Rayman 2 - N64, DC, PS1, PS2, GBC, NDS, 3DS - Game vs Game
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- Опубліковано 20 сер 2024
- It's been a long time coming, #Rayman2! With a nudge from Nitro Rad, Game vs Game returns to look at this 3D Platforming legend across platforms of the era like the Nintendo 64, Dreamcast, PlayStation, PlayStation 2 and even its conversions to handhelds like the Game Boy Color, Nintendo DS, and 3DS.
Special thanks to Nitro Rad for a small cameo, be sure to subscribe and follow his social media:
Nitro Rad
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Rayman 2 is the DOOM of platformers. It has to be on everything.
FrameRater !!! I love your channel !!!
Yet it's not on recent consoles.
@@ChiefMedicPururu It should be on the Switch.
Ubisoft should make it open-source.
It hasn't gotten a new port in 13 years.
Never before have I considered how impressive it is to start out with one 2D series installment and then to immediately make the transition to 3D for the second game, and to make it quite smoothly at that! That would be like as if Super Mario World had been the first Mario game Nintendo ever made and then four years later they came out with Super Mario 64.
You had NitroRad grace this video...I have no words, just impressed. Once again, a fantastic video, sir...Now stop leaving for so damn long!
Thanks Jay, I really am trying to stick around, I swear!!
WHERE ARE YOU MAN.
And now he's gone again for a year. I really like his videos.
A very nice, nostalgic video. Especially your soundtrack choice, chills were experienced multiple times.
Rayman 2: The Great Escape for PC was the first ever game to truly captivate me, make me fall in love with games, and greatly influence my taste in a lot of stuff. The butterfly effect of this goes as far as the fact that I'm an indie game developer now, exactly because of how briliant that game was.
Seeing the game getting stripped down to components by speedrunners, videos like this one and my own, more professional perception is both bittersweet and cathartic, really makes me motivated to pass on the torch and try to create something people would get invested in.
Great to see you back... and cool that you got a NitroRad cameo.
Love the N64 version personally.
Great choice!
Welcome back. Missed that intro!
I have the PS2 version. It's the version I played first, and the one I've always known the most. I prefer that one mostly for familiarity and sentimental reasons.
Good to hear from you dude! Glad I could send some nostalgia your way :)
RayMan 3D was the first game I got for my 3DS, played the hell out of it
Rayman is approaching the generator, the generator is losing power...
What's interesting is that Raymanian definitely got rerecorded either fully or partially for Revolution, which I think is reeally cool
Good comparison. Didn't realize there was so many differences between all the different ports of Rayman 2. I first played on PC but since getting a 2ds XL earlier this year have gone back and started playing the 3DS port.
UA-cam actually recommend me a channel that I enjoyed 😱
So happy to see you back
I was sad to see the Dreamcast-exclusive area was cut from the 3DS version, but those two are still both my favorites.
"I'll see you all soon!"
I'LL BELIEVE IT WHEN I SEE IT.
I won't let you down Joe
@@GamevsGame It's been almost 2 years... no more uploads ?
Rayman was first made on the Jaguar. I just wanted to say that. Aside from that, great video.
There's one big difference that wasn't mentioned here: another boss.
In I believe the PS1 version (if not that then the Dreamcast), the game decides to give an explanation as to WHY the second Guardian doesn't fight you like the others... only to then be faced with a Ninja Pirate. This guy was NOT in the N64, PC, or PS2 versions, nor was the explanation preceding him.
0:17
Heh. I see that reference to EXO. Nice one, dude.
Glad to see you back on the platform sir. Your content fills an interesting and unique gap, and it’s quite well done. Good luck moving forward!
Thanks so much!
11:00 Oh my god, thank you! For years I thought I went insane. I played the PS2 version as a child, and after some time lost access to my PS2 and therefore the game. And ever since that day, every remake I purchased, like Rayman 3D, only ever had this portal selection menu. I always wondered, "wait, wasn't this an actual world level you could freely walk through?" and somehow I never found anyone explaining that difference online. Rather, everytime I saw this game again, be it speedruns or gameplays, they always played on a non-PS2 version and each time I thought I lost my mind, remembering a hub world level, that never actually existed.
Thank you for restoring my faith in my own memories again. And thanks for this great comparison. Some of those version differences I didn't even notice when watching gameplay. Like the blue lum vs bubbles when swimming.
Rayman 3D had a pretty weird glitch where a trampoline didn't have a bounce effect on it, so it was impossible to get to a Lum cage
Actually, in that section, you can use one of the enemies in mid-flight to "bounce" yourself up to that same Lum cage, and once you get to it, it saves and everything! The only thing to keep in mind is that if you try to exit the level via the hole in the ground that warps you out, the game will freeze/soft lock. However, since the game saves once you collect the Lum there, you can pretty much just shut off the 3DS and turn it back on and you'll still have that Lum! I saw it done in a UA-cam video!
I was actually, no kidding, looking at my subscriptions just yesterday, and I was wondering if it was worth sticking around, but something held me back from unsubscribing.
...Probably laziness, but it's good to know it paid off anyway. Good to have you back!
lol laziness always works in my favor, I'll take it!
come back, man! the world needs you!
Yay, you're back! This was the perfect game to do an episode on, too!
This was a great review of ports! Rayman 2 is one of the best 3d platformers of all time. Definently underrated
Thanks! And couldn't agree more!
@@GamevsGame Also Nitro Rad was an awesome appearance! Here's a sub!
And I just played it yesterday! Just what I needed. Much love!
Wow, the GBC version looks amazing for a GBC game.
finally someone who talks positively about the Hub in Revolution.
Just realized these games would make a wonderful collage release, similar to the Contra collection released not too long ago where it let's you play every version of the games in the series!
Don't they have that already?
@@TheJimCarry No unfortunately, no way to easily play Rayman 2 in the modern day, officially. Emulators can make it possible, from nothing made from Ubisoft
@@JuiceboxCE damn I thought they did make one. They should revive this game without the rabbits.... these games still have so much potential
@@TheJimCarry Just realized when that comment I made was posted, wow! Good news since then for me who is a Gex fan, they're making their own modern port collage for players to play easily😁 still holding hope for Rayman 2 to get their own someday...
@JuiceboxCE BRO GEX WAS SO AMAZING AS WELL. I totally forgot about that game. Where you entered those TV dominions that was so much fun
UA-cam actually recommended a video I'm interested in, nice. A new sub.
This is *exactly* what I needed right now, thank you.
Hope it scratched that itch
In this world where so many 100k sub channels refuse to acknowledge the little guys, it's nice to see Nitro Rad here.
You got the Nitro Rad seal of approval? You just earned yourself a subscriber, my friend.
And Where's PC version? I understand that the PC version uses the 3dfx glide api.
The PC version is like the N64 version with higher resolution. I rank it at #2 below the N64 version only because I like playing on a console. If you're a PC gamer, I'd recommend it as the best version of the game.
@Yusuf Ziliotto Aside from some potential audio compression and a difference in resolution, the graphics and soundtrack are the same between the N64 and PC.
@TheGeras666
Not really, It also supports DirectX, but unless you have a Windows 98, XP, or if you're lucky with win 7 and 10 it won't recognize it well.
@@thepuzzlemaster64 No necessarily. The gog version has support to 3dfx api. You just need a glide wrapper like nglide.
@@TheGeras666
Yes, I know, but the physical version (and I think the GOG version) has support for DirectX, though it's very picky and won't work on every PC, while the 3DFX API is more compatible and easy to use for these old games thanks to nGlide and Digi Voodoo.
Although, going back to your original question for a moment, I'm also curious why the guy didn't show any footage from the PC version, as both the physical and GOG versions are dirt cheap (though if you want to play this on a 64-bit OS I recommend the GOG version), and both nGlide, and Digi Voodoo are also easy to get and setup.
Our man is back! And he gifted us an episode of the big one; Rayman 2! :D
Good to see this mate. I hope you were well! Life and responsibilities probably excuses your break! Take it easy :D
I just wanted to point out there were one or two editing hiccups, like how the word "Spanish" was completely cut out at 8:47. Easily ignored of course but figured I should let you know to show we care about your hard work. Great video!
Thanks! And thanks for the tip on the audio, someone else mentioned it too. Stupidly left part of the audio on a muted track before exporting. Going to re-upload to fix it but it'll have to wait til after I get back from my trip next week.
For handhelds = 3DS
For older generation = N64
Best graphics and fps = Dreamcast
Most contents and more experience = PS2
Rayman 2 prototype = PS1
Dude I am so glad your video came up in my recommended!
I'm a big fan of the Rayman games [other then 1,sorry] and I've played a couple versions of 2, but always wondered which was the definitive version and what I had missed on PC & Dreamcast.
I'm going to set up a playlist of your videos to watch after this because I really dig your style,delivery,research etc.!
Good to see you back. Fair play tackling the many many many versions of Rayman 2!
Rayman 2 on ps1 did not felt like a demo it was long enough in its own right
And the gibberish was not a design choice it was to workaround the n64 limited memory on the cartridges
The Dreamcast didn't have that problem as it was disc-based, so was the voice acting just not done in time for the DC version?
i get more excited when your channel uploads a video than pretty much any other channel (well besides maybe dome candy games who’s also been MIA for a while) - good to have you back with a new episode!!
The Dreamcast version was also ported to the App Store back in 2010. The port was done by Gameloft. And from experience, the controls were stiff on the control stick, and awful with the camera. The app no longer is up. So I guess it’s best that it wasn’t even mentioned in the video.
Everyone's talking about hat this guy came back after 10 months and I discover him now, and I love this content
I have yet to play Rayman 2 but I'm most likely gonna get it on either the Nintendo 64 or the Sega Dreamcast.
Great choices!
then i would recommend you to go with the dreamcast version, because of better graphical and audio quality
British Media Bully
Go with either the DC or the PS2 versions. The N64 version is really just a downgrade of the DC version.
@Alex Noa
The N64 version came out first so calling it a downgrade is unfair. A better comment would be to say the DC version is the N64 version but upgraded.
British Media Bully
That’s just semantics and kind of irrelevant. The fact remains that the experience from the N64 version is a strict downgrade from the DC version. The only reason to get the N64 version over the DC one is if you don’t have a DC (or if it is significantly more expensive). We don’t give any other form of media a pass because it’s older, you’re not going to say, “I have to rank this experience 4% more enjoyable because it’s five months older.”
I love Rayman 2 and I am glad I got to play his series.
Same! I haven't played Rayman 3 at all, but especially loved the 2D revivals with Origins and Legends.
Glad to hear as Rayman is the one thing that can make me happy. Thank you for your reply.
I really want to see the fan community do an ultimate mod complete mod for the PC version. Good video!
Nice to see another Game vs. Game after so long :) Also Great video!
I'm pissed that UA-cam didn't notify me until a day later, but better late than never. It's good to see you back! Leave it to the Dreamcast to get it right with the graphics and framerate, that system was so ahead of its time.
Ugh, youtube is youtube's worst enemy, but the notification at least went out, so that's a win!
@@GamevsGame The problem was that I forgot to click the bell... which is a dumb feature.
Good to have you back!
What happened at 8:48 ? You cut out did you forget it was the spanish dub that was cut?
Always glad to see these popup! I always thought the Dreamcast version was the best.
Hey dude, good to see you around too!
Great video! I don't remember, but I think the PS2 had an expanded soundtrack with more versions of certain ones
This is quality that I love. Thank you. Please keep this up!
15:04 The lava level could raise? I played the 3DS Version so I guess I know why not in my case.
It definitely raises in the N64 and PC versions.
The 3ds Port Is basically the Dreamcast version but without the globox village,and in the Dreamcast version the lava don't rise so It make sense that in the 3ds version the lava don't rise too (Sorry for my bad english i'm italian)
There's a mobile version for iPhone, I think it's delisted now, but it should be worth mentioning
Diego Rocha it is. I checked
@@ChickenMcKicken I played it long ago, on a 3Gs lol
@@Diegorsilva2007 Same here!
I’ve heard the 3DS version is similar to it.
All the handheld ones are apparently Garbage. I haven't tried it on IOS but the DS one was miserable. For all the ports there are, basically the only valid ones are the PC, Dreamcast and PS2. All others are basically gimped or badly ported.
I'm so happy to see you again!!!!!!!
Dude I missed you so much! Heck I'm that pizza guy on Twitter I was so confused! Welcome back!!
Hey man! thanks for sticking around!
@@GamevsGame of course dude! I knew you'd be back given the circumstances!
I dunno who that Nitro Rad is cos I'm old but pretty neat that he did a cameo thing. Rayman 2 is a such a neat game. Didn't realise how different each port was. Some of the changes seem almost arbitrary but I imagine it was more to do with scope. Like, the Dreamcast's map was probably intended for the original releases but never finished in time. Also noticed the jail cell at the start on PS1 has a metal door rather than energy beams. I would say that was a technical thing but the PS1 was pretty great at transparencies. Maybe there's a Rayman multiverse where each one is a little different.
Well done on getting this video finished. I know it was a lot of work just finishing each of the games to get the footage. Glad to see you back!
Cheers Ant! Yep, lots of little tweaks like the cage door, and at the end you can see only the N64 and Dreamcast have little bits of drool dripping off the teeth, the PS1 and PS2 are missing that effect. Noticed that as I was editing. I feel like I need to add pop-up notes on some of those as additional call outs of changes like that.
@@GamevsGame if you had little facts appear you need to do it like pop-up video in the 90s.
Well now this needs to happen.
goofy: did you get all that
me: no i'm lost track of it
Rayman 3d was and remains my favorite 3ds game ever
I had the DS and 3DS versions of this game. It was my first Rayman game and I will forever hold it in my heart next to Rayman 3.
Rayman 2 on PS2 is my baby ❤️
Nice to see your back :)
Great to see you back really enjoy your videos! 👍😀
There's also an easter egg in pc and dc version in final boss fight (idk about other versions): u have to fly into the top tunnel and hold Jump and Fire buttons and it teleports u to another brighter tunnel. There's a fire in the end and it teleports u back to boss, but now the fires u pick up to shoot in boss are eternal and doesnt end after 5 shots. I watched it in speedruns and i can't understand how usual gamer should know about it.
Great video man, I was actually having trouble on which version to get, thanks!
Nice video! The PS1 version was also dubbed in German. I played that as a kid and booted up my old disc to check
This is one of my favorite 3D video games ever released. It deserves a Nintendo Switch port and a movie for Netflix.
Freaking KNEW Nitrorad would show up lmao
The 3DS versions suffers from a bug that prevents the secret 1000 yellow lum from being obtained by normal standards
Always down to watch a new Game VS Game! Good to see you again Eric! :D Lunar when? ;)
Thanks Derek! Oh god I forgot about the humongous undertaking of a Lunar episode, thanks for reminding me! :P
*HOLY FUCK ITS NITRORAD I LOVE HIM WITH ALL MY BEING OMLSUSBEIEBEIDGDHDI*
Also welcome back man
Hope you are well man. Wish you would make a return
You're back!! :D
Great video man!
Rayman 2 really recontextualises the meaning of "platformer," somehow more so than the first...
I didn't expect nitro rad here jejeje
amazing video ,,,,,thanks for the hard work ,,,and plz continue
You got it!
Dreamcast is the one I grew up with and I miss it !
Nearly gave up on you coming back. I cleared out about 20 channels from my list a week ago and decided to just hold out a bit longer.
Dang, closing in on that cutoff point, I'll do better I swear!!
This was a fun video, been on the Rayman 2 hype train again recently since I picked up the 3DS Version. Grew up with the PS1 Version and I'll always have Nostalgic Bias towards that Version 😂
Re-Downloaded Rayman 2 PS1 onto my Vita to play that too and from Work earlier in the week (finished it now) and continued to completion Rayman Revolution on PS3 (PS2 Classic from the American PSN) and now working on Rayman 3D whilst waiting for Rayman DS to arrive (basically picked up DS since I found out DS is the N64 Version and 3D is the Dreamcast Version making it so I can play all 4 major Versions back to back personally 😁)
Awesome video! You cover everything very well
Most the PS1 English is so good it actually makes it my favorite version.
That and the fact that it plays so well even on that 33mhz CPU.
I've been waiting for this!
For anyone wondering, the PC version is based on the N64 version. And there was also once a IOS version which was based on the Dreamcast version.
The PC version is effectively the N64 version's content but importing some of the visuals of the DC version (such as the higher res textures and a few of the higher polygon character models).
Except it has the real music
The perfect crossover doesn't exi. . .
Fantastic video man! You earned a sub!
This feels like the whole debate between star wars fans looking for the original and authentic Star Wars trilogy films - the ones without the added CGI snippets and slight colour corrections
We need a proper HD remaster of Rayman 2. I mean, we got Crash back. Spyro back. Sir Fortesque is making a comeback too soon enough. So, why not give a green light for Rayman as well?
Need backup !
Nice video, keep up the good work :)
Great video! For my money, the N64/PC version is definitive. It's the original game, and sure, it lacks some of the extras added to later ports, but none of that extra content is necessary, and all of the subsequent ports do something to mar the experience in a way that the new content doens't make up for.
-The PS1 cuts content and lacks the Ramanese (I like to call it Ramanian).
-The PS2 version adds a nice hub world, but the frame rate suffers at points. The Ramanian is restored, which adds a lot of atmosphere back into the game, but as you stated, you have to choose to set the spoken language to Ramanese every time you turn on the game. What's more, this version of the game pads thing out unnecessarily by requiring you to unlock moves given to the player in a way that makes more sense in other releases and giving the player the option to unlock skills that are shoehorned into this release, either overpowering the player or adding new obstacles requiring these powers into levels that were not built with them in mind and ultimately don't add anything. Worst of all, for me, is when this version takes something away as a means of allowing you to "unlock" it later; especially when the story suffers as a result. I mean, come on. The lum Globox gives Rayman the power to...punch stuff...with his fists? Really? Maybe I'm petty, but for me, this undermines the very opening of the game, and therefore, the rest of the game with it. Finally, and you didn't mention this, but the PS2 version only plays the level music the first time you go through a level, so have fun backtracking and replaying to get all those collectibles this version requires. Yeah, the hub world is nice, but you're giving up a whole lot in exchange.
-The Dreamcast version is the one that could best be aruged to rival the original N64/PC version, and I'll admit this is where I'm going with personal preference. The increased frame rate is nice, of course, but the Island of Doors just doesn't do it for me. Sure, the Hall of Doors of the original was sparse, but that was its charm. In that emptiness is a whole lot of character and atmosphere. Just listening to that music while guiding Rayman down that line is magical. Every time he stops at a portal, if you wait before selecting it, an animation will play from something in the level, and it's all just so fitting. It's hard to explain unless you've seen it. For those who haven't, Look up a playthrough of the game and pay attention to the level selection screen. For being so minimalist, it's full of the character inherent to the game. I just don't feel the Island of Doors makes that same connection. Again, your mileage may vary here, of course.
Du bon travail !
Ce fût le jeu qui a marqué mon enfance. J’ai toujours la grosse boîte de jeu sur PC.
Et quelles musiques ! Éric Chevalier est un génie
Dude, I just found out about this channel and I gotta say I loved the video and how you make videos!
But if I may, I think the song title cards are a bit too big, sometimes overlapping gameplay (like at 4:12). I think it'd be a bit better if you put it a bit smaller, and a bit more to the corner of the video, as an additional side-info rather than something with so much visual focus. Either ways, amazing video!! Totally earned a sub!
Fun sidenote: Rayman 2 on GBC is mostly the same game as the first Rayman GBC game. The boxart is the same but with a different background color, the music from the first game is reused, the graphics are mostly reused (incl. the Comic Sans), and functions practically the same. The differences is that Rayman had some new sprites when climbing, has a battery save, the cutscene art took a nosedive in quality, and overall it's made by a different studio.
If I were to add one more game, that would be the GBA port of Rayman 3. Yeah, but hear me out: It's mostly a 2D demake of Rayman 2, but with hoodlums stuffed in there way late in development. It's a weird fusion of Rayman 2 & 3, and the only Rayman game where you actually see Rayman shooting out his fists, instead of leaving a "3rd fist" that other games had.
Purple isnt actually the colour of death in japan. its the colour of royalty
Purple is the color of royalty in the west too. Its because back in olden times Purple fabric was expensive to make. And often we just associated royalty with evil. Donning the purple being the phrase.
The dev team misunderstood and though making rayman purple would harm their sales in Japan, indeed it's not the color of death but that's what they understood it was (from my memory in Japan white is considered the color corresponding to death) anyway that was just an anecdote from an interview with the dev team.
I played Revolution on PS2 but I got lost in the lava overworld and never knew you can buy upgrades 😅
King I can't wait for your next video
Awesome video, love watching PS1 videos. Subscribed!!
HELL, it's about time!
If you think this was complicated, wait until he covers Minesweeper. Just kidding.
Every copy of Rayman 2 is personalized.
Could you do the Harry Potter video games? (Preferably the second one!)
I think PS1 version is the only one with an actual real language voice acting at least for spanish.
Thats something that defends it in my opinion.
I played Rayman 2 as follows Dreamcast first, next PS2 and lastly PS1.