Rayman Origins

[Haruka]

I would like to see again the Picture City and the Caves of Skops.

[NotaKuroi]

We know that both the Dream Forest (only referred to as the jungle so far) an Band Land will appear in Origins, but are there any other worlds from the original game you'd like to see? Or maybe levels from Rayman 2 and 3?

Forest and Band Land - the best places of R1. I'm not very want other worlds, they're boring. Also I want mystical lands, like Land of the Dead, Cave of the Bad Dreams. Rayman must have creepy levels, it's cool, therefore R2 is my favorite part

[El Dango]

Blue Mountains would be nice. Not counting on it though, since there already is a different mountain themed location.

[Rulez]

I would love this game and I would be fulfilled if there was a Picture City-sort of.

I love it really, and my other favorite level (Band Land) is in fact IN, so I am half-fulfilled

[Hunchman801]

I would personally love to see the Caves of Skops again; in any case, Dango is right about the Blue Mountains (unless both worlds are the same), and I fear that Picture City and the Candy Château might be hard to adapt among the very stylised imaginary worlds from Origins we've already seen (see the food world and what happened to Band Land).
As for Rayman 2 and Rayman 3, as a huge fan of the Sanctuary of Stone and Fire and the Land of the Livid Dead I'd love to see them “back”, but once again I doubt it.
In any case, there's no way we're not having plums and piranhas in Origins.

[NotaKuroi]

Yesterday i wrote text with arts of RO. I insert few arts, there are no in forum archive.
http://gamemag.ru/news/rayman-origins-m ... rtov-65056

[Haruka]

In any case, there's no way we're not having plums and piranhas in Origins.

It is tradition since Rayman 1, they shall not break it in RO.

[Electoon]

Anyone posted this yet?

http://nsa25.casimages.com/img/2011/05/ ... 779794.jpg

The Electoon redesigns are looking a lot less freakish and exaggerated then I imagined. I like it!

[Rulez]

We've seen it already (well, most of us), but I agree, the Electoons are still as awesome as they were

[spiraldoor]

We know that both the Dream Forest (only referred to as the jungle so far) an Band Land will appear in Origins, but are there any other worlds from the original game you'd like to see? Or maybe levels from Rayman 2 and 3?

My favourite R1 worlds are Band Land and Picture City; I think that music and art are very rich concepts for a game environment, and there’s plenty of untapped potential in both of them (just off the top of my head: Band Land could feature labyrinthine networks of interconnected flutes, and oceans composed of churning sheet music, while Picture City could include sections where Rayman makes his way through environments inspired by the work of specific artists or their artistic movements, or perhaps even other art forms such as filmmaking [or game development, if they want to go meta]). Guillaume Bonamy’s artwork hinted at such expansion: one of his pieces was a concept for a Picture City cavern, complete with ink waterfall and pencil stalagmites, stalactites and columns. I hope the reintroduced R1 locations in Origins will contain numerous fresh ideas of this sort, and it would be great if they were accompanied by some throwbacks and narrative links to the other games (I’m thinking of Space Mama and Zaroff).

The Dream Forest, the Blue Mountains and the Caves of Skops are all examples of staple platforming environments – very similar worlds could definitely appear in Origins, even if they aren’t given the same name. We know there will be a forest world (which probably will be the Dream Forest, judging by the ‘Primordial Forest’ reference); there will also be a mountain world (which to me looks rather similar to the Blue Mountains; those floating landmasses are something we haven’t seen outside R1); and there will also be a cave world (it was shown in the trailer, and I’d forgotten about it until now; I think it has a reasonable chance of being the Caves of Skops). It’s clear that Candy Château won’t be coming back, as it’s too similar to the food world (unless the Château itself is actually located there); I’m not too troubled by this, as I found it one of the less interesting worlds in R1.

The levels I liked best in Rayman 2 were the most mystical ones: the Sanctuaries of Water and Ice, Stone and Fire, and Rock and Lava, and (if you can call it a level) the Hall of Doors. I don’t think it would make sense for any of the Sanctuaries to return, as they’re specifically linked to the plot of Rayman 2, but I’d love to see more Sanctuaries or similar environments, as well as a 2D version of the Hall of Doors – any redesigns to accomodate new levels could be justified by the simple fact that it’s a magical dimension warp.

In Rayman 3, my favourite levels were again the most magical ones: the Fairy Council, the Land of the Livid Dead and the Longest Shortcut. I think the Council stands a good chance of coming back, as it’s the location of the Heart of the World, which lies at the centre of any self-respecting Rayman game. The Land of the Livid Dead might have some overlap with the Land of the Dead – at this point it’s hard to say whether that might hinder its chances of returning – but the Palmito backstory is definitely something worth exploring, and the Celtic environment has plenty of untapped potential. As for the Longest Shrotcut (whose alternate name is the far more poetic Temple of the Grand Minimus), I wouldn’t be at all surprised to see it return in some form; the glimpse of mysterious Teensie architecture at the end of the third part is something I think the developers may want to follow up on, and the puzzle format will always make for an interesting change of pace in what looks like an otherwise hectic platforming experience.

I would also be very pleased to see some of the aforementioned Guillaume Bonamy pieces realised in game form; while it looks like I might get my wish regarding Band Land, what about the World of Toys, the Temporal Palace and the Organic World? My only experience with these environments comes from those drawings and the watered-down GBA port of RRR1, but I really like them all the same – I wonder if they will ever get their chance to shine.

I would personally love to see the Caves of Skops again; in any case, Dango is right about the Blue Mountains (unless both worlds are the same), and I fear that Picture City and the Candy Château might be hard to adapt among the very stylised imaginary worlds from Origins we've already seen (see the food world and what happened to Band Land).
As for Rayman 2 and Rayman 3, as a huge fan of the Sanctuary of Stone and Fire and the Land of the Livid Dead I'd love to see them “back”, but once again I doubt it.
In any case, there's no way we're not having plums and piranhas in Origins.

I wouldn’t be so quick to judge the redesigned Band Land; we’ve only seen one piece of concept art (which happens to have been photographed from a Dutch angle), and while it doesn’t look quite as spectacular as the vistas we imagined as laying behind the pixellated backdrops of the original game, it certainly shows that the developers are willing to take the initiative and try to make this work. Looking closely at the artwork, I can see a drum platform which looks quite close to the drums which acted as flooring in R1, so I expect the levels will use plenty of similar objects and platforms (sliding sheet music, flutes etc); while the trumpet which hovers oddly in the background looks a bit out-of-place, I really like the tangible music which seems to waft from it (and will probably look great in motion); the flared trumpet bells which bloom organically from the darkness look very nice to me, and remind me of the flute trees in R1; overall, I get the impression that this concept is for a dark and stormy level (like the fourth phase of Bongo Hills); I hope and expect that the revitalised Band Land will also feature levels more along the lines of the first phase Bongo Hills, with its richly detailed background and wide range of interactive music-inspired surroundings.

[El Dango]

For more R1 inspired levels, how about a clock themed world? Could make for some interesting levels.

As for Band Land, I think there should be at least one level with a clear, starry sky, located above the clouds, like here:

Imagine the detail they could put into it with the Ubi-Art tools. Would be even cooler to see a few instruments sticking up through the clouds as well. Man, this has so much potential.

[spiraldoor]

For more R1 inspired levels, how about a clock themed world? Could make for some interesting levels.

As for Band Land, I think there should be at least one level with a clear, starry sky, located above the clouds, like here:

Imagine the detail they could put into it with the Ubi-Art tools. Would be even cooler to see a few instruments sticking up through the clouds as well. Man, this has so much potential.

A clock world was conceptualised for Rayman 4: it was called the Temporal Palace. As for Band Land, I completely agree: one if the most fascinating aspects of that world is its ‘layered’ structure – the Dream Forest-esque Bongo Hills, with their rolling green hills filled with colourful, colossal musical instruments stretching off into the distance; the airy-blue and metallic reaches of Allegro Presto with their slippery sheet music and perilous leaps; the warm, cloudy Gong Heights with their orange-and-purple skies; and the frozen, snowy, astral zenith of Mr Sax’s Hullaballoo, which feels like the climactic culmination of the previous three levels in every way. Yes, it’s an excellent world.

[RayBlue]

Okay, so I've just bought an Italian videogames magazine which has got inside an article about Rayman Origins.

There is even a Michael Ancel's interview. I don't know if it's a translated version of an interview published on another magazine, but if you're interested I can translate it.

[Hunchman801]

I wouldn’t be so quick to judge the redesigned Band Land; we’ve only seen one piece of concept art (which happens to have been photographed from a Dutch angle), and while it doesn’t look quite as spectacular as the vistas we imagined as laying behind the pixellated backdrops of the original game, it certainly shows that the developers are willing to take the initiative and try to make this work.

My intention was not to pass judgement on this artwork, which I find excellent, but to emphasise its stylised side when compared to the original Band Land. While I can imagine a similar adaptation of Picture City, if re-centred around art itself, I think it might be a lot harder for Candy Château, which is much more prosaic a world.

Okay, so I've just bought an Italian videogames magazine which has got inside an article about Rayman Origins.

Maybe you can tell us quickly what the article deals with and we should be able to figure out whether there's anything new

[Haruka]

Okay, so I've just bought an Italian videogames magazine which has got inside an article about Rayman Origins.

There is even a Michael Ancel's interview. I don't know if it's a translated version of an interview published on another magazine, but if you're interested I can translate it.

Do that please, and scanning too if possible.

I'm going to start to look carefully to the portuguese gaming magazines to see if I spot any news (or references to Rayman) about Rayman Origins. If I find anything, I'll share it here.

[Nannerb3]

The artwork of Globox makes me think of Smiley Bone.

[NotaKuroi]

Russian magazines has no news about RO too

[Danone]

spanish magazines never say nothing about RO

[NotaKuroi]

Some offtopic. I have a question long time - why Rayman 4 become cheap antology of minigames?

[spiraldoor]

Some offtopic. I have a question long time - why Rayman 4 become cheap antology of minigames?

Because it was on the Wii.