Johnny vs. LICENSED Donations (2022) 

LMAO THAT HANNAH MONTANA GAME WAS FROM ME AGES AGO

“I rather get caught playing Hunie Pop than Duck Dynasty.” That is a sentence that speaks volumes.

Finally, Johnny’s reviewing REAL games.

"I don't want to call it discount Disney, that's too meanspirited" To be fair, Dreamworks was founded on being meanspirited towards Disney.

"Is this what the movie is like too?" Well until it becomes Ace Attorney. No that's not a joke, the movie literally becomes Ace Attorney. Except somehow even more ridiculous.

Johnny having to deal with his cats trying to grab at the Nunchuk cord while playing Hannah Montana was a pretty great laugh. I've been there.

Johnny: *_"I'd rather get caught playing 'Huniepop' than 'Duck Dynasty.'"_* That's not only a sentence that I never thought of, but I can't say that I don't blame you for it either.

7:00 As a fellow Vietnamese speaker, this made me laugh hard. I know that Vietnamese Dongs are what we call money in Vietnamese currency... but of course my American mind immediately thinks of the other kind of Dong instead.

"There's classes on animation, if you don't wanna waste thousands of dollars on something you could learn online" Damn Johnny, you uh, you okay buddy?

Seeing Johnny getting assaulted by his cats while playing a Hanna Montana Wii game really made my day.

Johnny was literally on the money with players being caught off guard with the rhythm game sections of shark tale because I never could get past that as a child and I put the game down quickly and I never saw it again

Fuck yeah, Peter Jackson's King Kong the Official Game of the Movie; one of the best licensed games out there, and so glad it'll get some well-deserved attention!

Glad to see Johnny covering some true masterpieces in the gaming industry.

Most of these PS2 games had that “last minute blockbuster rental” vibe and I miss that feeling so much.

Okay, seriously, Peter's Jackson King Kong is a fantastic game! Even without nostalgia, it's just a solid game on it's own! A great way to play the Kong story

18:58 As someone who owned the Shark Tales video game as a kid, I can say: _I never got past the first rhythm game._

I actually had that Shark Tale game as a kid and I NEVER made it past the rhythm section. The difficulty of that part hit me like a solid wall.

As a kid I owned Shark Tale the video game. Could never get past the MC hammer segment ever. I asked my mom for help, my dad for help even my uncle and aunt when I spent the night at their house once. As a kid I was just super convinced it was unbeatable and the rest of the game shown in the manual was a lie. It feels weird seeing it brought up and seeing stuff I never got to As a kid.

I legit laughed out loud when the cats attacked Johnny during his Hannah Montana "dance" sequence. Guess the cats wanted him to not dance or something.

I was actually caught off-guard by that "REDNECK JUMPSCARE" screen, god damn.

As someone who watched Duck Dynasty throughout most of its run, seeing Johnny baffled by the references & comedy stylings is a joy to behold.

5:14 This is the perfect time to load up a bunch of requests for Johnny to review the Huniepop series. I've been wanting to see that happen since the SGB let's play.

19:13 That’s actually pretty cool. In most games with rhythm minigames they’re always painfully easy, so that’s a funny change.

5:15 I’d love to see you cover this game because it is unironically a good puzzle game

I hope Johnny enjoys the Flushed Away movie when he eventually sees it. I still consider it well worth a watch. Probably one of the better memories I have with my Dad (hes still alive, dont worry), its just rare I ever got to see him so happy Also, yes...I am a Brit, so its humour was naturally right up my alley xD

I love seeing Johnny do these, they really push his creativity to the limit and I love seeing his reactions to the more...bizarre games he gets donated to him.

The donation marathon is back, those were the videos that made me a fan to begin with

As someone who grew up with the PS2 and GBA versions, *Yes* the rhythm sections caught me way off guard, and for the longest time I could not get past Chapter 3 because of it. Now and days I can get by them no problem, but someone at Edge of Reality must've been feeling really vindictive that day of development, I'll tell you that much

I played Sharktale as a kid, and yes Johnny that rhythm section threw me off HORRIBLY. I was so bad at it I never played the game past that and traded it in for Kirbys Air Ride later on. So much better.

Being a six year old playing the Shark Tale rhythm levels, yeah, it was hard as balls. I always asked my sister’s then boyfriend to come over and help me with them. I didn’t have a memory card at the time either, so you could imagine the amount of visits he’s made, lmao.

If Johnny grew out his beard for the Duck Dynasty section then this would be 10/10

Peter Jackson’s King Kong is genuinely a good game honestly. One of the best licensed games

I remember playing “Shark Tale” and was caught off-guard by the first rhythm mini-game only because of my lack of familiarity with the genre. With practice, though, I got better at it.

19:29 Abso-lutely. I can't tell you how long I was stuck on the first dance level when I got to it. Don't know how I managed to 100% all of these levels in time.

All you need to know about Bee Movie is that the “villain” is the most sane and relatable character in the movie.

"They'd toss you off in the middle of the night". I have to admit, as a British person, that gave me an unintentional chuckle

I actually grew up playing King Kong, The Haunted Mansion, and Flushed Away. To this day those games hold a special place in my heart and I remember the amount of fun I had with them, at a young age I actually played King Kong and tried creating a Let's Play for myself of some sort using my own camcorder and place it on the table directed toward the TV I'm playing on. Good memories. I also had the Bee Movie and the Meet the Robinsons game but I remember I didn't get far into those games cuz I didn't know what I was doing. Needless to say, I felt like this video was directed towards me with a lot of games I actually owned being represented in the exact thoughts that I had with them. Great video Johnny, like always.

"Do something other than doomscroll on twitter for a minute." I'll get you for that one.

Gotta say, I'm liking this format for donated games. There are definitely some that deserve their own video, but for shovelware games like this it works damn well.

14:43 the way your cats bolted was hilarious to me

"When we play 'Peter Jackson's King Kong: The Official Game of The Movie' we are gonna title the video 'Peter Jackson's King Kong: The Official Game of The Movie Part 1: Peter Jackson's King Kong: The Official Game of The Movie'." One of the best Super Gaming Bros moments that made me laugh.

I'll be honest, I think this ought to be the final nail in the coffin for Licensed game reviews. As you said, there's only so much you can meme on these games before your only reaction to them is dumbfoundedness. And yeah, none of these games strike me as something that would get the "Rehydrated" treatment. Enjoyed the video, but I am admittedly much more interested to see what you pull out of the box on the next episode.

I’m so glad donators marathon (if I should call it that) is back for this year, these are some of my favorite videos on the channel.

Does anyone else kind of miss the era of licensed games? It just seems like a bygone era at this point. I know that most were just cash-grabs, but there was the occasional diamond in the rough.

I cannot put into words the nostalgia slap I just got when I heard that Haunted Mansion pause music hit. It felt like an entire lifetime just got flooded into my mind in a second. Literal magic right there

Compiling all these donator games into one video was a genius move, because they’re usually short on their own (not that I mind the initial concept).

Mary Kate and Ashley really did a number on this man’s psyche

His two cats… I could not stop laughing!!!

The Haunted Mansion game looks suprisngly solid!

I found it funny that Johnny struggled to hold up Bee Movie Game because he did not want to talk about it. Also, I liked it when Johnny said, "But I want to go back to play as the monkey."

Fun fact, development of the King Kong tie-in game was headed by Michel Ancel, the creator of Rayman and Beyond Good And Evil.

As a 2000s kid Shark Tale definitely caught me off guard with the rhythm sections. I could never get past them too so Shark Tale now has been dormant for about 15 years on my memory card haha

I was NOT expecting 5:14, Thank you for my daily chuckle, Johnny :)

God i fucking died at the "are you fly enough?"

6:52 that is probably the most overkill way to get rid of a beaver dam I have ever seen. Seriously though Beavers are cool with the fact they are basically natures own engineers

Finally, the spiritual Johnny vs Cory in the House sequel.

14:30 Johnny’s cats messing with his wii-mote is my new favorite thing

19:30 Yes, I weirdly did play this growing up, and while I was aware of other rhythm games (I was aware of DDR, knew about Parappa, I believe Guitar Hero was coming around at this time too?), I didn't own any of them. Yes, it immensely caught me off guard how complex it seemed. I think I must have been around 9 or 10. I definitely remember having to struggle through certain parts, especially some of the later songs, which I very distinctly remember failing a number of times. They seem relatively simple now that I am older, have much better hand eye coordination and reflexes, and have plenty of other rhythm games under my belt, but yes I would say they are surprisingly challenging for a licensed game.

He called Uncle Si, "uncle sea" hahahah. Made me laugh out loud literally. Johnny on the off chance you ever revist the series, Si is pronounced like "Sci" in "Science"

It's pretty cool that playing through these licensed games got you to want to watch Flushed Away, its pretty good from what I remember of it. If I could recommend another film that one of the licensed games you played was based on, it would be "Meet the Robinsons"; that movie was pretty good and unique as well, and I guarantee that nothing in it gets as annoying as the screaming heads in the game version.

The fact he pronounced Uncle Si as Uncle _See_ is probably the funniest thing I've seen today

Your cat at 14:23 looking at you like, "what the hell is daddy doing".

I really like the way you think at the end. I often find videos that go about 20 minutes ranting about some form of license shovelware and it gets old. I do appreciate this type of video every so often and when you explain these; it's brief and to the point.

The King kong game's definately the best out of the bunch. It probably helps that, I freaking kid you not, Peter Jackson HIMSELF actually had a hand in the development of it. He was just as much a gamer as he was a fan of the original King Kong and he KNEW that licensed movie games had a curse of just being the worst of the worst so to try and counteract he wanted to the game to take advantage of the fact that, well, it was a video game to the point of even including stuff that was cut from the 2005 movie and an unlockable & playable alternate ending that would allow you to SAVE Kong. The graphics have DEFINATELY aged like milk, no fan of the game is gonna deny that but fans have and for that matter STILL want this game to get a remaster because of it so much so that when the Kong: Skull Island movie was revealed fans of the game were ESTATIC over the hope that the game would see a rerelease or remaster to coincide with the new Kong movie. Ultimately it never happened and people are still waiting but it just goes to show how good the game was.

I definitely recommend watching Flushed Away and Meet The Robinsons. Both are great films. I think the reason many licensed games constantly switch gameplay styles is due to the idea that you need multiple gameplay styles to keep the kids attention.

Dude, the rhythm game sections in Shark Tale COMPLETELY roadblocked me as a kid. I HATED them, but for some weird reason I think they played a part in my enjoyment of rhythm games today? Call it masochism I guess. Maybe I should pick up an actual DDR game at some point, it seems fun.

When I was young...I couldn't beat the first dance stage in Shark Tale.

Can’t wait to see Johnny do a video on anime games

Looking forward to see Johnny talk about the King Kong game, I remember watching a friend play it and thought it looked cool

After JonTron's little _"upload"_ earlier... you know why I always fully watch your sponsorship ads? Because they feel honest. Because it feels like you really do care about what you're promoting. A man with backbone and principles is what we call that.

"There's an afterflife for guns?" Buddy, clothes are okay, but a gun is where you draw the line?

It's so awesome to hear someone talk about the Haunted Mansion game! I played it when it was out and have never heard anyone talk about it. Thanks for the nostalgia trip, Johnny

Hope you do more licensed games in the future, these are always fun to look back on for me. I know you have pretty sour experiences with these but they’re are some really good ones out there. The Spider-Man movie games, the spongebob movie game (believe in saw that in your donation pile), Simpson’s hit n run, a lot of the Disney/Pixar ones are decent to great, particularly the snes and genesis ones. Don’t hold out hope John, there’s still some diamonds in the rough

19:30 I can speak from experience, as a child playing that shark tale game it took me actual weeks to beat the first rhythm mini game. I'd never played a single rhythm game in my life and I was severely unprepared.

My favorite part about this channel is that I've been watching these review videos ever since high school (2013) and well into finishing college (2021), many nights of binge-watching videos have gotten me through a lot of homework and deadlines, and the quality and entertainment value for me have remained unchanged

Well at the very least, these donations led me to learn a lot about games I never had any desire to learn about, so kudos to your donors for that.

Finally some good reviews. Seriously though, i like this format for the donation marathon if we can get more of them. Solo reviews for Donations can be for the really bad ones.

Memes; the DNA of the Soul… …And I’m feeling pretty spiritual about this video.

Thank you for including the bits where your cats are jumping up at the wii-mote nunchucks. It was hilariously cute.

As soon as you pulled up Shark Tales I was waiting for the rhythm sections to come up. Little 5 year old me was swimming around for like 20 minutes having a blast, then out of nowhere the first rhythm section started and it kicked my ASS. I remember trying for hours, but eventually it beat me into submission. Even 18 years later I'm too scared to go back.

Uncle “see”. Yeah Johnny has definitely never seen Duck Dynasty before lol

Ahh yes licensed games, those were always soo fascinating too look at. You never know what types of game your gonna get, if it's gonna be good or not, it's kinda the whole reason i started my channel, because i wanted too showcase licensed games that are genuinely really good or showcase extremely obscure games no-one has ever heard of. Now in terms of the video, i've only played two of those games, King kong and shark tale. For king kong, i liked playing through it, however it is a very ugly game looking back and i wished you got too play as kong a bit more. The shark tale game i played on the original xbox and it was something i guess, not awful but not great. Also funny thing, for the rhythm minigames in that game, you apparently can use a dance pad for it, yeah not kidding. But yeah this was such a great video as always, kinda wish more of these games got re-released more(the closest we get are certain games on Xbox backwards compatibility and i know a alot of old disney and star wars games are on the psn store on ps3), because their are some genuine diamonds in the ruff. But yeah, Awesome video Johnny and i'm looking forward too the rest of the donators marathon!!! >:3 ❤️

Okay, the cats make the entire video for me. I love their silly antics. They're like human babies. You definitely adopted the right pets.

Fun fact. Peter Jackson's King Kong: The Official Game of the Movie was directed by Michel Ancel, the director for the Rayman games

That's a pretty fun video. I remember seeing some of the movies shown in there, including Meet The Robinsons and Bee Movie. I also remember having Flushed Away on GBA. That version was a 2D platforming beat'em up. Good stuff And as reminder, Beenox did CTR Nitro-Fueled; Crash 4 IAT was made by Toys for Bob

Johnny should be review Ratchet and Clank games including Rift Apart. That game is awesome.

lol I know you may not enjoy reviewing these kinds of games, but honestly these are always a fun watch

I played Shark Tale growing up & you hit the nail on the head. The rythem section comes out of nowhere to stop you dead. When I was a kid I just could not get past it, I'd come back every now & again throughout my childhood & it never got better lol. Poor 10yo me was frustrated as all hell.

Every Sharktale DDR segment was a difficulty spike. As a kid I could never beat the game because of them.

11:12 I feel like this would also apply to clothes. Is there an afterlife for clothes? Because every ghost wears them but I don't recall them having spirits.

When your cats trying to interrupt you and you scare them later is the funniest thing ever!

Johnny's reaction to Duck Dynasty is hilarious to me

19:24: Coming from that exact position, I'd say so considering I had to rely on my dad for just about all of them. Never ended up beating the game because I got stuck on the one with "Hey Baby" by Mocean Worker because it made you press two directions at once, which was nigh impossible on the PS2 controller.

I've wrestled with my thoughts towards the Scorsese-esque masterpiece of the bee movie for 16yrs and only when I turned 20 did I realise it is genuinely a great movie. No one can be deprived of the pleasure of this movie by claiming they don't like it: wouldn't wish that on my worst enemy

I've never been to a con in my life but if the day should ever come that I do hit up Too Many Games or Pax East or whatever I'd try for sure to give Johnny one of my games. This guy has introduced me to so many awesome games I'd never heard of that I don't think a simple "thank you" is sufficient. Hell, I'd never played a single Metroidvania before I found this channel and now they've become some of my favorites.

Man, I have such a soft spot for Gamecube/PS2 era licensed platformers. Shrek 2, Madagascar, Over the Hedge, Nicktoons Unite, Ice Age 2, etc. I mean, most of them aren't very good, but they're all super nostalgic, I can't help but replay some of them every so often.

Johnny is reviewing third party platform games feels quite refreshing.

Will Smith fish slaps Chris Rock Zebra

When someone says they would play Hunie Pop over Duck Dynasty, you know you made a f*** up.

Haunted Mansion was honestly one of the most memorable games for me growing up, I’m glad that someone gifted it to you!