Rayman Legends taught me never to let
anyone play on my profile and to password protect my profile in case they log
on when I’m not there and unlock a random achievement forcing my massive OCD to
kick in and make me finish the game.
Rayman Legends involves Rayman (and his
friends once you unlocked them) going into various paintings to rescue
Teensies, some kind of weird blue creatures. You also have to beat the dark
creatures who were responsible for imprisoning them. The levels are in 2D
sidescrolling format but despite this, finding all the Teensies on one run
through can be quite challenging.
Aside from
the main levels, there are also bonus levels that require you to race through
as quickly as possible, either killing enemies or being chased by a wall of
fire. These are some of the more challenging aspects of the game and take a lot
of practice to get right.
The cartoony
graphics are in keeping with the fun nature of the game and to be fair to it,
it doesn’t take itself too seriously. When you are racing through a castle jumping
and sliding in rhythm to Black Betty, it can’t really get any better can it?
There are
two other aspects to the game outside of the main painting levels. The first of
these is a multiplayer mini-game called Kung Foot where you have to kick and
punch a ball into an opponent’s net . The other consists of daily and weekly
challenges which see you compete against the entire Rayman community for
trophies. You unlock these as you play for a total of 4 challenges, two dailies
and two weeklies.
A point on
the music. Pushing for 100% completion of this one will have you listening to
the in game music over and over again... however, I never started finding it
irritating which is very strange because any other game that has over 70 hours
of gameplay would have me spitting in fits of rage and reaching for the mute
button.
Achievements – 1,000 Points – 50
Achievements
This takes a
long time to 100% and will have you doing the challenges long after completing
the main game. Most of the achievements can be encapsulated by striving for
100% completion of the main game objectives. This involves unlocking all the Barbarian
Princesses, saving all the Teensies and reaching the Lum target in each level.
The hardest
part of this is completing the invasion paintings. These are basically timed
events and reaching the Lum targets in some of them is a real challenge. It
does feel genuinely rewarding for getting through these as most of time I was
within a second of failing when I finally succeeded.
Kung Foot
has one achievement associated with it for winning one game. This can be done
in local co-op so if you have two controllers it’s a real easy one.
Multiplayer
Now, I’ve categorised
the challenges as multiplayer because despite you playing alone, you will need
to have friends on your list to get some of the achievements and you have to
beat a large portion of the community to get the others.
There are
several types of challenges that you will be given. Some involve collecting as
many Lums as possible without dying or getting as far as you can in some levels
without dying. Others involve you having to get to a certain point as quickly
as possible or collecting a set amount of Lums as quickly as possible.
Looking to
the achievements themselves, you have to win a gold, silver and bronze cup from
a challenge which is easy enough to do once. You also have to beat 30 of your
friends’ times. However, if you have one friend on your list and they set a
rubbish score on a challenge, you can simply replay the challenge over and over
until you beat that same score thirty times. I’m not sure if this was the
intention though but I haven’t seen any patches to change it while I was
playing the game.
Now, after
you have done all this you will most likely have two achievements left. One is
for gathering 1 million Lums and the other is for reaching the final level of
awesomeness. If you are going for the full 100%, you will get the Lums whilst
striving towards awesomeness so I’ll focus on the last one.
Assuming you
haven’t done any challenges after playing the main game and getting all the
trophies there, you will need somewhere in the region of 1,800 points to reach
the final level. You get points for winning cups which, after you have
completed the game, are only available from the challenges. You get 1 point for
bronze, 5 points for silver, 10 points for gold and a whopping 50 points for a
diamond cup. As you can probably work out, this will take a while to do and
that’s even before breaking down the percentages for obtaining the cups.
The top 90%
of people who complete challenges on that day will earn a bronze. The top 50%
will get silver; the top 20% gold and the top 1% will be awarded with the
elusive diamond trophy. Even if you are amazingly awesome and get 14 diamonds
for the daily challenges and 2 for the weekly ones that still only means 1,200
points for a week. That means you can complete the game in 1 and a half weeks
if you are ridiculously good. I managed to get a really impressive one diamond
trophy during my entire time playing the game which means I really suck. The
more realistic goal is to aim for golds and even if you manage to get all
golds, it will still take nearly three months to get the points required for
the achievement. It took me 155 days to complete the entire game so I’m not
quite at ‘all gold’ standard!
Downloadable Content – N/A
Rayman Legends was actually quite fun
despite the fact I was railroaded into playing it. The challenges are one hell
of a grind but they are at least varied which means you will more often than
not have something different to do on it every day. I won’t be playing another
Rayman game for a while now though – I’ve had more than my fair share!
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