Surprise! Rayman 30th Anniversary Edition Has Been Rated

This was also classified by the Board themselves (as opposed to automated/self-applied), so a retail release is almost certainly assured. Bring it on!

Though I'm guessing that the inclusion of the "Learn with Rayman" series is too much to ask.

Yeahhhhhh, No thanks Ubisoft.

They’re not going to cancel this one too are they?

I just finished Rayman 2 a few days ago and was thinking it would be cool to have the original on Switch 2. I hope this is actually happening!

I do like the original Rayman. I've beaten it multiple times, and it's satisfying and fun despite its brutal difficulty.

It has so many versions, and the different versions have some notable differences in places - the Jaguar version replaces levels that rely on the sliding mechanics with completely original levels, most notably in Candy Chataeu.
The MS-DOS version relocated many of the cages within the stages for some reason.
And the GBA and DSiWare versions lowered the difficulty by giving you more health.

Not to mention all the bonus content from Rayman Designer and Rayman By His Fans, which was exclusive to the "Gold" and "Forever" releases on MS-DOS.

I wonder which version this edition will be based on? Hopefully it includes all the Gold / Forever content.

And maybe they could include a simple little emulation of the Game Boy Color games too, just for the heck of it? The GBC games are fully original games. it could be like how sonic origins includes some GG games.

maybe i'm getting my hopes up too much?

(this article makes it seem like the GBC game is a port of the original game, which is NOT the case. it's about as different as Sonic 1 Game Gear is to Sonic 1 Mega Drive. the GBA version on the other hand is an actual port)

Now that every project with some meat has been canned and surely a lot of employees/artists let go, be ready for what a remaining team of bureaucrats does best: rererereleasing old titles for the nth time, cause apparently nostalgia sells and, magic to them, it costs nothing!

I’m telling this with a huge "kappa", but it’s sad…

Is this what they brought Michel Ancel back for?

The first Rayman is my favorite Atari Jaguar game. This is good news!

Played Rayman 1 for the first time back on the DSi when it released there on DSiWare.

It's a fun, well-designed game, but the levels felt too overly enormous. I was so thankful for the touch screen map that version added. Also, the environments were so lavishly designed that sometimes it was hard to tell where you could actually stand on.

I overall prefer both Rayman 2 and 3 to the first entry, but I still enjoyed it.

Given the recent Ubisoft news, I'm waiting for the bad news. AI level generator? AI-upscaled art? Pack it full of cosmetic microtransactions maybe? Fully live-service reimagining of the original game? Or maybe they'll just fire the whole team the moment it ships (in an unfinished and buggy state)? I'm sure the PC version will have DRM that impacts performance which they will never remove despite the fact that the game will be cracked within the first week.
There was a time when I liked Ubisoft's products with no caveats, but that was a long long time ago.

The problem with this is that as much as I love it, the original Rayman is a very flawed game in terms of reasonable, fair level design, and after the fan remake a few years ago, I can't imagine wanting to spend money (especially to Ubisoft) for a re-release of the worse version.

Also the only Ubisoft game I've played this decade is the Beyond Good and Evil 20th anniversary on PS4. Which while having some really neat features (including Beyond Good and Evil 2 lore, I'm not kidding), had a lot of weird jank not in the original or the 2011 re-release.

Would be fantastic to get a legacy collection of Rayman's older games from Atari Jaguar, GBC, GBA, Nintendo DS, 3DS, Sega Saturn, Sega Dreamcast, GameCube, Xbox, and Wii era.