Posted on: April 3, 2014
Kyricx
Verified ownerGames: 37 Reviews: 3
Woo Rayman, boo minor issues
Rayman is an awesome classic which I enjoyed playing on the PlayStation. Great platforming, nice difficulty, beautiful music and fantastic atmosphere. Rayman Forever takes that experience, adds more and then GOG brings compatibility. However, the GOG release of Rayman is far from perfect. Graphic scaling is rather hit and miss - some of the higher-level settings result in ridiculous slowdowns, leaving you with more primitive scaling systems, which for me usually result in the game playing in the bottom corner of my screen. Now, I don't mind 'letter-boxing' because preserving the aspect ratio to me is more important than filling the screen. However, an uncentred screen can be a little annoying. Another issue I found is actually quite infuriating on the more difficult areas of platforming, and that's the fact that holding down the jump button on my controller whilst moving in a general direction 'disables' any further pressing of the jump button until you centre the analogue stick. So when you're jumping along small islands, some of which being quite far apart, you end up falling as a result of your buttons not responding. Other than those issues however, this is the exact Rayman experience one would remember from the good ol' days. Although lacking in some of the features added for the PlayStation version, Rayman Forever adds to it with additional content that makes up for that. 4/5.
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