This is exactly how I remember this fight. You go in and die, questioning your life decisions that led you there
Hey, what about the part near Joe's? I've beaten Space Mama on PSX version - I got stuck on her on the PC version - and then I got stuck at the level where you have to jump from one ball to the other to cross the water.
This is literally the only Rayman game I've never finished
The rope cutting part can be tricky, I get ya
I found Candy Château significantly harder in Redemption than in the original game, and I couldn't even beat Mr Dark there, but maybe I just don't know how to play games anymore?
I'm not sure why people say Rayman 1 is hard, especially when they talk about Space Mama, this footage shows how reasonable the boss fight is...
Would that be the level where you have to fight the urge to control Rayman's flight using the helicopter, and just let the jump momentum from eraser to eraser carry you exactly between the pin?
Not so sure… I think I realized that when I first played, but I wasn't fast enough punching them so it didn't really help…
Yeah, that one. Or as KMG Associates put it:
Glad to hear I'm not alone! I think I tried again the following day, but there was one transformation that always got me.
Yeah, those fish gave me a hard time too. I probably didn't know that you could punch them at first.
I thought by that you meant the levels after Mr Dark's Dare, but this is reassuring too!Which is why I said the final challenges. It was also an issue for me during my first playthrough!
This version of Mr Dark may also been the first thing in any version of Rayman to drain me of approximatively 99 lives! Now I can beat that boss pretty consistently but it took a lot of learning to get to that...
I never knew about this, despite this information already being on the wiki...It was also even more memorable for me as I had the Saturn release, and uniquely the penultimate section's background was changed to the one of the boss in that port, so it really caught me off-guard to suddenly see this alien environment showing up!
Doesn't dr_st's description fit part 3 of Pencil Pentathlon more? I must agree about KMG Associates, though.Yeah, that one. Or as KMG Associates put it:
(I'm legit amazed and delighted that that website still exists and is exactly as I remember it from almost twenty years ago!)
The water part in Eat at Joe's is much easier once you realize you can punch the sabertooth fishes to get rid of them. I beat that section on the first time the last time I beat the game for my Wii U Advance playthrough.
The water part in Eat at Joe's is much easier once you realize you can punch the sabertooth fishes to get rid of them. I beat that section on the first time the last time I beat the game for my Wii U Advance playthrough.
I was literally thinking if this was possible in the morning before work, thank you for proving this to be correct, omg, I was trying to beat it without getting rid of the fishes, omg XD *feels stupid now*
I never knew about this, despite this information already being on the wiki...It was also even more memorable for me as I had the Saturn release, and uniquely the penultimate section's background was changed to the one of the boss in that port, so it really caught me off-guard to suddenly see this alien environment showing up!
Doesn't dr_st's description fit part 3 of Pencil Pentathlon more? I must agree about KMG Associates, though.
Well, that's a great coincidence!
And good luck, it's all about learning the proper timing to hit them, being patient, and finding the best moments to be bold with the few jumps you can make before the nose fishes are done pushing the buoys in some sections!
I can definitely understand why people would be unsure about the ability to hit the fishes as it's the kind of things that has been turned into a sort of myth when some people first figured it out in Rayman Redemption where it's much easier to get the right timing...
Similarly to the possibility of defeating some lightning eyes by hitting them in the original Rayman, which I didn't even figure out until like ~21 years later after my early childhood, despite being a Rayman 1 addict!
Yes, I got the two mixed up. They are both very challenging, but in different ways.Doesn't dr_st's description fit part 3 of Pencil Pentathlon more? I must agree about KMG Associates, though.Yeah, that one. Or as KMG Associates put it:
(I'm legit amazed and delighted that that website still exists and is exactly as I remember it from almost twenty years ago!)
It can very well be a mistake, but it does make some sense gameplay-wise. The level is called Space Mama's Crater, after all. It is reasonable to think that as you progress deeper into the crater, you get closer to the location of the final battle, and the scenery changes. The music (Suspense) that plays in that section is also ominous and alien (although it plays in other sections as well).I never knew about this, despite this information already being on the wiki...It was also even more memorable for me as I had the Saturn release, and uniquely the penultimate section's background was changed to the one of the boss in that port, so it really caught me off-guard to suddenly see this alien environment showing up!
Even 30 years later, we all discover new things!
You know even the developpers thought that part was "something" when they felt the need to change that detail in a port to make it stand out more... That or it was just a programming mistake, probably because Space Mama did stress them out.
Of course, this is only my personal opinion and everyone has the right to enjoy it regardless of their age.
If you hit them ~4 times, they close permanently and stop doing anything! Although many are hard to reach due to the solid tiles around them and thus require that you position yourself in very specific ways to... forever put them to sleep.
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(For example, you have to hang to the platform here so the fist can reach the eyes.)
It's unlikely you'll get much use of it in the official Rayman 1 as a result and many are straight up impossible to touch, but they're infinitely easier to hit in Redemption/ReDesigner where a much lower number of them cannot be taken down (and there's a sound cue indicating they're hurt, unlike the original where the damage is silent).
It can very well be a mistake, but it does make some sense gameplay-wise. The level is called Space Mama's Crater, after all. It is reasonable to think that as you progress deeper into the crater, you get closer to the location of the final battle, and the scenery changes. The music (Suspense) that plays in that section is also ominous and alien (although it plays in other sections as well).You know even the developpers thought that part was "something" when they felt the need to change that detail in a port to make it stand out more... That or it was just a programming mistake, probably because Space Mama did stress them out.
On the other hand, it's been established, that Space Mama is an actress, and the battles with her are merely staged plays. The play scenery in Eraser Plains is limited to the battle, the "crater" too probably exists only on stage, which strengthens the 'mistake' theory.
Yes
Evidently I skim-read it and thought about the bit where you're on the sharpener and have to jump over obstacles forward and back, and mixed it up somewhat with the bit where you're on a sharpener shooting yin-yangs from under pins Oh jinkies, now it's my turn to have my mind blown by something "well-known"
Maybe Ancel always had the idea of a world with multiple moons, but given how different Rayman 2 is from its predecessor, I doubt that continuity was the main concern back then.The fact the NTSC version didn't have the second one also makes me wonder if it was originally an oversight when designing the visuals and if the next games kept the Moons either as a mistake due to the PAL release, or for the sake of universe continuity if it was intentional...
