The You Game!

[nr0r]

< wants to eat! ... But < doesn't know what < wants to eat...

[PluMGMK]

< knows that feeling.
< just had dinner.

[Ambidextroid]

< is eating Corn Flakes

[Imco]

< wanted to buy Rice Krispies today, to make some Rice Krispie marshmallow snacks, but apparently our supermarket doesn't sell Rice Krispies

[Ambidextroid]

Ah that sucks.
< personally prefers chocolate Corn Flake cakes to other types of cereal based confectionery, < made some for a school charity thing and < wanted to eat them but they were all gone...

[Jewish Candy]

Didn't... didn't sell Rice Krispies.
Well.
< is appalled.

[Imco]

Well, it's not that popular where < lives. Here everybody wants the chocolate krispies, Coco Pops. Anyway, < will try and convince his mother to go to a bigger store tomorrow, which probably does have them

[Snagglebee]

< watched Silver Lining on TV. < found the movie pretty depressing but great.

[Shrooblord]

< just realised NRJF's sig was from Rayman GBC - despite knowing the screen for a long time, < didn't connect the dots somehow.
Rayman GBC is one of <'s favourite Rayman installments. It places second right inbetween Rayman 2 and Rayman 1, being a perfect blend of the two.
It's always caught me how it is one of the only 'ports' < knows that actually adds new, different content than its preceding games. It has a completely different story (well, somewhat at least) to the other games, adds new areas, plays around with new ideas (the jumping trumpets in the Music levels for one) and has had a lot of effort put into it.

< only wishes < had gotten the chance to play the game with someone else at some point. The very first level of the game has a hidden 'UbiKey' which you are supposed to give to another GBC console playing the game and supposedly you could do... something together. < hasn't a clue what, though, nor how well-implemented this mysterious multiplayer mode would be.

[Jewish Candy]

Wow, colour < intrigued. < had never even considered RGBC, but that sounds great... hmm.
Well if < buys a GBC plus the game and ^ decides to visit we can have a sesh, oh boy the excitement

[Shrooblord]

< would be in for that.
If ^ is interested in <'s further thoughts on the game, < wrote a review about it a long while back. Give it a read if ^ pleases. <'ll post it here with revised formatting because the old one hurt even <'s eyes so that can't spell good news for others that don't know what the words were supposed to say. xd

Here:

Right, I played through the entirety of Rayman GBC and I must say the game is
PURE. WIN.

The music, of course, is wonderful, and it's fun to recognise each tune all the time. The only themes I cannot place are the Bonus Level (Time Attack) and the one from Mr. Dark's showdown battle scene. Though I can well imagine the last to be made especially for the game, and it could also be the Time Attack one was too.

The graphics are simply stunning. For only 64 possible colours, the amount of liveliness and magic they seemed to pump out of the graphics is insane! I especially love the foresty areas, where you can see the colours of the flowers, trees, cliffs - all very Rayman 2-esque and no failure in any aspect at all. I simply have no bad remarks on the graphics, except that maybe the Antitoons and Electoons are a bit unrecognisable, but what could you expect from a tiny GBC screen?

The gameplay is great. The amount of backtracks during one level is a fun one, and not an excessive amount of going back is needed to grab that one cage or extra life, though enough of them were added to keep all the levels interesting.
I also liked how every area is concluded with a flooding level; I always thought the original Rayman had loads of them too, but it appears that was the GBC version that merged with the Ray1 experience [in my mind]. Also some level areas from GBC had been mixed in with those of R1, so it was nice to remember the places that were in my head all the time, but weren't actually in R1.
I like how the GBC version introduced new enemies, as well as reshaping or restyling old ones. There are no more Hunters, which might be a shame, but I think it's quite alright, since I never really liked spammy waves of flying bullets with mallets anyway. Granted, it's very cartoony, but it can also be quite frustrating. It's also quite malicious how everything in GBC gets beheaded when it dies; Livingstones, the weird plant things in the Arcane Forest, bats - everyone loses their head.

The design of the levels themselves is terrific as well; if you go through one part that passes underneath another you've already been to, you can safely assume there will be one point where you will end up back on the old path, though going into a new direction. This is a nice feature, in my opinion.

And the ending was quite fitting. Justice is brought to the evil sourcerer, some funny moments are placed in for those who enjoy them and finally you get to go to the world map, which hold all the places you have yet to bust out some Electoons. Also 5 question marks point out a new mysterious world that may or may not be accessed - who knows! I will play through the whole game to break all remaining cages and find out if any of that opens one of these new worlds.

So, overall, Rayman GBC is a great game indeed. I cannot find many weak points, not as many as I can find in R1. Hey, I love R1, but there are so many bitchy things about the ways you can die or have to precisely do something to get to one teeny little place, that the game gets on my nerves a lot of the time. I know, it's challenging, and I like that, but I don't like the challenges R1 sometimes presents me - but I guess that's just a matter of taste.

So, if you've got an old Game Boy Colour dusting away in the cupboard, get into your wallet and rush to the next second-hand store to see if they've got Rayman GBC. I believe it's well worth it.

As you can tell, <'s incredibly prolific about the game. < would be somewhat more... reserved nowadays (sixteen year-old Shrooblord is excited and blurty - < believes himself somewhat more objective now). HOWEVER, < still feels all these points hold. Except that <'s appreciation of R1 has risen over the years and < doesn't feel as strongly against it as < did back then.

< also knows now what the end levels are... but <'ll leave that for you to discover...!

[Jewish Candy]

Drat, < loves spoilers Well thanks for that, now < has no excuse not to seek it out. How irritating.

[Bradandez]

< has been extremely lazy today.

[Jewish Candy]

Hmm, < is almost at 5000 posts.

[Bradandez]

< should do <'s laundry in a bit.

[Jewish Candy]

<'s immediate response was "isn't it a bit late for that", but < remembers ^ lives in a country that is not nearby

[Bradandez]

Wrong. America is always nearby and watching. *Eagle Screech*

[Adsolution]

<'s immediate response was "isn't it a bit late for that", but < remembers ^ lives in a country that is not nearby

When is it too late for laundry? < usually does it at night.

[Bradandez]

What happens if you had clothes in the washer and slept? < guesses that would be considered late.

[Jewish Candy]

<'s local laundromats aren't open at night. < forgets that washing machines are common even in the Americas