Rayman Legends: Who Cares if it was Made for One Console?

Rayman Origins was a well-received revival of a mascot who everyone kind of forgets every once in a while. Boasting multiplayer that doesn’t lead you to constantly screw your teammates, difficulty curves that are usually tests of skill and not leaps of faith, and no control gimmicks that could only work on one console, I can’t see why it was so beloved.

Thankfully, that last issue was resolved in the next game in the series, Rayman Legends.

I’m afraid we must not get too excited on this I’m afraid. Remember, this control scheme does work on one console. Originally created to be a Wii U exclusive, and keeping its gamepad in mind, the game utilized a touch screen portion of gameplay involving the ever smiling Murphy. Remember, you know you love a character when he smiles as you fall to your doom.

 

Taken from rayman.wikia.com

But thankfully it seemed that the exclusive deal eventually fell through, and other companies wished to have the game on their consoles. This then delayed the game significantly, as the non-Wii U versions didn’t wish to lose sales because their version came out later. After all, nothing builds hype than being at a point where your fans and your developers are actively protesting the fact that you made a terrible decision!

As we all know, hate is the strongest emotion, and building hate for your game is a wise strategy. You see, first you breed hate, then you finally release all the versions of the game, everyone’s already had their peak anger. Then when they find out you didn’t think through the fact that a control gimmick required to progress in many areas is much more difficult to control on other consoles, they can’t get more upset! Because as time has taught us, people can never be more upset over gameplay decisions as they are due to release dates.

 

Taken From TechnoBuffalo.com

Alternatively, you can also gather the hate for a ritual to summon a dark demon of destruction because the apartment above you keeps telling you to turn down the volume at 3 AM because they need something called “sleep.”

… Not that I’d do that of course.

Rayman Legends gets a spike trap out of Oh no he got out.