TLC - My Top 9 best-looking 2D sidescroller games ever made (in my opinion!)

I missed making these sort of lists this past year. So while I'm taking a break from full-on reviews,

It's time to have a look at....

VGR Rayman Origins

My favorite platformer game in ages. Actually probably also one of my favorite games this past decade!

Rayman seemed to have completely fall off the radar, but he had the chance to get a great comeback, with a lot of style to boot!

Michel Ancel's cartoony hero gets reviewed Eyz-style:

Beyond Good and Evil
Rayman / 2: The Great Escape / Rayman: The Animated Series
Tonic Trouble

#Ubisoft NEWS! Rayman Adventures - Reveal Trailer

Ubisoft just announced a new Rayman game. GREAT! I can't w- BUT WAIT, there's a catch! It's a smartphones game.

And it basically recycles assets from Legends and Origins...

Ubi said the game would feel like a console-quality experience and offer a lot more exploration around this huge world instead of a straightworward sidescroller platform game. But, I dunno...



I'm kinda disappointed this is not a true new installment/sequel.

Also, speaking of, WHERE'S BEYOND GOOD AND EVIL 2, UBISOFT????

VGR:Quickies Rayman handheld games

Think I reviewed all the classic Rayman games? Here's a couple of stand-out original handheld games!

Mascot platformers you ask? Check out the following reviews!

Aero the Acro-Bat - 2 / Astal / Bonk - 2 / BUG! - Too! / Clockwork Knight - 2
Crash Bandicoot 1 / Croc / Earthworm Jim 1 / Felix the Cat / Greendog
Rayman - 2: The Great Escape - 3: Hoodlum Havoc - The Animated Series - Rabbids Go Home

Rocket Knight Adventures - Sparkster - RKA2
Sonic 1 - (8 bit)
Tempo - Jr. - Super Tempo / Tonic Trouble / Wild Woody / Zero the Kamikaze Squirrel

VGR Tonic Trouble

Here's Ubisoft first attempt at a 3D latformer in the late 1990s.

Perhaps one of Michel Ancel's most underrated titles.

Michel Ancel's cartoony hero gets reviewed Eyz-style:

Rayman / 2: The Great Escape / 3: Hoodlum Havoc
Rayman: The Animated Series

VGR Rayman 3

He's back, and this time the bad guys are amongst them!

Well, Globox just swallowed the main boss...

Michel Ancel's cartoony hero gets reviewed Eyz-style:

Rayman / The Great Escape
Rayman: The Animated Series

RR Rayman: The Animated Series

He's back and animated in his very own first TV series!...for the time of 4 single episodes.

Michel Ancel's cartoony hero gets reviewed Eyz-style:

Rayman / The Great Escape

#Design - Tonic Trouble & Outcast custom cover art

Please! Do not ask for these! This was a personal job, not outsourcing the work to other people. If you want me to work out something for you, I will do so for money only.

I received a couple game discs without cases lately. So I decided to make my own cover art, as usual.

Here's the very underrated Michel Ancel classic (that's Rayman's "dad" btw), TONIC TROUBLE! It can kinda be seen as a Rayman 2-prototype in a way. Its gameplay even inspired the later Rayman 3 with all the power-ups/transformations gimmick.

And here's the timeless classic Outcast. To this day, there's no other game besides Shenmue I can see the most people asking for a sequel, even (or specially) after all those years... Sigh.. If only..

I'm not allowing the comments below to avoid the spam I usually get on these.

Design © Eyz 2014.
Game and work based on a propriety © Ubisoft & Infogrames
Not for commercial use!

#FanFilmFriday - live-action Rayman

Because huh... why not?

TLC - My Most Memorable Past VideoGame Experiences!

With a new generation of video game consoles looming over, I thought now was the best time to look back at the previous gaming generations!

Time for another TLC blog post for the occasion!

VGR Rayman 2

 Rayman is back, and goes 3D!

Michel Ancel's cartoony hero gets reviewed Eyz-style:

Rayman

#MAD - Everybody Loves Rayman

Here's a Rayman (Origins!) parody from Mad!
It's, well, it's Mad. So don't expect much. But the artstyle they used here did get a smile outta me :P



Poor Ray!
(ugh...his voice though...)

VGR Rayman 1

I remember, back when I started making these reviews on deviantArt originally some people were asking me to review this one...

After the mascot-splosion of the 90s every company started making all these platformer games and proposing new mascots for every possible company.
Most being modeled after Sonic 1 both in design and form.

While there were many good (and bad) sidescrolling platformers on the 16-bit systems, it was really Rayman who brought them up to speed for the (then-)"next" generation with its higher resolution graphics, impressive animation and CD-quality soundtrack...

#Gaming NEWS! new Injustice + Rayman trailers

Hey gals and guys!
Here's some trailers regarding upcoming new games.

#E3 NEWS! 1st day recap part 2

E3 2012 continue!
Let's have a look at what Ubi's showed this year!

#Gaming NEWS! new Rayman game

So apparently it's official, we're gonna have a new Rayman game, and it's gonna be called Rayman: Legends.



But take what you're seeing with a grain of salt, it seems it's neither final nor something they wanted to show actually. As some guys from Ubi just said recently:

"An internal video showing images of Rayman Origins’ sequel has leaked over the Internet,” said the firm. “This video was intended as a purely internal demonstrative video, and in NO way represents the final game, the final console or their features."

This explains the fake-3D look and strange way it doesn't bland as well or look as cartoony as Origins. It's just tests!

I can't wait to see on which systems this will be available! (please...Xbox 360 too..), specially since I don't like the idea of buying a new system, like the upcoming Wii-U, at full (expensive) price.
But it looks like that version will get some extra content, like platformers often used too in the "old days". (remember the original Rayman? or Earthworm Jim? etc.)
And apparently people who have bought collector editions of Ubisoft games, those that came with the statues, will be able to get new levels??? Through barcodes or via a "chip" like the Skylanders game on the Wii perhaps?
Does this mean an Assassin's Creed level like the Rabbits showed there? A Splinter Cell, a Prince of Persia, etc..? Nice.

#Gaming NEWS! Rayman 5??

From the looks of things, and this survey on Ubisoft's website above, we make get yet another Rayman!
And I'm all for it!

It might not be the 3D sequel Rayman 2/3 fans have all been waiting for, but instead a continuation to Rayman Origins set in a more fantasy setting.

Awesome!!

Michel Ancel's mascot might be back in a game that will surely contain the same sidescrolling platform, co-op gameplay, etc.
And it's great news if you ask me! I would totally love to play around with Rayman in more levels using a similar fashion.

Here's some first pics of an early build of the game, probably:

Can't wait!

Hopefully they add in some more interesting characters to Rayman and Globox. Color palette-swap or not, I'd love to see the Tarzan-Rayman from the first game back, why not even Tonic Trouble?? It would be nice for a change.
Or even other Ubisoft popular character, why not? (Sam Fisher? Altair? Jade? etc..)

RabbidsTV - Rayman 4 announcement

Here's one more Rayman 4-related thing.
It's THE original Rabbids announcement in a very funny video from Michel Ancel.

Check this out!



Haha, loved it!
Ubi can be great sometimes, you know! :)

Deleted Scenes - "Rayman 4"

I'm currently still playing through Rayman: Origins!
And loving every bit of it~

But before Rayman returned to his former glory in this all new mdern 2D hand drawn/animated sidescrolling platformer, the poor lil' guy was getting forgotten thanks to all those Ravin' Rabbids party games...

Drawings - Gaming-doodles #01

And finally!
Here's my latest TWITTER JAM!
Took me some time, heh?
Try to recognize all those guys.
Hope whoever asked for whatever will be pleased with his/her picks

And for info, here's
Altair from Assassin's Creed (and some random templar), Fake Crash from Crash Bandicoot, Pacman and a Ghost, the Bionic Commando, Rayman, Earthworm Jim and Klaymen!

Hope you'll enjoy it

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