Out of the blue comes Ubisoft’s stunning Rayman Origins! This 2011 game has reinvigorated our lust for gaming following a spell away, peppered only by an interest in some MMORPGs.
But this game, with its rave reviews, immense beauty, and imaginative might is just a total joy. A wonderful, life-affirming, silly, funny platformer that’s an absolute classic of its genre.
It’s brought us straight back into gaming, the Wii, Nintendo, and the emerging indie game scene. All of which we have Ubisoft Monpellier, Paris, and Casablanca to thank for. We doff our caps.
The Beautiful Joys of Rayman Origins
Professional Moron’s Mr. Wapojif is a major nerd. He grew up playing video games from the NES, SNES, N64 to the Wii. Rayman Origins is on the latter.
He has played the finest games in the world, and yet for the first time can confidently claim that this one game has what it takes to end wars and start a new Hippy movement. Read on, Macduff!
Where do you begin with Rayman Origins? Well, there’s Globox (pictured below), who is our favourite character! The plot is as absurd as they come, so that’s a good place to start.
I’ve kind of forgotten it in all the excitement, but it has something to do with Rayman and his mates (one of which is Globox – he’s our favourite. Did we mention that?) having a mid-afternoon siesta and snoring uproariously.
This annoys a neighbour and, presto-hey, the neighbour messes up their world! What follows is a traditional 2D platformer of vivid imagination and breadth.
Why is the game so good? As it’s got vivid imagination and breadth? Yes. This is one of the best games on the Wii. Rayman Origins is such a glorious slice of loveliness it is difficult to name its best bits as there are so many.
The music is gorgeous, for a start, as are the graphics. The world you interact with is teeming with energy and life. And it all plays so most excellently…. and those chasing levels where you speed after the footstool are just epic! Totally immense!
We can’t do justice to this thing. We’ve been left dribbling numerous times at the sheer joy of it all. And this is coming from a miserable git, you should know.
Seriously, we love nothing more than to be glum and complain about stuff. But this game forces a massive great big heap of happiness into our sick and twisted black hearts.
Notes on Rayman Origin’s Outstanding Soundtrack
A shoutout to the astonishing soundtrack for this game from Christophe Héral. Really, it doesn’t get the credit it deserves, it’s an all-time classic.
The extent of the creativity here is remarkable, with each world home to some of the most catchy, swoon-worthy compositions going. Do yourself a favour and give this thing a listen.
So we did a post to honour the achievement: Rayman Origin’s Soundtrack.
