Hi-Ho Moskito!

Hi-Ho Moskito! is the eighth and final level of the Jibberish Jungle, the first world in Rayman Origins. It acts as a transition between the Jibberish Jungle and the Desert of Dijiridoos, in a similar way to the first part of Bongo Hills in the PC version of the original Rayman game and its ports. This level contains the first boss of the game, the Boss Bird (also called the Guardian of the Music World), a gigantic yellow bird guarding the entrance to the Desert of Dijiridoos. This is the second level from this world that appears in the Back to Origins mode in Rayman Legends.

Original version

Hi-Ho Moskito!
Hi-Ho Moskito!
← Over the Rainbow			Crazy Bouncing →
Jibberish Jungle

After hearing the Magician speak about collecting Electoons, the team of heroes finds and climbs onto giant mosquitoes. They begin to fly high over the jungle and must deal with small flies and large flies. Further into the level, they enter a cave and must contend with hunters shooting live missiles and Lividstones with spiky protective hats. After constantly fighting enemies, they leave the cave and face more live missiles.

Immediately after, the transition between worlds concludes as the team on their giant mosquitoes flies into the new world, the Desert of Dijiridoos. Here, strange, thin objects can be seen coming through the clouds below. The heroes must face helicopter bombs, which the giant mosquitoes can inhale and use to attack enemies. Afterwards, they must fight the Boss Bird. To defeat it, the giant mosquitoes need to inhale helicopter bombs and shoot them back at the Boss Bird, one at a time. Once enough helicopter bombs explode on the Boss Bird, it deflates and flies away. The team can then dismount their giant mosquitoes as they reach the end of the room, go through a door, and break an Electoon cage to finish the level. The team then poses on a photoboard, while the Magician waits to see how many Lums were collected in the level.

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  The beginning of the level.
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  Rayman and the giant mosquito at the start of the flight.
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  Rayman and the giant mosquito battling small flies.
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  The giant mosquito inhaling the small flies.
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  The giant mosquito shooting projectiles at the small flies.
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  The first big fly of the level.
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  Two more big flies block the way.
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  Lividstones with spiky protective hats.
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  Live missiles being shot at Rayman and the giant mosquito.
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  A hunter shooting live missiles that move in the direction that the giant mosquito is flying.
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  The encounter with the Boss Bird.
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  Helicopter bombs will prove useful in defeating the boss.

Back to Origins

Hi-Ho Moskito!
Hi-Ho Moskito!
← Geyser Blast			Swinging Caves →
Jibberish Jungle

This level returns in Back to Origins as the second one in the Jibberish Jungle. Besides the graphical updates, the changes are as follows:

• Several purple Lum chains have been added, replacing the original Lums. The Lums that appear in the background and transition into the foreground now simply appear out of thin air.
• A flying Teensy cage has been added behind the third row of five small flies.
• The row of small flies that appears after the first pair of large flies appears much later, after the heart vial comes on-screen.
• The second pair of large flies with the Lums circling around them has been removed.
• The Bulb-o-Lum containing the Lum King and eight Lum bubbles has been removed. Another row of small flies now appears around where it was.
• In the cave, the first green bulb connected to the two platforms each with a Lividstone standing on them has been removed.
• The second green bulb with the Lividstone on its platform has also been removed and replaced with a row of small flies.
• Several heart bottles have been added.
  • One has been added in front of the third hunter on the pillar
  • Another one has been added next to the bubble bush past the fourth hunter on the platform.
  • Another one has been added in front of the first row of three helicopter bombs after the Boss Bird appears.
• The heart bottle past the exit to the cave has been moved down and closer to the exit.
• The Lum King has been removed from the Bulb-o-Lum outside of the cave.
• A row of small flies has been added past the final hunter.
• The first pair of helicopter bombs with the Lum chain circling around them has been replaced with a single one without Lums.
• The second pair of helicopter bombs no longer has Lums circling around them but instead has a flying Teensy cage behind the upper one, and a heart bottle behind the lower one.
• The last heart bottle before the fight becomes stationary has been moved upward.
• The lower wooden platform of the arena where the Boss Bird is slightly shorter.
• The wooden platform with the giant mosquito flag appears to be much longer.
• In the final room with the Teensy cage, there is now a wall on the other side of the room.

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  The Magician's hat is nowhere to be found in Back to Origins.
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  Several more flying Lums have been added.
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  Imprisoned Teensies can be freed by shooting at them.
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  Like in Rayman Origins, enemies can be inhaled and then shot out.
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  The Lividstones with the spiky protective hats return.
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  A hunter shooting horizontally moving live missiles.
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  The lighting has been improved in Back to Origins.
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  The fight against the Boss Bird, this time in Back to Origins.

Trivia

• The level’s name may be a pun on American fictional character The Lone Ranger's phrase, "Hi-Yo, Silver!".
• It is possible to reach the maximum score of 999 Lums in this level. To do so, the heroes will have to keep inhaling helicopter bombs and shooting them at the wall, not at the Boss Bird. Each helicopter bomb earns two Lums, so it will take a considerable amount of time for the player to reach that number. This is the only level in the game where it is possible to reach the maximum score.
• In an early sketch, this level was shown to feature hunter birds as enemies; however, the concept was scrapped.

Names in other languages

Language	Name
English	Hi-Ho Moskito!
Arabic	أهلا موسكيتو!
Chinese (simplified)	哎哟！好大的蚊子！
Czech	Hi-ho moskyto!
Danish	De stygge myg!
Dutch	Vort, Moskito!
Finnish	Hei hyttyselle!
French	Hé ho, Moskito !
German	Mumumumu Moskito!
Hungarian	Szeva szúnyog!
Italian	Ciao, Moskito!
Japanese	ハイホー！　モスキート！ (Rayman Origins) 「モスキートで撃て！」 (Rayman Legends)
Norwegian	Hi-ho Moskito!
Polish	Hej-ho Moskito!
Portuguese	Olha o mosquito! (Rayman Origins) Ai, mosquito! (Rayman Legends)
Russian	Приветик, Москит!
Spanish	¡Pica, moskito!
Swedish	När vingarna viskar mitt namn

External links

• Hi-Ho Moskito! playthrough at YouTube (PC version) (Normal walkthrough + Lums Medal)
• Hi-Ho Moskito!'s Rayman Legends playthrough at YouTube (PC version)