YMS Plays: The Lion King

[@hungtotheover3385]

Adum, I am literally begging you to put Scoot on Sardonicast to talk about Cats 2019.

[@eamk887]

Idk, I don't want Sardonicast to get cancelled.

[@LRiv1996]

I feel like Scoot was on an episode of sardonicast. The kitty can behave if you give him treats and catnip.

[@Goblineng]

@Mario I'm not even sure he can consciously control it. Like, there have definitely been videos where he regretted saying something, but it just came out.

[@feckoffthePRvillain]

Oh my frickin god YESSSSS Do it you beautiful gay horse! 🐴

[@averynelson1186]

@@recitationtohear bro why did you link a recipe vid, is this a joke I didn't get

[@PeninsulaPaintings]

This game was being made as the film was still in production. That's the reason for the Gorilla and the level as adult Simba through the fire cave, they're deleted concepts from the movie. The game designers had to fight pretty hard to keep the fire cave level because they worked so hard on it.

[@whynotll83]

I've never seen the monkey concept before, weird they were making a game during a movies production.

[@PeninsulaPaintings]

@@whynotll83 It's not that weird. Games take many months of development, it makes sense that they wanted the game to be released as soon as the movie was, so that sales reflect the film's success and peak popularity. They might not have sold as much if the game was released months after the film when the hype had died down.

[@Marth8880]

@@whynotll83 happens all the time

[@oz_jones]

I have gotten to the jungle stage like ONCE. This game is hard as balls. I had the PC port.

[@strawberryfields9762]

That gorilla is dummy *THICC*

[@justsignmeup911]

The game's developers did a let's play where they revealed that the giraffe puzzle was mandated by Disney so that kids wouldn't see most of the game during a rental period.

[@themoviereviewernextdoor5327]

Wow, how shitty. It's almost like disney is a shitty company or something

[@MrDrCthulhu]

The amount of effort that went into those Twitch message pop-ups is just beautiful. Bless you, editor.

[@obamaslastname1]

scoot's death is physically hurting at this point, RIP to The Cat Man, love my professional wrestler

[@AlecHutson-op8dn]

RIP Scott

[@SonicHaXD]

9:31 I like how he just answers his own question in like 10 seconds XD

[@brandongnuschke6054]

Between Scar and the general cat on cat action I’m surprised Adum and Scoot were able to keep it in their pants long enough to get through this game

[@Nasiruify]

The entirety of this let’s play channel was a build up for this very moment

[@blind_surgeon]

@Spit Dragon something wrong with you

[@blind_surgeon]

@Spit Dragon you're literally a child

[@bigchungus6223]

Gonna go ahead and assume that 99.9% of players never even got to play as adult Simba. I know I didn't =\

[@jmarra07]

I beat this game when I was like 8 years old. It really wasn't hard once you figure out the giraffes and mokeys lol

[@bigchungus6223]

@@jmarra07 After time 4 or 5 of renting the same game, my mom would get upset. Can't blame her, in hindsight. The only game I rented over and over and over was Actraiser because we couldn't find it in stores. God I love that game lol

[@Ashesisemocutcutcut]

I remember getting to adult simba but the leopards fucked me up

[@Alberich_Prince_of_Dwarves]

You forget that as children, we didn't have many other alternatives to the video games we owned. The internet was slow and near useless and you most certainly couldn't look up guides. I know for myself and my brother, we had a couple of games and no memory card - that'd cause you to replay the entire game whenever you wanted to play, so you'd naturally git gud. Nintendo Hard games were a staple, not just to Nintendo consoles, because that's how games were.

[@targard.quantumfrack6854]

@@Alberich_Prince_of_Dwarves Some games had passwords to continue playing at the stage you were

[@GilCAnjos]

Isn't it funny how every retro game is re-released with a rewind function because they know these games are insufferable to complete?

[@esotericVideos]

They really aren't that bad though. You just have to play more carefully.

[@baseddoggie]

Its mainly because these "ports" are actually just ROMs running in an already existing emulator, which have features like save states and rewind built in so they just leave it as an option.

[@dilfasriel6354]

​@@esotericVideosno amount of skill can make your RNG better or the awful checkpoints less insuffrible

[@AlejandroSilva-mr7yy]

Now that we've established a connection between Adum and Joel, I *need* adum to play the twerking simba bootleg

[@Blue.1889]

Isn’t that the one where on the game over screens they commit suicide?

[@fussanchez2716]

@@Blue.1889YEP!! Can’t get those images out of my head. Apparently it’s a common theme among bootlegs because the Mario and Felix The Cat Russian bootleg Sega Genesis games also have very horrifying game over screens.

[@SonicHaXD]

That thumbnail is legendary XD

[@theSuper1Player]

Admittedly, I’m going to miss the previous art style

[@toolatetothestory]

Love how "Get me out of here" is still a meme

[@ezgames6925]

So that gorilla boss is actually a leftover from the movie. The game was developed as the movie was being storyboard, and at one point the movie was going to have a gorilla character. But it was eventually removed from the film, but the game developers fought to keep it in the final game as they spent time on it. This is also why half of Adult Simba’s levels are not movie accurate since it was part of Simba’s journey back to the Pridelands which was significantly shortened in the final movie.

[@pikapikap5002]

4:23 didn't expect a Vargskelethor bit. Now I gotta rewatch that vod.

[@weatherhacker]

Great video Adum. Props to Imaginaryfanboy, dig the editing.

[@dillonqaphsiel7977]

This game was made so difficult to encourage people to buy it instead of renting it as they couldn't beat it in a few days

[@Hedgpig]

"All who oppose us are dead. Everything the light touches is our kingdom." - Muf 'might makes right' asa

[@livelybubbs6242]

Oppose Mufasa, you get cut on mustafar

[@MadamFoogie]

I still have the Genesis version of this game. When my nephews and nieces need babysitting, it's one of their favorites. Gotta say, the stampede stage gave me straight up PTSD. And the hakuna matata level's log jump makes me want to drown a baby gorilla. But even with all that suffering, I still really enjoy it. Challenging, frustrating, but cute.

[@o0ShadowCat0o]

I'm glad I'm not the only one that called Adum straight allowing Scar to KO him the first time around. Best boy has to get his pound of flesh. Well played gents!

[@BambooTime]

22:50 Thank you for incorporating the amazing remix by Rainbow Soap, I've listened to this song endlessly on loop while working on the computer

[@KenAshcorp]

Legitimately fucked up that they didn't play the Sega Genesis/Megadrive version. The Soundtrack is OBJECTIVELY better and is still a fucking bop to this day.

[@alani.8784]

@ Ken Ashcorp I think he might be a Nintenbro.

[@mastermarkus5307]

I feel confident that they either didn't know what N/S meant and possibly didn't know about the differences. Also, while the soundtrack is better on the Genesis, the graphics are better on the SNES and it apparently also has more sound effects.

[@Arcademan09]

More than likely that's the version he played as a kid, if I had this collection that's the version I would play first since that's the one I know

[@SukiNoKoe]

THE SEGA ONES WERE ALWAYS BETTER ;_;

[@GippyHappy]

I love the way they incorporate the twitch messages, it's like the joy of just watching a normal lp with the good parts of a stream and none of the bad

[@alexanderfletcher3375]

I remember trying to beat just the can't wait to be king level and when I say the waterfall part I had a flashback

[@bigchungus6223]

More like PTSD >_

[@Moonchild1607]

The thumbnail made me smile already! Who drew that? And it's only right to see Adum play this game!

[@BigBossMan538]

It’s in the description

[@Moonchild1607]

@@BigBossMan538 Thanks! I didn't notice it.

[@BigBossMan538]

@@Moonchild1607 sure thing

[@tristron22]

My dad, sister and I used to play this together to try and beat it. I was the only one that could make it up the waterfall, but the monkey scared me so I’m glad Adam was also scared of it

[@gustavohernandeza.890]

Game needs a 16-bit version of the Wa Wa Wa Wa Wa Wa song for a stage soundtrack

[@Phil.Anthropy]

"Everyone treats me like I'm Hitler" Beautiful

[@vee8080]

The thumbnail art for this video is perfect

[@cola98765]

4:34 I hate how well did the lipsync looked.

[@tincano-beans2114]

I beat this game as a 6 year old on the snes. I tried it at 27 and couldn't get past those fkn giraffe bits.

[@oz_jones]

I last played this when I was... 12? I think? I had gotten to the jungle stage like ONCE.

[@maxkennedy7430]

These new thumbnails are fantastic! They look really good!

[@Doddzer74]

"Why isn't it working?" says Adum as he moves the exact same way into the bat over and over again.

[@timmer919hep]

they made this game intentionally harder because of game rentals

[@Iffy350]

Sounds like something approved of by Disney.

[@overlookers]

another S-Tier thumbnail

[@Xanegoh]

I can't wait for the live action The Lion King video game adaptation.

[@thatguyseb8824]

Imagine playing one of the most infamously difficult games of all time with what are effectively training wheels on and still getting mad at it.

[@mastermarkus5307]

TBH I emulated the game and skipped over the latter part of the waterfall level because I was just not dealing with the log bullshit.

[@dynostretch9215]

This game is just that frustratingly bad.

[@SzczesliwyZiemniak]

9:31 I never laughed so hard in my life XD tTeATiNg Me LiKe i'M A hItLeR

[@gazerbeyond6371]

Top tier thumbnail

[@kittencorp.3295]

Thank you to ‘virgin interactive entertainment’ for this masterpiece

[@Regulith]

was not expecting the vsauce joey bone zone

[@sudlime15]

Can't wait to see Adam get emotionally scarred by this game as an adult as I did when I was a kid. :D

[@venator0405]

The Kimba section gave me chills, such an iconic character.

[@kalublah]

Mannn my cousin and I made it to the second to last level (the tunnels in the pridelands area.) as a kid but unfortunately never beat scar. (Though on average we’d make it to “Be prepared” fire lava caves and lose.) It took me to come back in my late teens to finally beat it. Watching ya’ll fumble around the gorilla reminded me of the first time we fought it. Genuine confusion and laughing every time he absolutely slaps the crap out of Simba.

[@UnfunnE]

Daddy being the rewind feature killed me.

[@Calypsobunz]

4:22 yo! Vargskelethor!!!

[@scooda]

I still absolutely adore the thumbnail art for this vid. Scoot looks so proud! 🥺

[@pandorafromtheothers]

Adum made this game a crossover between Dark Souls and Life is Strange.

[@IncogPollywog]

I like that Scoot's version of adult Simba is his Obama voice.

[@fodxp]

Context on the Mufasa death scene for those who did not live through it. I watched this movie in theaters. My own younger sister and 16 other children had to be taken out of the theater by parents when Mufasa died. That shit was unexpected and apparently traumatizing for a sizable percentage of children. Most additional media skipped showing Mufasa dying because of the reported trauma rate in children watching a cartoon lion dad being murdered. I remember crying in the theater, but I realized that was the appropriate reaction to a "death." I could figure it out in my head at 10 that the appropriate reaction is sad, but not too sad because it's pretend on screen.

[@Jerry-yd8pj]

"trauma" is an overexaggeration.

[@crcoghill]

this is a fun game... but good lord is it hard like A LOT of old games for the SNES and consoles of that generation. like i could not, for the life of me, get passed the stupid elephants! the jumps killed you if you weren't a pixel on the trees or Giraffes, the monkey mechanic is hard to figure out cause they just move one frame and it's so god damn long!!! anyone who can do it without dying 5 times is a gaming God!

[@crcoghill]

also fuck the Ostrich portions of the level too! the arrows didn't help cause the delay of what's coming and the jump was so precise! It's a nightmare of a level.

[@Manticorn]

Dude this thumbnail is awesome. Perfection

[@williamw2529]

The editing jokes are hilarious. Also you made some comment that it's just "Ow King" and having watched the full thing they should have renamed it to that.

[@thisisawsome34253212]

Who else wants to hug thumbnail Scott?

[@Tavyan9]

Good work Fanboy! That "Scar c**" edit got me lmao 😂

[@nobodycares4321]

I remember owning both the Genesis and the SNES version of this as a kid. I preferred SNES version but that's moreso because of the controller.

[@ghiaccio1452]

The sequel to Tenet we all needed

[@iamcoolalot]

this was my favorite game on the sega genesis as a kid.

[@Cinedragon]

3:05 I beat this game several times as a kid. Aw yeah!

[@user-lb9xw4xf2q]

I miss the blissful ignorance of not knowing that some people find The Lion King erotic, but such is the price for following funny furries.

[@cheezemonkeyeater]

Fun fact: the makers of this game originally made it at a much more reasonable difficulty level, but Disney forced them to make it harder because it was believed that you had to make the game impossible to beat in a weekend to make money, otherwise people would just rent it from BlockBuster.

[@dirrdevil]

Is the health meter an EKG waveform? Just really simplified. What a weird choice.

[@Nekucloud]

" WOW DUDE, PRIDE ROCK!!!"🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@BigBossMan538]

I remember the scene where Simba was assaulted by a gorilla

[@Phantom.Night.Owl.25]

Gotta love how Adum uses his rewind powers more successful and efficiently than Max does in the Life is Strange game games.

[@toanuva6178]

If Adum plays Megaman on the Legacy Collection, he’d just spend the majority of the games rewinding

[@imaginaryfanboy]

By the way, if anyone wants that Kimba ROM, just message me asking. The regular patching process can be tricky. Shout out again to whereTib for the help. My next video is Resident Evil 8. ;)

[@AluminumFusion22]

One of the PC versions of The Lion King had a softlock glitch in the I Just Can't Wait to Be King sequence (I think the Windows 95 version) where you can miss rolling off the giraffe's neck at the beginning and land on the ground next to it, rendering the game unbeatable because you can't kill yourself if you get stuck.

[@danysaurus]

I beat this on normal on the SNES version a long time ago. It's funny to see Adum struggle with it

[@Tsugandate]

this really makes me wonder why I never got into scar in -that way- despite him being objectively kinda 😏😏

[@gabriellegoodwin4422]

I am deeply disturbed by Adam calling Scar daddy for the entire boss fight. I'm back on my meds, I've scheduled another appointment with my therapist. No please don't touch me.

[@badicusvibesimus182]

Fun facts: this game was released before the movie launched, so the difficulty set by the devs was intended to prevent audiences from spoiling themselves on major plot points- which is also probably why Mufasa's death was excluded so early on in the game

[@coopeachu]

The editing in these recent videos is aweosme!!!

[@ptrd4111]

3:00 as someone who owned this game as a child, you didn't. I remember always getting stuck on this level

[@eamk887]

Did Adum get a new artist for the thumbnails? What happened to the last one?

[@alani.8784]

@ 18:59 That Twitch username. Oh my God. LOL EDIT: Whoops. It should've been "That last message. Oh my God."

[@catherinealekseyenko9317]

omg that game! when I was a child, that ostrich riding bit took WEEKS to figure out and beat, the controls were terrible. Never ended beating the whole game, it was too frustrating and difficult

[@JonathanLeon]

LIKE A KITTY

[@torylva]

4:23 Oh hello Joel

[@Zappa_boi]

The bone zone

[@ItsDylanHarding]

*OH my GOOOO-o-o-OOOOOOOOOOD* *oh my gOD MY GOOOoood*

[@dogearflopper7011]

4:21 I'm always game for a vinesauce joel reference

[@averyaustin1]

Simba has rewind powers? Is Nala going to say "You hella saved my life" anytime soon?

[@davii2663]

The editing is so good holy fuck

[@BoyGeorgiaX]

I love the earthworm Jim inspiration on the transitions

[@BigSleepy985]

Who is the artist for these new thumbnails, they ROCK!!

[@LaskyLabs]

I wasn't expecting a Joel RCT2 reference but damn was it good.

[@lionblaze0384]

I have no idea how I beat this game as a child. I was usually pretty shit at games. I guess my dedication to the lion king outweighed that and I developed muscle memory, but I remember beating it, I believe more than once. Just can't wait to be king and hakuna matata are the bane of my existence in game form. Edit- I do have autism. That explains it.

[@LazerShark7777]

Happy to see somebody played Catherine

[@TheMr.L01]

36:21 How John Favreau expected people to react to Lion King 2019

[@danbee415]

DUDE RIFIKI! 10:14 over excited for a cartoon character.

[@superbodoque7860]

This is just Katana Zero the way he rewinds everytime he gets hit once

[@kingj282]

How dare you keep this treasure from us for two years

[@Marioroops]

Love the edit

[@Boombastichan]

Adum needs to play the Lion King bootleg game where Simba fucking hangs himself when he gets a game over lmfao

[@PointsofData]

When will he play the bootleg lion king game where Simba ropes himself when you run out of lives?

[@esotericVideos]

Seeing Adum struggle with this game makes me feel better for being able to beat this game both as a kid and as an adult.

[@emmarie2930]

Oh man that kimba song was good shit.

[@TheReichboy]

I did beat it when I was 14 on the actual SNES, but looking at this, I realised maybe I was more patient than I'll ever be again

[@bingbong5076]

I need to know between the game's BGM and Lion King (2019) soundtrack which one stay true to the original movie