sergiomonty wrote:Is Mr Dark still relevant to people that aren't us?
He seems fairly popular among people who played the original game as kids – probably more so than any other Rayman character. It wouldn't have any real impact on sales or anything, but there's definitely a substantial fraction of players who'd be happy to see him return.
Plejadenwolf wrote:You're absolutely right on this. It's kind of good that this skin is just a glowing Teensie but at first I really thought it could be something like this. Well, at least I expected something more epic from the 700 cages skin. It's maybe good that they don't reuse original Rayman characters like Mr. Dark again. I think a boss fight would destroy the whole myth of him.
I'd take this one step further and suggest that Legends was actually mildly successful in adding to the myth of Mr Dark. It's never explicitly highlighted, but the Dark Teensies do imitate his behaviour by appearing in levels and casting spells on the heroes that make things more difficult, and since the Magician's adoration of Mr Dark was established in Origins, we know this was intentional. The developers managed to have their cake and eat it with Dark Rayman, who's inexplicably both a playable character and a real menace, sometimes at the same instant, and both of his incarnations directly evoke Mr Dark's creation in their own ways. As in Origins, his presence is felt. Considering the tone and style of these games, maybe oblique references to Mr Dark are more successful than a real appearance would be.
sergiomonty wrote:Didn't he die in like... the GBC version?
1) No, he didn't. His defeat in this game was as ambiguous as the defeat of every character in every Rayman game, and bringing him back in a hypothetical sequel to it would be so easy that it's a non-issue. This idea that he died was Shawn's illogical interpretation. For all his love of Mr Dark, he really wanted to believe that he died in that game. No idea why. In any case, he said it so often that it stuck in some people's minds, and now it seems it's somehow echoed into yours.
2) The Game Boy Color version is an alternative iteration of the original game's story. In a misguided attempt to legitimise it, Shawn insisted that it was a sequel set in the same continuity, although anyone who paid attention to the game itself would see that this was not the case. Again, he said this so often that it stuck in people's minds.
3) Even if the Game Boy Color version were intended as a canonical sequel featuring the definitive death of Mr Dark, it's still a little-known handheld spin-off from thirteen years ago, and in reality would provide absolutely no obstacle to bringing back a popular character.
Master wrote:Didn't Rayman Origins at one point in development feature and detail Mr. Dark?
When it was supposed to be a prequel, yes. Gabrielle Shrager said that they planned to explain Mr Dark's origins. In hindsight it was probably for the best that that didn't happen.
