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The PlayStation 3 version does limit the game to a four player co-op adventure, but on the Wii U, the fifth player really doesn’t get the full experience anyway. While there are some advantages to owning and playing Legends on the Wii U, you’re not really giving up that much if you play the game on PlayStation 3 or Xbox 360. Of course, losing the exclusivity doesn’t help Nintendo sell any more consoles. Luckily, economics forced them to change plans and now PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 owners can play the sequel to game many of them loved too. Well received, Ubisoft set out to make a sequel and originally committed to making Rayman Legends a Wii U exclusive. They were, however, able to make another great Rayman game for the other home consoles with Rayman Origins. Unfortunately, Ubisoft was never able to recapture the magic with the Rabbids. Many Nintendo Wii owners can attest that Rayman Raving Rabbids was one of the best early games on the system. It is without reservation that I can say that Rayman Legends is the best platformer I have ever played. Having grown up with consoles since the early ’80s, I have played a lot of them. As a matter of fact, almost every game in Sony’s tent at the Los Angeles based IndieCade last year was a platformer of some kind. Fast forward to today and Mario is still around and there are more indie games in the genre than you can shake a stick at. Again, Ubisoft Montpellier shows its talents at and understanding of the platform genre by pacing these levels so well.When the original Rayman game debuted almost 20 years ago, the 2D platformer market, which was owned by Mario, was pretty crowded. While the levels do get progressively harder there are some that feel easier than the one before or the one after. This may happen midway through a level, or even with the way the levels themselves are encountered. It gives you a moment to catch your breath, come back from the edge, and get ready for the next challenge. Every time you feel like you’re about to hit that point of snapping a controller in half due to frustration, the game backs off. That is what I find most impressive about Rayman Legends. While it can be a bit frantic and crazy at times, there are well-placed “relax” sections where you have a chance to to catch your breath and prepare for the next sinking ship.
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One of my personal favorites is actually early on in the game where you’re racing through a series of wooden ships that are sinking into the sand. In another level, you have to swim past devices that shoot on sight and whose view is obscured by random pieces of trash or rock floating in the water. Murphy will eat through entire sections of cake at your command and while initially it’s a simple matter of having him eat it all, later on, you have to be choosy as to which sections he eats and which he leaves alone. That’s when Murphy, Rayman’s magical helper, appears to lend his jaws to the task. You’re quickly brought to a road block in the form of a giant piece of cake.
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There are certainly levels where those kinds of elements come into play - many of which are found in the optional “Invasion” levels - but for the most part, Ubisoft Montpellier focuses more on how to get the most out of the basic running/jumping/punching mechanics.įor example, the first level you encounter in the Fiesta de los Muertos world sees you turned into a duck by an evil Teensy wizard.
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Many of the platformers I play today feel as if they focus on the challenge aspect of the genre can you time your jump right to make it to the next platform or get the fastest time. Each level is carefully crafted and executed. It’s all very straightforward, yet there’s something more there. The more Teensies you grab, the more levels you unlock. The goal in each level is to make it through by running, jumping, floating, and even swimming, all the while collecting the imprisoned Teensies along the way. The main campaign takes Rayman and friends across five different worlds spanning 48 levels. It is simply (beautifully), purely (wonderfully), a platformer that is a platformer. It doesn't try to tell a serious story, or do something clever with the meta-game or ludonarrative dissonance. Rayman Legends feels like the video game world equivalent.
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One of the most common phrases I heard for the most recent Muppets movie was that it was "not cynical " in other words, that it just had fun and didn't look at the world with a large grain of salt in its mouth and a chip on its shoulder. We decided it was about time for us to finally put the little guy through his paces. While Rayman Legends was released last fall for all current gen systems, it's seen a recent release on the Xbox One and the PlayStation 4. Rayman is back for more frantically fun platforming action.