Despite the obvious pun, this isn't Rayman 3, but rather Ubisoft chose to port Rayman 2: The Great Escape to yet another Nintendo handheld. In an eerie parallel to the DS launch, Ubisoft ported one of their console Rayman games to Nintendo's latest dual-screen handheld. Rayman Legends – which features on our Best Wii U Games list and our Best Xbox 360 Games list – is highly regarded not only as the peak of the Rayman series, but also rightly hailed as one of the finest 2D platformers of all time.First thing's first, Rayman 3D is not a new game. It’s undoubtedly the full package when it comes to Rayman games. With a similar – but even more polished and refined – visual aesthetic to Rayman Origins, it’s certainly a beautiful game from a visual perspective, but Rayman Legends absolutely knocks every other Rayman game for six from the viewpoint of its gameplay and features.įeaturing over 120 stages – with 40 stages remastered from Rayman Origins – the game also features daily and weekly challenges which can keep players invested in the platforming shenanigans pretty much indefinitely, as well as a hilarious local multiplayer game named Kung Foot. With Rayman Origins taking the series back to its roots for one of its strongest entries ever, Rayman Legends takes the formula and dials it up to eleven. Though an understandably cut down version, the Game Boy Color port was also excellent – so of course, it features on our Best Game Boy Color Games list! Though of course lacking in many features that the later Rayman games would have and it does come complete with a noticeably old-school difficulty level, the original Rayman retains its old school charm and great gameplay – which earned the GBA version a spot on our Best Game Boy Advance Games list. Yet most players will of course have first experienced Rayman on the PS1 or Saturn, where it stuck out as a beautifully animated, classically 2D title amidst a sea of then-fashionable 3D games.
The original Rayman was in development for so long that work on the first game originally began on the SNES, before becoming too ambitious and switching to the Atari Jaguar – and it was originally announced as a Jaguar exclusive title!Īs a reminder of the excellent games available on Atari’s sadly doomed 90s console, you can check out our Best Jaguar Games list here – which does indeed feature Rayman in a deservedly high position.
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