*Update:* Turns out shrinking enemies IS useful! You can simply walk over them and flatten them, killing them in one hit. Neat! Hey hey! The rad Rayman thumbnail art was drawn by Heayn, if you want to help out please check out his commissions 👉👀👉heayn.tumblr.com/post/723561591465000960/hey-you
The most crazy part is that even to this day, I don't feel like playing an old game ?! Like I don't know if the game was very modern for its era or games today didn't evovle much but the gameplay of rayman 3 and style still feel quite modern and not outdated!!!
@@RamblePrism I was like truly enjoying beating up ennemies, is was sooo satisfying, in fact EVERYTHING was so satisfying in this game, form ennemies to collectibles and even the sounds! Exept the big ennemies with their armors that jumped...I was traumatized by them...really..
@@artyie1172 Haha, I remember the big armored ones scared me as a kid. They even pick you up and knock the powerup right out of you if you get too close Oh wait, maybe you're referring to the Knaaren?
@@RamblePrism Yeah they were so creepy the way they walked fast to you to pick you up!! and their noises and little ..scream? ew.. DONT GET ME STARTED ON THE KNAREN 😭😭😭 I did my best to avoid that level every time I replayed Rayman 3! And yet the end of the level is SO amazing!!
It's true, a decent chunk of the Netherlands lies below sea level. Managed to un-wettify and keep certain areas dry thanks to the dikes and polders. Because we are so low to the ground, we compensate by getting high. Either physical tallness or weed. And that is how the Dutch do.
I mean, it makes sense for the final boss in a 3D platformer to include some platforming, right? And I'll still take the final turret section with Reflux over the flying rocket section of the final boss in Rayman 2. Man, that was just so frustrating. One mistake and Razorbeard's health resets.
YESSSSS THANK YOU FOR THIS VIDEO. Rayman 3 is my childhood game and I always loved its platformer/shooter combo, those two genres are still my favorite to play!!! It's amazing to me how little platformers realized that shooting combat works way more than melee, first-person shooters like Quake and the modern Doom titles already incentivize movement and precision in a way that's easy to translate back into a platformer. In-fact Rayman 3's system of platforming hallway > small open arena > platforming hallway is actually the same system that games like Serious Sam were prototyping, which along with the aforementioned Quake was the DNA that created Doom 2016 and Eternal, and it's amazing how Rayman 3 manages to stay so fresh with its power-ups and unique enemies and OH MY GOD the combo system, since actual shooters of the era that tried the hallway arena approach usually end up stale and/or extremely simple. I'm sorry I used this an excuse to infodump about retro FPS, it will happen again.
You may find Oddworld: Stranger's Wrath interesting in this regard. It's from both third and first person, with the third person used for general navigation and the first person for FPS with live creatures as ammo. Stunkz (round skunks) are used as smoke and gas bombs, Fuzzles grab onto and bite enemies, Bolamites (that's bola mites-- essentially spiders) wrap up enemies, Chippunks (loud round squirrels) distract enemies if you're not seen yet, and there's some others. There's also Insecticide for DS and PC. Almost Psychonauts-ish art directions for a world where insects have ended up the dominant species... in rather human, urban environments. What's unique is that the platformer shooter segments take turns with another gameplay style. That being 3D point-and-click adventure. No jumping and blasting in those, just being a four-legged chrysalid detective. Not an amazing game from what i know, but there's a lot to it that'd make one think there's room for more to be done with the setting and characters.
10:12 The side roll, I think, is the best way to avoid damage while dealing with Reflux's shield. Just roll-roll-roll and he can never hit you. Well, he never hit ME. Your mileage may vary.
I might always hold rayman 2 near my heart especially since it’s the only thing I still have from the rayman pc collection :( but I can’t deny that rayman 3 is very fun!
The combat also just feels good since hits either dishing them out or receiving them feel like they have the right amount of oomphf where you feel impacts but at the same time don't get knocked back like 10 feet making hits just feel good.
Like i said to you on Twitter mere moments ago (relative to the start of writing this comment), this is a subject that doesn't get talked about a lot. So it's fun to see, and i'm going to share, shout and force my own findings and opinions right in this here comment section without anyone asking about it. Snacks are 50 cents a piece for the duration of my rantulation. And it's all stale garlic bread. Hope you're not a vampire. That aside, let's get poppin'. Be warned, this is a colossus of a comment and i'm probably going to divide it in two parts. Perhaps more First off: big compliments to all the production value in your little persona character and all the different stances, drawings, sketches and animation and general editing. I reckon a number of those models were made specifically for the video, so extra respect for going the extra mile. Secondly: I've done my own research over the years into the subject as a result from Nitro Rad's videos as well, but from an... opposite viewpoint, if that's a good way of putting it. If you've watched his video on Kya: Dark Lineage from about five or so years ago, in it he writes off Kya's combat as "button mashing doing just fine" and that a remake would be better off "cutting the fat". I *really* like that game and there's far more to the combat than James gave it credit for. Or seemed to try and explore, even. So i wanted to look into what makes the combat work so i could better defend my own viewpoints with better arguments. There seems to be two extremes of going about combat in 3D platformers. Intermarrying the movement with the "fighting" would be on one end: Think Mario, like you said. Enemies are more akin to obstacles that actually exhibit some form of individuality and behaviour. On the other end would be having the combat separate from the platforming. This is where i'd place Kya: When you approach a humanoid enemy, she enters a Fighting stance and the Square, Triangle and Circle button now all perform dedicat Punches, Kicks and Grabs with different combinations. Going in and out this stance happens pretty quickly. It's almost similar to Prince of Persia, with sheathing and unsheathing weapons for either combat or platforming. And somewhere between these two ends are all other 3D platformers. Vexx, Sonic Unleashed, the Maximo games, Mushroom Men: The Spore Wars etc. Ratchet & Clank and Jak & Daxter are definitely on the more succesful and fondly remembered end of combat-heavy platformers. Or at least predominantly platformers, which seems to have gotten less as either series went on. The reason for this is probably for a reason James himself stated on his Rayman 3 video from years ago: The style of combat still has you adhering to the base gameplay style of a Platformer. Running and Jumping, staying active and avoiding incoming danger at any range, with the terrain itself becoming as much of a weapon as a hazard. A big arsenal of toys for different situations helps in this department. I believe some guns from J&D and R&C are even better used at closer range (and i know for a fact R&C has a Shock Rocket analogue in the Visibomb Gun) But generally, more melee-oriented combat just seems to not gel as well, Vexx and I-Ninja be darned. Rayman's on an interesting point in this front: His physiology places him in *both* Ranged and Melee at once. Man's a master of unarmed combat. It's interesting to still feel the satisfaction of hearing a sucker punch connect while technically playing at range. Like you said too towards the latter half of this video: The enemy design is also an important factor. The Hoodlums especially are some of the wildest and craziest enemy factions i've ever seen in a 3D platformer. And that can allow for a lot of fun on gameplay design to fight them. There may be some base enemy types with toughter variants later on that have slightly different attacks, but it's important to have a solid backbone. All the other Hoodlum types have their own strategies to deal with you and be dealt with by you, as you said in the video, which keeps stuff interesting, and the *matchups* of enemies are important too. For example, you now know how to deal with type nr. 1 and type nr. 2, now how will you face off against them together? That's also further ways of keeping combat interesting with stuff you've seen before. You've hit the head on the nail where it concerns the Combat Fatigues! That's a thing that i think makes people look more favourably upon combat in 3D platformers, i think: Moves having utility for combat AND platforming. You've already explained why that's great with the Fatigues, both in their individual variants and their time durations. Because they're not permanent, it adds in another element often seen in platformers: Exploration. There's an obstacle or something you can't quite conquer, but you know what would be needed to do so because you've been in the same situation earlier in the game. Like the corkscrew platforms and the thick walls (Vortex Fist and Heavy Metal Punch). So you gotta find these specific Fatigues by looking around. In this sense, they kind of amount to keys-- just have them do one thing to open up the road ahead. But thanks to viability in combat as well as that Combo Meter, they retain more value for seeking out than if they *had* just been a key. The combo meter one being a bit more variable depending on how much the player cares about it. These two are also outright required for certain enemies (the Hoodbombers on stilts, and the shoulder toilet-mounted guys with hockey armor). The Shock Rocket's not really used in in-the-moment combat thanks to its sniping, like you said in the video. And the Throttlecopter is pure platforming that lasts for the duration of a fart. (Sidenote: I believe the Vortex Fist's shrinking of enemies make them weaker. Smaller health pools and less outgoing damage) The Lockjaw is undoubtedly the best one of all the Fatigues to be used for Platforming and Combat alike, even if it's situational: Because grabbing onto the next grapple points still requires more active input from the player on connecting from one point to the next and landing on a safe place. It's for reasons like this that Chain and Whip-type weapons are very beloved in games, i feel. Sure Kratos can slash and stab with the Blades of Chaos on their own, but with the CHAINS?! That opens up a good bit of level navigation opportunities to cool down in-between combat. Grappling hooks, swing points (both vertical AND horizontal), rappelling alongside walls to up and down or left and right, that's a wealth of options for *movement* with a *weapon*. (in that regard, a Character Action game is almost the inverse of a Platformer: Predominantly fighting where the platforming breaks up the main gameplay style) In regards to mentioning Unleashed: A person who's more experienced with Character Action type games (think Darksiders, Devil May Cry, Bayonetta, God of War) by name of ChaserTech, has recently been looking to make more in-depth videos on combat and combat elements of different such games. And the Werehog is among one of the very first videos on that subject. I recommend giving it a look if you think you'd be interested! It's mainly looking at the Werehog combat specifically, rather than its presence in the game compared to daytime stages. ruclips.net/video/mugFqmZAKiU/видео.html *Well that's a tsunami on vacation worth of words in this comment alone*. And his extended family's coming up in the next comment. HAVE FUN READING.
YO, uh, initially wanted to make a continuation comment that took some looks at other 3D platformers, but that ended up a singular big one about Kya: Dark Lineage instead. Considering the first comment was already gigantic, i'm saving that comment in a word doc, and instead i ask: if you'd be interested in reading it, when time and mental clarity allow for it, hit me up. Me aside, thank you for making this video and opening up discussion about it. See you when I see you.
Hey hello, RUclips marked these comments as spam (probably because of the length) so I'm checking them out now. I'm glad you enjoyed the video, thanks a lot for the kind words! I had a lot of fun making the little sona poses for this. It is indeed cool how Rayman is both a melee and long-distance fighter, I wish they'd do more with the melee stuff (like in the Rabbids prototype I showed in the video), that could be fun. Thanks for the link to the werehog video, I might check that out 👍 Always felt like that game had some potential (I'm sure most people do, haha)
I can't agree more, the combat and in general Rayman's moveset in R3 is so smooth, can you imagine trying to deal with the hoodlums with the R2 moveset? nightmare asured btw I just recently discovered you can step on the hoodlums when they're small and insta kill them! and I've been playing this game for years! This game is so cool ngl
Those are from Acarr Creations' Etsy store! Unfortunately they're no longer available. But you can find more of Acarr's awesome stuff on Twitter and Tumblr: twitter.com/acarrcreations
Honestly, I'll take the last phase with Reflux any day over Razorbeard in Rayman 2. I really do think Rayman 3 did the flying section better. (yes, you can hang me for this)
Interesting! I've heard people say the exact opposite, haha I suppose the strafing feels a little slower, now that you mention it. Could be the animation for it
@RamblePrism Exactly. In R2, both Pirate shots and Rayman himself move faster. In 3, is the opposite: Hoodlums fire slower shots ( making up for it with explosions, clusters or wide spreads) and Rayman as well moves slower. In the most hectic fights, this led me to take a few hits in the face.
@@RamblePrism Thanks! Originally played the game on PC, with mouse and keyboard. I guess I just missed the input. Though I don't remember doing it when I got the HD port on 360 either. Maybe I'm just misremembering 🤔 Possibly due to the move not being all that useful, as you explained.
@@HimePenguin I see! I first played the game on keyboard too and only found out about the move later. Pretty sure it's never explained in the game's tutorial but it might be in the physical manual
This is the first video I'm watching from you and why do you speak with your s's always being longer than normal and very sharp I'm not against your accent or anything it's just a personal Wonder
Ha interesting, don't think anyone's ever pointed that out before! It's probably the accent (I'm Dutch, we tend to pronounce consonants a bit more sharply than in English) Anyhoo, hope you like the video!
*Update:* Turns out shrinking enemies IS useful! You can simply walk over them and flatten them, killing them in one hit. Neat!
Hey hey! The rad Rayman thumbnail art was drawn by Heayn, if you want to help out please check out his commissions 👉👀👉heayn.tumblr.com/post/723561591465000960/hey-you
The most crazy part is that even to this day, I don't feel like playing an old game ?! Like I don't know if the game was very modern for its era or games today didn't evovle much but the gameplay of rayman 3 and style still feel quite modern and not outdated!!!
Absolutely! The artstyle still holds up super well, the controls are smooth as butter, it's still fantastic
@@RamblePrism I was like truly enjoying beating up ennemies, is was sooo satisfying, in fact EVERYTHING was so satisfying in this game, form ennemies to collectibles and even the sounds! Exept the big ennemies with their armors that jumped...I was traumatized by them...really..
@@artyie1172 Haha, I remember the big armored ones scared me as a kid. They even pick you up and knock the powerup right out of you if you get too close
Oh wait, maybe you're referring to the Knaaren?
@@RamblePrism Yeah they were so creepy the way they walked fast to you to pick you up!! and their noises and little ..scream? ew..
DONT GET ME STARTED ON THE KNAREN 😭😭😭 I did my best to avoid that level every time I replayed Rayman 3! And yet the end of the level is SO amazing!!
@@artyie1172 The Knaaren gave me nightmares too, it's a trauma all Rayman 3 players share, haha
R3 is such a wonderful game, probably gonna replay it soon, also thanks for showing my R4 Proto footage in the video!
Hey Mae! Heck yeah, it still holds up great! And thank you for the permission to use that footage, I really appreciate it 👍
LIVING BELOW SEA LEVEL
It's true, a decent chunk of the Netherlands lies below sea level. Managed to un-wettify and keep certain areas dry thanks to the dikes and polders.
Because we are so low to the ground, we compensate by getting high. Either physical tallness or weed.
And that is how the Dutch do.
Atlantis 2 babyyyy
0:15 I KNEW IT HE HAD THE WHOLE TIME
Rayman 2 was my first game we owned at pc
Nice! My first PC game was Rayman 100 Levels, a special compilation of levels made in the Rayman 1 level editor (it was insanely hard)
I mean, it makes sense for the final boss in a 3D platformer to include some platforming, right?
And I'll still take the final turret section with Reflux over the flying rocket section of the final boss in Rayman 2. Man, that was just so frustrating. One mistake and Razorbeard's health resets.
Rayman 3 truly best game
One of the games of all time
truly is
YESSSSS THANK YOU FOR THIS VIDEO. Rayman 3 is my childhood game and I always loved its platformer/shooter combo, those two genres are still my favorite to play!!! It's amazing to me how little platformers realized that shooting combat works way more than melee, first-person shooters like Quake and the modern Doom titles already incentivize movement and precision in a way that's easy to translate back into a platformer. In-fact Rayman 3's system of platforming hallway > small open arena > platforming hallway is actually the same system that games like Serious Sam were prototyping, which along with the aforementioned Quake was the DNA that created Doom 2016 and Eternal, and it's amazing how Rayman 3 manages to stay so fresh with its power-ups and unique enemies and OH MY GOD the combo system, since actual shooters of the era that tried the hallway arena approach usually end up stale and/or extremely simple. I'm sorry I used this an excuse to infodump about retro FPS, it will happen again.
You may find Oddworld: Stranger's Wrath interesting in this regard. It's from both third and first person, with the third person used for general navigation and the first person for FPS with live creatures as ammo.
Stunkz (round skunks) are used as smoke and gas bombs, Fuzzles grab onto and bite enemies, Bolamites (that's bola mites-- essentially spiders) wrap up enemies, Chippunks (loud round squirrels) distract enemies if you're not seen yet, and there's some others.
There's also Insecticide for DS and PC. Almost Psychonauts-ish art directions for a world where insects have ended up the dominant species... in rather human, urban environments.
What's unique is that the platformer shooter segments take turns with another gameplay style. That being 3D point-and-click adventure. No jumping and blasting in those, just being a four-legged chrysalid detective.
Not an amazing game from what i know, but there's a lot to it that'd make one think there's room for more to be done with the setting and characters.
Hey that's interesting! Thank you very much for watching 😄
I loved this game when i was a kid. I also downloaded its rom like one day ago. It's funny how youtube decided to recommend me this video, lmao
Ha, hope you liked the video, and have fun playing the game again if you do!
lovely video! rayman 3 enthusiasts UNITE. this game makes me wanna get up and do a little happy dance.
Haha, thank you! this game holds up super well
Great video! I love this game so much haha. Always love seeing in depth videos about it.
Hey thank you very much, glad you liked it!
10:12 The side roll, I think, is the best way to avoid damage while dealing with Reflux's shield. Just roll-roll-roll and he can never hit you.
Well, he never hit ME.
Your mileage may vary.
True, it can kinda break that battle, haha
7:37 that got a great laugh outta me XD
Thank you, happy to hear that!
Blue fire has pretty good close range combat
Heard good things about it!
Thank you mark for this reminder that rayman 3 is indeed one of the best games to have ever been design'ned
Heck yeah it is B)
I might always hold rayman 2 near my heart especially since it’s the only thing I still have from the rayman pc collection :( but I can’t deny that rayman 3 is very fun!
I might actually prefer Rayman 2, that game is amazing as well!
I still want to see what a Rayman game with expansions upon the combat would look like
Rayman 3 the GOAT
Heck yeah man 👉👉
Rayman 3 arguably has the best gameplay for a 3D game!
The combat also just feels good since hits either dishing them out or receiving them feel like they have the right amount of oomphf where you feel impacts but at the same time don't get knocked back like 10 feet making hits just feel good.
Totally! I think it's the excellent animations and sound effects that give it that "oomph"
Like i said to you on Twitter mere moments ago (relative to the start of writing this comment), this is a subject that doesn't get talked about a lot. So it's fun to see, and i'm going to share, shout and force my own findings and opinions right in this here comment section without anyone asking about it.
Snacks are 50 cents a piece for the duration of my rantulation. And it's all stale garlic bread. Hope you're not a vampire.
That aside, let's get poppin'. Be warned, this is a colossus of a comment and i'm probably going to divide it in two parts. Perhaps more
First off: big compliments to all the production value in your little persona character and all the different stances, drawings, sketches and animation and general editing. I reckon a number of those models were made specifically for the video, so extra respect for going the extra mile.
Secondly: I've done my own research over the years into the subject as a result from Nitro Rad's videos as well, but from an... opposite viewpoint, if that's a good way of putting it.
If you've watched his video on Kya: Dark Lineage from about five or so years ago, in it he writes off Kya's combat as "button mashing doing just fine" and that a remake would be better off "cutting the fat".
I *really* like that game and there's far more to the combat than James gave it credit for. Or seemed to try and explore, even. So i wanted to look into what makes the combat work so i could better defend my own viewpoints with better arguments.
There seems to be two extremes of going about combat in 3D platformers.
Intermarrying the movement with the "fighting" would be on one end: Think Mario, like you said. Enemies are more akin to obstacles that actually exhibit some form of individuality and behaviour.
On the other end would be having the combat separate from the platforming.
This is where i'd place Kya: When you approach a humanoid enemy, she enters a Fighting stance and the Square, Triangle and Circle button now all perform dedicat Punches, Kicks and Grabs with different combinations.
Going in and out this stance happens pretty quickly. It's almost similar to Prince of Persia, with sheathing and unsheathing weapons for either combat or platforming.
And somewhere between these two ends are all other 3D platformers. Vexx, Sonic Unleashed, the Maximo games, Mushroom Men: The Spore Wars etc.
Ratchet & Clank and Jak & Daxter are definitely on the more succesful and fondly remembered end of combat-heavy platformers. Or at least predominantly platformers, which seems to have gotten less as either series went on.
The reason for this is probably for a reason James himself stated on his Rayman 3 video from years ago: The style of combat still has you adhering to the base gameplay style of a Platformer. Running and Jumping, staying active and avoiding incoming danger at any range, with the terrain itself becoming as much of a weapon as a hazard.
A big arsenal of toys for different situations helps in this department. I believe some guns from J&D and R&C are even better used at closer range (and i know for a fact R&C has a Shock Rocket analogue in the Visibomb Gun)
But generally, more melee-oriented combat just seems to not gel as well, Vexx and I-Ninja be darned.
Rayman's on an interesting point in this front: His physiology places him in *both* Ranged and Melee at once. Man's a master of unarmed combat.
It's interesting to still feel the satisfaction of hearing a sucker punch connect while technically playing at range.
Like you said too towards the latter half of this video: The enemy design is also an important factor. The Hoodlums especially are some of the wildest and craziest enemy factions i've ever seen in a 3D platformer. And that can allow for a lot of fun on gameplay design to fight them.
There may be some base enemy types with toughter variants later on that have slightly different attacks, but it's important to have a solid backbone. All the other Hoodlum types have their own strategies to deal with you and be dealt with by you, as you said in the video, which keeps stuff interesting, and the *matchups* of enemies are important too.
For example, you now know how to deal with type nr. 1 and type nr. 2, now how will you face off against them together? That's also further ways of keeping combat interesting with stuff you've seen before.
You've hit the head on the nail where it concerns the Combat Fatigues! That's a thing that i think makes people look more favourably upon combat in 3D platformers, i think: Moves having utility for combat AND platforming.
You've already explained why that's great with the Fatigues, both in their individual variants and their time durations. Because they're not permanent, it adds in another element often seen in platformers:
Exploration.
There's an obstacle or something you can't quite conquer, but you know what would be needed to do so because you've been in the same situation earlier in the game. Like the corkscrew platforms and the thick walls (Vortex Fist and Heavy Metal Punch).
So you gotta find these specific Fatigues by looking around. In this sense, they kind of amount to keys-- just have them do one thing to open up the road ahead.
But thanks to viability in combat as well as that Combo Meter, they retain more value for seeking out than if they *had* just been a key. The combo meter one being a bit more variable depending on how much the player cares about it.
These two are also outright required for certain enemies (the Hoodbombers on stilts, and the shoulder toilet-mounted guys with hockey armor).
The Shock Rocket's not really used in in-the-moment combat thanks to its sniping, like you said in the video. And the Throttlecopter is pure platforming that lasts for the duration of a fart.
(Sidenote: I believe the Vortex Fist's shrinking of enemies make them weaker. Smaller health pools and less outgoing damage)
The Lockjaw is undoubtedly the best one of all the Fatigues to be used for Platforming and Combat alike, even if it's situational: Because grabbing onto the next grapple points still requires more active input from the player on connecting from one point to the next and landing on a safe place.
It's for reasons like this that Chain and Whip-type weapons are very beloved in games, i feel. Sure Kratos can slash and stab with the Blades of Chaos on their own, but with the CHAINS?!
That opens up a good bit of level navigation opportunities to cool down in-between combat. Grappling hooks, swing points (both vertical AND horizontal), rappelling alongside walls to up and down or left and right, that's a wealth of options for *movement* with a *weapon*.
(in that regard, a Character Action game is almost the inverse of a Platformer: Predominantly fighting where the platforming breaks up the main gameplay style)
In regards to mentioning Unleashed: A person who's more experienced with Character Action type games (think Darksiders, Devil May Cry, Bayonetta, God of War) by name of ChaserTech, has recently been looking to make more in-depth videos on combat and combat elements of different such games.
And the Werehog is among one of the very first videos on that subject.
I recommend giving it a look if you think you'd be interested! It's mainly looking at the Werehog combat specifically, rather than its presence in the game compared to daytime stages.
ruclips.net/video/mugFqmZAKiU/видео.html
*Well that's a tsunami on vacation worth of words in this comment alone*. And his extended family's coming up in the next comment. HAVE FUN READING.
YO, uh, initially wanted to make a continuation comment that took some looks at other 3D platformers, but that ended up a singular big one about Kya: Dark Lineage instead.
Considering the first comment was already gigantic, i'm saving that comment in a word doc, and instead i ask: if you'd be interested in reading it, when time and mental clarity allow for it, hit me up.
Me aside, thank you for making this video and opening up discussion about it. See you when I see you.
Hey hello, RUclips marked these comments as spam (probably because of the length) so I'm checking them out now.
I'm glad you enjoyed the video, thanks a lot for the kind words! I had a lot of fun making the little sona poses for this.
It is indeed cool how Rayman is both a melee and long-distance fighter, I wish they'd do more with the melee stuff (like in the Rabbids prototype I showed in the video), that could be fun.
Thanks for the link to the werehog video, I might check that out 👍
Always felt like that game had some potential (I'm sure most people do, haha)
6:25 Bruh, shark skin is rough.
Every shark is completely smooth no matter what angle you're touching it from
should've known you're dutch from the prins koekjes demo. Can't imagine playing this game on pc now but that demo had me hooked!
@@DeJorisM Haha, good eye for detail!
So, uuh... 4.6k? Not... 406k??? That is a.... crime???
Seriously though incredible quality, you need more views on this and the other re-marks
@@thetallpancake Hey thank you, I'm happy you like this one!
Excellent. Marvelous.
Thanks Jaki :))
I can't agree more, the combat and in general Rayman's moveset in R3 is so smooth, can you imagine trying to deal with the hoodlums with the R2 moveset? nightmare asured
btw I just recently discovered you can step on the hoodlums when they're small and insta kill them! and I've been playing this game for years! This game is so cool ngl
Ha, that's cool!
Man I was getting so excited to sue Mark for false advertisement. Maybe next video.
@@irinore I better get a lawyer juuuust in case
Did you make the 4 Masks at the beginning or did you buy them from somewhere?
Those are from Acarr Creations' Etsy store! Unfortunately they're no longer available. But you can find more of Acarr's awesome stuff on Twitter and Tumblr: twitter.com/acarrcreations
Oh sick, I used to be friends with her during my days on RaymanPC!
HOLY CRAP DUTCH RAYMAN DEMO DISC im dutch so thats cool.
Heck yeah
I Love you're videos
Hey thank you, I'm glad you like these!
you are welcome@@RamblePrism
Honestly, I'll take the last phase with Reflux any day over Razorbeard in Rayman 2. I really do think Rayman 3 did the flying section better. (yes, you can hang me for this)
The final boss of Rayman 2 on the PS1 was actually more interesting, they had a cool flying and shooting segment there : )
Honestly, the only gripe I have with Rayman 3's combat is the strafing: it just isn't as snappy as 2's and you take some damage because of it...
Interesting! I've heard people say the exact opposite, haha
I suppose the strafing feels a little slower, now that you mention it. Could be the animation for it
@RamblePrism Exactly. In R2, both Pirate shots and Rayman himself move faster. In 3, is the opposite: Hoodlums fire slower shots ( making up for it with explosions, clusters or wide spreads) and Rayman as well moves slower. In the most hectic fights, this led me to take a few hits in the face.
@@andrealopriore9062 I see!
As Nitro said, the movesets you used for combat should not be so far off from the movesets for platforming.
@@redblazinghood That does often work well indeed 😊
Wait there's a roll move???!! lmaoooo
THERE SURE IS
Wait... there's a roll move!? I don't remember that at all haha
Guess I never figured out how to do it.
@@HimePenguin It's activated with one of the shoulder buttons, if I recall correctly!
@@RamblePrism Thanks! Originally played the game on PC, with mouse and keyboard. I guess I just missed the input.
Though I don't remember doing it when I got the HD port on 360 either. Maybe I'm just misremembering 🤔 Possibly due to the move not being all that useful, as you explained.
@@HimePenguin I see! I first played the game on keyboard too and only found out about the move later. Pretty sure it's never explained in the game's tutorial but it might be in the physical manual
Hey a fallow Dutch!!! And rayman fanatic Hey Mark🤟🇳🇱
Rayman 2 and 3 were my biggest obsessions next to the oddworld games
Dutch folk unite 👍
Nice, I've never played Oddworld but those games look cool
lol the rayman 4 game
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This is the first video I'm watching from you and why do you speak with your s's always being longer than normal and very sharp I'm not against your accent or anything it's just a personal Wonder
Ha interesting, don't think anyone's ever pointed that out before! It's probably the accent (I'm Dutch, we tend to pronounce consonants a bit more sharply than in English)
Anyhoo, hope you like the video!
Blud didn’t even bring up kingdom hearts 2 I’m dead 😭
I'd have to play kingdom hearts to be able to reference it. I'm willing to make sacrifices for my videos, but that's a lot
rayman 2 combat sucks
Real