I did have one additional mystery I wanted to ask about. The Heart of the World and the 1000 Lums. What happens when Razorbeard eats one? Can you even collect all 1000 Lums? What happens to the world of you can’t?
Anybody else think this game was WAY creepier than Mario 64 as a kid? There are a lot of unsettling parts in this game like the opening, secret bad ending, art style, and just the overall atmosphere. At least this gem hasn't been creepypasta milked to hell and back.
For me it felt mysterious. Yeah it was a bit grim with the circumstances for the characters, but despite it all I just felt this curious urge to explore and see what the world had to offer. In a way it was also exciting because it felt like I was sneaking behind enemy lines with the use of the hall of doors.
@@snarkycrowyeah rayman 2 was really dark for a kids game but i feel like m6t is still a bit creepier cause it isnt intentionally creepy. like its not suppost to feel this way so that makes it even weirder. raymsn 2 felt dark and gloomy from the first second so it doesnt really creep up on you
I've never seen anyone talk about the very last page from the Knowledge of the World, which you unlock for finding the very last yellow lum in the game. It states that Polokus doesn't know where "you" (Rayman) is from, he never created Rayman like he did with everything within Rayman 2. This fact supports the idea that in Rayman 1, we are based on Rayman's home world, where all NPCs and creatures are limbless just like Rayman himself. If this theory is true, then at some point Rayman was transported from his original world to The Glade of Dreams and has stayed ever since. Albeit, this gap in the continuity has never been explained. I always wondered why everyone in Rayman 1 was limbless but in Rayman 2 nobody else was, apart from the General. I think we're rewarded with a hint to this by collecting all of the yellow lums that allude to this potentiality in the very last page of the Knowledge of the World. Rayman is The Glade of Dreams' undisputed hero as show by all it's denizens, and a complete anomaly to Polokus. It's not hard to stretch the idea where Polokus who can simply dream about something and that shall become real, perhaps he dreamt about Rayman and these four magical masks that're seal by podiums with Rayman's crest/signature "O", and a hero (from Rayman's world) would one day come and help him save his Glade of Dreams.
Very nice thoughts! I actually thought all Rayman games took place in the same world, I didn't even notice that the limbless creatures were in abundance only in Rayman 1. Must add, the guardians of the shrines are also limbless. I also thought Polokus dreamed up the entire universe, so not only Rayman 2's area. Of course, if there was nothing before Polokus' dream and he is like an omnipotent god, then that always raised questions.
This just makes me want a new 3D Rayman. Origins and Legends were great, but Rayman 2 was my first one. Then again…Ubisoft only cares about AC these days lol
That would be fantastic. A real Rayman 4, especially if it followed the canon of the first 3 games (or 4, if we count Hoodlum Havoc). Dark and serious where Rayman doesn't use his hair to lift a fairy's skirt, rather get into morbid scenarios in horrid areas.
My theory about the General is that Ed was originally sent to beat the robots but was killed (His skeleton is seen in Arena) forcing The general to destroy the Tonic and work for Razorbeard
Mystery 1: Why did they include a cheat to gain an advantage against the final boss when they could have just fixed the final phase to just NOT be nearly impossible to put up with? XD Mystery 2: IS the Cave of Bad Dreams one of the best 3D platforming stages out there? Mystery 3: Who actually WAS the Teensie King? Mystery 4: "Where am I supposed to steer this rocke-- BOOM!"
@@andrealopriore9062 : If you fly all the way up to the top of the arena, above where the boss is hanging, there's an infinite ammo item. Wish I'd known that as a kid. XD
06:23 considering that Yellow Lums aren't the only lums to get a giant virant it is safe to assume that they're just 5 lums fused together because in Rayman Hoodlums' Revenge, Rayman 3 GBA and both the game boy and DS version of Rayman Raving Rabbids do not have Super Lums and in Rayman Origins and Adventure we have the king Lums who also worth 5 lums so for him it's the other proposition
I feel a bigger mystery is to where do Razorbeard and the pirates come from? The manual says they are from outer space and Razorbeard has destroyed over 100 planets reducing them to cosmic dust. Which means Polokus didn't create them and they are from somewhere else out in the galaxy/universe. But where and how exactly? Did somebody on another planet build them and they went rogue? Or are they from some planet inhabited by robots like Blue Sky's Robots or William Joyce's Rolie Polie Olie (which also has a robot space pirate villain funnily enough)
This has bogged my mind for ages! It's the biggest mystery of perhaps the whole franchise, I like to think they went rogue from an original robot like planet, or maybe there's another polokus like being who had a nightmare.
It is said that all bosses are the nightmares of Polokus, only that they didn't attack right upon creation, rather come one after one, time after time. First Mr. Dark, then the pirates and so on. If Polokus dreamed up the entire existence of Rayman's universe, then one Polokus is enough for this: pirates come from his dream, they start to conquer planets one after another, but then they arrive at the one where Rayman and other beings of power reside and so they bite more than how much they can chow.
Something I’m surprised you didn’t mention is the 100% mystery commenting on Rayman being the only being in the glade who wasn’t created by Pulokus and the significance of that. Until Rayman origins revealed he was created by betilta to protect the glade from various nightmares
Another theory I had in mind was, “who is the real king of the teensies?” Since they have forgotten who was king after the pirates invaded up the point where they appreciate Rayman for the being he is, they consider Rayman their potential king (they also do state “you’re the one who should be our king” in the PS1 version of Rayman near the end) so unbeknownst to Rayman himself, he might as well be the true king of teensies. But that’s just a mystery.
In the PS2 version AKA Revolution Rayman does start off with only being able to punch with his fists but then when finishing the Woods Of Light the Teensises give Rayman a Silver Lum that Ly left behind before she was captured thus granting Rayman the ability throw energy spheres.
In the very first scene Rayman comments that his power is gone and from then on it seems the silver lums restore it... so I thought the energy ball shooting was his power that was gone and all the silver lums gradually restore it.
Hey Jiggy! wow nice Video! Rayman 2 is one of my favourite N64 Games. i love the Music, Atmosphere and the Characters! i love that there is always something new in the Levels and look at those awesome animations during the cutscenes,spectacular for the N64 , not even Banjo Kazooie could compete! i will never forget, getting this game for christmas and studying this ingame Map that came along with the game, i sill got it. i think he shoots PowerLums, im not 100% but i think its said in the beginning. the cave of bad dreams gave me nightmares back then, especially when you slide down the cave and got that scary teeth on the edge of your screen, one of the later levels, i think its called grave of the ancient, was too much horror for me back then. man seeing your footage, makes me want to start a new file of this awesome game! i love these running bombs, those level were so much fun! one of my favourites Characters, are the Pirates in this game. Espcially Henchman 802, there is something about their design that stuck with me to this day, drawing that skull anywhere i can. in Rayman M i always choose the Pirate, he is so cool! Kalibru Stu!
Hey thanks for watching! Not sure about the Powerlum part but perhaps it’s in another version? There are a bunch! I hope you do replay it! It really holds up well!
Here's a mystery; does Rayman 2 have different universes across the different game systems that just have a lot of similarities between them? Like nearly every version has at least one thing different from the others. Just looking too deep into the different versions lol.
Just stumbled across this video while looking up the soundtrack for the game. I played Rayman 3 the most, I remember this one less. What a nice throwback, fun video!
My bro I searched for banjo kazooie facts and I watched your video and then I searched for Rayman 2 facts and your video come up, both are my childhood best games. Got something in common
@@jiggylookback If you love the atmosphere maybe you'll be interested to watch a 3D animation I made based on Rayman 2. I tried to make a remake/reimagining of the game if it came out today, without the graphical limitations from 1999.
I always wondered where the secret passage in the last level leads to... never got an answer to that. (If you leave the ship on the rocket and then return before falling into space)
Just wanted to say, very recently a leaked build of rayman 2 was found where it was shown rayman could switch between using the balls of light and his own fist, it’s funny to think they were both able to coexist
@@jiggylookback to help you i planned on talking about THIS special lums in one of my theory but the 1000th is only special in Rayman 2 and the GBA version of Rayman 3
Fist: I liked the power shooting of the Rayman 2 variations (like Rayman Revolution that I played) more than the actual "fist shot, fist returns" thing in Rayman 3, for the previous seems to fit a 3D game more. Maybe the developers thought that, too, but from then on decided to return to the actual Rayman-ish first usage, since the hardware was actually good enough for that and it's a signature move of Rayman anyway. Robots: Well, the story says that the bosses we encounter in the games are the nightmares of Polokus. So, they don't really want anything in particular, they exist just to cause problems and misery, also probably destruction and supposedly the end of the world. Lums: Well, in one canon (explained in one version of Rayman 2) Rayman is found by fishermen and doesn't have known origins, in other canon (Rayman Origins, Rayman Legends) he was specifically created from Lum power by Betilla to have a powerful hero. I never thought about why others aren't affected, but then it is logical. He is like a big Hero Lum or like a demi-Polokus.
Ahh Rayman 2, the second game I ever played on PC. Well attempted, my grandma's old Gateway ran like shit. I still replay it every couple of years. An official remaster would be cool with all the content from Revolution.
@@ChaseDizzie I did a live react of an entire Rayman fan game event. Easy to find in my live streams tab. Might be worth checking out the event and seeing tons of stuff in the works
he doesn't respawn in the cell because they take his powers that's one of his powers. if he dies in the cell he won't respawn. what kind of surprised body just doesn't fall apart when they took his powers😂
If you compare the english version to the french voices it's like night and day. Jano actually sounds intimidating in it and Razorbeard sounds like a demon rather than Yosemite Sam lol :P Raymanian always on top though, i feel like it adds to the eerieness in that they all speak in a foreign language u can't really understand
I miss Rayman. It makes me really sick inside that such a good video game series has been lost for decades, and a garbage game series like Sonic gets a new game every year, which is not even fun.
I never beat this game or got super far growing up because I didn't have a memory pak. I kinda wanna play the Dreamcast version because it has full voice acting. 👀 But then again I lke mumble speech because of Banjo.
Well you first say they don't kill him cuz he will teleport away so they put him in laser cell but if he kills himself in there he cant teleport and will die, so why dont they take him to a spot like that or kill him in his cell if he cant teleport, game mechanics are hard to explain away i know. He is in a cell on a very large pirate like thousands of other beings from his world, it is more likely i think, they didn't really know he was special before invading his world and treated him much like all the other creatures they found.
Think I'm gonna go for Jet Force Gemini next.
YES
Yes!
Would love to see Majora's Mask as well or Paper Mario!
I did have one additional mystery I wanted to ask about. The Heart of the World and the 1000 Lums. What happens when Razorbeard eats one? Can you even collect all 1000 Lums? What happens to the world of you can’t?
Anybody else think this game was WAY creepier than Mario 64 as a kid? There are a lot of unsettling parts in this game like the opening, secret bad ending, art style, and just the overall atmosphere. At least this gem hasn't been creepypasta milked to hell and back.
It’s SOO much creepier. Rayman 2 has an atmosphere that is so creepy and weird. And I love it.
i think both were unsettling
Everybody thinks that
For me it felt mysterious. Yeah it was a bit grim with the circumstances for the characters, but despite it all I just felt this curious urge to explore and see what the world had to offer.
In a way it was also exciting because it felt like I was sneaking behind enemy lines with the use of the hall of doors.
@@snarkycrowyeah rayman 2 was really dark for a kids game but i feel like m6t is still a bit creepier cause it isnt intentionally creepy. like its not suppost to feel this way so that makes it even weirder. raymsn 2 felt dark and gloomy from the first second so it doesnt really creep up on you
As a kid I was absolutely mind blown by this game coming from Rayman 1
Right?!
Ditto @@jiggylookback
I've never seen anyone talk about the very last page from the Knowledge of the World, which you unlock for finding the very last yellow lum in the game.
It states that Polokus doesn't know where "you" (Rayman) is from, he never created Rayman like he did with everything within Rayman 2.
This fact supports the idea that in Rayman 1, we are based on Rayman's home world, where all NPCs and creatures are limbless just like Rayman himself.
If this theory is true, then at some point Rayman was transported from his original world to The Glade of Dreams and has stayed ever since. Albeit, this gap in the continuity has never been explained.
I always wondered why everyone in Rayman 1 was limbless but in Rayman 2 nobody else was, apart from the General. I think we're rewarded with a hint to this by collecting all of the yellow lums that allude to this potentiality in the very last page of the Knowledge of the World.
Rayman is The Glade of Dreams' undisputed hero as show by all it's denizens, and a complete anomaly to Polokus. It's not hard to stretch the idea where Polokus who can simply dream about something and that shall become real, perhaps he dreamt about Rayman and these four magical masks that're seal by podiums with Rayman's crest/signature "O", and a hero (from Rayman's world) would one day come and help him save his Glade of Dreams.
Very nice thoughts!
I actually thought all Rayman games took place in the same world, I didn't even notice that the limbless creatures were in abundance only in Rayman 1. Must add, the guardians of the shrines are also limbless.
I also thought Polokus dreamed up the entire universe, so not only Rayman 2's area. Of course, if there was nothing before Polokus' dream and he is like an omnipotent god, then that always raised questions.
This just makes me want a new 3D Rayman. Origins and Legends were great, but Rayman 2 was my first one.
Then again…Ubisoft only cares about AC these days lol
A new 3d entry would be incredible
That would be fantastic. A real Rayman 4, especially if it followed the canon of the first 3 games (or 4, if we count Hoodlum Havoc). Dark and serious where Rayman doesn't use his hair to lift a fairy's skirt, rather get into morbid scenarios in horrid areas.
My theory about the General is that Ed was originally sent to beat the robots but was killed (His skeleton is seen in Arena) forcing The general to destroy the Tonic and work for Razorbeard
Mystery 1: Why did they include a cheat to gain an advantage against the final boss when they could have just fixed the final phase to just NOT be nearly impossible to put up with? XD
Mystery 2: IS the Cave of Bad Dreams one of the best 3D platforming stages out there?
Mystery 3: Who actually WAS the Teensie King?
Mystery 4: "Where am I supposed to steer this rocke-- BOOM!"
About Mystery 1: what cheat?
@@andrealopriore9062 : If you fly all the way up to the top of the arena, above where the boss is hanging, there's an infinite ammo item. Wish I'd known that as a kid. XD
06:23 considering that Yellow Lums aren't the only lums to get a giant virant it is safe to assume that they're just 5 lums fused together because in Rayman Hoodlums' Revenge, Rayman 3 GBA and both the game boy and DS version of Rayman Raving Rabbids do not have Super Lums and in Rayman Origins and Adventure we have the king Lums who also worth 5 lums so for him it's the other proposition
Quite interesting and I played the game for the 1st time on N64, no PC, no PS1, no PS2 or Dreamcast Version.
I feel a bigger mystery is to where do Razorbeard and the pirates come from? The manual says they are from outer space and Razorbeard has destroyed over 100 planets reducing them to cosmic dust. Which means Polokus didn't create them and they are from somewhere else out in the galaxy/universe. But where and how exactly? Did somebody on another planet build them and they went rogue? Or are they from some planet inhabited by robots like Blue Sky's Robots or William Joyce's Rolie Polie Olie (which also has a robot space pirate villain funnily enough)
Good question!
This has bogged my mind for ages! It's the biggest mystery of perhaps the whole franchise, I like to think they went rogue from an original robot like planet, or maybe there's another polokus like being who had a nightmare.
It is said that all bosses are the nightmares of Polokus, only that they didn't attack right upon creation, rather come one after one, time after time. First Mr. Dark, then the pirates and so on. If Polokus dreamed up the entire existence of Rayman's universe, then one Polokus is enough for this: pirates come from his dream, they start to conquer planets one after another, but then they arrive at the one where Rayman and other beings of power reside and so they bite more than how much they can chow.
I absolutely love how mystical and magical this game's world is
Yes! The world is filled with such a great amount of mystery and ambience. So cool!!
@@jiggylookback yeah !
Every time i see something
Even stuff i can't reach
I always wanna know more about it and its origins
@ I was always obsessed with the golden glove upgrade and racing Ly for more power. Always wondered if I could get more and more power
@@jiggylookback me too
I also always wanted to see what happened to old locations like band land
Or candy chetue
This was one of my favorite games growing up. What a great time to be a kid back in the days.
Totally it was.
Something I’m surprised you didn’t mention is the 100% mystery commenting on Rayman being the only being in the glade who wasn’t created by Pulokus and the significance of that.
Until Rayman origins revealed he was created by betilta to protect the glade from various nightmares
I mean I’m trying to focus specifically on Rayman 2 for this one
Another theory I had in mind was, “who is the real king of the teensies?” Since they have forgotten who was king after the pirates invaded up the point where they appreciate Rayman for the being he is, they consider Rayman their potential king (they also do state “you’re the one who should be our king” in the PS1 version of Rayman near the end) so unbeknownst to Rayman himself, he might as well be the true king of teensies. But that’s just a mystery.
7:26 he uses slaves to do basic labor or to make more robots.
In the PS2 version AKA Revolution Rayman does start off with only being able to punch with his fists but then when finishing the Woods Of Light the Teensises give Rayman a Silver Lum that Ly left behind before she was captured thus granting Rayman the ability throw energy spheres.
I personally like that a little more.
In the very first scene Rayman comments that his power is gone and from then on it seems the silver lums restore it... so I thought the energy ball shooting was his power that was gone and all the silver lums gradually restore it.
Ik this is rayman 3 lore, but black lums made me headcanon lums to be bioluminescent balls of fuzz with wings rather than spheres of light with wings
The treasure is actually chocolate coins and that's why Rayman gets fat
@@NateMakesMusic that makes so much sense!
Hey Jiggy!
wow nice Video! Rayman 2 is one of my favourite N64 Games. i love the Music, Atmosphere and the Characters! i love that there is always something new in the Levels and look at those awesome animations during the cutscenes,spectacular for the N64 , not even Banjo Kazooie could compete!
i will never forget, getting this game for christmas and studying this ingame Map that came along with the game, i sill got it.
i think he shoots PowerLums, im not 100% but i think its said in the beginning.
the cave of bad dreams gave me nightmares back then, especially when you slide down the cave and got that scary teeth on the edge of your screen,
one of the later levels, i think its called grave of the ancient, was too much horror for me back then.
man seeing your footage, makes me want to start a new file of this awesome game! i love these running bombs, those level were so much fun!
one of my favourites Characters, are the Pirates in this game. Espcially Henchman 802, there is something about their design that stuck with me to this day, drawing that skull anywhere i can.
in Rayman M i always choose the Pirate, he is so cool!
Kalibru Stu!
Hey thanks for watching! Not sure about the Powerlum part but perhaps it’s in another version? There are a bunch!
I hope you do replay it! It really holds up well!
Here's a mystery; does Rayman 2 have different universes across the different game systems that just have a lot of similarities between them? Like nearly every version has at least one thing different from the others. Just looking too deep into the different versions lol.
Just stumbled across this video while looking up the soundtrack for the game. I played Rayman 3 the most, I remember this one less. What a nice throwback, fun video!
@@gray7961 thanks for watching! The world needs more Rayman content if you ask me!
My bro I searched for banjo kazooie facts and I watched your video and then I searched for Rayman 2 facts and your video come up, both are my childhood best games. Got something in common
Ahhh I see you are also a person of great taste. 🧐
This is the most random ass video i've seen in a long time im so happy you made this thanks bro this is awesome stuff
@@simonrockstream i try my best! I cover a lot of other games and do mysteries :P thanks for watching!
What a great video! I love the world and lore of Rayman 2
Thanks for watching! I also love it!
@@jiggylookback If you love the atmosphere maybe you'll be interested to watch a 3D animation I made based on Rayman 2. I tried to make a remake/reimagining of the game if it came out today, without the graphical limitations from 1999.
@TheMrLeoniasty that would be awesome!!
I always wondered where the secret passage in the last level leads to... never got an answer to that. (If you leave the ship on the rocket and then return before falling into space)
This This exactly the type of stuff I would talk about with friends as a kid, great video
That’s exactly what I’m going for!! Want to capture those playground rumors and talk with my videos!
04:15 the cave of bad dreams actually exists cause it's told that it is one of the 2 places where nightmares are imprisoned
I know I may be 5 months late, but I would like to know more about their cool language, and why they ditched it for every other game.
Right?! They just went to straight English.
Just wanted to say, very recently a leaked build of rayman 2 was found where it was shown rayman could switch between using the balls of light and his own fist, it’s funny to think they were both able to coexist
@@8bitalien647 yes that’s wild!
One mystery i have for you is the glitched 1000th Yellow Lums
Ahh yes the mysterious 1000th Lum
@@jiggylookback to help you i planned on talking about THIS special lums in one of my theory but the 1000th is only special in Rayman 2 and the GBA version of Rayman 3
5:17 Actually These Plums found Near the Lava Are Coated With Line X Spray and Painted in Purple.
Fist:
I liked the power shooting of the Rayman 2 variations (like Rayman Revolution that I played) more than the actual "fist shot, fist returns" thing in Rayman 3, for the previous seems to fit a 3D game more. Maybe the developers thought that, too, but from then on decided to return to the actual Rayman-ish first usage, since the hardware was actually good enough for that and it's a signature move of Rayman anyway.
Robots:
Well, the story says that the bosses we encounter in the games are the nightmares of Polokus. So, they don't really want anything in particular, they exist just to cause problems and misery, also probably destruction and supposedly the end of the world.
Lums:
Well, in one canon (explained in one version of Rayman 2) Rayman is found by fishermen and doesn't have known origins, in other canon (Rayman Origins, Rayman Legends) he was specifically created from Lum power by Betilla to have a powerful hero. I never thought about why others aren't affected, but then it is logical. He is like a big Hero Lum or like a demi-Polokus.
reminder that it's been 13 years since the last rayman 2 port
@@shalpp there is a fan remake of Rayman 2 coming in hd that looks awesome
That was a good video dude respect! :D
Thanks so much! Really appreciate that!
04:22 Rayman 3 GBA says that's plausible because Razorbeard wanted to eat a dark/black lums
man i wish i had rayman 2 on n64 :(
It’s a great game
Invest in an everdrive. You can have every game plus hacks and homebrews
Rayman 2: The Great Escape is an awesome game, and I loved this video too.
It really is!! Thanks for watching :)
@@jiggylookback You're welcome
I never played the Rayman games unfortunately
Oh man…gotta play 2!! Also really love Legends
4:52 i think rayman is MADE from lums? (at least origins says that), it would make sense that because he is made from lums, he can use their power
He is according to origins but I’m pretty positive that’s not canon.
Ahh Rayman 2, the second game I ever played on PC. Well attempted, my grandma's old Gateway ran like shit.
I still replay it every couple of years. An official remaster would be cool with all the content from Revolution.
New Dawn Games is making a fan remake of 2 and doing an excellent job. You should go take a look!
@jiggylookback Thanks for the tip. I'm already searching for an alpha/beta download.
@@ChaseDizzie I did a live react of an entire Rayman fan game event. Easy to find in my live streams tab. Might be worth checking out the event and seeing tons of stuff in the works
he doesn't respawn in the cell because they take his powers that's one of his powers. if he dies in the cell he won't respawn. what kind of surprised body just doesn't fall apart when they took his powers😂
Love your content. Your channel is gonna be huge
Thank you! I really hope it gets there! :)
People are sleeping on this channel.
Thank you for saying that!!
Jano has a very mild voice in the PS1. Sounds more like a disgruntled gnome.
Really? I prefer the gibberish myself :)
@@jiggylookback Same. I grew up with Banjo and my first time renting Rayman 2 was on N64 with the Raymanian speak
If you compare the english version to the french voices it's like night and day. Jano actually sounds intimidating in it and Razorbeard sounds like a demon rather than Yosemite Sam lol :P
Raymanian always on top though, i feel like it adds to the eerieness in that they all speak in a foreign language u can't really understand
I miss Rayman. It makes me really sick inside that such a good video game series has been lost for decades, and a garbage game series like Sonic gets a new game every year, which is not even fun.
Yeah it really is sad :(
I never beat this game or got super far growing up because I didn't have a memory pak. I kinda wanna play the Dreamcast version because it has full voice acting. 👀 But then again I lke mumble speech because of Banjo.
@@BLOODY__FATALITY nope Dreamcast has gibberish too!
Tonic Trouble video when?👀
That would be a fun one! I’ll add it to my list!
A mystery ❤
Tbh ive never really played much of this game, for some reason.
You should! It’s a great one!!
I love Rayman 2
Heck yeah me too!
Well you first say they don't kill him cuz he will teleport away so they put him in laser cell but if he kills himself in there he cant teleport and will die, so why dont they take him to a spot like that or kill him in his cell if he cant teleport, game mechanics are hard to explain away i know.
He is in a cell on a very large pirate like thousands of other beings from his world, it is more likely i think, they didn't really know he was special before invading his world and treated him much like all the other creatures they found.