Beginning to wonder if I ever will have cards, as I'm not so interested in them as to use sam, and as I don't know why every game I played these last weeks have been UBI ones ^_^
So while I slowed down on AC revelations because at high exposure it can get old fast, I bite on Rayman Legends. A not so brilliant move as I kind of hated the difficulty in the first one and the Rayman universe does nothing for me.
First, it's fucking gorgeous. Second, I played the first on Vita and IIRC there was camera problems (too far or too near), and here it is just perfect.
The game can still be infuriatingly hard at times, invasion levels mostly, but as I knew about that fact beforehand, that was in the deal and it don't annoy me as much as for the first one. And there is sort of a masochistic pleasure in retrying for the 30th time a run and looking for ways to grind some milliseconds.
Then the game is packed full of content, really insane. Tons of levels, tons of unlockables shits (well, it's a UBI game after all), and tons of levels from the first one. That would be a minus in my book, a good long game, ok, but in the case of Rayman Legend I fear an overdose effect.
Another funny thing with the game is it makes me fall in love and at the same time positively hate its music. I don't know for which game but I recall a reviewer rant about the music rebooting with each death, which was driving him mad. Same for me here, if you don't die too often it is not a big deal but in some levels, hearing the first notes of a score time after time is... an experience.
And while I was not really into the original game's score, and not into game music in general, more of a sound guy (come at me), there are some seriously brilliant moment music wise here. Between the bananas music levels and the fantastic james bond riff in the water world, this is something. I shouldn't be surprised if as I suppose there is Christophe Heral behind it.
(To ?) Hard, (to ?) long, but brilliant, very brilliant. Better, more refined than the first one, which was already very good.
PS. Anyone know if the first one is entirely included or just partly ? There seems to be an awful lot of levels back.