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Just a Ray in a Cage - Let's Play Rayman Origins!
Let's Play Rayman Origins
The Series
Rayman is Ubisoft's long-running (mostly) platformer series starring the limbless titular character, Rayman. The first game was a 2D Platformer released in 1995, followed by the 3D Rayman 2: The Great Escape in 1999 and Rayman 3: Hoodlum Havoc in 2003. The plot of the three games are about the same. Somebody does something like destroy the heart of the world or unbalance it and put everyone in cages. Rayman then undoes the dumb things they do. Oh, and at one point I'm pretty sure he awoke the ancient god that created his world, so there's that too. The games were pretty good platformers and were well received, and Rayman 2 is one of my favorite platformers from the era.
After those three games Rayman took a bit of a... detour. 2006 saw the release of Rayman: Raving Rabbids, in which Rayman's world was taken over by the Rabbids, not-rabbit things (it's spelled with a D!), and he's forced to play tedious minigames in a colosseum to earn plungers. Poetically, he escapes and gets stuck in a hole. There were two sequels with the Rayman name since the sales were passable. Ubisoft decided that the Rayman part of the brand was useless so they just made the games about the rabbit things and dropped Rayman's name after that. Surprisingly soon afterwards, Ubisoft brought Rayman back in 2011 with Rayman: Origins.
The Game
Rayman and friends snore too loudly and wake up some undead old people who unleash a horde of monsters into the world and put everybody into cages. Fortunately, they gave Rayman the weakest one. Rayman (and friends) then go free the denizens of the Glade of Dreams, including a big pile of Electoons (cute pink things that somehow make that ancient god Rayman freed sane) and some Nymphs (who give Rayman & co powers). It's not breaking any new ground, but it's pretty Rayman and enjoyable enough. It's a mostly-standard platformer, play through levels to get to the next one, the levels are split up into worlds, worlds have themes, the usual. The game also has multiplayer a la New Super Mario Bros. Wii, but as I'm playing on PC and it's local only it probably won't be shown off in this LP.
The Let's Play
This will be a 100% run with editing. Voice commentary will be done by myself and my good friend Kevin (forums user Matchstix) and maybe some others as time goes on. The commentary will be informative with some comedy-jokes up until there's nothing informative to talk about. Then God help us.
On another note, this is my first go at an LP, so there may be some technical and commentary problems. I'd love feeback, so if you have any criticisms, or if there's something cool in the game that I don't know about, feel free to post them! Within reason. Please don't dogpile
Videos
1: Jibberish Jungle 1