Rayman 2 Revolution

(This is mainly a comparison to the original Rayman 2)

Sort of a Rayman 2 Remaster before remasters were in fashion, which means it’s

(This is mainly a comparison to the original Rayman 2)

Sort of a Rayman 2 Remaster before remasters were in fashion, which means it’s actually quite good (although not necessarily better),

As I have been a fan of the Rayman series for years, and have already finished The Great Escape more than once (way more than once (; ) I’ve always wanted to give a try to Revolution, because I figured it has a different content and also the whole texts were dubbed… So, curiosity got over me.

Unlike present ‘remasters’ the graphics here are identical but the title is purely focused on the actual content of the game. Revolution makes plenty of changes to the original game although the main essence is still the same. Many of the original levels are still here but have one change or another, some are almost identical but some are almost completely different. There are some new levels as well and tiny number of sections which were removed completely from Revolution.

Some new gameplay aspects: There are many new Bonus levels which can grant you more health, you can now “purchase” “upgrades” to your current powers (very optional and I totally beat the game without it), the worlds hub is now an “open world” unlike the linear one in the original version, where you can roam around and find even more lums hanging around to collect, Oh, there’s also a Lums Detector in a late stage of the game for your use.

Also there seemed to be an attempt to be slightly more combat focused on this version, since there are much more Boss levels, and when you encounter Pirates you’d usually encounter a couple and not just one or two, also, there are many more “types” of enemies than in the original game.

This is all very well and nice, mostly. You could notice choppy FPS at some sections of the game which is a shame. The combat focused gameplay isn’t necessarily essential to this game which has a lot of focus on platforming already, boos fights could be rather out of context in here, the tweaked soundtrack is at times pretty good but sometimes is just a strange mix of noises andor tracks from the original version. Also, the voice overs didn’t actually add much to the game’s spirit and weren’t so good, and some would probably say the game is better off with the “Raymanian” mumblings instead of actual speech.

Oh well, so Revolution does have some faults. But as you may have noticed I’d still given it a 9, because even with some minor faults it is still one of the most brilliant platformers ever made in my opinion, it doesn’t fail to be fun and to be a worthy title of the series to stand on its own rather than being a simple ‘remake’

My recommendation is to play this as well as TGE PCPS1GC versions for a complete experience, because they pretty much complete each other, each version presents different variations and aspects of the game, and both are awesome!

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