NovemberMan
Smash Apprentice
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An old friend of mine - one that I never see much anymore - was playing Rayman 2 on the N64 one time that I went his former house. He invited me to play it as well, as he was struggling with levels like the The Cave of Bad Dreams, The Sanctuary of Stone and Fire, and the The Precipice. I didn't know how to play it at first, but after he showed me the controls I realized they were very similar to Super Mario 64 - at least I think so. After I got a grasp on the game I started to enjoy it more and more that I even beat more levels than my friend did including the ending. I think I was 10 years old when I start playing this game and like around 17 or 18 when I actually owned it.How did you guys first learn of Rayman's existence as a character?
Personally, I first learned of Rayman on a demo disk for the Dreamcast, which contained a demo of Rayman 2. The demo featured the level where you have to place two spheres on the two pedestals to open a door.
Although my Dreamcast eventually broke down, I am now a proud owner of the swampy green N64 cartridge of Rayman 2.
I liked the game so much that when I saw the ending, I just wanted to see a Rayman 3. And I did see Rayman 3 available on one of those book order packets that you get in school, but because it was for PC, I was very discouraged in getting it. Why? Because I wanted it to be on a Nintendo console - wow. It wasn't until a year later that I realized it was also available on the GC, but I didn't have a GC, though I really wanted one, especially after another friend of mine introduced me to SSBM.
However, even though I finally got the GC around 2006, I've been really lazy - and perhaps really economical - to get more games for it, including Rayman 3. Even to this day I still struggle with getting more games for my consoles; the only other game I got for my Wii U - aside from SSB4 - was Rayman Legends, mostly because I love Rayman and wanted to show some support for his franchise.
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), I never beat it at a young age, but that was only because I never found all of he cages. Then I remember seeing Rayman 2 in a store and got it right then and there, I have so much love for that game, I even beat it before the first game. If I remember correctly, my first time seeing Rayman 3 was in a gaming magazine that my cousin had. Excited, of course, I waited eagerly for the game to release (probably the first upcoming game I actively waited for) and once I got it, oh man. The graphics were amazing, the combat was leaps and bounds above the last game, everything was mostly great. Being young at the time, I didn't particularly mind the humor, but over time it started grating on my nerves along with other things that just weren't up to snuff with the second game. While the combat was an absolute blast, it got stale incredibly quickly, run a bit, fight some enemies, run a bit, fight some enemies, repeat ad nauseam. Rayman 2 is an old game and has it's flaws, but the gameplay was always fresh, Rayman 3 had me running down hallways having to beat hordes of enemies before I could progress, with maybe a "puzzle" or two sparsely spread about the game. Though the biggest offender was the "episodic" levels, in every other game, Origins included, you could backtrack to earlier levels with the newer abilities you had. Rayman 3's levels played out like a strict movie with no freedom, it was disappointing when I went back to the first level and my hands were gone again, or not being able to go back and use the Grimace on previous Black Lums. Though I think I'm probably rambling now... Anyway, I saw the initial trailer for Rayman 4, yadda yadda (we all know how that went) I got Raving Rabbids and was infinitely more disappointed with it than even Nuts & Bolts. Then came those long, long years without any Rayman. Oh no, he's gone the way of Crash, Spyro... Banjo. Then Origins was announced, which eventually became a full game instead of an episodic one, I got it and had a blast. I keep seeing people say that it ruined Rayman's personality, but I fail to see it, maybe I just have a good imagination, but he's a silent protagonist (just like he was in the first game) and I can project whatever I'd like onto him, unlike in Rayman 3 where he clearly acted very snarky and rude, which I couldn't ignore. I like his design too, it's practically identical to the Rayman 3 design but with shoes closer resembling his old appearance, the best of both worlds imo. Then of course there was Legends, which was even better than Origins, and all of this nonsense with Smash. Ah, there we are.
