Literally the first game I ever owned, at least on the PC, was freaking Rayman. I remember it pretty well, the pain, the suffering, the endless attempts at busting all the cages and freeing those retarded pink creatures for the good of humanity. Along with those things I recalled the ridiculous difficulty curve after the first four areas in the game, I remember the wacky retarded tribulations known only as "boss fights", and the constant animation of Rayman either holding his rear in pain from a terribly humiliating instant death from spikes or the often appropriate "Rayman drowning animation cause you're too young to figure out how to time you're jumps right." If anything this game proved itself to be a tour de force of wicked self accomplishment just making it through the whole game. Plus that was before anyone knew that you basically had to free all of the pink caged dudes too to see the full ending. The art style has a lasting value though. I believe it even surpasses Rayman 2's block-like disjointed early 3-D polygons by miles. Its a tragedy to admit it, but the first of Rayman's adventurous romps (and naturally the most original) has aged far better than its sequels in most respects. Of course comparing the series now to what it used to be, as unsurprisingly its moved quite far away from its original cast, (namely freaking Rayman) is not entirely fair. I would say that if you enjoyed Rayman 2, than you will likely not feel so bad playing the first game and getting you're butt handed to you on a silver platter with a golden fork. Don't get me wrong, Rayman 2 was tough in a lot of ways for sure, but it doesn't capture or never will be able to understand the deep psychological scars that Rayman gave me many, many, many years ago. Over and out.
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