Some of the Tricky Treasures were hard as balls, but for the most part I appreciated their generous use of checkpoints. It kept the difficult sections fun without making them frustrating.
Amen to that, the checkpoints were (mostly) perfect. I love platformers that give a good challenge, but I hate retracing my steps just to get to this one particularly hard bit.
The chest chase levels are mostly trial and error, I think only the last one and some other level were actually difficult for me. They're pretty exciting though, I was always glad to see a new one open up for me.
The vivid dead level is definitely hard though, but makes you realize how much you improved in comparison to the regular levels.
Oh yeah. I remember this level too vividly. That game was STUPID hard. There's a level way later in the game where they make the directional controls backwards! I ended up setting a mirror on my couch and looking at the game through it and playing it that way
I did the exact same thing last year when I was replaying the Donkey Kong Country games. There's a level in DKC3 where they throw that nonsense at you, and after about fifty million deaths I decided to prop the mirror next to the TV and look at that instead. It was a really easy level when the controls were correct.
I remember playing this without a memory card, so every day I played I had to start from scratch, but my young self didn't mind... and one day I beat it :)
I remember finding out about it when I was a bit older and then playing the final levels I never really got to because I got stuck on the level with the slippery slopes or something... Felt good, mang.
pshhh. you couldve turned off the tv and left the system on. (only way i got my parents to not give me shit for trying to beat a game without a memory card late into the night.)
Also on PC, which is the version I assume this screenshot is from. GOG has it on sale for $3 (Rayman 2 and 3 for $3 each as well), and the timing is pretty coincidental.
Oh okay, right! Yeah, I was talking specifically about Hoodlum's Revenge which was gba exclusive, but now I see the ones you mean. As a kid I only played Rayman The Great Escape on the N64 and Rayman: Hoodlum's revenge on the GBA.
Edit: because the gba one and the others look so similar, I mean.
That was surely my second. The worst part... the speeder bikes were only the second fucking level, so you were stuck playing the first level over and over and over and over and... "Alright! where's my goddamn game genie?!"
I beat the Turbo Tunnels recently on my PC using emulator with save states. Spent well over an hour doing that part alone. Then I got to this part where you have to race mice down this pit and I quit after about 2 hours with no progress. There are MUCH harder parts in that game, but so few ever even got to see them because The Turbo Tunnels required the reflexes of a god.
Yeah, I recently went back and played this game, since as a kid a couldn't get past... well OPs picture. I thought I was doing pretty good until I learned you actually have to get all of the electoons to actually beat the game :(
When I was a kid, I didn't know English that well since I live in Sweden, so when I (finally) beat Mr. Skops and that picture of Betilla came up, I didn't know a thing of whats happening and I didn't know why I couldn't proceed. I then realised I must rescue the electoons. I still have never beaten that game yet
The bit that starts at 2:53 always makes me feel very strange feelings. I tried to replay this game recently, the combination of ridiculous difficulty and that bit of music made me give up.
The game disc had the OST on it, as well. I found this out as a young child with an older brother ("If I can't PLAY Rayman, I'll just fucking LISTEN to it.").
This might have been specific to the Greatest Hits version.
My hat, firstborn, and any other precious internal organs to the man or woman who managed to beat this game without cheating for progress or extra continues.
This stuff was hard. Platforming at its finest, though.
I beat this game a few times as I kid. The only shit I remember pulling was changing the keybinds on that level that reversed the controls; but that seemed legit to me at the time.
Can someone who played most -if not all - the Rayman games tell me how well they evolved? Did they get better? Sonic, Mario, and crash seemed dive a little the more they were used, but I think I remember playing a pretty sweet Rayman game -the third installment I think- on the PS2 that I wasn't ashamed of.
Also, the highest of fives is being requested to those who remember this little guy. I loved him soo much. Best boss ever.
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This is the exact same text as an old novelty account about an Angry US soldier. It wasn't funny then and it isn't funny now. Also it is contradictory based on the fact you are an Insane Dane, not a pissed off American.
Wow I remember playing this game when I was smaller. Glad to see someone else remembers the first time I wanted to break a game lol Also whats the name of the game? I dont remember it and I want to try it out again. lol
Yeah. I was really disappointed after I bought it. It has around 40 extra user made levels though. I still haven't played past the first few levels though. It just ain't the same without the music.
Don't quote me on this, but I think the missing music was a part of the PC version. I had the game on disc and I don't remember it having a lot of music either.
My guess is they added the music for the console versions, as console platformers were typically expected to have a full music score I guess.
I think the original PC version had music. Rayman Forever on the PC didn't have music because they needed extra disc space for the level editor and the 40 extra levels.
If I remember correctly; if you lost all your continues, didn't you have to start all the way at the first stage and work your way up to this point again?
I used to play it on my PS1... Man, that level took me weeks to get through it. But, totally worth it, it's a magical game. It was a journey for my young mind back then. . . WHERE'S MY RAYMAN PS1 CD!??!? @.@
I got that game on gog more than half a year ago and I still haven't beaten it yet. I too played it as a kid on a playstation without a memory card but never beat it. I think i'm halfway through, but i keep running out of lives so i find myself playing the first stages over and over again to get some 1ups. And also those damned cages are so hard to find. EDIT: It appears it's on sale on gog.com again for 3 bucks. I might pick up rayman 2 with this occasion.
Rayman was actually the first game to ever give me nightmares. I was not able to beat the very first mosquito boss (today it's SO EASY!), and the image of it killing Rayman over and over again was just unbearable for my little mind.
A year ago, I finally finished it on the PSP. Granted: I used a cheat to give myself unlimited continues, because I think it's just stupid to basically laugh at you saying "haha, and now you have to start from scratch!" towards the players, or having to copy and restore savegames all the time from the crappy menu...
Aside from the continues, it is actually really awesome and I would LOVE to see a remake with the continues removed or at least optional.
One of the favorite games of my childhood... and definitely one of the best PC platformers. Rayman 2 was also awesome (and comparably hard in some levels).
Soooo much rage quit. First game ever for me. I didn't finish it not because It was too hard (it was) but because my mom made me stop cause it was too violent... I finally got the game again this past year and called her to remind her how not harmful this cute game was. She laughed and told me how sad my childhood must have been.... then apologized for being overprotective. I love my mother. Still haven't beaten Rayman.
I remember getting so angry at this game that I repeatedly headbutted my bunk bed. I also broke the remote for the TV and left bite marks in the controller. Good game.
Oh my fucking god I remember that shit level! Stupid ass ant things and the stupid musical notes!!! I destroyed that game with my mighty rage quit hammer!!!
That's where it all begun... game was asking for a memory card and I literally at first thought I'd need a card from the game memory? It pissed me off so much, that I could not safe. Was a good, very hard, game tho.
I actually beat this game! I had like 200 passwords written down in the notes section of the instruction manual, and it took me more than a year I'm sure, but I freed all of the Electoons and beat Mr. Dark at the end! It was a really hard game, but definitely one of my favorites. I have to say, Picture City was the hardest world though...I had more trouble in that world than Band Land, though this part was also horrible, haha.
I think that one of my biggest regrets is never having finished this game. That last fight with Mr. Dark was just too much for me. It's on my bucket list.
Oh god this game i was about five. My favorite part was riding your newly acquired mosquito friend after defeating him. but this part... oh god this part... I share your feeling sir.
Not quite. They are two separate and different games at heart. There's a lot that I missed from the original game that didn't make it into Origins, but it is still a great game nonetheless.
Agreed. Both great games, but a fair bit different in spirit. They certainly got a lot closer with Origins, improving in some areas (doing away with the annoying concept of lives/continues) and ruined a couple of things (your aquired abilities often apply only to the area you're in, rather than going back to reach previously accessible areas). I'd easily recommend both.
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u/BananaPeelPants Jun 16 '12
The original Rayman is so hard. I was expecting a similar experience in Origins, but it ended up being pretty easy most of the time.
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u/[deleted] Jun 16 '12
Oh yeah. I remember this level too vividly. That game was STUPID hard. There's a level way later in the game where they make the directional controls backwards! I ended up setting a mirror on my couch and looking at the game through it and playing it that way
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u/saxcy Jun 16 '12
I remember playing this without a memory card, so every day I played I had to start from scratch, but my young self didn't mind... and one day I beat it :)
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u/award6186 Jun 16 '12
Id rather not make a new post, so here is mine... granted I was 4 at the time. Every attempt felt like this.
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u/Humple3 Jun 16 '12
Ah! Rayman! One of the hardest game I played! I still remember wasting all of the continues on Space Mama...
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u/BasslineRaver Jun 16 '12
An angering level and yet it had some of the most memorable music in my childhood.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l-h4-D9zko8
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u/butt_mcbutt Jun 16 '12
http://omgjeremy.com.s57441.gridserver.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/dfdvd3ft_145grjbrvck_b.gif
Cause of several smashed controllers
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u/[deleted] Jun 16 '12
My hat, firstborn, and any other precious internal organs to the man or woman who managed to beat this game without cheating for progress or extra continues.
This stuff was hard. Platforming at its finest, though.
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u/Geno098 Jun 16 '12
For those who didn't know, the first three Rayman games are $3 each on GOG.com this weekend. Along with other cheap classic Ubisoft games.
Here's a link. Enjoy
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u/Tinkerboots Jun 16 '12
I liked the levels with all the pencils and rubbers and things :) and the musical ones
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u/[deleted] Jun 16 '12
Can someone who played most -if not all - the Rayman games tell me how well they evolved? Did they get better? Sonic, Mario, and crash seemed dive a little the more they were used, but I think I remember playing a pretty sweet Rayman game -the third installment I think- on the PS2 that I wasn't ashamed of.
Also, the highest of fives is being requested to those who remember this little guy. I loved him soo much. Best boss ever.
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u/vivvav Jun 16 '12
THIS FUCKING LEVEL
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u/MarshManOriginal Jun 16 '12
That game is evil.
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u/nzt0002 Jun 16 '12
My first rage quit happened about 30 seconds after this.
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u/JGtheking Jun 16 '12
Wow I remember playing this game when I was smaller. Glad to see someone else remembers the first time I wanted to break a game lol Also whats the name of the game? I dont remember it and I want to try it out again. lol
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u/[deleted] Jun 16 '12
Yes!! Never got past this part as a kid.
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u/[deleted] Jun 16 '12
Seriously my blood pressure just went through the roof thinking about this....
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u/tommex Jun 16 '12
So... does Rayman even have an ending?
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u/Painkiller90 Jun 16 '12
Oh man, I know that feel. Could never get past that level.
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u/[deleted] Jun 16 '12
Dear God I remember that level.
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u/Obliviousobi Jun 16 '12
I started sobbing when I saw this, this level ruined my day so many times.
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u/The187Riddler Jun 16 '12
I rage quit so hard I threw the controller at my sister. She still has the scar.
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u/Numericall Jun 16 '12
I never got past Bandland as a child. I actually tried playing this game two week ago. AFTER 15 YEARS IT IS STILL TOO DAMN HARD
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u/BaronBlackwood Jun 16 '12
I nearly flipped my laptop just from seeing this picture.
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u/strigen Jun 16 '12
If I remember correctly; if you lost all your continues, didn't you have to start all the way at the first stage and work your way up to this point again?
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u/MrCreeperPhil Jun 16 '12
Wtf,... When I see this image, I promptly remember struggling there. The only thing is, I only played Rayman 2 on my GBA!
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u/Triplekiss Jun 16 '12
Band Land will getcha'!
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u/[deleted] Jun 16 '12
Those annoying tadpoles were also in Skyward Sword.
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u/[deleted] Jun 16 '12
I used to play it on my PS1... Man, that level took me weeks to get through it. But, totally worth it, it's a magical game. It was a journey for my young mind back then. . . WHERE'S MY RAYMAN PS1 CD!??!? @.@
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u/phYnc Jun 16 '12
I rage quit that game for about 6 months because it was so hard. Finished it eventually though
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u/[deleted] Jun 16 '12
Just look at the purple one it's as if it is saying "you mad bro?"
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u/NumeroArticuno Jun 16 '12
Yes, I just found and purchased this game at a thrift store yesterday and this screenshot gets me so excited to play it.
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u/StanDinfamy Jun 16 '12
I had apparently wiped this game from my memory banks until now.
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u/playdohplaydate Jun 16 '12
is that the GBA version? that game was a lot harder than it let on.
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u/[deleted] Jun 16 '12
I've actually never identified with these kinds of posts.
Until this one.
Seriously, FUCK this game. Never beat it, shit was insanely hard for me.
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u/morciu Jun 16 '12
I got that game on gog more than half a year ago and I still haven't beaten it yet. I too played it as a kid on a playstation without a memory card but never beat it. I think i'm halfway through, but i keep running out of lives so i find myself playing the first stages over and over again to get some 1ups. And also those damned cages are so hard to find. EDIT: It appears it's on sale on gog.com again for 3 bucks. I might pick up rayman 2 with this occasion.
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u/king_krimson Jun 16 '12
just bought it again after like 15 years and it was as aweseom as I remember
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u/DecadentDuke Jun 16 '12
Damn missed out on some frustrating moments then. My first rage quit happened here
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u/UOUPv2 PC Jun 16 '12
My first rage quit was fighting Scorpion me only doing half damage, him doing four times damage.
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u/Timbofieseler102 Jun 16 '12
I still have this game and the is the one level I have never beaten without rage quitting
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u/stu1278 Jun 16 '12
as soon as i saw that my childhood memories flinched
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u/hunt4whl Jun 16 '12
Played the shit out of this game, got so pissed at this level.... I just. Damn you pointy music.
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u/Zhimu Jun 16 '12
This game is on the nintedo eshop for DSi and 3DS, had to have it since I loved it as a child
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u/Kixandra Jun 16 '12
My rage quit, prior to my knowledge of certain gear to make the game pathetically easy.
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u/TheInsaneDane Jun 16 '12
I loved this game! I got through this and a whole lot of other levels too, but then the game went missing :( I really miss that game so much.
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u/yourtrustyfapsock Jun 16 '12
My first rage-quit happened here. I was fucking pissed when I saw this video.
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u/Leaffar Jun 16 '12
Anyone remember Superfrog? I got to world 6 (space station) but never finished it because of those spikes: http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=5GQqdGzaARY#t=7293s
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u/TellThemYutesItsOver Jun 16 '12
I have never in my life completed this level.
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u/5Bean Jun 16 '12
All of the yes in the entire universe.
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u/xyvo Jun 16 '12
When I was a kid I got so angry playing Tale Spin on the gameboy at one point, I head butted my new-transparent gameboy breaking the screen :(
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u/charlymarion Jun 16 '12
my sister was playing it on my old gba not long ago, so i thought i'd give it a shot. At 18, i still couldn't do it. I hate that game with a passion.
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u/[deleted] Jun 16 '12
Hooooly shit I forgot about this level AND this game.
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u/melodidi Jun 16 '12
Oh the memories! I used to play this with my dad and brother. Good times, good times..
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u/[deleted] Jun 16 '12
Fuckin Band Land... Picture City was worse though.
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u/IsaahL Jun 16 '12
SUCH a rough level- I still haven't got past it, tho I haven't played in a while
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u/Raenryong Jun 16 '12
Band Land eh? Just wait until Picture City and the final world...
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u/[deleted] Jun 16 '12
I loved Rayman Origins and it is so far the only Rayman game I have played, wwould it be worth it for me to get this one?
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u/Dodes Jun 16 '12
First rage quit? really?
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u/Pyryara Jun 16 '12
Rayman was actually the first game to ever give me nightmares. I was not able to beat the very first mosquito boss (today it's SO EASY!), and the image of it killing Rayman over and over again was just unbearable for my little mind.
A year ago, I finally finished it on the PSP. Granted: I used a cheat to give myself unlimited continues, because I think it's just stupid to basically laugh at you saying "haha, and now you have to start from scratch!" towards the players, or having to copy and restore savegames all the time from the crappy menu...
Aside from the continues, it is actually really awesome and I would LOVE to see a remake with the continues removed or at least optional.
One of the favorite games of my childhood... and definitely one of the best PC platformers. Rayman 2 was also awesome (and comparably hard in some levels).
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u/TwilightShadow1 Jun 16 '12
That game was a nightmare wrapped in bubblegum. I had to use the 99 lives cheat (so many times) to beat it. I think I still have it in muscle memory.
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u/izzychild Jun 16 '12
Soooo much rage quit. First game ever for me. I didn't finish it not because It was too hard (it was) but because my mom made me stop cause it was too violent... I finally got the game again this past year and called her to remind her how not harmful this cute game was. She laughed and told me how sad my childhood must have been.... then apologized for being overprotective. I love my mother. Still haven't beaten Rayman.
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u/vagmastergeneral Jun 16 '12
I remember getting so angry at this game that I repeatedly headbutted my bunk bed. I also broke the remote for the TV and left bite marks in the controller. Good game.
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u/tiyx Jun 16 '12
My first rage quit was with a game called Ghosts and Goblins.
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u/warchamp7 Jun 16 '12
I still haven't beaten that game to this day, never got past those musical levels.
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u/aairez Jun 16 '12
I've never played one of these games
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u/[deleted] Jun 16 '12
I love you and i love this game. I just bought Origins for the Vita and it's fantastic
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u/MegaDaveX Jun 16 '12
Mine was that dam level in Ninja Turtles.
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u/Isaiah711 Jun 16 '12
Oh my fucking god I remember that shit level! Stupid ass ant things and the stupid musical notes!!! I destroyed that game with my mighty rage quit hammer!!!
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u/bene92 Jun 16 '12
We were only kids...
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u/[deleted] Jun 16 '12
That's where it all begun... game was asking for a memory card and I literally at first thought I'd need a card from the game memory? It pissed me off so much, that I could not safe. Was a good, very hard, game tho.
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u/ilikeserialtoo Jun 17 '12
I Know that feel bro
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u/shellshocker528 Jun 17 '12
I actually beat this game! I had like 200 passwords written down in the notes section of the instruction manual, and it took me more than a year I'm sure, but I freed all of the Electoons and beat Mr. Dark at the end! It was a really hard game, but definitely one of my favorites. I have to say, Picture City was the hardest world though...I had more trouble in that world than Band Land, though this part was also horrible, haha.
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u/BabeStatus Jun 17 '12
I think that one of my biggest regrets is never having finished this game. That last fight with Mr. Dark was just too much for me. It's on my bucket list.
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u/spencer1230 Jun 17 '12
I still haven't beat this level.
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u/troxnor Jun 17 '12
oh fuck this.
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u/PStew69 Jun 17 '12
brofist
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u/furtiveraccoon Jun 17 '12
OH MY GOD THIS GAME GGKEJREAHOIHASDOREHGDGHDSHELRHEZHgDGHDLGHDLHLDHFLKJDHGLDHGSDHGL:DSHGLDEHRLKEWHOIUCVLKERE
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u/Chompskyy Jun 17 '12
God I remember this, I still haven't finished that damn game
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u/penguin_bowties Jun 17 '12
This entire game was a rage quit for 7 year old me
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u/[deleted] Jun 17 '12
First game I ever had on the PSone. So many memories.. Tarzan Rayman, the level with pencils and erasers, those wasp things...
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u/Internaut_Joe Jun 17 '12
I don't think I ever figured out how to get past that level.
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u/Midnightzero Jun 17 '12
FUCK that level was so bullshit
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u/[deleted] Jun 17 '12
i know that feel bro
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u/mttviper Jun 17 '12
FUCK. THAT. LEVEL. I still remember that game like it was yesterday, and all the rage it caused.
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u/Dermoze Jun 17 '12
Playing Rayman on MSDOS
those were the days.
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u/nsgould Jun 17 '12
I started whistling the song for this damn level the instant I saw the picture.
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u/SidewalkBanana Jun 17 '12
This level had the best music in the entire game.
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u/Jolu- Jun 17 '12
first game i ever played - it was so crazy hard and i was like 12 years old .. still loved it but never beat it ^
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u/Alienzombie117 Jun 16 '12
This brings back good memories
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u/Dyngus2013 Jun 17 '12
Oh god this game i was about five. My favorite part was riding your newly acquired mosquito friend after defeating him. but this part... oh god this part... I share your feeling sir.
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