Rayman 2: The Great Escape: Difference between revisions

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The story begins when Rayman's homeworld, the Glade of Dreams, is suddenly invaded by an evil armada of Robo-Pirates from space, kidnapping the world's inhabitants en masse and using them as slave labor – including Rayman himself, who has lost all his strength after the Pirates destroyed the Heart of the World, shattering it into a thousand pieces. All hope is not lost, though, as Rayman's froglike friend Globox winds up captured too, smuggling a Silver Lum into his and Rayman's cell aboard the Pirates' prison ship, giving the two a chance to escape. Now Rayman is the Glade's inhabitants' only hope for defeating the Robo-Pirates, but he'll have to regain all his strength first – and to do that, he'll have to find the four magic masks that will awaken Polokus, a magic being who ''dreamt'' the Glade into existence.

 

''Rayman 2'' is also particularly infamous for having been ported to countless platforms following its release: The game was originally released on the [[Nintendo 64]], and since then has seen versions on PC,<ref>''Two'' PC versions even, because [[Technology Marches On]] --- the original 1999 release flat out doesn't work on 64-bit OSes; an issue that is the main fixing point of the 2011 digital re-release by Good Old Games.</ref> [[PlayStation]], [[Dreamcast]], [[PlayStation 2]], [[Nintendo DS]], [[IOS Games|Apple iOS]] and [[Nintendo 3DS]], each version bringing at least some new features with them. Out of all these ports, the most comprehensive is the [[PlayStation 2]] version, retitled ''Rayman Revolution'' and featuring a whole new [[Hub Level|hub-world]] to explore, along with a graphical update and a slew of new minigames.

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* [[Adventure Duo]]: Rayman and Globox.

* [[Sssssnaketalk]]: Oddly averted with Sssam. He only uses it once and speaks normally the rest of the time.

* [[Stomach of Holding]]: Globox in the opening, and how he sneaked in the Lum that gave Rayman one of his powers back.

* [[Suddenly Voiced|Suddenly Not Voiced]]: The 3DS version has the characters speak Simlish.

* [[Super Title 64 Advance]]: ''[[Nintendo DS|Rayman DS]]'' and ''[[Nintendo 3DS|Rayman 3D]]''

* [[Take Your Time]]: There's no penalty for just goofing around instead of going to the final level and fighting [[Captain Color Beard|Admiral Razorbeard]].

* [[Temple of Doom]]

* [[That Russian Squat Dance]]: Rayman and a Teensie indulge in this when completing a level, [[Non Sequitur Scene|for some reason]]. Probably a ritual that enables the portal.

* [[Updated Rerelease]]: Apart from the PC and Nintendo64 versions, no two versions of this game are the same.

* [[You All Meet in a Cell]]: The game starts with Rayman and Globox reuniting in a cell on the prison ship.

* [[Zero Effort Boss]]: One would expect Umber, one of the four Guardians (in this case, of the Sanctuary of Stone and Fire), to put up quite a fight. {{spoiler|Instead, he simply waits for Rayman to jump onto on his head and then walks along the lava corridor and eventually is submerged completely, but not before enabling Rayman to jump off onto the platform bearing the mask Umber is supposed to protect.}} Umber explains this in ''Revolution'': {{spoiler|Ly contacted Umber, telling him about Rayman and his efforts to defeat Razorbeard. He knew Rayman was the chosen one without a doubt, and willingly gave him passage to the mask, where Rayman then met Razorbeard's [[Ninja Pirate Zombie Robot|robot pirates]] waiting to ambush him.}}

 

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