Balloons
‘The Hoodlums love traveling by balloon. It's exotic, it's sporty and it weeds out the clumsier soldiers ...’ —Rayman 3: Hoodlum Havoc [source]
Balloons is the seventh of the twelve minigames which can be unlocked and played in Rayman 3: Hoodlum Havoc.
Description
This minigame takes place in the seas of the Glade of Dreams, probabily in the Looming Sea. The main goal is to help Rayman reaching the top of Globox's ship by jumping balloon by balloon while refilling the red bar with jewels and not falling to the sea. The control method is the same as in regular gameplay in Rayman 3: Hoodlum Havoc. The red bar represents Rayman's health that slowly decreases as time passes. To refill the red bar, the play must catch the jewels scattered in the landscape: the yellow jewels refill a little the red bar, the red jewels refill more the red bad instead of the yellow ones, and the green jewels refill a lot more the red bar than all the previous ones. Rayman can also find two types of Laser-Washing Powders that will help him during the path: the Throttle Copter and the Lockjaw, both working in the very same way as in regular gameplay of Rayman 3. If the red bar gets completely empty or Rayman falls to the sea, the player loses the minigame immediately. The yellow bar represents the remaining distance to reach the top of Globox's ship, that slowly gets reduced as long as the player gets closer to it. Globox can be seen in the prow of the ship doing a pose that causes a reference to Titanic. The player wins when the yellow bar is completely empty and Rayman reaches the top of the ship.
