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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 30 ต.ค. 2023
- It's time now to talk about the modern(ish) Rayman games, starting with Rayman: Origins. It's all about the flow baby!
Intro Video: • The beginnings of Raym...
Rayman 1 Video: • Rayman - A game you lo...
Rayman 2 Video: • Rayman 2 - Rayman just...
Rayman 3 Video: • Rayman 3 - Just a litt...
Dark Ages Video: • When Rayman Vanished (...
Rayman Legends Video: • Rayman Legends - You l...
00:00 - Intro
01:03 - The Context of Rayman Origins
01:33 - Pillars of a Rayman Game
01:49 - A Musical Experience
02:54 - Design that Flows
05:05 - The Suggestion of Speed
05:55 - The Incentive of Speed
07:14 - The Approaches to Difficulty
09:03 - But what if you're a Masochist
10:59 - Difficulties conflict with Story
12:31 - World's based on Powers
14:32 - The Genius of a second visit
15:58 - It's so pretty (World Design)
16:42 - Animations and Immersion
17:33 - Characters
20:02 - The game might just be a little Sexist...
23:47 - Boss Fights (I don't like 'em)
27:41 - Specific moments bad, general experience good
28:01 - A fairly clever twist
29:29 - But, is there a motive?
30:47 - Even the twist is 'musical' though
31:23 - Just have fun
32:06 - Release
32:26 - Closing (So... why Origins then?)
References:
(1) raymanpc.com/wiki/script-en/i...
(2) www.giantbomb.com/rayman/3025...
(3) www.dualshockers.com/rayman-o...
(4) web.archive.org/web/201608140...
(5) • Rayman 3 Press Kit - M... (00:10:05)
(6) time.com/6295154/amsterdam-er...
(7) villains.fandom.com/wiki/The_...
(8) www.gameinformer.com/b/news/a...
(9) www.metacritic.com/game/rayma...
(V1) • Ubisoft E3 2010 Confer...
(V2) pixabay.com/videos/historic-c... by zephylwer0
(V3) pixabay.com/videos/gay-pride-... by mohammedbawatna - เกม
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Great video! I'm glad people still talk about Rayman origins as it gets a bit overshadowed by legends as many people like it more. Origins was the first Rayman game I ever played and still one of the best games I know.
Yeah, I get that. I don't really think it's fair either, the two games look and control very similarly. But the priorities of the story and level design is quite different really, so I feel Origins deserves to be treated as it's own thing.
what a fantastic video! i always love seeing Rayman video essays in my feed, and this was an enjoyable one! DEFINITELY gonna watch the others in this series, great work!!
Thanks a lot, glad you liked it. Hope the others are to your taste as well.
Rayman Origins was one of my first Rayman games I've played, and i absolutely enjoyed ALL of it!
just before i got sick of playing i had been practicing the timed challenges to collect all the teensies, those dang challenges and The Land Of The Livid Dead are one of the most stressfull moments I've ever had in a video game, but all that struggle ended in satisfaction by seeing all the end bosses and beautifully done animation, Rayman Origins is PEAK 2D PLATFORMING!!
That's the beauty of a good challenge and a gorgeus game, no matter the stress, you'll remember it fondly.
It is the origins of mayhem of course!
Great vid about Rayman Origins!
Awesome video mate, hope you go viral one day!
Thanks mate! :)
i genuinely thought youd have thousands of subscribers due to the quality of your videos. easy subscribe
Thank you, though there is still plenty of room to improve. Honestly, I'm just stoked that this one is doing as well as it is.
I really like your analysis style, very to the point
Thanks, I try :)
I really loved this video. I'm really looking forward to possibly more content like this 👀. Honestly, this might've been one of the most appealing videos to me in a while.
ALSO, love the use of references that you put in. I definitely haven't seen many TH-camrs do that.
Thank you, glad you liked. References were always important to me, I feel like it's important to give people the resources to fact check you, as well as just being nice to original creations.
good video I love that people still talk about Rayman❤, you will definitely make it
Thank you :D. I love that people talk about Rayman too, he deserves it.
@@lovelyday2174yes He does but ubisoft has made Rayman really messed up because they don't do anything anymore
What a way to make this Halloween special!
I'll make it spookier next time :)
great video, hope you get more traction :]
Thanks :D. We'll see about traction, time will tell.
Really makes me wonder what the Bubble Dreamer was dreaming about when he created those nymphs 😐
Yeah, I suppose. 😐 would be right. Would show some self awareness if this had been explicit at least.
I really liked this video! Origins wasn't my first foray into the franchise but it was the first game in the series that I played to completion so I have very fond memories of playing it with my family. I saw some comments not take too kindly to your segment about the nymphs and lack of femme rep in the game but as someone who is afab, I did appreciate you mentioning it. I don't *hate* the nymph's designs I just wish they didn't all look the same with different skin tones and hair color, them being so human like I think is sad too when they used to look way more unique in Rayman 1. If they were to return in a future entry, I hope they'll mix both iterations together. The lack of female playable characters was disappointing to me too since as a kid, my main was Teensie Queen tho I liked playing as the Teensies in general. I do appreciate Legends adding Barbara as a new female option but she kinda fell into the same pitfalls as the nymphs imo so I stook with Teensies the first time around. I'm curious to see your take on Legends since while I do remember Origins more fondly, I think it is wholly the better package. Can't wait to see more!
Thank you, really glad you liked it. I agree about the nymphs too, would be much cooler if they had sillier designs to match the worlds. I liked the princesses quite a bit more personally, but there's still a discussion to have about them.
Rayman is so cool
Cool video. I do love origin and even though i think legends is the superior product its sad that origin never gets any time in the limelight
Yeah, I agree. Though I wouldn't describe legends as superior. I'd probably prefer it to Origins my self (as do most from what I can tell), but there are reasons some might go the other way.
The magician uses the lums to power his huge flying...fortress? I dont actually know what the thing in the sky is, but still.
That's a point, makes sense with the design of the place too. Still not clear on why he wants the fortress though. Maybe he just wants to live there, that would be pretty evil after all.
All.the characters from 1 were remade in the origins artstyle.
Yeah, a lot of them anyway. In particular Rayman is the only on of his species now.
18:35 wtf is habidabi or however you spell that conlang’s name.
Ubbi dubbi, not ver fluent myself I'm afraid.
Compressing your audio would go a long way!
I'd tried it at points and wasn't really sure about the results. Might have to go for it again though, audio has been difficult.
HOW DO YOU DONT HAVE MORE SUBSCRIBERS?????
:D Thanks for the vote of confidence! I'm still learning though, not really any point in worrying about that.
@@lovelyday2174 Ok
Ales Mansay isn't actually a bad guy! And i can easily explain why i think so...
Ooooo, go on tell us :D
@@lovelyday2174
See, Polokus is always creating something. And often he creates something disgusting and horrible.
So i think he tried to save Glade of Dreams.
I think he wanted to trap Rayman and friends for not stopping him build his "Columbia".
After all, it's mentioned that he loves Betilla (via some educational games).
I clearly doubt that he was evil.
Yeah, i know he followed the cult of the Mr. Dark.
But if not counting Mr. Dark as a villain, but a very powerful wizard, it's understandable why he followed him.
I think his only desire was to save the world.
Also i clearly doubt that in Rayman Legends we sent him to the moon.
Maybe, the true Ales is still somewhere at the Glade of Dreams.
I really hope we'll see his Redemption in one of the future installments.
Love it - not sure if we can really consider the educational games cannon, but it would be kinda cool if they recontextualised him this way in the future. Alternatively they could make it that his dogmatic approach to what he see's as right drives him to becoming a proper villain - but either way they'll probably need a bit more story focus than they've been striving for to do so.
Still a really cool interpretation though, thanks for the comment :D
Its a bit funny how you break feom all thoose analitical and poetical thoughts about the games meaning and style to go "women are underapreciated in this game" and "bosses bad" . I do appreciate you mentioning them but it was a pretty long and sour part where the intrest twindled . Still pretty amazing how much thought you put into the final ending and symbolism behind the name . Just felt a bit cut short at some sections but still ORIGINal (pun overly intended ) (feedback attempted) ( comment send)
That is very fair - I have tried to space out my 'bad' points in other videos a bit more. I didn't really realise how long I was being negative in this one (about 8 minutes in a row) - definitely should avoid doing that again. If I can ask, when you say 'cut short' do you mean that I didn't give enough closure to some of my points?
20:10
…i mean, considering ubisoft’s apparent track record with how they treat their non-men employees…
Yeah, that's a depressingly good point :(
18:27
i think that rayman origins is mostly a platformer, and the bosses are more of a side thing.
I agree with that - the bosses are a pretty small part of the overall experience. I talk about them like this specifically because I like boss fights a lot as both a mechanical and narrative climax - and always feel a bit let down when they're not up to par. So much more of the game is really good though, should never forget that.
48 SUBSCRIBERS? WHAT?
Well, 50 now :D.
23:47 you sure you don’t just suck run & need to gg?
Course I suck. I just want to suck happily.
20:17 oh, that’s the “feminist bullshit”
I mean I’m fine with the current roster, but yeah I guess that is fair.
Honestly Lye should have been playable here.
Fuck em princesses in legends, at least give a character who’s head is not a sports ball & has some precedence in the fucking story.
Also Raymesis is adjacent cuz he’s a femboi wizard lol.
But that can easily be remedied by a crossover fanfic, with the price of it not being feminist either, just with main female CHARACTERS, lol.
I like the roster too, you could just add a bit to it. I would assume if they added Ly, she'd be a Nymph, but having said that. Yeah, would be really cool to play with her. Uglette too.
I actually like the princesses though :S
@@lovelyday2174 I’m thinking maybe instead of having 69 trillion teensies you can have the nymphs be playable & has Alas Mansey (aka the Teensie magician) have 1 or even several henchmen who are responsible for the Nymphs’ capture, aka have them fight the nymphs while a temporary undead alley holds them in their mouth.
@@lovelyday2174 My favorite so far is Barbara cuz it seems like she has the most reason to be part of the cast, idk about the others & why are they not at all similar to the 4 kings we saw in origins.
Like imagine fighting as a fucking dragon that spits fire or as bootleg flowey or a funni shrimp, but gurl.
That would fit the setting just as much. Or heck actually have them be reflective of their respective areas, like have a skeleton/undead girl rather than just having an emo girl cuz the whole point of the series is that it doesn’t have one, as to to say, that it is absurd.
So why not take advantage of its fantastical setting & make more bizarre characters?
I like both of these ideas a lot yeah. If the nymphs were playable it would give them much more opportunity to shine in thier own right and the princesses could have been far more flavourful. Cool thoughts indeed.
cool video but had a few notes
like it or not women don't play these kinds of games especialy in the 360 days and dont tell me that rayman's main audience are somthing else then teen boys im sure that if the devs had more time they woud have made more female characters (like they did with legends)
and honestly why cant it be a mostly male cast, if it was trying to be realistic or tell a deep story? but normal people don't see it unless its mentioned or very extreme.
Hey, glad you liked it.
So there's a few arguments here, first concerning the target audience. There's a bit of a chicken and egg situation about this. You're right that boys play these types of games more than girls, there's plenty of data backing that up - but how much is it because of how they're sold and how much is it natural. Granted, I don't know the answer to that, but it's worth keeping in mind.
Thing is, I don't really think it matters - even if the game targets boys, it is still good to communicate to them that girls and women should be treated with the same respect and versatility as their own gender.
It might also be true that most people don't actively think about this sort of thing, but how our media presents the world to us does affect how we think about it - even if only in subtle ways. A good example from the cold war days is that places in East Germany which had access to West German TV actually had less children, which was in line with the typical depiction of 1 or 2 child homes (or even none) of western TV at the time. (This was just a depiction of their way of life on the other side of the iron curtain, as far as I know there was no active attempt by the western powers to reduce the fertility in East Germany)
The affects aren't always overt and conscious - people and societies aren't that easy - but that doesn't mean they aren't there.
As for the argument that the developers didn't have the time - this is fair to point out when asking for additional work to be done. But they already had the Teensie Queen to use as a base so they could have used her as the foundation for other characters instead of the male one. Like, say, the Goth Teensie, the Globox fan, the Wizard and the one that eat too much spice could have all been female instead of male and the work load really wouldn't have been that different.
There's also the existing character Uglette that could have simply been a pink version of Globox - so I don't really buy that workload was the reason they didn't add more female PC's.
I'm not really sure I understand your argument about telling a deep or realistic story - why would that change the gender of the main characters? Do you mean like from a historical perspective or something along those lines?
Either way, sorry for long comment :P. Hope this clarifies my thoughts a bit better.
Good video idea but honestly I could not through the first ten seconds. I know you probably can't help it but your voice just didn't do it for me.
:( not much I can do about that I'm afraid.
The feminism part may seem a little jarring, but imho I think we tend to forget that we are looking at it from a 2023 perspective here. There have been many advances in female representation in the past decade, so I appreciate the analysis about the game’s faults gender-wise because while to us it seems like a broken record, this stuff was going on back then
Idk maybe im wrong but am gonna check out this guy’s other videos
Thanks, hope you like my other stuff. It's also true that the last decade has seen a lot of progress, but that came with a lot of pushback and misrepresentation. I think that it's important to remember these things so that we don't burry our heads in the face of any new challenges to gamings status quo. After all, just because something was normal doesn't mean it ever acceptable.
Lovely video, cant wait for your legends vid, but please cut out the feminist bs I'm sure the 20 women in your audience enjoyed it but for the rest of us it was just akward and out of place.
Idk what you mean by feminist bullshit, but if it is feminist bullshit, then I don’t like it either.
We get it, you can't please a woman, no need to announce that to everyone
@@maxenswlfr1877 bruh what?? You feeling okay in the head?
@@maxenswlfr1877 Nuh uh, it’s Par la rêv, Pour la rêv.
Right, glad you liked the video as a whole. As for the 'feminist bs', I don't think there is really anything fundamental that separates this from other topics I talk about.
It is an aspect of the game that is trying to achieve a certain result and I have thoughts on it, so I want to say them.
The only reason I can see to leave it out is because the topic is politically charged or otherwise controversial, and I decided before releasing a video that I wouldn't avoid topics because of that.
If you want to argue that it was too long, I agree. I wanted to cover quite a bit as well as prime the discussion to be brought up again in the legends video (where my thoughts are more nuanced), but I still think there was some trimming to do.
Besides, there are a lot of youtubers who reveal thier political standing later and have a crisis in thier audience. I'd rather just be clear about it from the start.
Very long answer sorry, I hope that's a good explanation.