Adsolution wrote:Rayfanboy wrote:I agree with Haruka, Rayman 2 has the most replay value of the series for me, I've played through almost every version of the game, I just need to complete the PC and iOS ports. The adventure never loses its sense of magic for me, it is just as heartwarming as it was when I first picked it up 3 years ago.
I completely agree, and I've had it for fourteen years.
Rayfanboy wrote:R3 on the other hand has hardly any magic at all, and that of magic moments that do exist are covered up with cheap jokes and bad voice-overs.
I honestly don't understand this. Some of the music and a lot of the environments are some of the most beautiful and magical seen in a Rayman game to date. I think that anyone who says it has no magic
at all and blames the game's humour for everything is probably coming in from their biased love toward Rayman 2. The humour was for the most part quite background and naturally played out, and for quite a few levels there isn't any dialogue at all.
Indeed, my love for R2 does have slight bias. Not to say that Rayman 3: Hoodlum Havoc was without magical moments, but for me they just are too far and to few. The beginning at The Fairy Council was full of magic (Murphy's commentary excluded), but after that the magic didn't return until The Land Of The Livid Dead, The Dessert Of Knarren was nice in an erie way, after that the game basically dragged on until The Summit Beyond The Clouds, then ruined with the poorly executed snowboard level. Then some more levels and the finale. The game just has too many odd out of place spots and it feels like you are simply dragging your best pal along with you on a tedious journey to find a doctor who can get Andre out of Globox, instead of saving the world from complete destruction all at once. It seems that far too much is all happening at the same time, fiasco after fiasco, the game drags on a tad more than it should because of the design decisions made. Don't get me wrong, I DO like R3, but I also dislike it in some respects, it's not really its humor, but the overall execution of the adventure, it feels like it tries too hard to make an appealing game instead of a magical one. It simply doesn't live up to the standards set by R1 and R2. Forgive me if I still sound like a biased troll, these are just my views.
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