kids
Same here, I got as far as the last screen and lost all my lives, good lord that was painful lol
This game is the literal definition of "we have Mickey Mania at home"
Also the underwater music at 03:00 is straight out of Stimpy's Invention. In terms of both style and crappiness.
Fitting because both games were done by Infogrames, towards the bottom comment
Oh my God.This is my true nostalgia.❤️
i never thought id remember this game, buried deep in my mind as lost game , seeing it now after 20 years is so weird , wow, thanks for posting.
This Game has a really dark vibe. I remember playing this Game with the jaw tight and My throath completely closed . Mickey's spirit, Hell's Trip, Some kinda Halloween stage, black pteranodons, weird shit.
I can't explain, but when i was a kid, this game FRIGHTENED ME. And it wasn't even the difficulty...
SAME. I thought I was the only one lol.
Omg something about it was very eerie
20 years....20 years and I never knew you could jump on enemies
You had to press down while you are falling upon an enemy. If you dont do this it will hurt you
I remember finding out you could hold Down to kill enemies... after months of playing :) It was a god damn revelation lmao. Before that I was puzzled how the game's attract mode/demo made it look like it you could bounce on the enemies, with a little jingle and all. I think I made it to world 3 with spells and just dodging enemies lol.
este juego es re turbio, a mi me daba miedo jaja
Jajaj es verdad! Había algo en sus temas que no te dejaban jugar tranquilo ademas el juego era re difícil 😂😭
@@franngabi5455 si, aparte de turbio era difícil
@@brian3728 solo llege al nivel 2 y morí apenas toque una rana jajaja re difícil
@@rrqgonpanchiro9367 x2 jaja
Era muy fácil morir ... y se sonido!...ese maldito sonido!!!!!!!!! Al moriiiiiiirrrrrr!!!!!!!
All i can remember about this game is that i liked the soundtrack but it was difficult af. never got past the underground map with the big crystals.
This game seems so joyless
How so?
It really was. I had it. It was the 2nd game I got on my sega and I hated it. I never reached the end. Furthest I got was in the beginning of the prehistoric level. The controls didn't feel responsive. It was stressfull to play as a kid, didn't like it at all.
There was joy to it: when you switch it off and play Decap Attack instead!
That's probably the best way I've heard anyone describe it
Hazzmati, the sloppy controls, the freaky graphics, and the mediocre midis of the Fantasia soundtrack made it joyless and without substance, when compared to the actual film.
Believe it or not, this was one of my first video games. I'm genuinely surprised it didn't put me off completely, but at the same time I wish it had succeeded. It wouldn't be until Kingdom Hearts 3DS that we'd see Fantasia represented correctly in video game form.
This game ost make me chills
Same
This still Magic.
Remember sweet DREAMS on TV with Mickey i was a baby. Lol
I was 6 when i played this game and i never beat the game...bringing back good memories though! Thanks for the upload man 👍
There was another game like this, but it was black and white and it had the old school mickey. It was cruelly hard and mickey shot Bubble like bullets with his wand I believe. It was also for the genesis.
Are you thinking of Mickey Mania? The first level in that game was black and white, and iirc there is a Mickey with a wand at one point in that game.
@@NintendoComplete correct thanks, the game wasn't cruelly as hard as this one.
@@JPNightsClub I totally agree. Everything about this one was total bs
bring back memories :)
Brings me back to 2013.....
Those were some good old days!
Christmas as a kid memories! 🥰💕
I can find a lot of information on GEMS (Genesis Editor for Music and Sound Effects), but little of the release date on it besides a nebulous "1991". I have to assume it was made available after this game started development, and at a point where rewriting the music was a logistical impossibility. Asssuming the info presented on the game's Wikipedia page is legit, we at least know who to blame (Sega) for wanting to adapt an orchestral-centric film on the Mega Drive and the YM2612. It goes without saying that the soundchip's strengths lay elsewhere.
It's kind of a pity that over the years there's been little interest of a Fantasia ROM hack to address the wonky moving platform code, sporadic enemy spawning, accidentally bugged-out music on losing all lives, clunky musical loops, and a general musical rewrite. It's understandable, mind - who'd want to go through all that effort for what's still a fairly middling 20 minute experience at the end of the day? It's just a pity the original devs didn't have enough time originally, and never really got the chance for a do-over either. Almost makes me wonder where the staff all went from here.
I am romhacking this game. I already fixed the tanky controls, but I am having an issue with bouncing on the enemies, because Mickey now bounces by default on all objects he can. I'm probably going to make it so you have to press Down if you DON'T want to bounce.
Holy shit!!! I never made it past the last faery!!! I didn't knew I had to kill all creatures!!! I was so close to finish this game!! OMG!! I remember everything so vividly, even after 25+ years! Thanks bro!
This game should be on the top list for Mr Rolfe to review...
Logo: We see the Sega logo in its futuristic font (which is in blue and contains many white stripes around it) on a black background. On most games, the color changes in shades of blue.
Variants: This logo has a lot of variations, but below are some variants for the regular logo:
In its early days since until 1991, the registered trademark symbol "®" symbol was used. Starting around late 1990, the "TM" symbol replaces the registered trademark "®" symbol.
Sometimes, the logo lacks the trademark symbol.
On some Game Gear titles, the logo is plain blue and takes place on the blue background.
Starting in 2017 to honor Sega Forever, this logo returned as a secondary logo for its placeholder, with the on-screen logo turning into the 1988 logo with the Sega jingle.
There is a Sega Master System variant. The logo's individual letters slide in from from the darkness. After, the text "MASTER SYSTEM" and a copyright stamp appears.
FX/SFX: Just the changing color. Sometimes, the logo fades in and/or fades out.
Music/Sounds: None or the opening theme of the game.
Music/Sounds Variants:
On games produced by Infogrames (except for The Smurfs 2), we hear a vocoder yell "SEEEEGAAAAA!".
The Sega Master System variant has a rising square wave chord when the logo's letters slide in and the 8-bit Sega jingle when the text and the copyright stamp appear.
Availability: Common.
Seen on most games for the Sega Mega Drive/Genesis.
Also appears on some games for the Sega Game Gear (and the Sega 32X attachment for the Genesis/Mega Drive).
Some of the only games not to use this logo were most Sega Master System games and every Electronic Arts game for Sega Genesis (including EA Sports games as well).
But one EA Genesis game that contains the logo is Shaq Fu, while Baku Baku Animals, Bonkers Wax Up!, Daffy Duck in Hollywood, Double Dragon, Lemmings, Sonic Blast, Streets of Rage, Ultimate Soccer and Virtual Fighter Animation were the only Sega Master System games that contain the logo.
The logo can be also seen on EA Game Gear games.
It is generally left intact in most re-releases of Sega games of the time period like on Wii Virtual Console re-releases of Genesis games.
Can't wait for Mr Rolfe to review it.
Because of this game, Sega lost the chance of making a game outta Disney's Aladdin
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Virgin's game still remained a sega exclusive thought
+Invidente7 It was ported to the NES, Game Boy, GBC, and a couple computer platforms. Most of them came out within a year of the Genesis one.
NintendoComplete
and all of those ports turned out to be pretty terrible
great playthrough!
But Infogrames did this game, not Sega
C de Cilêncio
Yes, but they still published it, and that's just as bad.
James Rolfe should totally make an AVGN review of this!
26:57 what tease all we got was Chernabog's hand ......I wanted to see his huge face looming in the background woulda def finished the game a little stronger.
After seeing this i have to say chernabog one of the most iconic Disney villains was barley in his own level
The game still looks incredible! For a 91' release it looks out of this world. It's to bad the music is done poorly as well as the gameplay. Western developers took a little while to hit their stride in the 16-bit era.
The box cover art looked more awesome then the gameplay.
Its incredible the way old games looks so hard and long, i never pass the 3rd level and remeber play a lot of hours.
Avgn needs to review this.
Wow..takes me back to those years I played over and over to win this game....my eldest sis was so good at it I see her as the only one possible to win this incredibly difficult game.
I remember playing when i was a child. the game was hard because i had limited ammo, and had no idea that you had to press jump twice to jump on bad guys, like in Cashle of Illusion. the jump animation was the fucking same
you're forgiven
Why so many people hate this game,as a kid i always love playing this game,the graphic seems good to me,i never beat this game as a child but i go to the final level,and its fun to play,especially the secret and hidden dungeon
Also i love the music,its creepy and haunted
And the control its not as hard as u think,just hold down arrow when u jump
It's a good game, I played and beat it in 1991/92 as teenager no problem! I don't get the hate, I love this game, very nostalgic!
This game means PTSD for me
Ironically this game is a Fantasia by itself.
I like the music. It is fantastic
After I watched this video, I realised as a kid, even though I tried and played really hard, I never passed it more than 10-20% of the whole game... The devs were seriously cruel xD
But that music in the intro gave me SO MUCH NOSTALGIA.
4:07 i didn't know you could walk there.
Nostalgic
Like first time you pulled a tooth
I think it’s a game to play if you’re high or drunk
LMFAO THE RITE OF SPRING ARRANGEMENT
I had read that it was released in an unfinished state and heck, it sure looks like it, it seems like practically every problem it has comes from lack of polish. And there's no way in heck that the music was completed, it feels way too rough o_O
I could easily see that being the case. It didn't feel done.
I thought I never made it past level one, but I remember almost every level from this video, except last two. This game as creepy as I remember. I don’t know maybe it’s because I never saw Fantasia.
Got this game around the late 90’s and loved it to death.
i love Fantasia
I remember playing this as a kid.....good lords this was brutal and I've never beaten it.....I wasn't even sure I had all the faffing musical notes for crap's sake!!!! And after seeing the ending for this, it was like 'Well, that was a waste of time! Not getting that back anytime soon!!'
I think I made it to the second level...like once. This game was Ridiculously hard for me as a kid
Lets see how long AVGN would last playing this game
nah no time to play or review it
20:20 Dios, Earthworm Jim Genesis hizo una mejor conversión de "Night on Bald Mountain" LPM
Me acuerdo que odiaba este juego, era dificil y poco estimulante. O al menos en lo personal a mi me interesaba sobre todo los niveles del infierno.
Awesome
my favorite game of 2014
This is the definition of pain, i hate this game to pieces, and would'nt be playing It again If not tô honor my grandma Memories by playing the games she had when alive
It's like sorcerer's apprentice!
I remember saving shoots for late game. That was pain in the ass.
Hardest game in my life
Oof, right in the nostalgias
I honestly think Earthworm Jim had the better cover of Night on Bald Mountain for the Genesis....
I remember this film you really love this game
I love the music
wooo "le joueur du grenier"
I rented this game and played a lot in early 90's !!! Good old times !
There are some films & tv shows out there that should not be made into a video game & this is one of them !
Best ever herror Micky mouse game ❤
The original Dark Souls.
Funny how a game based on Mickey recovering music sorely lacks in its misused GEMS music.
You gotta be kidding me. For the Chernabog stage they don’t use the Night on Bald Mountain theme, but instead uses some stock horror music?
nostalgia
Fun fact about this game's horrendous remixes of the movie's soundtrack: When reversing the audio and then converting it to a midi, the download link will redirect you to a video titled *GHOSTTOWNWALK_0000.avi*
to anyone who understands the reference - don't worry, that video is fake.
Am I missing something? I've got this cartidge as part of a megadrive bundle... but in my version jumping on things doesn't kill them, it hurts my character instead... making it EVEN harder???
I believe like in Castle of Illusion, you have to hold the down direction on the D-Pad while you're jumping. This will make Mickey stick his rear out, and bounce off the enemy. Just jumping on them normally will hurt you.
You gotta hold the down button when in mid air to kill with the jump. When i was a kid i had the same problem, i beat the game until the world 3 where is literally impossible to continue without knowing that.
This game is so bullshit
Lol same here never pass the second lvl
it's one of my favorite movies alongside Lion King
Graphics are amazing good for today's standards
Nostalgy ;D
27:41 Heh, congratulations to you for surviving this shitty game, Mickey.
I remember beating this game on genesis but definitely not an easy game .
I didn’t know that Infogrames was behind in this game, it looks bad honestly
The hardest Genesis game!
It's hard, sure, but I don't think the difficulty level ever comes close to how hard Kid Chameleon, Chakan, and Eternal Champions were.
Hola gente,alguien sabe como se llama la canción dd la intro
It was an interesting concept at the very least. Too bad they didn't really make it work.
Also, the plant level has the Pastoral Symphony and the Greece level has the Nutcracker suite? For shame.
But I must give props for the Night on Bald Mountain level. The only thing that would have made it better is if it had a final battle against Chernabog.
22:20 I know this music! It's Mussorgsky, Night on the Bald Mountain (1867), just as at the start of 2nd level of Earthworm Jim!
hi, was this recorded from a Genesis or an emulator?
JAFO-PTY It's emulated
This game come together with my genesis when I bought it. I could never pass it in spite of have spending a lot of hours playing it
Who the hell thought most of this soundtrack, heck, just the game in general was good enough to release?
Siempre quise saber cómo terminaba el juego, creo que hace veinte años si, que lo tuve y se me rompió y nunca más pude saber sobre su final (me había quedado en el nivel de los hipopótamo que bailan siempre me acordaba) y hoy, se me da por buscarlo por youtube... (Hace como 10 años que tengo acceso a TH-cam) y Zas! Ahí estaba... Xd, muchas gracias y perdón por escribir todo en español...
I may be alone here, but I LOVED the game. Yea, it took me quite some time to get used to the controls, but I actually liked how the heavy sorcerer clothing was applied to Mickey's movements. And again, yea, it was really hard to master the controls but once you get used to it, the game flows quite nicely. You may say that such learning curve is boring and unnecessary for your taste, and that's ok. But I enjoyed how the game urges you to take it seriously. You cannot play it recklessly. Even Castle of Illusion allows you to be reckless. I got so carried away by the easiness of COI's gameplay that Mizrabel killed me multiple times cause I didn't know how to take her seriously LOL. And honestly, even for todays standards, I think Fantasia is gorgeous.
Beautiful visuals garbage controlls I overall like it.
I had a dream of shopping at a Mall and I purchased this game for free with a free game boy.
Holy crap, the last couple of levels in this game look like they were cobbled together in a few days. How did Sega think this was okay to release in this state?!
That was Al Nielson's doing. He basically green-lit a pre-beta game...
I wonder why they couldn't include a level based on the "Ave Maria" segment. Maybe this was due to the fact that it was paired with "Night on Bald Mountain" segment.
That could have been the Air World/Level, right.
Had I a Mega Drive back in the day, I'd have pestered my parents to buy the Fantasia game... and two days later pestered them more to exchange it with some other game, probably :p
I've always loved Fantasia since the theatrical re-release of 1990 and consumed the VHS release, so the idea of a game based on it had me ecstatic, and the (deservedly) nice press one could see at the time around Castle of Illusion and Quackshot, may have led to think this was another instant classic. How wrong. And honestly, it doesn't look even that great to me - the visuals feel inconsistent and have aged worse than other games of the era.
So, they had Night on Bald Mountain but skipped Ave Maria?