Rayman Legends (Now Edited Definitively On Switch)

It's certainly not ideal but it's a good start and the delay obiously isn't the fault of the developers so I'm probably on side now. Still think Ubisoft are jerks though.

Yes, I will very much be making it mine, too. Hopefully we can all have some fun with it until September ends. Er, comes. You know what I mean.

Hopefully, we're marching ever closer to the online freebie next month! Doesn't seem so far away now...

Blimey, that challenge mode should be out in a couple of weeks.

Though that reminds me - Ancel certainly didn't look happy at all in the video where him and the other dev (er, forgot his name) introduced it. It was as if Ubisoft forces them to do it, and they looked as if they were taken hostage.

Ancel either looked very sad/disappointed (his eyes were red and reflective) or very angry...

I think anyone would be really annoyed if they thought their project was done only to be told at the last minute that it wasn't & they have contunue working on it.

TBH I can see him leaving Ubi once Legends is finally out.

It would be great to see Ancel go and do his own thing, but at the same time it would be a real shame for him to have to leave his star franchise behind. Ubisoft would run it into the ground again.

Just got my first ever top ten spot (in the world) in todays extreme weekly challenge.



EDIT: I have now been bumped out of the top ten

http://www.computerandvideogames.com/419527/xbox-smartglass-not-responsive-enough-for-rayman-legends-says-ancel/

"Formerly a Wii U exclusive, the game is now on its way to multiple platforms. But Microsoft's Smartglass tech isn't sufficient enough to reproduce Wii U's touch-screen gameplay on Xbox, says Ancel.

"It's not as responsive as we need," Ancel told Shacknews when quizzed on the matter. "It's not very popular today," he went on to add."

Welp.

Not too surprising, really, since SmartGlass goes through your wireless network and back to your 360 (and vice versa), so there's bound to be a degree of lag involved. Though most gamers don't realise this.

Legends is looking good, but it looks like the levels in single player where you only play Murphy have been scrapped -- on Xbox 360/PS3 you control Rayman/whoever while simultaneously controlling Murphy at context-sensitive moments, and it seems it's the same on Wii U now, according to this preview:

"But this removes some of the fun of frantically looking from screen to screen to balance what's happening on both" -- in reference to the 360/PS3 versions. Which suggests a move away from what the game was originally going to be on Wii U in single player, where a good chunk of levels are controlled with Murphy only (unless you play with others), like in the demo's first level.

Hm, not sure what to think. Though if Murphy can be simultaneously controlled, he could have become the equivalent of Galaxy's star cursor with a Wii Remote and Nunchuk setup...

Most folk may still be huffing & moaning about this but I for one am still really looking forward to it.

Same here.

A week ago I had lost interest in it, simply because we've waited too long and I felt more like playing it in February when there were less games for me to play following the Winter rush, but now I really feel up for this. Roll on late August!

I'm starting to get bored of the wait. I know I'll still love it, but there are a heck of a lot of games vying for my cash over the next five weeks...

CVG seem to like it

Stu_the_great wrote:

I'm starting to get bored of the wait. I know I'll still love it, but there are a heck of a lot of games vying for my cash over the next five weeks...

Yep, and that has been my argument all along...
Similarly, I never bought Gabriella's Ghostly Groove on the 3DS either. (Game I was really looking forward to during the drought but didn't buy when other options were available.)

So, Matthew Castle gave it a score in the 90s. I haven't read the words yet, but we can assume its at least as good as Red Steel.

I hope folk pay attention to the reviews this is getting and make their decision from there, you really should be over the delay/multi format situation by now.

Went and ordered this for £20.50 thanks to Phillips' voucher code deal and £8.50 in Clubcard points so I'm sure I'll get my money's worth, I did love Origins, perhaps my favourite platformer since the Mario Galaxy games.

It's just not a games drought any more, and since I didn't care much for ROrigins, I'm not champing at the bit to get this.

Planning to trade in the Wii U games that I bought cheap on eBay etc like Mass Effect 3 towards this on Friday, reviews are really good for it.

If rayman not your cup of tea then fair enough not buying this but I hope no one still want's to boycott this as it's counter-productive, if you want more wii u games buy the dam games that come out.

After going cold turkey on the Challenges App for a few months, I'm well up for this again. The early reviews in particular are very pleasing to me; all signs point to this being a straight-up great game, not one that you have to make compromises towards and pretend that everything is OK, like The Wonderful 101. I just can't ignore a game of Legends' obvious quality, so the pre-order with Amazon (£29.00) is in.

OK. Fine. I've seen the reviews. I've ordered it.
Incidentally, its Wii U's first 90+ Metacritic game.

I may get this if only for the black Betty level

There's supposed to be more levels like that isn't there? That's the most exciting part for me.

Yup there are multiple music levels, the only other I know of is the mariachi eye of the tiger level.