The Rise & Fall of Rayman | Ubisoft's Limbless Wonder Deserves Better

I've just noticed that the Rayman franchise has some similarities to how Nintendo treats Donkey Kong. They start out with a trilogy, with the third game having a mixed reception. A really weird CGI TV series. A bunch of weird spinoffs of varying quality. Two beloved revival games. And then nothing ever since. Edit: and they are both DLC characters in Mario + Rabbids.

I haven’t played many Rayman games but I definitely appreciate the series. They were Ubisoft’s mario at one point and now they can’t even be I bothered to celebrate his anniversary, pretty sad

Captain lazerhawk: a blood dragon remix did something to him alright

Well, now Rayman is gonna be part of Mario + Rabbids Sparks of Hope, through DLC. That's literally the most high profile thing that happened to him since Legends.

When I worked at GameStop back in the day, when people came in for modern warfare I would push rayman origins so hard. I swear I must have sold 100 copies alone. And 90% of the people who I recommended it to said they loved it. Ubisoft owes me royalties. 😂

He actually did it. He talked about more Rayman games than the guy that wears a Rayman hoodie (Nitro Rad)

Rayman recently had a small rise again, with the Captain Laserhawk animated show. Ramon...

Good news everyone, Rayman recently got announced as a DLC character for Mario + Rabbids Sparks Of Hope, so maybe there’s still a chance for our limbless friend yet.

There was a quote somewhere, I forgot where it was from, but they really did put it perfectly: Rayman Origins is one of the best Sonic games ever made.

Just wanted to say Rayman Origins and Legends are some of the most beautiful, polished and fun 2D platformers ever made.

AND THEN CAPTAIN LASERHAWK HAPPENED

They gave him guns now!

The last two rayman games show that Ubisoft are still capable of creating masterpieces, but sadly the gaming community would rather buy a rehashed AC or Far cry.

"we're gonna be pulling franchises out of the graveyard this year" i can't wait for the AntDude video on the Croc franchise

It's Ramon now

Time to meet… Ramon.

It’s not easy being a Rayman fan, he recieved the most glorious gaming resurrection in 2011 only to ”die” some years later, seems the only thing that can keep him alive until Ubisoft does something with the IP are the fans and Youtubers like you who make videos about him, so thank you, it’s awesome to see rather large channels talk about Rayman suddently. I love all the main Rayman games, and i really do like some of the spinoffs, even though i haven’t played them all yet. Both Rayman 3 and Origins/Legends are within my top 10 games. Nowdays, Leaks keep popping up of the cancelled Rayman 4, and, oh what could have been. I suppose you could make a collection of the mobile games and port them to consoles/PC. There’s a guy at Ubisoft by the name Davide Soliani, who directed the Mario Rabbids games and the GBC Rayman and he really cares about the character, i could see him taking the reins of Rayman now that Michel Ancel is retired. I hope Maybe he can resurrect Rayman 4 some day!

Funny story: That original Rayman 4 platformer prototype where you beat up the Rabbids? Yeah, a vast majority of the code for that still exists in the retail version of Rayman Raving Rabbids. The transition from platformer to party game happened really late in development, so in order to get it out in time to be a launch title for the Wii they recycled the code of the platformer project in various mini games and the colosseum hub world, but just disabled certain functions that would let the player move Rayman around freely. For example: A major feature of the game was going to give Rayman the ability to ride and control various different creatures. In the final game, there's a mini game where you pick up pigs and drop them off while riding a bat. The code for that game is just the code for a bat Rayman would have been able to ride in the prototype, just with the dismount button disabled. It's actually possible to reconstruct a remarkably functional and playable version of the originally-intended platforming gameplay just using all of the code leftovers in the final game.

You know there is a Netflix TV show called Laserhawk that was sponsored by Ubisoft and it's got Rayman on it only he's not the Rayman we all know and love

Anyone here after watching captain laserhawk?