Rayman 1

[ChronicTraitor]

Would also be cool if there's any music/sound this time!

Similarly, it's great to see the Atari Jaguar release and Rayman 60 levels finally being ported in a very accessible form after so many decades!

That is a big plus, definitely. It makes the Atari Jaguar version actually accessible outside of...Ya know, actually owning a Jaguar. With that mircowave menu of a controller face? (Maybe I should emulate some Jaguar games so I can use a sanely designed modern controller.)

The fan made level packs are a nice surprise too! I've never played them either. I might follow Cosmic's route and get this on Steam instead the Switch - I like hunting for achievements, something the Switch doesn't have. I only get exclusives on the Switch and everything else on Steam.

I'm hoping the SNES proto does get something, since the trailer got all chiptuneish at that part. It'd be weird to not have even a little sound.

I'll always keep saying it: a classic platformer franchise as legendary as Rayman which is so impactful for Ubisoft's history deserves a full course meal, not bread crumbs after over a decade of nearly nothing.
Yes we can be happy with what we have (and I am right now for once), but we should always strive for more, not settle for less.

Plum should put that in the collection. Probably the truest words spoken about the RPC feels collectively about the current state of affairs.

Am I gonna boycott the collection because I'm disappointed for the music? Heck no! Unless you actually butcher all of R1's identity, no force in the universe can stop Mortamon Saturn from buying his first video game again ad vitam æternam like the two-faced hypocrite he truly is!
I'm even gonna do a playthrough as soon as I can, and yes, I'll cover EVERY version included, whether my viewers can stomach the Rayman 1 overdose or not, NO ONE is stopping me!

I completely forgot you had a YouTube channel, two actually! I threw them both a sub since good channels are hard for me to find these days. Gotta feed the unmonetized channels so good no ad bs content can exist and thrive in a YouTube full of ai slop and propaganda clickbait.

[Hunchman801]

And yeah, it can be especially complicated with Rémi's passing, but if garbage companies like Square Enix could figure it out for some of their rereleases decades later, or after the composer's death in Dragon Quest's case (despite how incredibly stingy Sugiyama could get with his music rights resulting in a lot of MIDI slop overseas), I don't see why it would be so impossible here.

I know little to nothing about music licensing and have no idea what the exact problem was, but they evidently decided it would be easier to remake it entirely, even knowing that people would be disappointed.

Anyway, I have yet to listen to the entire soundtrack, but from what I've heard, Héral seems to have done a good job. That said, some songs have too much of a UbiArt vibe for my taste. I still need to form a full opinion on it!

[RayGamer99]

Anyway, I have yet to listen to the entire soundtrack, but from what I've heard, Héral seems to have done a good job. That said, some songs have too much of a UbiArt vibe for my taste. I still need to form a full opinion on it!

So far, all I've heard are the arrangements of First Steps, Creepy Clowns, and End of the Line that were in the trailer. I like all of them, and most of them seem rather faithful to the originals. Admittedly, I noticed that the Creepy Clowns arrangement does have a "UbiArt" sound to it, but that doesn't make it bad or unlistenable to me.

Here's what Heral had to say about it:

Here's an outing that touches me a lot because I spent my summer re-recording the music of my eternal friend Rémi Gazel, and composing new music for this game. I tried to do my best. OST coming soon, with my brother Patrice Heral on drums and my friend Pascal Corriu on guitar. Thank you Ubisoft for the confidence you show me.

I wonder what he means by "composing new music for this game?"

[Mortamon Saturn]

I do really like the tracks so far, and it's definitely a poignant homage by Héral to Rémi Gazel, but some bits are still too "UbiArtish" for my taste indeed...
Welp, hoping for mods as soon as possible... Regardless I'm still happy that I'll get to hear a full new rendition of the soundtrack that shaped my childhood, it'll be the closest thing to a new Rayman by Rémi project we could ever get to enjoy in this timeline.


Here's also what the physical release will look like! It has a bunch of nice extras:

https://x.com/FullsetPS5/status/2022316 ... 71/photo/1


SO GLAD this isn't Limited Run Games
(Please don't reveal it's actually them in disguise...)

I'm hoping the SNES proto does get something, since the trailer got all chiptuneish at that part. It'd be weird to not have even a little sound.

It's true that the music changes at that bit, so maybe they did some 16 bit-like renditions for the proto and the Jaguar/Advance versions! Otherwise, we'll have to do it like my old video on the SNES prototype and play some music ourselves

Plum should put that in the collection. Probably the truest words spoken about the RPC feels collectively about the current state of affairs.

Honestly, I've noticed there's been a bad blend of both pessimistic negativity (sorry ) and toxic positivity since the late 2010s in the community (mostly social medias, not really RPC). People are either being blindly critical (it's Ubi so I can't blame some of ya ), or very close-minded to any demand or criticism while hyping up a trail of nothingburgers for every Ubisoft announcement/tiniest bit of acknowledgment to the point people only got more disappointed when we ended up getting literally nothing (hi Ubisoft Forwards! )...

I completely forgot you had a YouTube channel, two actually! I threw them both a sub since good channels are hard for me to find these days. Gotta feed the unmonetized channels so good no ad bs content can exist and thrive in a YouTube full of ai slop and propaganda clickbait.

And thanks a lot!
They've been kind of dead for the last months as I had to adapt all my setups to a new 1440p monitor and I'm kind of taking a break from the Internet since January, but it's gonna come back full force if I can record this collection of Rayman 1 without any hiccup!
And true dat about all of that BS! Sadly even my channels (at least MortaDolly, still not sure about the gameplay one) are getting bombarded by ads against my consent, as YouTube has started forcing them on every channel they can and we don't even get a penny out of it! So some small channels are getting hate for ads which they didn't place themselves and when they don't even have enough subscribers to be eligible to monetization! Therefore I'm fully for people using adblockers when watching my stuff, cuz screw Google!

[Hunchman801]

I wonder what he means by "composing new music for this game?"

There are also new compositions in this soundtrack, that's what he meant.

Anyway, the game is out now, time to see for ourselves!

[Mortamon Saturn]

Just got it on Steam!
...But of course, "Ubisoft account required"...! Ah... Good ol' Ubi...

EDIT: I can confirm so far that there are no original soundtrack for the PS1 version aside from some jingles, that the new one sounds very out of tune with the game's style, and the SNES proto is the SAME as before with no music or sounds included!

[Chilistudios]

Huh. The original tracks are gone? At least you can mod them back into the PC version. Are there rights issues with Remi's soundtrack?

[Hunchman801]

I'm not sure if there are issues, but it was complicated enough to justify making an entirely new soundtrack.

As for the PC version, good to know! I'm sure someone will release a mod soon.

[hardback247]

How can I mod the original music in? We’re talking about five different versions here.

[Mortamon Saturn]

Alright, first part of my 30th Anniversary PS1 playthrough is up [in 1440p] for anyone who want to know how it looks and sounds! (English description isn't done yet but I'm gonna get to it after dinner time very soon )
Here's ALL of the Dream Forest, backtracking included!


As you can see, the graphic options are kind of nice especially the widescreen. But even then they didn't bother to fill the black borders with new backgrounds in the narrowest vertical stages, unlike what Ryemanni made for Redemption's stages that couldn't be translated to widescreen and unlike what I easily did for Rayman GBC in ReDesigner!

But the WORST is indeed the soundtrack, it's such a mixed bag and is a near constant hindrance to the overall experience! It's even worse than what I anticipated!
As I feared some time ago, Christophe Héral's style doesn't mesh well with classic Rayman at all, some tracks are barely recognizable (World Map, what did they do to you my beloved!? ), and only the few themes that sound less like his work and more like the originals are genuinely good!
There are some decent recreations there and there like the Magician's theme and at the very least it appears to be complete, but everything else is just a huge downgrade compared to the original experience in my eyes!

The Jaguar and especially the Advance rereleases got something different from what I very briefly tested, but nothing that feels so special like classic tunes (yes, even Advance ), and the GBC one got the Chromatic music indeed it would seem...


I haven't tested the bonuses yet aside from the SNES proto (exact same stuff we already had, not even an extra sound ), but aside from possibly this part of the bundle, I CANNOT recommend this collection in good faith! The emulation isn't even that good, especially the MS-DOS release which still gives me the awful loading slowdowns I had in Rayman Forever!
Until we get a soundtrack mod, you're better off playing all of the originals or Rayman Redemption... Only buy it to tell Ubisoft we want more, but don't hold back on the criticism if you don't feel satisfied please (and be constructive so they can feel prompted to make improvements ), this isn't worth it at all, and I'm saying this as a Rayman 1 fanatic!

Btw seems like the original ROMs are also in the files, so you can grab them and run them under another emulator if you prefer (like for the awful PC port of 40 Winks by Piko Interactive).

[Droolie]

I don't think I'll be able to stand playing through a version with music like this even when I get a PS5 eventually...

It's really strange that there would be rights issues with the music. Wasn't the original soundtrack of Rayman 1 included on the Playstation Classic version that was sold back in 2018? Wasn't it included in Rayman Classic, released in 2016? Wasn't it in Rayman 1/Forever, which is still sold digitally on GOG & Ubisoft Connect even now?

[RaypersonNikol]

Did the Sega Saturn version have any issues at all, hence why it's not in this collection? Or am I entirely wrong?

[nitwitsworld]

I don't think I'll be able to stand playing through a version with music like this even when I get a PS5 eventually...

It's really strange that there would be rights issues with the music. Wasn't the original soundtrack of Rayman 1 included on the Playstation Classic version that was sold back in 2018? Wasn't it included in Rayman Classic, released in 2016? Wasn't it in Rayman 1/Forever, which is still sold digitally on GOG & Ubisoft Connect even now?

It isn't a rights issue. That's for sure.

[Mortamon Saturn]

Did the Sega Saturn version have any issues at all, hence why it's not in this collection? Or am I entirely wrong?

As we already explained, Saturn emulation is an inconceivably complicated nightmare even 30 years later, so I'm not surprised this was excluded...
Which is a shame because it's still one of the best versions for all the extra visuals and aside from the high-pitched sound effects.

I don't think I'll be able to stand playing through a version with music like this even when I get a PS5 eventually...

It's really strange that there would be rights issues with the music. Wasn't the original soundtrack of Rayman 1 included on the Playstation Classic version that was sold back in 2018? Wasn't it included in Rayman Classic, released in 2016? Wasn't it in Rayman 1/Forever, which is still sold digitally on GOG & Ubisoft Connect even now?

I can barely stomach playing it on PC right now and I'm a Rayman 1 fanatic, so that's telling how flawed this is!

YES! Rémi did pass away in 2019, but that's what I was thinking since the beginning.
Also, I don't know much about music licensing either, but if they don't have the rights to the original, then wouldn't it be illegal either to imitate the original work (therefore making it "plagiarism"), even with the whole "fair use" thing when it involves transformative work? This whole situation is really strange!


And right now, a HUGE number of people are complaining about the new soundtrack under the social medias posts, as expected... I'm afraid this isn't going to sell well, so if this was Ubi's plan to make a quick buck and jauge the interests of the fans, it isn't working.
...So then IMAGINE if the whole Rayman Legends remake turns out to be true, it will the worst flop in the history of flops!

[Kiza/Raybox]

Alrighty! I added the 30th anniversary edition into my cart. Once the stipendium comes, I'll get it and play it. Yum~

P.S. for me it costs nearly 8k tenge sooo yeah! I think I can make it.

[RayGamer99]

From what I've heard so far from gameplay videos, this reimagined soundtrack is very hit-or-miss. On the one hand, I quite like the rearrangements of songs like First Steps, The Magician's Challenge, Bzzit Attacks, and Flight of the Mosquito. On the other hand, most of the other tracks in the soundtrack just don't sound good here. A lot of them aren't even rearrangements, just new music that, in some cases, I think would even sound out of place in a UbiArt game.
(Seriously, what the heck did they do to World Map and Moskito's Rage... )

There are some diamonds in the rough, and it doesn't ruin the game in my eyes since you can always listen to the legendary originals on RayTunes, but this definitely isn't Christophe Héral's best work.

While I won't say to avoid this collection just because of the mostly butchered soundtrack, I agree with Saturn in saying that you'd' be much better off playing Rayman Redemption. But then again, I guess that always would have been true even if the collection had the original music.

[Rsandee]

I'm afraid most people will avoid this collection because most people have already had the chance to play R1 because it's on basically every console ever made.
The remastered music being hit-or-miss also doesn't really help its case...
But I hope it works out for them! Unfortunately it will probably affect how serious Ubisoft will take this franchise from now on :/

[Mortamon Saturn]

And here's the SNES prototype now! Just in case you still had any doubts about it being expanded or anything
(0:31)

[lyndo64]

The part that baffles me the most is the Jaguar ost, it isn't even trying to sound like a Jag game, it's CD quality music that doesn't fit at all.

The museum is really cool though.

[Droolie]

The museum is really wonderful! Great to be able to read the game design bible, and have high resolution versions of the background art before it was scanned.

But yeah like everyone is saying, the music is really a shame - especially because there is a very large chance that Ubisoft will use this for any future rerelease of the game. So from now on we're probably stuck with:

Mr Stone's happy "ho ho" battle
Instead of the epic:


Or:

Space Mama singing out of tune (cool idea, but uh... )
Instead of:


I don't blame Christophe Héral for making this alternative soundtrack - that's on Ubisoft for choosing this solution (most likely because it was cheaper) instead of solving whatever issues they had - but this is not really his best work. He missed with Rayman Mini, he missed with the new tracks (and also many of the remastered ones) in the BG&E remaster, and now this... can't say I'm looking forward to what he'll do for the Rayman Legends remake.
I don't even want to add this to RayTunes (not that I would otherwise, since apparently this will get an official OST release?)...