Rayman Raving Rabbids™

Remember Rayman? The action platformer with amazing music and a charming cast of characters? Well, throw all that in the trash, because it's time to convert the game into a series of crude mini-games, where the entire cast is replaced with screaming bunnies! And after the third game (TV-party), drop Rayman from the franchise for some reason. Anyways... The mini-games are decent but a lot of them are recycled in story mode, like the infamous FPS and dance segments. I grew up with the game on PS2, where some of the mini-games would literally give you blisters from shaking the joy stick from left to right in a rapid pace, but the PC version plays MUCH smoother than that version. Being able to play the mini-games with a mouse is pure bliss and makes it much easier to aim/control. With that said, the game is nowhere as fun as the regular Rayman games. Beating it will take you 3-4 hours at most and by the time you're done, you'll probably want to take a long break from it. There is a "score attack" mode where you can unlock videos, but it's not worth the amount of time and effort it requires.

The "works on" tab is misleading because game clearly do not work on windows 10.

"See you in Rayman 4!"

This game, standing on its own, can be fun most of the time. It's a minigame collection, some are quite good and playable, and others are simply just frustrating. The major flaw with this game, is the controls. Released as a launch title for the Wii [citation needed], or an early title anyway, playing the game, you can clearly see that most of the game was made with motion controls in mind. There's nothing wrong with this, but playing on the PC, with a keyboard and mouse, some minigames just feel awkward and strange to play and usually lead to frustration. To counter this, you can use an Xbox 360 controller and it works well. But there was a fatal flaw while including the controller support, due to how the game is set out. You play as Rayman, having been captured by the zany Rabbids. Each day, you go out of your cell to a colosseum, where you can go through one of four paths, each leading to a unique minigame. You can complete 3 to progress, but completing all 4 will get you a bonus item, whether it be a costume for Rayman to wear, or a piece of music to listen to in your cell. Once the day is over, the game autosaves. Remember that fatal flaw I mentioned? This is what I'm talking about. When you plug in a controller, you have to go to the main menu and change a setting to change your input to the controller. Essentially what this means is that for each day you have to decide whether to use a KB+M or a controller, as it only autosaves at the end of a day, and this can be awful if there are minigames in the day that are difficult for one input, and another minigame is difficult for the other. I am slightly biased as this game is very nostalgic for me, hence the four star review, but without the nostalgia, this game would probably get a 3 star review. If you look past the control issues and the fact it kind of obliterated the Rayman franchise into a pit of eternal darkness (oops), you might have a nice game on your hands.

Fun, but the Wii controls do not translate well to the PC.