Rayman Legends

[Nester the Lark]

Of all games, this is the one that's closest to selling me a Wii U. Rayman Origins was fantastic, and netting the sequel as a Wii U exclusive was a nice catch for Nintendo. Hopefully it'll sell better.

I'm guessing those music levels are replacing the treasure chest chase levels from Origins. They were fun, but boy could they maddening! (Especially that one with the screen-scrolling bug.)

[Nester the Lark]

Rayman Legends has been delayed until September, and is also going multi-platform. (Source)

[Da Robot]

Well fuck . . .

Negative points

- Not coming out next month as a Wii U exclusive, in a period where there needs to be games for the Wii U


Positive points

- Allows more people to play it., thus ensuring bigger sales, thus more money to be used for negoation for the Beyond Good & Evil 2 hostage crisis.
- Marketing for 3 games at the same time, hopefully ensures a bigger marketing budget than for a single game.
- Wii U Gamepad features/Murphy should still be exclusive to the Wii U hopefully, would Ubisoft bother to try to modify them for PS3/360? Could Vita or Smartglass be good enough to replicate them? And even if they could, it wouldn't be as good as using the Gamepad right?
- Post E3 delay might allow NFC figurine feature for the Wii U to come back? (because Nintendo would have to go first and show what they can do with it at E3 before 3rd parties unveil their products).

[Nester the Lark]

I'm not bothered by the fact the game is going multi-platform, but of course the game's getting the usual fanboy backlash for whenever an exclusive suddenly goes to other platforms, or vice versa. I'm not gonna post any of that here.

What's interesting, though, is that apparently the developers are also upset by this turn of events.

From a post on NeoGAF:

I completely understand you but you have to understand one thing. This is not a decision taken by the development team, this comes from really really high up, so please don't pick on the game.

If you're pissed, imagine how we feel. Think on the situation, we've been making overtime with this game practically since May preparing E3, and then almost a demo per month (gamescon, Wii U presentation, shops, eShop, etc...) and at the same time trying to actually finish the game. We had a first delay because it was obvious we couldn't finish on time but we gave it all to be there on February. What face do you think we had when the week we had to close the game we're being told it's not going to be released? I couldn't believe it.

For practical matters, you'll have to wait for some months for the game to be released and will most likely serve for more content to be added and do it better. For us, this means we've spent 6 months barely seeing our wifes, kids, and friends for nothing because, after all, such a haste wasn't needed. Believe it, it was a hell to swallow these news.

Even then I'm firm in what I said back in the day, Rayman Legends is an excellent game and will still be, and the team that's making it doesn't deserve to have your back turned on them just because some men in ties one day took a wrong choice. This industry is really that shitty. - Xavier Poix

And according to this, the only reason the game's been delayed is so that it can launch on all platforms simultaneously.

[Kohta]

I'm surprised that it has been delayed for 7 months, especially when they could be profiting from the sales before the simultaneous release.

And I was playing it the other week on Wii U too!

[Nester the Lark]

Well, there's actually new speculation about that. Supposedly, Microsoft has some kind of rule that multi-platform games are required to be released on the Xbox 360 either first or simultaneously with other platforms, and that's why the Wii U version is being held back. I don't know if this is true, but I have heard of this before, so I suppose it's possible.

Ubisoft has promised to release a demo of the game on Wii U soon, tho.

[Boo Destroyer]

So they just allegedly screwed current Wii U owners, huh? "Sorry if you bought one early, but we won't release any more of our games for it until a lot later."

And when they have the chance to talk about something like Pikmin 3, it's nothing but Miyamoto flaunting its graphics.

[Nester the Lark]

A fan actually traveled to the Montpellier studio with a banner, and took pictures of the development team (including Michel Ancel!) holding it.

The words apparently translate to, "Give us Rayman" and "Support to Ubi Montpellier."

Also, here's a funny video making the point about Ubisoft's hypocrisy:

[Da Robot]

And here's the copensation for delay Challenge Mode exclusive to the Wii U releasing in earlier April (via eShop for free). Challenge mode with online leaderboards to see who can go through levels the fastest and such.

[Da Robot]

The Rayman Legends Challenge Mode was released a few days ago, if anyone wants to get it, it's free from the eShop.

[Nester the Lark]

Has hype died for this game since it was announced to be multi-platform? Well, in the Wii U version, Rayman and Globox will have Mario and Luigi costumes:

[nocturnal YL]

Seeing how it makes use of the GamePad, I'd say there are other reasons to prefer the Wii U version even with all the delay and multiplatform news going on. I also wonder if the Rayman Origins-extended mode is a Wii U exclusive.

[Nester the Lark]

Good news for Rayman. Legends has sold about 20 percent more than Origins in its first week of sales in the UK, and the Wii U version sold the best out of all boxed retail versions. (Source)

Anyone here picked it up yet? I still need to get a Wii U.

[Shadrio]

This game's out already? *checks*

Shit. Man, I want this semester to end already. At least I have the money hoarded... somewhere...