Rayman Legends has you doing both that, as well as swinging, swimming, zip lining, punching, kicking, pulling, pushing, and the list goes on and on and on. It wasn’t like your typical platformer where much of what you do is just run and jump. Right from the get-go, it seemed like each new level brought something new to the table. I can’t tell you how many times I literally stopped and said to myself, wow, that was really impressive or how I had not seen something like this done before in other games. Even later Mario games on newer platformers failed to really impress me and though those games were solid, they just felt like games I had already played before. I grew up on platforming games so I’d like to say that I thought I’d played every kind of platformer you could possibly make. Mario usually ruled them all, but Sonic was always a close second, and you had other games that were also quite good like Ghosts ‘n Goblins, Metroid, Kid Icarus, Castlevania, and Mega-Man just to name a few. I grew up playing platformers and of course some of the best came from the 8 and 16-bit eras. Here is where Rayman Legends really shines. That’s not to say that the story isn’t good, because it is. Like most platformers, it keeps the story simple so that we can concentrate on the gameplay, and what excellent gameplay it is. That’s about the gist of what’s going on in the game. They’ve kidnapped many of the Teensies in the kingdom as well as the princesses and it’s up to Rayman and his friends to save them all and rid the land of nightmares. During that time, Bubble Dreamer’s nightmares have been growing in both strength and numbers and have taken over most of the land. In this chapter of the game, Rayman, Globox, and the Teensies have been asleep for 100 years thanks to a magic spell.
Rayman Legends is the sequel to Rayman Origins. A quick look at the launch trailer revealed a game that actually looked really good and very fun, so I contacted Ubisoft and they were kind enough to send me a copy of the game to review. However now as an adult with kids of my own, I’ve been searching for kid friendly games on my PlayStation 4 and Rayman Legends just happened to have come out for it recently. I’m not really sure why, but I just never played any of them. Personally, I never really got into the Rayman games.
He’s always kind of been hanging around with numerous games over the years on various platforms and even spawned the Raving Rabbids series of games. One of their longest running characters is that of Rayman, who first appeared around 1995 during the 16-bit era. Most companies have at least one character that’s associated with them, and Ubisoft is no different. Nintendo has always had Mario and Luigi, SEGA will always have Sonic the Hedgehog, and I guess to some extent, you could also call Master Chief of Halo fame the mascot for Microsoft. Gaming mascots have always been a staple of gaming.