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Marvelous graphics!!!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 10 / 16
Date: November 04, 1999
Author: Amazon User

Lush,colorful graphics.Great sound and tight gameplay make this a must have. Highly recommended!

Best looking, best control of any N64 title to date

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 36 / 36
Date: November 13, 1999
Author: Amazon User

The lushest, most beautiful title ever seen on N64. Better than Banjo-Kazooie or Zelda, in my opinion. Control is intuitive, tight, and easy-- but laziness will be punished appropriately. The characters will win you over with laughs within a few minutes. The character acting cracks me up.

I'm still on the first level but I don't see how this could be rented only-- there's much to do and see. This game is a keeper, in the class of Banjo-Kazooie and GoldenEye.

awesome

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 22 / 22
Date: November 25, 1999
Author: Amazon User

This game is awesome, from the opening sequence to the end, this game is gogeous. The graphics are on par or surpass anything on the system previously. Gameplay is unique and is very challenging for all ages, but it is addictive, so parents make sure your kids do their homework because then you'll have more time to play

Simply wonderful.

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 29 / 29
Date: December 06, 1999
Author: Amazon User

I don't know how to aptly describe this thing. First off -- if you have an N64 and have even the REMOTEST interest in platform games or cartoons, you have to buy Rayman 2.

It looks gorgeous on the N64 -- with the expansion pak (for very crisp medium-high res graphics) it's easily the best looking thing on the platform, and soundly proves that the N64 can do a heck of a lot more than most people have demonstrated. As peerless as the technology is, though, it's not about the technology.

What Rayman has is perfect mechanics and perfect art. It's more or less a fixed-path platformer in play -- you can go wherever you want to, and there's plenty of wide open spaces and different ways to go, but the bulk of each level follows a more-or-less restricted and obvious path. The structure works perfectly, lacking both the disorientation of Mario or Banjo and the monotony and un-imersiveness of Crash. This form is handled so inventively that running and jumping could never get old. For example, there are numerous "mine car" segments (in which you're carried along a fixed path by some sort of vehicle or slide, and have limited mobility to avoid obstacles), but they're all completely different (unlike Crash's pig vs. Crash's jetski): when you're riding a rocket-on-legs, or skiing, or sliding, or whatever, that's what it feels like and the challenge is appropriate to the situation. Rayman's like an enormous fantasy playground.

I can't say enough about the art, either. The worlds don't feel like some abstract scenery-on-a-path, they feel like worlds, and if you're like me you'll make little squeaking noises the first time you stumble upon a rocky cove with a pirate ship docked and the moon lighting the sea, or see the forest alive with butterflies and fish and little squeeze-toy clattering orphaned creatures. The environments are like beautiful cartoon art, with something clever and stylistically consistent around every corner -- they don't look 3D in any way except that you're able to run around them, and ever so occasionally you'll see a straight line or a polygon face. But not often. The architecture is Seusslike, the colors are chosen and managed with Disney-like effect. All the same merits apply to the characters, except that they're also treated as characters, with real honest to god quality character animation, personality, and these little gibberish voices (they're subtitled) that convey character, emotion, and the situation better than most real voice actors for video games or cartoons. You have to hear the voices to understand, but it sounds exactly like they're speaking their correct lines, just in a different language -- they even say each others' names and certain key words correctly.

Rayman 2 is, simply put, the perfect platformer. Beautiful worlds, wonderful characterization, and so much continuous, fast-paced fun that you could easily play it over and over again even if it weren't for the beauty of it all, like in the olden days of Super Mario Brothers (before you could save your game, before the long, exploration-oriented affairs where value resides in length and size at the cost of pace). And it's pretty dang long as well...

Fun, but way to easy

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 12 / 16
Date: December 12, 1999
Author: Amazon User

This is a fun game, but it was just to easy! I rented it from blckbuster and beat it on the second day! Do not buy it, rent it if you want to check it out. You may find it hard, but i hardly play video games and i beat it. The bosses seem like they are not even trying! I wanted to like this game, but easy games are not worth buying. Fun, but just to easy.

to all the moms out there

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: December 21, 1999
Author: Amazon User

This game is the best game ever (except, of course The Legend of Zelda: Ocorina of time). The main charater, Rayman is the king. with only a few body parts, he has to stay ship shape to survive. So, to all the mom's, buy this game for you're son(s) or daughter(s), or even for yourself . Thank you for you're time

Looks beautiful but it's not Zelda or Mario 64

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 8 / 10
Date: December 22, 1999
Author: Amazon User

To be honest it's not even Banjo Kazooie. I'm afraid that I've been spoiled by the wonderful Nintendo games I've played already and kept expecting there to be something more - in Zelda or Mario most of the environment can be related directly to the game, whereas in Rayman 2 most of appears to be simply - scenery. However I am only about a third of the way through the game and perhaps I'm missing something. It also is a bit linear for my taste and some of the levels are too easy.

This would be a nice present for kids and I think they'd really enjoy it. If it had been the first Nintendo game I'd ever played, however, I'd probably think it was absolutely brilliant!

this is one of the best games I ever played

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 7
Date: December 27, 1999
Author: Amazon User

3 words explain it,Its the bes

Pretty good game

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 2
Date: January 15, 2000
Author: Amazon User

This was a pretty good game. There is a bit of strategy involved so little kids might find it hard. The graphics are funny because Rayman doesn't have any arms, legs or a neck. I also liked in the cut scenes when he spoke his weired language.

Rayman 2

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 16 / 18
Date: January 17, 2000
Author: Amazon User

I'm not a big fan of platformers but this is without doubt the best one I have ever played bar none. It's hard to know where to begin but the graphics immediately come to mind. I can't recall a better looking Nintendo 64 game. Vibrant colors, realistic textures and backgrounds are the norm. The water looks beautiful and while swimming gives off a very realistic appearence. The sound is excellent. The characters speak in gibberish but some how it fits, if you can believe it. Reading text isn't fun (it never is) but didn't detract from the game at all. There is a definite strategy to the game and you have to put your thinking cap on but its not overly hard. My only negatives are that I personally thought the camera was a pain and seemed out of position to me. Example: when you jump and turn to face a different direction the camera takes a few seconds to align correctly. I found this to be the case frequently. It's not enough to ruin the game and is really the only blemish other than swimming, which I thought was a little hard to do. There is enough fighting to keep the game intersting but not too much. This game is definitely a platformer and excels at that. I try not to gush about games but I would consider this to be a must buy. I sure would hate to admit to my friends that I didn't have it. The overall presentaion and package is close to a masterpiece in my opinion.

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