Hey guys there was a copyright claim on the video which is really fucking annoying wish I had gotten it sooner so I could have dealt with it before the video got a lot of views. So 41:21 to 41:52 is muted. So sorry!!
I feel like Ubi is actually starting to pay attention to rayman again, in 2023 we got a youtooz figure, the sparks of hope dlc and captain lazerhawk, it can only go up from here
It's so great that I can truthfully say that we had a mini "Ray-naissance" this year. Atleast moreso on the social/community side of things. I only pray that it will continue into something bigger in the future...
It's really good that more people are talking about Rayman again thanks to Mario + Rabbids and Captain Laserhawk. Hopefully THIS TIME Ubisoft listens to us and give us a new game.
Hahaha. It's Ubisoft. They're almost as bad as SEGA at neglecting their older franchises. However SEGA just announced a return of some of their franchises.
I do not want to burst any bubble..... but, probably the only way to get a new entry would be another creative lead (david soliani maybe?) taking on the project with a smaller budget, while the rest of sub-studios work on live-services and the likes for the major releases (meaning probably not ubisoft montpellier). The scope of the game would be quite reduced akin to something like the new prince of persia. The more likely scenario is to have a spiritual sequel that is crowdfounded by small indie devs. I'm happy he's getting the love but I'm trying to realistic.
It doesn't help that Rayman's creator, Michel Ancel, retired from the gaming industry. The prospect of a brand new, modern 3D Rayman would be incredible, but it seems Ubisoft really doesn't care about the franchise. Though, I was actually surprised to see Rayman even get a part in Mario & Rabbids Sparks of Hope DLC!
from what info there is about that. he was supposedly a real pain to work with. he was rude and a total ass. but i dont know if thats true or not. people can say whatever the hell they want on here so it may be bullshit.
@@Boomrainbownuke9608 Oh, man, I never heard that. It is hard to know what is exaggerated or even false. Well, except for maybe Yuji Naka where there are multiple resources that are clear evidence that he was a completely toxic individual to work with (especially to Sega of America employees).
In Rayman 2, if you press and hold L (on the N64 version), you'll get to a screen where you can scroll through texts that tell you what the Lums do, the origin of the Glade of Dreams which tells you how Polokus dreamt up the world and it's creatures, how the creatures then helped form the world, and that everyone lived in relative peace until the pirates invaded. Of course, you need the requisite amount of Yellow Lums to get all the lore.
Actually, the ending sequence in Rayman 3 was rather a flashback of how Andre was born. The night before, Rayman slept walked and his hands came to life for some mischief. They scared a red Lum with shadow puppets and thus Andre came to be. So basically, it was all Rayman’s fault indirectly.
Glad there are other people out there who realise this, since the cutscene pans up to the two moons in the sky and does a fade transition to the moons being in a different part of the sky, implying a going-back in time
Globox having so many children makes sense since Frogs can lay more than 3000 eggs in order to secure that at least some of them survive; I guess his children were well cared for (until they got lost but he was kidnapped so).
In Chile back in the year 2000, a cloth wash detergent brand had Rayman bundled in for some reason, that's how I got the game and I still have the disc! It was called "Rayman Gold" for some reason and it ACTUALLY CAME WITH MAPPER!!! Completely in English too, I still have the disc and ripped it as an iso so if you ever feel like trying it hit me up 😅
The video was well informed, with a lot of Rayman stuff I did not know existed, even though Rayman Brain Games was the first ever video game I ever played and many things Rayman have been near and dear to my heart ever since. However, one genuine surprise I got was how you missed mentioning an entire whole Rayman video game, which is Rayman 3 for the GBA. That game is a weird case in the franchise because even though it has 3 in it's name, the story is almost nothing like Hoodlum Havoc. The game is like a weird fusion between Rayman 2 and Hoodlum Havoc, where the pirates from 2 hunt down Andre from Hoodlum Havoc, even keeping in the fact that Globox ate Andre, and its a whole weirdness in terms of story. Rayman 3 for the GBA is a 2D platformer, and a very fun game to play, and it always seemed to me like it was one of the more prominent entries in the series, considering it is so unique from 2 and Hoodlum Havoc, even though it weirdly fuses them both in one. So it's kinda surprising how it was not mentioned in this video. Besides that, though, as said, great and informative video. As a Rayman fan, you have my thanks for outlining the story of the limbless wonder! :D
My first experience with rayman was Rayman Arena when I was a kid, absolutely loved that game when I was a kid, then I got origins for my wii around 2012 and fell in love with the series again, it sucks how much Ubisoft shits on him.
Glad to see the Rayman series getting more attention as of recently. 😊 Shame you greatly disliked Rayman 1 since that's my favorite installment in the entire franchise.
I really hope that the studio that made the Mario+Rabbids games make another Rayman game. If anyone can do it, it's them. Great video, wonderful trip down memory lane :D
Think I remember Davide Soliani said he wanted to make a new Rayman back in October of this year, I hope he does cause you can tell the Mario and Rabbids crew really loved the limbless wonder so much, even put so much love and care to the DLC, I would buy it in a heartbeat if it became a reality
It was infuriating dying so often but that doesn't make it a bad game. People confuse difficulty with quality. It's at least a B and for me personally an A.
Fun fact: raving rabbids 2 had a pc version exclusive to Poland and apparently Russia as well. I actually had the 4 discs as a kid cuz they sold the game with random mini games included on seperate discs and you had to buy em all for the full thing. It was cool tho cuz you also got a rabbid figurine with each disc. Oh the distribution method was game mags which was a very popular way of distributing games in Poland at the time
To add to your comment: some time after the release of the 4 parts for RRR2, there was a single disc release in a hardcover booklet, containing the same 16 mini games. The booklet release claimed to be the 'full version' of the game. I have a copy of that one in PL. Also, Rabbids Go Home got the '4 disc in a magazine with collectible Rabbid figurines release' treatment in Poland (and I think Russia, too?) as well. I don't know if that also had a single disc release later on, though.
Rayman has been one of my favorite mascots since I was little, and the fact that you released this video on my birthday makes me somehow feel more connected to the character in an inexplicable way
Fun fact: there is an advanced port of Rayman 2 made for PS2 called Rayman Revolution. I had no freaking idea that there were so many references to Rayman outside of the main lineup of games! Holy crap!
I played Rayman 2 as a kid but it was so long ago I don't remember if I beat it or not, but I do remember no other game giving me the insane sense of intrigue and truly otherworldly feeling that it did until I played the Half-Life series.
You forgot to mention he's also a character in Brawlhalla along with Globox and Barbara. Also I think you should've focus a little on the different versions of Rayman 2, Revolution in particular
Fun fact Rayman 2 was originally going to be another 2d platformer 2.5d actually, but after the developers saw Crash Bandicoot they decided to scrap that game and start over and make it 3D instead. Also on the PS1 version of Rayman 2 you can play one level of that original 2d Rayman 2
Rayman 3 was a masterpiece of a videogame for me. Level, Sound, Gameplay Design. AND THE SECRETS I miss games which have secrets like Rayman 3 (yes it was my first rayman) Rayman 2 is a masterpiece too, but being introduced to rayman 3 at first and discovering it much later I didn't like it as much, but it has a incredible atmosphere, very good music as well, and a lot of charm
I'm glad Redemption got a shoutout. It's a super fun game that I thoroughly enjoyed playing. I never did 100% it because I couldn't be bothered with the boss rushes, but otherwise did and got everything. It is well worth looking into to relive that old nostalgia.
Rayman Arena was a lot of fun with plenty of great music. The PlayStation version launched first and had the infinitely better battle mode, while GameCube and Xbox versions had better presentation and such but the battle mode changed so much, being scored based on number of hits and only having two modes in it.
Trivia: The reason why everyone else got limbs in Origins is because Rayman was supposed to be the only one of his kind from now on. However, that got thrown out of the window quick when they introduced other Rays in Legends and Adventures. On a bright side, that could've been a good opportunity to bring back Tarayzan who was originaly going to be playable in Origins as Rayman's cousin, but they didn't. They lowkey replaced him with some knock off of him from Adventures. Either Rayman donated his sperms before the slumber or the mages liked him so much they decided to make their own.
Fun Fact: the "Gloo Gloo" track that plays from 38:22 onwards is actually a cover of the 5,6,7,8's hit song "Woo Hoo" which was made famous by Quentin Tarrantino, who in turn heard it while shopping for clothes and went on to put it in the movie that he was currently producing. So when Uma Thurman in Kill Bill walks into a club to confront and later kill the Crazy 99 this very track plays. If you want to look up the scene you will find out that they actually had the original bandmembers perform their song as the club was ment to host a live concert at the time of Uma showing up.
@@me.codedd he accused you of overplaying your sociability towards me in order to sigma male grindset that content creator career because he unconsciously places his negative mindset onto others.
my freind in 3rd grade loved this game. me and him were so close. then the pandemic hit, and he vanished, Never saw him again. I am now in 8th grade, and i still miss him. he went missing without a trace, anything. this game really makes me saf bc i miss him.....
My first rayman game was rayman 2 on the ps1 which is like the worst fuckin version but I loved it so much, and as far as the mainline games went after that they just never missed, not even once. This franchise is special to me in a very specific way, and I've always loved the underlying concept of the games existing in this sort of dream world, it pairs really really well with how out there a lot of the visuals are in these games. The video itself was pretty cool but your audio mixing was a bit all over the place, sometimes I had to fiddle with the volume to make you out over the music; other than that, we love to see a fellow rayman girl winning, I'll be anticipating your next video
For a time there people loved to dunk on the PS1 version because of the '''''terrible voice acting'''' the shorter length and level cutting. Yes it's a lot more downscaled compared to the other ports, but I wouldn't call it bad at all. I always loved the dopey voice acting, the core gameplay is still very much intact and in Retrospect, with it's shorter length it's the one I come back to the most. Playing the game either on my ps1 hooked up to my CRT or on Duckstation with all the extra settings cranked up to 11 behind my PC with my HD display give 2 hugely contrasting experiences which both are equally fun to go through. (Rayman's lower poly model in this is peak btw)
@@ewoutverheij4745 I honestly agree with you, the ps1 version has a ton of charm for me and I love the voice acting, I guess for obvious reasons. I don't think it's bad but I think it's at least probably the worst because of the cut content, but hey I haven't played all of them, so maybe there's a worse one out there that I don't know about
@@RRM693 playing the ps1 version is probably just fine aside from the missing levels and a couple minor features that are just not there. Out of the original releases the N64 is probably the better one? I know the dreamcast had updated graphics but I like the old low-poly look so if you're going for that it's probably the n64 or one of the many ports that use that version
DUDE YOU RE-WOKE A MEMORY I DIDNT EVEN KNOW I HAD. Rayman M is a game my grandma had for some reason and we didnt have games at home. So i always went to my grandma to play rayman M without knowing the franchise or anything about it. Thats aweaome
amazing video, learned some intersting things i ahvent known about. if you want to give rayman 1 another chance play Rayman Redemption instead btw, it's a very good fangame that lets you play with infinite lives, fixes a lot of terrible level design, and even adds some levels. and theres also Rayman Redesigner, a level editor for Redemption that has a small online community with public levels :3
Love the Killer7 soundtrack near the end. It is my favorite game as well (Rayman 2 is also in my top 10, heh). I'm looking forward to see your video about it.
Great summary video! I actually didn't know that there were so many spinoffs in the Rayman franchise. For me Rayman 2 and 3 were the pinnacle of Rayman games. It's unfortunate the developers never came around making a real 3D platformer Rayman 4. Rayman Origins and Legends both were good as well, but I always found them kinda exhausting to play. I think the artstyle was a little too much eyecandy for my taste. But then .... the franchise just ended back then - Legends came out 10 years ago and it's baffling how there was no mainline Rayman game since then. So much lost potential...
Gamer: "How could a beloved video game icon like you quit before your anniversary?!" Rayman: "You think I quit?" * turns on light to reveal a news article * Gamer: "Right! Michel Ancel's retirement." Rayman: "THEY quit on me! After Origins and Legends were praised, I went back expecting a grand anniversary celebration. You know what Ubisoft said to me? 'You're history!'. Moved right on to the next Tom Clancy game in line."
One interesting note about Rayman jungle run and Fiesta run. They are still available but only on the Ubisoft launcher, both are 2.99 but you can play them on PC
BRO YOU UNLOCKED A KEY MEMORY FOR ME Ive been a huge rayman fan ever since i was a child and i remember now playing Rayman Desginer.... Needing to collect all of those things to unlock the exit, im in tears dude... i NEED to go find a copy for the pc now... there has to be a pc version online somewhere Alsom note, i played rayman raving rabbits on the ds and REALLY enjoyed it
i find it insane a video like this has such little views - new sub instantly and is supporting my already heightened interest in this series . ive learned alot ! thanks >:D
You could've gotten your hands on Rayman Designer, it's included in Rayman Forever (along with the original game and Rayman by his Fans), which Ubisoft still sells on their storefront and is also on GOG. there is also a fanmade recreation of Rayman 1 and Rayman Designer called Rayman Redemption and Rayman ReDesigner respectively made by Ryemanni on GameJolt, which is so much better then the original (both fixing major issues with the games and even adding completely new content to the original)
It’s funny that I remember playing Rayman M on the PS2 with my brother when we were younger, and we loved it. Mostly for the multiplayer races though. We never finished the game, but recently, I watched speedruns of the game and jesus that game’s checkpoint system is broken. It’s beautiful.
Damn, I didn't know people hated the first game that much. I thought the extreme challenge made it really fun and I never really found myself getting frustrated, I usually just blamed myself for not being better. I didn't like having to replay every level for the full ending but it was alot easier than I expected cause of how much quicker your able to zoom through each level once youve mastered the mechanics. Especially with how fast the game allows you to go. It was a joy to play and I remember actually liking it a lot more as a speed game than the original Sonic games. A lot of the fun in the Rayman games especially the 2d ones is how hard yet fun to master they are. Shocking to know I was an outlier in liking the first game a lot.
I started since Rayman Legends 8-9 years ago and i had a blast...I've played some Rayman Redemption (rayman 1 fan remaster) and played origins this year and im planning to play 2 and 3 some year later
I bought Rayman 2 on Dreamcast, and loved it. I then bought Rayman 3 on the Orginal XBOX and loved. After that we only got Rayman and Rabids, and some really great 2D games, Which I also love. Would have loved a Rayman 4 ( in the Style of 2 and 3).
Rayman M I always knew as Rayman Arena and I’d play it with my neighbors on PS2. No idea where my disc went and I never found “Rayman Arena” since but after seeing M I knew this was the same game
You should make a video on the forgotten isle of the PS2. The Legend of Kay. It’s too under appreciated with fun game design and amazing world building and story
Rayman Legend's Murphy segments were much more interesting on Wii U as you controlled Murphy with the Gamepad while leading either a really braindead rayman or the other players throughout the level. The Music stages also had the option to be played as Murphy which is why those eye signs exist in say Castle Rock, as they're used to make AI Rayman jump or break the bone walls there.
Want to know what's crazy. I knew about Rayman M/Arena (love that game) and Rabbids games. But I didn't know there was a Rayman 3 in between, with how much 2 gets ported, I figured if 3 existed I would have also seen a port.
At the very least they could remaster or port the older games to pc and modern systems. Asking for a new Rayman game is one thing but just making it easier to play the existing games would be huge in my book.
Played the hell out of rayman M with my brother, we had so much fun! Although we had a glitch where after a month or so of progress the game would freeze and need to be reinstalled
I first played some gameboy color port of the first game. I then experienced Rayman 2 via Rayman DS. Heard mostly nothing but bad things about Rayman DS but Rayman 2 looked so appealing to me, this was the only way I could play it at the time so I got it and loved it to bits.
Younger viewers amongst us might not believe this but Rayman was incredibly popular in the nineties, so much so that there was a Saturday morning cartoon series, a full set of plushes, badges, stickers, 'I love Rayman/ I hate Rayman' towels and there was even a movie adaptation of the series starring Tom Cruise and Dustin Hoffman
As a kid I played the first Rayman game on PC with a joystick. I guess the game wasn’t hard enough as is… :D Also played Rayman Rush (PS1 title), which wasn’t mentioned in this video. It was a sort of on-foot racing game. Don’t remember it too well though. Great video!
Man, this video really took me back. Rayman 2 was my absolute favorire. I could never complete the final level, but that could be because I was playing it on computer. I was a PC gamer cause we couldn't afford the consoles. That being said, rayman m was hard for me to boot up, but when I did, I fucking loved it. Looking back, the story of Rayman 3 wasn't very good, and was uncomfortable at times, but the gameplay was fun. As disappointed as I was in the story of rayman raving rabbids, I really loved it, even if it was on my computer. I never really got into rayman origins or legends though.
That Atari 50 compilation has Atari Jaguar games. It would be awesome if Ubisoft would let Atari port the Jaguar version of Rayman, especially since it is the definitive version of the first game.
Hey guys there was a copyright claim on the video which is really fucking annoying wish I had gotten it sooner so I could have dealt with it before the video got a lot of views. So 41:21 to 41:52 is muted. So sorry!!
What is said in it?
@@DucksAndCatnipI just talk about rayman mini and how it’s the last game in the series made for mobile
it's insane corpos can just claim your entire videos because of a small snippet of "copyrighted content"
"See you in Rayman 4" has the same energy as "Just you wait until Banjo-Threeie!"
"See you in The Darkness 3"
RIP Banjo-Threeie
I will never forgive for you being gutted and turned into Nuts and Bolts
They even suffered the same fate.
Being turned into something completely different despite what the developers originally wanted it to become.
@@thegamingprozone1941Whats The Darkness? I dont think ive never heard of it before.
@@SimoneBellomonte badass shooter 😎
I feel like Ubi is actually starting to pay attention to rayman again, in 2023 we got a youtooz figure, the sparks of hope dlc and captain lazerhawk, it can only go up from here
True!! Thank you uncle grandpa I’m a big fan
Good morning
It's so great that I can truthfully say that we had a mini "Ray-naissance" this year. Atleast moreso on the social/community side of things.
I only pray that it will continue into something bigger in the future...
Youtooz? Wt actual fruck is a youtoots? 🤔
in the actual*
It's really good that more people are talking about Rayman again thanks to Mario + Rabbids and Captain Laserhawk. Hopefully THIS TIME Ubisoft listens to us and give us a new game.
Hahaha. It's Ubisoft. They're almost as bad as SEGA at neglecting their older franchises. However SEGA just announced a return of some of their franchises.
Ubisoft? The pinaccle of mediocrity? I gave up on them a long time ago.
I do not want to burst any bubble..... but, probably the only way to get a new entry would be another creative lead (david soliani maybe?) taking on the project with a smaller budget, while the rest of sub-studios work on live-services and the likes for the major releases (meaning probably not ubisoft montpellier). The scope of the game would be quite reduced akin to something like the new prince of persia. The more likely scenario is to have a spiritual sequel that is crowdfounded by small indie devs. I'm happy he's getting the love but I'm trying to realistic.
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It doesn't help that Rayman's creator, Michel Ancel, retired from the gaming industry. The prospect of a brand new, modern 3D Rayman would be incredible, but it seems Ubisoft really doesn't care about the franchise. Though, I was actually surprised to see Rayman even get a part in Mario & Rabbids Sparks of Hope DLC!
from what info there is about that. he was supposedly a real pain to work with. he was rude and a total ass.
but i dont know if thats true or not.
people can say whatever the hell they want on here so it may be bullshit.
@@Boomrainbownuke9608
Actually it's Ubisoft who are assholes not Michel
@@Boomrainbownuke9608 Oh, man, I never heard that. It is hard to know what is exaggerated or even false. Well, except for maybe Yuji Naka where there are multiple resources that are clear evidence that he was a completely toxic individual to work with (especially to Sega of America employees).
@@kirtheweasel i did say i HEARD that he was rude and an ass not that its actually true.
@@kirtheweasel Tbf him leaving the company before allegations started being made against Ubisoft executives was pretty suspicious as hell
In Rayman 2, if you press and hold L (on the N64 version), you'll get to a screen where you can scroll through texts that tell you what the Lums do, the origin of the Glade of Dreams which tells you how Polokus dreamt up the world and it's creatures, how the creatures then helped form the world, and that everyone lived in relative peace until the pirates invaded. Of course, you need the requisite amount of Yellow Lums to get all the lore.
Not in every level though
still don't know what a rayman junior is :(
you called?
@@chop4401are you the rayman junior
@@sillybeanthingyes he is
it's you XD
No offense but u have about 4 videos , more consistent content would warrent more subscribers
Actually, the ending sequence in Rayman 3 was rather a flashback of how Andre was born. The night before, Rayman slept walked and his hands came to life for some mischief. They scared a red Lum with shadow puppets and thus Andre came to be. So basically, it was all Rayman’s fault indirectly.
Glad there are other people out there who realise this, since the cutscene pans up to the two moons in the sky and does a fade transition to the moons being in a different part of the sky, implying a going-back in time
Globox having so many children makes sense since Frogs can lay more than 3000 eggs in order to secure that at least some of them survive; I guess his children were well cared for (until they got lost but he was kidnapped so).
In Chile back in the year 2000, a cloth wash detergent brand had Rayman bundled in for some reason, that's how I got the game and I still have the disc!
It was called "Rayman Gold" for some reason and it ACTUALLY CAME WITH MAPPER!!! Completely in English too, I still have the disc and ripped it as an iso so if you ever feel like trying it hit me up 😅
can I has and how would you go about sending the files
@@Feefoos blue 🐦, same name
Didn't expect to see you here
Love your remixes :3
The video was well informed, with a lot of Rayman stuff I did not know existed, even though Rayman Brain Games was the first ever video game I ever played and many things Rayman have been near and dear to my heart ever since. However, one genuine surprise I got was how you missed mentioning an entire whole Rayman video game, which is Rayman 3 for the GBA.
That game is a weird case in the franchise because even though it has 3 in it's name, the story is almost nothing like Hoodlum Havoc. The game is like a weird fusion between Rayman 2 and Hoodlum Havoc, where the pirates from 2 hunt down Andre from Hoodlum Havoc, even keeping in the fact that Globox ate Andre, and its a whole weirdness in terms of story.
Rayman 3 for the GBA is a 2D platformer, and a very fun game to play, and it always seemed to me like it was one of the more prominent entries in the series, considering it is so unique from 2 and Hoodlum Havoc, even though it weirdly fuses them both in one. So it's kinda surprising how it was not mentioned in this video. Besides that, though, as said, great and informative video. As a Rayman fan, you have my thanks for outlining the story of the limbless wonder! :D
Yeah it was odd he didn't mention it. It's a very different game from Hoodlum Havoc despite both games being called Rayman 3
I love small creators who make actually good content. amazing stuff bro! I loved this game, so sad this happened
46:16 I swear I can’t stop dying of slighter this is my favorite part
Always happy to see another youtuber talking about Rayman, i love the characters, the games and the franchise as a whole!
(Darn those Rabbids....)
You reminded me Cybershell, the Sonic lore guy, I love this style of videos!
You now have a new follower
Yeah same, I like her style, I hope she continues!
My first experience with rayman was Rayman Arena when I was a kid, absolutely loved that game when I was a kid, then I got origins for my wii around 2012 and fell in love with the series again, it sucks how much Ubisoft shits on him.
29:54 "Game lets you play as Globox, something that series not seemed before"
Rayman M:
Glad to see the Rayman series getting more attention as of recently. 😊
Shame you greatly disliked Rayman 1 since that's my favorite installment in the entire franchise.
I really hope that the studio that made the Mario+Rabbids games make another Rayman game. If anyone can do it, it's them.
Great video, wonderful trip down memory lane :D
Think I remember Davide Soliani said he wanted to make a new Rayman back in October of this year, I hope he does cause you can tell the Mario and Rabbids crew really loved the limbless wonder so much, even put so much love and care to the DLC, I would buy it in a heartbeat if it became a reality
Rayman 1 was definitely difficult but to rank it so low should be a crime, it's a masterpiece
It was infuriating dying so often but that doesn't make it a bad game. People confuse difficulty with quality. It's at least a B and for me personally an A.
Fun fact: raving rabbids 2 had a pc version exclusive to Poland and apparently Russia as well. I actually had the 4 discs as a kid cuz they sold the game with random mini games included on seperate discs and you had to buy em all for the full thing. It was cool tho cuz you also got a rabbid figurine with each disc. Oh the distribution method was game mags which was a very popular way of distributing games in Poland at the time
To add to your comment: some time after the release of the 4 parts for RRR2, there was a single disc release in a hardcover booklet, containing the same 16 mini games.
The booklet release claimed to be the 'full version' of the game. I have a copy of that one in PL.
Also, Rabbids Go Home got the '4 disc in a magazine with collectible Rabbid figurines release' treatment in Poland (and I think Russia, too?) as well.
I don't know if that also had a single disc release later on, though.
Rayman has been one of my favorite mascots since I was little, and the fact that you released this video on my birthday makes me somehow feel more connected to the character in an inexplicable way
Fun fact: there is an advanced port of Rayman 2 made for PS2 called Rayman Revolution.
I had no freaking idea that there were so many references to Rayman outside of the main lineup of games! Holy crap!
Oh wait really? I didnt know that, i also didnt realize that when i played Rayman DS it was actually Rayman 2 all-along lol.
This was a great watch! Hopefully more people learn about Rayman and his history from this because we gotta get our boy back on the map!
I still have yet to get my youtooz.
Captain Laserhawk & the phantom dlc did bring him back though I wouldn’t say he fell down, he got overshadowed & simply grew with the audience.
I played Rayman 2 as a kid but it was so long ago I don't remember if I beat it or not, but I do remember no other game giving me the insane sense of intrigue and truly otherworldly feeling that it did until I played the Half-Life series.
There is no way original Rayman is a D. It's tough as nails but it was a masterpiece. The art, sound and design make it a classic.
Rayman Redemption ( the fan remake ) is much better
You forgot to mention he's also a character in Brawlhalla along with Globox and Barbara. Also I think you should've focus a little on the different versions of Rayman 2, Revolution in particular
hopefully if enough people talk about rayman ubisoft will catch on and make a new game
Rayman was really a fun series during the 90s and 2000s, and I really don't know about his latest depiction in that cartoon
I knew nothing about Rayman before this, except the damn rabbids.
What an ashame
This was a great vid, super impressive! oddly enough, it puts a lot of stuff from Captain Laserhawk into proper context lmao
As a fellow Rayman 2 fanatic, I can confidently say I 100% agree with every one of your takes even though I'm only 35 seconds in the video.
Fun fact Rayman 2 was originally going to be another 2d platformer 2.5d actually, but after the developers saw Crash Bandicoot they decided to scrap that game and start over and make it 3D instead. Also on the PS1 version of Rayman 2 you can play one level of that original 2d Rayman 2
Rayman 3 was a masterpiece of a videogame for me. Level, Sound, Gameplay Design. AND THE SECRETS I miss games which have secrets like Rayman 3 (yes it was my first rayman)
Rayman 2 is a masterpiece too, but being introduced to rayman 3 at first and discovering it much later I didn't like it as much, but it has a incredible atmosphere, very good music as well, and a lot of charm
Ah time to succumb to Rabids, minions logic before Despicable me…..
Here we go.
Glad you mentioned Killer7, since I noticed all the music you used from that game throughout.
I'm glad Redemption got a shoutout. It's a super fun game that I thoroughly enjoyed playing. I never did 100% it because I couldn't be bothered with the boss rushes, but otherwise did and got everything. It is well worth looking into to relive that old nostalgia.
Rayman Arena was a lot of fun with plenty of great music. The PlayStation version launched first and had the infinitely better battle mode, while GameCube and Xbox versions had better presentation and such but the battle mode changed so much, being scored based on number of hits and only having two modes in it.
I love rayman specially the first one. Its something about its movement that nowadays i can't find anymore.
23:31 - Why does this sting so much. why cant i feel numb about this.
Trivia: The reason why everyone else got limbs in Origins is because Rayman was supposed to be the only one of his kind from now on. However, that got thrown out of the window quick when they introduced other Rays in Legends and Adventures.
On a bright side, that could've been a good opportunity to bring back Tarayzan who was originaly going to be playable in Origins as Rayman's cousin, but they didn't. They lowkey replaced him with some knock off of him from Adventures.
Either Rayman donated his sperms before the slumber or the mages liked him so much they decided to make their own.
God Rayman Mini looks so neat visually and thematically, I wish they made a regular console or Steam version with the Legends controls
Fun Fact: the "Gloo Gloo" track that plays from 38:22 onwards is actually a cover of the 5,6,7,8's hit song "Woo Hoo" which was made famous by Quentin Tarrantino, who in turn heard it while shopping for clothes and went on to put it in the movie that he was currently producing. So when Uma Thurman in Kill Bill walks into a club to confront and later kill the Crazy 99 this very track plays. If you want to look up the scene you will find out that they actually had the original bandmembers perform their song as the club was ment to host a live concert at the time of Uma showing up.
Oh shit fr?? I love Tarantino reservoir dogs is like one of my fav films I still need to watch kill bill tho
@@me.codedd you dont even make an attempt to fool people man lol
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Rayman 2 soundtrack slaps so hard. It was nice to hear someone else's take on a game I love just as much as you.
Thank you for your effort on making this long interesting video!😮😊
my freind in 3rd grade loved this game. me and him were so close. then the pandemic hit, and he vanished, Never saw him again. I am now in 8th grade, and i still miss him. he went missing without a trace, anything. this game really makes me saf bc i miss him.....
My first rayman game was rayman 2 on the ps1 which is like the worst fuckin version but I loved it so much, and as far as the mainline games went after that they just never missed, not even once. This franchise is special to me in a very specific way, and I've always loved the underlying concept of the games existing in this sort of dream world, it pairs really really well with how out there a lot of the visuals are in these games. The video itself was pretty cool but your audio mixing was a bit all over the place, sometimes I had to fiddle with the volume to make you out over the music; other than that, we love to see a fellow rayman girl winning, I'll be anticipating your next video
For a time there people loved to dunk on the PS1 version because of the '''''terrible voice acting'''' the shorter length and level cutting. Yes it's a lot more downscaled compared to the other ports, but I wouldn't call it bad at all. I always loved the dopey voice acting, the core gameplay is still very much intact and in Retrospect, with it's shorter length it's the one I come back to the most.
Playing the game either on my ps1 hooked up to my CRT or on Duckstation with all the extra settings cranked up to 11 behind my PC with my HD display give 2 hugely contrasting experiences which both are equally fun to go through.
(Rayman's lower poly model in this is peak btw)
I haven’t played the ps1 version but the controls for rayman revolution for ps2 are so much worse than the n64 version
What's the best version to play? I played on ps1 and didn't have many issues other than the annoying vibrating graphics and maybe voice acting
@@ewoutverheij4745 I honestly agree with you, the ps1 version has a ton of charm for me and I love the voice acting, I guess for obvious reasons. I don't think it's bad but I think it's at least probably the worst because of the cut content, but hey I haven't played all of them, so maybe there's a worse one out there that I don't know about
@@RRM693 playing the ps1 version is probably just fine aside from the missing levels and a couple minor features that are just not there. Out of the original releases the N64 is probably the better one? I know the dreamcast had updated graphics but I like the old low-poly look so if you're going for that it's probably the n64 or one of the many ports that use that version
I just love your descriptions like "Rayman meets this.. ball with arms 11:23"
RAYMAN REDEMPTION IS A BANGER! AWESOME VIDEO DUDE! HOPE FOR RAYMAN 4!
8:23 globox forgot to turn off the cloning machine.
DUDE YOU RE-WOKE A MEMORY I DIDNT EVEN KNOW I HAD. Rayman M is a game my grandma had for some reason and we didnt have games at home. So i always went to my grandma to play rayman M without knowing the franchise or anything about it. Thats aweaome
amazing video, learned some intersting things i ahvent known about. if you want to give rayman 1 another chance play Rayman Redemption instead btw, it's a very good fangame that lets you play with infinite lives, fixes a lot of terrible level design, and even adds some levels. and theres also Rayman Redesigner, a level editor for Redemption that has a small online community with public levels :3
I have it’s so awesome
A essay on one of my FAV series ever? Hell yes
Love the Killer7 soundtrack near the end. It is my favorite game as well (Rayman 2 is also in my top 10, heh). I'm looking forward to see your video about it.
Rest in Piece Rayman Rush, no mention of it at all :sadge: great video though! Was fun to learn more about Rayman!
Great summary video! I actually didn't know that there were so many spinoffs in the Rayman franchise. For me Rayman 2 and 3 were the pinnacle of Rayman games. It's unfortunate the developers never came around making a real 3D platformer Rayman 4. Rayman Origins and Legends both were good as well, but I always found them kinda exhausting to play. I think the artstyle was a little too much eyecandy for my taste.
But then .... the franchise just ended back then - Legends came out 10 years ago and it's baffling how there was no mainline Rayman game since then. So much lost potential...
The Mario Rabbids DLC is pretty fun
Gamer: "How could a beloved video game icon like you quit before your anniversary?!"
Rayman: "You think I quit?" * turns on light to reveal a news article *
Gamer: "Right! Michel Ancel's retirement."
Rayman: "THEY quit on me! After Origins and Legends were praised, I went back expecting a grand anniversary celebration. You know what Ubisoft said to me? 'You're history!'. Moved right on to the next Tom Clancy game in line."
I was fully raised on Rayman Legends - played it and replayed it with cousins and my brother my whole life. Hell I revisited it this weekend.
Hope this video blows up cuz you deserve more attention dude good video man and really liked the editing and pace of the video 👍🏼
One interesting note about Rayman jungle run and Fiesta run. They are still available but only on the Ubisoft launcher, both are 2.99 but you can play them on PC
The captian laserhawk show lost me when I saw the "raging homosexuals" and the (heavy handed) very current year humour.
32:48 OMFG I REMEMBER I USED TO WATCH ANIMEBROMII WTFFFF
Rayman I miss him so much! I was introduced to him during the N64 era was Rayman 2.
BRO YOU UNLOCKED A KEY MEMORY FOR ME
Ive been a huge rayman fan ever since i was a child and i remember now playing Rayman Desginer.... Needing to collect all of those things to unlock the exit, im in tears dude... i NEED to go find a copy for the pc now... there has to be a pc version online somewhere
Alsom note, i played rayman raving rabbits on the ds and REALLY enjoyed it
i find it insane a video like this has such little views - new sub instantly and is supporting my already heightened interest in this series . ive learned alot ! thanks >:D
You could've gotten your hands on Rayman Designer, it's included in Rayman Forever (along with the original game and Rayman by his Fans), which Ubisoft still sells on their storefront and is also on GOG.
there is also a fanmade recreation of Rayman 1 and Rayman Designer called Rayman Redemption and Rayman ReDesigner respectively made by Ryemanni on GameJolt, which is so much better then the original (both fixing major issues with the games and even adding completely new content to the original)
It’s funny that I remember playing Rayman M on the PS2 with my brother when we were younger, and we loved it. Mostly for the multiplayer races though. We never finished the game, but recently, I watched speedruns of the game and jesus that game’s checkpoint system is broken. It’s beautiful.
Damn, I didn't know people hated the first game that much. I thought the extreme challenge made it really fun and I never really found myself getting frustrated, I usually just blamed myself for not being better. I didn't like having to replay every level for the full ending but it was alot easier than I expected cause of how much quicker your able to zoom through each level once youve mastered the mechanics. Especially with how fast the game allows you to go. It was a joy to play and I remember actually liking it a lot more as a speed game than the original Sonic games. A lot of the fun in the Rayman games especially the 2d ones is how hard yet fun to master they are. Shocking to know I was an outlier in liking the first game a lot.
I started since Rayman Legends 8-9 years ago and i had a blast...I've played some Rayman Redemption (rayman 1 fan remaster) and played origins this year and im planning to play 2 and 3 some year later
I bought Rayman 2 on Dreamcast, and loved it. I then bought Rayman 3 on the Orginal XBOX and loved. After that we only got Rayman and Rabids, and some really great 2D games, Which I also love. Would have loved a Rayman 4 ( in the Style of 2 and 3).
Rayman M I always knew as Rayman Arena and I’d play it with my neighbors on PS2. No idea where my disc went and I never found “Rayman Arena” since but after seeing M I knew this was the same game
Hey what about Sly Cooper? the neglect of that series ironically is criminal
I think that Rayman was the first video game character to actually go through Puberty.
Lol?
Sonic
i remember playing rayman legends and origins it was fun as hell
You give me cybershell vibes and that’s very cool
I don't understand why the first Rayman was so easy in the 90s as a kid, and impossible to play now.
Rayman 3 ended on a cliffhanger!? I thought it was a flashback on how André first showed up
I think so, too
7:32 I remember this one, it was my first and only Rayman game.
You should make a video on the forgotten isle of the PS2. The Legend of Kay. It’s too under appreciated with fun game design and amazing world building and story
I personally loved Rayman M as a kid. MY brother would always play RM with me, since I was to young to play R3 😂. Still have them on CD.
Rayman Legend's Murphy segments were much more interesting on Wii U as you controlled Murphy with the Gamepad while leading either a really braindead rayman or the other players throughout the level. The Music stages also had the option to be played as Murphy which is why those eye signs exist in say Castle Rock, as they're used to make AI Rayman jump or break the bone walls there.
Want to know what's crazy. I knew about Rayman M/Arena (love that game) and Rabbids games. But I didn't know there was a Rayman 3 in between, with how much 2 gets ported, I figured if 3 existed I would have also seen a port.
Rayman 2/revolution was my first PS2 game and I loved the artstyle
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At the very least they could remaster or port the older games to pc and modern systems. Asking for a new Rayman game is one thing but just making it easier to play the existing games would be huge in my book.
I really like the alternative ending idea in rayman 2 really sick. Ahead of its time
Rayman was my childhood i would play with my siblings on the wii
Pretty Interesting video on the series, i love it! Also, FINALLY someone who admits that Rayman Kart is the best game ever made.
Played the hell out of rayman M with my brother, we had so much fun! Although we had a glitch where after a month or so of progress the game would freeze and need to be reinstalled
I first played some gameboy color port of the first game. I then experienced Rayman 2 via Rayman DS. Heard mostly nothing but bad things about Rayman DS but Rayman 2 looked so appealing to me, this was the only way I could play it at the time so I got it and loved it to bits.
Younger viewers amongst us might not believe this but Rayman was incredibly popular in the nineties, so much so that there was a Saturday morning cartoon series, a full set of plushes, badges, stickers, 'I love Rayman/ I hate Rayman' towels and there was even a movie adaptation of the series starring Tom Cruise and Dustin Hoffman
As a kid I played the first Rayman game on PC with a joystick. I guess the game wasn’t hard enough as is… :D Also played Rayman Rush (PS1 title), which wasn’t mentioned in this video. It was a sort of on-foot racing game. Don’t remember it too well though. Great video!
I believe rayman is still the best video game character to ever exist lol
Man, this video really took me back. Rayman 2 was my absolute favorire. I could never complete the final level, but that could be because I was playing it on computer. I was a PC gamer cause we couldn't afford the consoles. That being said, rayman m was hard for me to boot up, but when I did, I fucking loved it. Looking back, the story of Rayman 3 wasn't very good, and was uncomfortable at times, but the gameplay was fun. As disappointed as I was in the story of rayman raving rabbids, I really loved it, even if it was on my computer. I never really got into rayman origins or legends though.
hell yeah a video about rayman
Captain Laserhawk rayman is the perfect depiction of what rayman would currently be like
That Atari 50 compilation has Atari Jaguar games. It would be awesome if Ubisoft would let Atari port the Jaguar version of Rayman, especially since it is the definitive version of the first game.