Yet Rayman Legends doesn't excel by copying Miyamoto's masterwork. Your progress through the game is now tracked by your 'Awesomeness' rating, which can be gauged against your friends.
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The Rayman series has endured more through Ubisoft's corporate determination than anything else, but with Legends this perennial runner-up earns its place alongside the likes of Super Mario Bros. Not only does each new level bring fresh delights, but each new inch of screen that scrolls towards you will inspire grins and grimaces in equal measure. This is the core of the game, and it represents the platform genre at its best. It's your timing, your sluggish reaction, or your panic that let you down. You'll feel that familiar frustration - the same feeling you got from Mega Man and every other side-scroller of note - but you'll know that it's not the game that's at fault. You'll float, swim, glide and sprint past spikes and flames, and you'll fail. All have been designed so that it's never as simple as a one-two-three hop up staircase-shaped platforms. Some must be tackled at speed, others allow you to think your way around them. Every jump is a test, every obstacle a trial. Like the previous game, this is a 2D platformer in unashamedly classic style, delivering a constant stream of small gameplay nuggets. What they've done is take an already wonderful wheel and polished it into something remarkable. With such a solid foundation, Michel Ancel and his team at Ubisoft's Montpellier studio haven't reinvented the wheel. That won't come as much of a surprise to anyone who played Rayman Origins, one of 2011's best games and an unlikely return to form for a character most had written off. We're confident it holds true for both new versions. In addition, here's Dan's review of the game on Xbox 360, first published on 26th August 2013.
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For full details of those versions check out Digital Foundry's next-gen face-off. Rayman Legends is released this week on PlayStation 4 and Xbox One.
A showcase for the game designer's art and one of the greatest platform games of this - or any - year.
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