Nice, more Rayman Mini fans!
This game got too much hate online simply for being a mobile title, but it was quite good for what it was. The new music might not have been the best, but I think there are some good tracks regardless. And I think its world is quite beautiful.
RayGamer99 wrote: Thu Oct 23, 2025 5:39 pmAs a big fan of Looney Tunes and Wile E. Coyote, I do not mind them using that for his eyes in the least. Also I don’t see Wile E. Coyote as a villain, just a character using his genius intellect and access to ACME products to avoid starvation, but I digress.
Oh yes, I agree, I loved Coyote as well, he's my favorite of the Looney Tunes! But he's a very different character than Rayman is. Coyote usually fails at his plans and is designed to look funny doing it, but Rayman is supposed to be successful and hopeful. And funny, but not in a way that you laugh at his failures. It's a very different art style that strays quite far from his French origins and evokes a less innocent kind of character.
RayGamer99 wrote: Thu Oct 23, 2025 5:39 pmthe more cartoony and over-the-top expressions in the DLC
I think Rayman 2 and especially 3's models and animations had expressions that were just as cartoony and over-the-top:
https://imgchest.com/p/ljyqa2ewx72
It's just that the expressions used in those games are quite different, and perhaps used more sparingly. For example, Rayman almost never looks annoyed in the original trilogy (or even in UbiArt). Only a few times in Rayman 3, from what I can remember. Meanwhile, as you said he shows a low tolerance for Rabbids in this DLC. It's visible because his reactions to what's happening around him are often annoyed or exasperated. Often, his face looks like he's thinking
"Ugh, not this again". Especially during the bigger cutscenes where he's suspicous of the rabbids upon meeting them, or slowly losing it while the Phantom roasts him. It feels like his personality is a bit more whiny, even if he doesn't actually do it out loud. That's normal those situations, but it still makes him less likable to me, and so it feels a bit strange that they wanted to put him in situations like that to begin with.
I thought it over a bit and came to the conclusion that them showing this side of Rayman is probably intentional. Part of the premise for this DLC must have been about getting Rayman to team up with and finally accept the Rabbids after the hell they put him through in the party games. Maybe they took inspiration from
the exhausted Rayman we see in TV Party and used this as his starting personality. In theory, evolving Rayman's personality from this back to his original self sounds like a cool idea for Rayman fans to finally close this "story arc" for good, so I understand it if this is what they were going for. But I would rather have seen them forget about this miserable unlikable version of Rayman entirely and never mention it again.
