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. 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. 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. 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. 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.
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