Bambi: The Fawn's Journey

Bambi Fawn Journey is a 2005 video game based on Disney 1942 film, Bambi, and it 2006 upcoming direct to video sequel, Bambi 2, developed by Eurocom GBA and DS versions, as well as PSP version were developed by bEhaviour Interactive and Locomotive Games respectively and published by THQ through Buena Vista Games. Game was released on November 22, 2005 for Play Station 2, Play Station Portable, Xbox, Xbox 360, Nintendo Game Cube, Game Boy Advance, Nintendo DS, and Microsoft Windows. Game was a launch title for Xbox 360 in North America and Australia.

Since voice actors from original Bambi are either not alive or are too old to reprise their roles, entire cast is replaced with a entirely new cast of voice actors, most significant being that almost all of cast from midquel reprise their roles here, with exceptions of Patrick Stewart, with Carolyn Hennesy, and Anthony Ghannam, who are replaced with David Kaye, with Grey Delisle, and EG Daily respectively.

Gameplay
You control Bambi, Thumper, Faline, and Ronno through forest encountering forest animals who will guide you through combat fighting, and exploring forest within. Each character has their own special abilities for use. For example, Bambi can knock his hooves on certain things to progress through levels, Thumper can get through small areas that other characters otherwise could and forward.

In addition, all characters each have finishing moves that can be performed if done correctly. There are also hidden objects that can be found in levels to unlock hidden secrets.

GBA version plays like a mix of A2M previous 2 Kim Possible GBA games and GBA version of Chicken Little (2005), where you explore through levels in a 2D side scroller fashion. In certain levels, you can switch between Bambi and Thumper to overcome certain obstacles. By playing through game, you can unlock cool features, like mini games, clip art of Bambi, and concept art.

DS version plays almost exactly like GBA version, but in a more 3D like side scroller fashion. Also, there are unlockable mini games that involve using DS touchscreen capabilities, along with clip art from Bambi, concept art, music, and short clips from Bambi 1 and 2.

PSP version is TBC.

Plot
Opening and ending cutscenes, along with non FMV interludes, are not included in GBA and DS versions.

Deep in forest, Geno And Gurri, twin fawns, play around with their mother, Faline, who was Bambi cousin, and sons and daughters of Thumper, Miss Bunny, Flower, and Bluebelle. Just then, Bambi, their father, and new Great Prince of Forest, shows up to greet them, along with his forest friends, their wives, and Friend Owl. Bambi recognizes their playdate as something familiar, even though he knew that Prince should never think about past, only what happening now. Geno And Gurri wanted to know how he became Great Prince and how he and his friends fell in love with their wives. Bambi finally decided to tell them a story all about his life up until birth of twin fawns.

This is when it reverts to beginning of 1 movie All forest animals, even Thumper who was young at time, his sisters, and Friend Owl goes to area where young prince is born, along with many other animals. Upon reaching area animals come across mother doe and her newborn fawn, Bambi, lying by her side. Bambi then wakes up and takes a good, long look at all animals surrounding him. He then attempts to get up, but due to him being very young, he can hardly keep his balance. Soon thereafter, creatures all leave, and Bambi mother snuggles up with her sleeping fawn, but not before naming him Bambi.

A few days later, Bambi and Thumper are walking through forest, with Thumper teaching Bambi new words, when they came across a butterfly. Thumper decides to follow it, with Bambi following behind him. After some exploring, they find butterfly that they saw earlier. Bambi runs off to chase it thinking it to be a bird. But Thumper tells him that it is not a bird, but a butterfly. Butterfly flies off, leaving Bambi into thinking that huge yellow flower in front of him was butterfly he saw. Thumper tells him that it is a flower. Bambi tries smelling the flowers of small field but comes face to face with a young skunk. Bambi calls him a flower, which leaves Thumper rolling over his backside with laughter. Skunk, however, says that he fine with being called a flower, which makes baby fawn very happy.

That evening, Thumper leaves Bambi to return home, leaving him back with his mother. Some time after, he awakens to realize that a thunderstorm is underway. Thankfully, it lasted a good while before it departed.

A few weeks later, Bambi, now capable of speaking, goes with his mother to meadow. Since he never been to meadow before, he so eager to go, but she stops and tells him that meadow is also a dangerous place. She tells him to stay behind thicket while she looks around to see if place is safe. After looking around for a bit, the wide field appears to be safe. Bambi then runs out and tries to catch up with his mother, who runs off at a fast pace, playing with him. Some time later, Bambi almost steps on a frog. It tells him to watch out for strange reflections or else he might fall in love without even knowing. Bambi, however, goes off, wanting to explore meadow, while defeating a few forest animal dummies along way to prepare him for any dangers that may await him. Just then, he comes across a small pool of water, looking at his reflection. Suddenly, another reflection appears to his side. He looks up at unknown source which turns out to be a female fawn named Faline. Feeling frightened of her presence, Bambi runs back up to his mother for protection. But she encourages him to say hello to Faline. Having no choice, he greets her. Faline suddenly breaks out in giggles and starts acting hyperactive. Gradually, 2 of them start playing a small game of tag, with Bambi chasing her.

Suddenly, from out of the surrounding forest, a huge herd of bucks appears from out of nowhere. Faline runs away in fear while Bambi remains, filled with excitement while watching bucks bound across field. He even tries running alongside them but ends up almost getting trampled. Suddenly, they all stop. Bambi briefly looks around before seeing something that surprised him. It was Great Prince, his father in his previous role though back then, Bambi did know it. After a brief look at his son, Great Prince walks off to check forest, leaving Bambi behind.

Great Prince looks around uphill for a bit before sensing Man. Once he did, he rushes back to meadow, warning entire herd and getting every 1 to safety. Bambi is briefly separated from his mother, but is escorted to her by Great Prince as 3 of them make it back to den just as Man fires his gun.

Back in present, everyone who was listening to Bambi story, except Faline and Friend Owl, were shocked at what happened. Bambi told them that Man went hunting in forest. Thumper was surprised by this, stating that he misses being chased around by his sisters, even if after Bambi mother died, he has 1 less sister. Flower replies that his mother and him at a young age also got back to his old home safely thanks to previous Great Prince. Bluebelle, his wife, was grateful that it happened or else he or their sons would exist at all. After a brief talk, Bambi resumes his story.

In past, Bambi mother exits entrance of their den and looks around. Seeing no danger, she tells Bambi that everything is alright. Bambi asks her what had happened, and why everyone ran. After a moment of silence, his mother replies that Man was in forest. When Winter arrived, Bambi discovers snow. While Bambi looks around snow, he sees Thumper sliding on ice. Bambi, feeling inspired, tries it for himself, but fail. Thumper, seeing it all, teaches him on how to slide on ice. However, even after experiencing it for himself, he still could do so. After a harsh winter, Bambi and his mother go to meadow and discover a patch of grass, signifying arrival of spring. As they eat, his mother senses a hunter and orders her son, Bambi, to flee. As they ran, his mother gets shot and killed by hunter. When Bambi arrives at thicket, he discovers that his mother is no longer with him. He wanders off in forest calling for her, but he stumbles upon Great Prince. He revealed to Bambi that his mother was dead, then takes him away to his den.

Friend Owl swoops by Great Prince, who asks him to find a doe to raise his son, Bambi, since his duties are to his herd, but Friend Owl informs him that because of harsh winters, does can barely feed themselves, let alone any extra mouths. Great Prince has no choice but to look after Bambi until spring.

Months later, Great Prince allows Bambi to accompany his friends, Thumper and Flower, to see Groundhog, who shadow will foretell if winter will end soon. Bambi lies to them about how close he and his father are, while Great Prince keeps truth of his mother death from him. Both he and Thumper journey across icy cold water and difficult obstacles to reach Groundhog.

When they got to Groundhog ceremony, Bambi meets up with his future wife, Faline. nervous Groundhog is eventually coaxed out of his hole, only to be scared back in again by Ronno, Bambi rival and an older fawn than him. He tries to impress Faline with his stories of his encounter with Man, and whistles they use to imitate deer, but Faline does not believe his tall tale while Bambi actually believes it and says it is unbelievable, but Ronno takes it literally. Bambi and Ronno immediately dislike each other, but Bambi is intimidated by Ronno, afraid to stand up for himself, and is relieved when he leaves with his mother. Other animals leave as well, and Bambi falls asleep waiting for his father to come get him. But after many hours of waiting, he finds himself in a shining golden meadow and begins chasing butterflies. As he does so, he hears his mother voice calling him. Overjoyed, he runs towards her and begins to nuzzle her lovingly. His mother comforts him, telling him that she there even though he can see her.

As dream fades, Bambi continues to hear her voice, which confuses him. He begins to believe that voice is his mother, so he follows it through other sections of forest and out onto meadow where he stumbles upon a mechanical machine, Bambi worst nightmare. He gathers his courage and defeats it, but it fades into nothingness, as he realized that it was all just his imagination. Just then, a flock of crows fly past screaming about Man. It turns out to be an ambush by Man using same trick Ronno warned him about. Great Prince comes to his rescue and orders Bambi to run, but fawn is too scared to obey. Both manage to escape and Bambi is yelled at for almost getting himself killed. It then that Bambi realizes hunters killed his mother, and Great Prince confirms it. While Bambi sleeps, Great Prince tells Friend Owl that winter is ending and he should have no problem finding a doe now.

Back in present, Thumper felt sorry for death of Bambi mother and what happened in wide meadow with imitating deer noises, as he explained that his father is never around with his family for a long time. Miss Bunny comforts him by cuddling him and their bunnies. Bambi 2 tells stag that they are both ironically named Bambi, except with numerals for namesake. Bambi 1 acknowledges it and continues his story.

In past, Flower, after waking up, hears a strange noise and decides to investigate forest to find out what voice was. He later finds occurrence of noise, which happens to be Thumper, who is trying to find a place to hide from his sisters. Flower suggests that they hide in a log, and only move when they do hear Thumper sisters moving. Thumper agrees to him and they move along forest.

Meanwhile, Great Prince confines Bambi to den where he be safe, not trusting him to be out by himself anymore. When he leaves, Bambi confesses to Thumper and Flower estranged relationship he and his father share, and tells them that he wishes he could impress him. They decide to help Bambi learn how to be brave by sneaking out, and while doing so, get into an altercation with a porcupine. Bambi, however, goes to confront porcupine to show his father his bravery, despite his wishes against his son, but it eventually ends with quills rammed into Bambi backside and his father almost catching him outside of the den.

Faline, hearing commotion, went to investigate. However, she comes into contact with Ronno, who starts to bug her as usual. But then they hear another noise and they both went to find Bambi, who is getting porcupine quills pulled out of his butt by Thumper, 1 of his friends. Ronno teases Bambi after meadow incident where Bambi froze, then decides that he and Faline should leave, but Faline wants to stay. Ronno tries to force Faline to leave and Bambi stands up for her. Ronno comes back to confront Bambi and tease his forest friends, causing Thumper to push Bambi so that he headbutts Ronno onto the ground. Ronno is furious and chases Thumper and Bambi through forest until Bambi leaps to safety over a large ravine. Great Prince, having seen whole thing, is both angry at Bambi and impressed by his feat. Ronno jealous of young prince tries to leap after him, but falls into chasm, thwarted for now.

Next day Bambi practices jumping with Thumper, determined to make his father proud again. Thumper encourages him to just talk to Great Prince, and 2 finally connect when older stag shares some wisdom with him about feeling forest in his hooves. Great Prince finally decides to allow Bambi to come along with him on his patrols, and as days progress 2 get closer than ever. He helps Bambi to overcome any obstacles in his path, as well as his fears, and Bambi helps him to loosen up and have fun all while Ronno continues to grow jealous of young prince.

Back in present, Bambi explains to his friends that things were always what they seem to be, what with eventual arrival of Mena and the horrifying events that came after it. Thumper is shocked and tries to warn him, but Bambi just gave him comfort as he at least knows that being a prince means sacrifice even if he want to be very happy about things, and goes on to tell what happened after he and his father got in great touch.

Back in past 1 morning, Friend Owl finds Bambi and Great Prince playing and introduces them to Mena, doe he found to be Bambi new mother. Bambi realizes Great Prince planned on sending him away unaware that he changed his mind and snaps at his father, telling him he wished he was with his mother instead of him. Great Prince changes his mind again, deciding he not what best for Bambi, and sends him to go live with his new mother. Bambi, despite being immensely saddened, eventually accepts change, deciding his own happiness is as important as his duties as a prince.

Meanwhile, Ronno was told by his mother that Bambi is going away with Mena to her den, which is far away from former fawn home, so Ronno decided to try and meet up with and taunt Bambi 1 last time before he moves away forever. Sometime later, he shows up to Bambi, who is on his way to Mena den, taunts him for what seems like final time, and the 2 get into another fight that sets off 1 of Man traps, snaring her and alerting Man. While cowardly Ronno flees, Bambi saves Mena by leading Man dogs away from her, as his father works to set her free.

Dogs chase him through forest, and his friends help him to fend them off. Bambi keeps them away as long as he can, using techniques Great Prince and his friends have taught him, until hounds corner him on top of a rocky peak. Bambi manages to escape last 1 by kicking it off a cliff, but falls off as well when it crumbles beneath him. His friends and his father all grieve him until Bambi reveals he still alive, and he and Great Prince reconcile.

Sometime later, Thumper shares his version of the adventure with rest of his friends, while Bambi whose antlers have just grown in enjoys tall tale with Faline. Ronno appears and vows vengeance on both of them, until he bitten on nose by a snapping turtle and runs off screaming for his mother for help. Gang is unfazed by Ronno threat unaware that he will indeed return in their future, and Bambi leaves to meet up with his father, who decided to raise him after all, after he shows off his new budding antlers to forest animals who are fighting him 1 last time to prepare him for his adulthood. They then share a tender moment as Great Prince shows Bambi field where he and Bambi mother met in childhood.

Years later, a young adult Bambi is reunited with Thumper and Flower as animals around them begin pairing up with mates. Though they resolve not to be twitterpated which Friend Owl taught them like other animals in love, Thumper and Flower each leave with new found mates. Bambi is disgusted until he runs into Faline and they become a couple. As they happily dance and flirt through the woods, Ronno reappears and tries to force Faline to go with him again. Bambi and Ronno then begin to have yet another fight, each of them competing for a mate. Though he initially struggles, Bambi rage gives him strength to defeat Ronno and push him off a cliff and into a river below, allowing him to earn rights to doe affections.

Back in present, Thumper and Flower share their experiences of finding their loved 1 and becoming affected with them. Bambi, of course, is simply amazed by all this before deciding to continue from where he left off in story.

Back in past that night, Bambi is awoken by smell of smoke. His father explains that Man has returned to forest and that there are multiples of them now. Bambi immediately searches for Faline, but she is being chased by hunting dogs. Bambi finds her in time to fights off dogs, allowing Faline to escape. With Faline safe, Bambi runs but is shot as he leaps over a ravine. Great Prince finds him there and urges him back to his feet. Together, they escape forest fire which hunters have started and go to a small island in a lake where other animals, including Faline, have taken refuge.

Just then, same mechanical machine Bambi has encountered before, but much more deadly and dangerous, appears and kidnaps Faline from Bambi. Realizing this, Bambi decides to take 1 last stand against Really Deadly Machine with help of his forest friends even Thumper, Miss Bunny, Flower, Bluebell, and Friend Owl who did really want to deal with mechanical machine, but had no choice anyways in order to rescue his mate before she gets killed off. He eventually defeats mechanical machine, and it again fades into nothingness, but Bambi rolled his eyes, as if he was imagining things. He then notices Faline, who seems to have been hurt a bit, but is alright. Bambi is relieved as he and Faline reconcile.

A year later, Thumper and Flower, now fathers, and all other animals, including Friend Owl, went into thicket for a big surprise. Faline has recently given birth to both Geno And Gurri. Bambi stands watch on a cliff, and Great Prince silently turns and moves away from Bambi place, as he allows him to take his place. And New Great Prince looks on proudly watching his newborn children, just as his father did to him years ago.

Several years later, Bambi finishes telling his story, with Geno And Gurri both being amazed about his childhood. They both get curious again and ask him what he was like at their age. Bambi tells him that like previous Great Prince before him, he was a lot like them. Geno And Gurri, both happy and glad, thanked Bambi for telling them about his childhood, and he goes back to his duties of watching over forest. Faline says goodbye to other forest animals as they headed back to their homes. In Geno And Gurri den, they both go to sleep with Faline, who snuggles up with her little fawns, as Bambi looks down at them from a nearby cliff ledge, just like what his father did to him at his own birth.

Levels
See Bambi Fawn Journey Levels

Voice Cast

 * Alexander Gould as Young Bambi
 * James Arnold Taylor as Adult Bambi
 * Brendon Baerg as Young Thumper
 * Jeff Bennett as Adult Thumper
 * Nicky Jones as Young Flower
 * Jim Cummings as Adult Flower
 * Grey Delisle as Bambi Mother Bluebell
 * David Kaye as Great Prince
 * Andrea Bowen as Young Faline
 * Cathy Cavadini as Adult Faline
 * EG Daily as Young Ronno
 * Andre Sogliuzzo as Adult Tonno
 * Keith Ferguson as Friend Owl
 * Kath Soucie as Mrs Hare Ronno Mother
 * Makenna Cowgill and Emma Rose Lima as Thumper Sisters Thumper Daughters
 * Veronica Taylor as Mrs Quail Geno
 * Ariel Winter as Thumper Sisters Thumper Daughters Gurri
 * Cree Summer as Mena
 * Brian Pimental as Porcupine
 * Fred Tatasciore as Mr Bullfrog
 * Kari Wahlgren as Miss Bunny Aunt Ena Mrs Possum
 * Tara Strong as Bambi Flower And Bluebell Son
 * Frank Welker as Additional Voices

Quotes
See Bambi Fawn Journey Quotes

Extras
See Bambi Fawn Journey Extras

Trivia

 * Due to high sales, console versions were re released at a lower price of $19.99 US as part of Greatest Hits, Platinum Family Hits, and Player Choice labels for PS2, Xbox, and Game Cube, respectively sometime after original release in around mid 2006.
 * This is last Bambi video game to ever be released, not counting his other appearances in future Disney games.
 * This is 1 of only 2 Bambi games to be released on GBA, with other being Bambi Attack Of Gem Brokers.
 * This game was re released on Steam along with other various Disney games on February 24, 2015.