Okay, so I may have gushed a lot over Rayman Origins, but this? Nah, this is what deserves the gushing, although I would mainly be repeating myself, so I'll try to keep it brief.
Much of the gameplay is what has already been seen in Origins, but the controls are so much better. Not once did I find myself stuck on a wall like I did in Origins, or struggling to just nudge Rayman off a ledge, And someone clearly thought the same thing as me about the inherent rhythm of the last game, because it is back in spades here. The level design is constantly some of the best I've ever seen in a 2D platformer, yet so much more varied than anything seen in Origins. And whoever came up with those musical stages is simply an utter genius.
Story again is really not a focus of this game, but again, what's here is still really funny and endearingly quirky. And the graphics...oh my, the graphics. I don't know how to describe them, but wow. Gorgeous, in a word. There's remastered levels from Origins here, a new local multiplayer mode that is tons of dumb fun, daily and weekly challenges, and all in all, this game is virtually perfect to me.
If there's one little thing I could complain about, it's that I don't find the music all that memorable, especially not when compared to Origins. Even that I'm hesitant to criticise though, because you have no idea how much I played Origins as a child, so that soundtrack is forever embedded in my brain.
But like Origins, this game is criminally slept on, so y'all should get on that right now. Like, now now.
Much of the gameplay is what has already been seen in Origins, but the controls are so much better. Not once did I find myself stuck on a wall like I did in Origins, or struggling to just nudge Rayman off a ledge, And someone clearly thought the same thing as me about the inherent rhythm of the last game, because it is back in spades here. The level design is constantly some of the best I've ever seen in a 2D platformer, yet so much more varied than anything seen in Origins. And whoever came up with those musical stages is simply an utter genius.
Story again is really not a focus of this game, but again, what's here is still really funny and endearingly quirky. And the graphics...oh my, the graphics. I don't know how to describe them, but wow. Gorgeous, in a word. There's remastered levels from Origins here, a new local multiplayer mode that is tons of dumb fun, daily and weekly challenges, and all in all, this game is virtually perfect to me.
If there's one little thing I could complain about, it's that I don't find the music all that memorable, especially not when compared to Origins. Even that I'm hesitant to criticise though, because you have no idea how much I played Origins as a child, so that soundtrack is forever embedded in my brain.
But like Origins, this game is criminally slept on, so y'all should get on that right now. Like, now now.