Rayman Origins

First of all, unlike seemingly everyone else, I'm not really a fan of reverting back to 2D. Rayman 2 was absolute perfection. Rayman 3 was also a very good follow up. But here, we're back to seemingly randomly strewn about 2D levels where the only goal seems to be to "collect stuff". In a way where you MUST collect a certain amount of the said stuff to even be able to progress. Most levels also take a couple of minutes at most, giving off the vibe that it's been designed for consoles and/or mobiles. I am also not really a fan of this art style. For a lack of a better term, I'd say it's a bit too... "wacky"? Loved the art style of the 3D Raymen, but this really isn't doing it for me. Most people seem to love it though, so I might be the weird one here... Gone is the feeling of grand adventure from Rayman 2 and 3, working your way towards defeating the main villain through sprawling, intricately designed and, later on, quite complicated levels. You only goal here is to collect stuff, so you can unlock more levels to, you guessed it, collect even more stuff. The ability to change the character you're playing as also feels quite off. Probably a side effect of the 4 player co-op, but it just seems weird that you can play as any random character any time you want. I'm playing a Rayman game, not a Globox, Teensies or whatever else game. Unfortunately, due to all of the above, I stopped playing the game after a couple of hours. Still giving it a 5/10 though, because I can see how a "no strings attached" and simply a "4fun" platformer can have its appeal. I'm just providing a perspective of how as a huge fan of Rayman 2 and 3, this game simply doesn't click with me. I grew up with those 2 and played them to death and I just can't seem to enjoy this otherwise very well acclaimed entry in the series. If you haven't played a Rayman game before, go for it. If you have, then just be aware that this might not be what you expect.

It's an awesome game ;) really

The game will stop working on 3 maps if you play on 3440x1400 resolution, forced to restart levels and play on 1920x1080 in order to progress. This game got me more frustrated than having fun.

That's pretty mush the only real problem this game has, its controls are horrible, I just can't get used to them. It's one of the worst feelings I've had of a game and it completely ruins the entire game. Don't get me wrong though, there is not something technically wrong with them, this is something personal, you may well have a different experience. I don't even know how to put it into words, I just hate how these controls feel and how the character on the screen moves about, it just feels so utterly wrong. Playing this game feels unlike any other platform game I can even remember, in a bad way, other games are fun, they control right, Rayman feels like your playing in gravy or something, its horrible, absolutely horrible. It also has a lot of other bullshit in it like locked content, start screens you can't skip and take too fucking long, and annoying interactive loading screens, even the control of the map (or overworld) screen in the game feels off. But if you don't mind the controls then you'll probably like this game, it is very beautiful and has nice music. You'll have to see for yourself, just remember that GOG.com has a money back guarantee up to 30 days after purchase.

I don't know why people like this game so much. I plugged in my controller and fair enough it was supported and that is saying something because most games support my controller that easily. After 10 minutes I just had to turn it off. The controls are horrible. Really horrible. Half the time you don't feel in control of your character because you just cant control where jumps will go. The whole theme of the game is of course a different matter. You can like it or not like it. To me the whole friendly atmosphere with quirky sound effects and sometimes made up language mixed with English was a bit too much. But I would have played it if the controls weren't just so bad. I am not going to play any more of this game because it feels like the challenge would be to beat it despite of the controls and not with it.