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Haruka wrote: Sat Jun 06, 2026 11:22 am To clarify what I meant: The fact the world map is now nothing like the landmass of the original map, added to official statements from devs in recent interviews, it's highly suggested that Retold is intended to work as a reboot to the franchise. This might potentially mean that those locations from the previous games, if they're revisited later in future games, they won't be anything like the original tone and aesthetic we've seen before. This is what's concerning me.

Haruka wrote: Sat Jun 06, 2026 11:22 am

All-in-all, I don't think we should be too worried about Ubisoft removing older games from the continuity. I haven't seen them care this much about past events, or Rayman in general, in a good long time, and these are all within UbiArt games that originally threw most story and previous lore out the window! Sharing your concerns and any criticisms you might have is perfectly fine, and hopefully the points I made alleviated some of those, but let's try not to bite the hand that's feeding us.

The latter is a very strong expression that certainly doesn't apply to my case. Despite of my cautious optimism about Rayman's "new" game, it didn't prevent me to pre-order the Switch 2 Launch Edition.

RayGamer99 wrote: No offense, but this line of reasoning kind of sounds like an oxymoron to me.

If all of the previous games didn't happen and are no longer canon, then why would Ubisoft go out of their way to put locations from those games on the map? Theoretically, if they were trying to erase the pre-UbiArt games from the timeline, then they would just put locations from Origins and Legends on the map, wouldn't they? Instead, in addition to acknowledging those games, they put places from Rayman 1 (Dream Forest and Blue Mountains), Rayman 2 (Marshes of Awakening, Cave of Bad Dreams, Whale Bay, Iron Mountains), Rayman 3 (Clearleaf Forest, Bog of Murk, Land of the Livid Dead, Desert of the Knaaren, Looming Sea, Summit Beyond the Clouds), and even Rayman Raving Rabbids (Rabbids Landing Site) on here! They even added the Sea of Lums, an area only mentioned in a manual and maybe promotional material for Rayman 2!

Of course, they can't put every location from every mainline Rayman game on this map, lest it get too bloated, but the amount of nods to previous games this map alone contains doesn't make me think that they would Thanos-snap those events out of existence. It's not impossible for them to do this, but wouldn't it be a little strange for them to have all of these locations and then completely separate them from the events that took place there?

Even aside from those, the new costumes we've seen so far are direct references to Rayman 1 and 3. One might not take this too seriously from a lore standpoint, as these are just cosmetics at the end of the day, but if we really think about it, how would Rayman have gotten his Metal Mania skin if he never got the Heavy Metal Fist to begin with? Why would Globox be dressed as a Hoodmonger if the Hoodmongers never existed? Why would Barbara be wearing an outfit inspired by Betilla's classic appearance if the fairy always looked like her Origins or Retold designs?

Finally for this point, Ubisoft just told us that the enhanced edition of Rayman Origins is getting 50 new standees that clearly reference past events from past Rayman games! The two we've seen so far are both references to Rayman 1 (the classic photoboard from that game and the game's final boss fight), but why would there be a photoboard featuring an amalgamation of fallen Rayman 1 enemies if Rayman never fought and defeated them in the first place?

All-in-all, I don't think we should be too worried about Ubisoft removing older games from the continuity. I haven't seen them care this much about past events, or Rayman in general, in a good long time, and these are all within UbiArt games that originally threw most story and previous lore out the window! Sharing your concerns and any criticisms you might have is perfectly fine, and hopefully the points I made alleviated some of those, but let's try not to bite the hand that's feeding us.

goosmaw wrote: Fri Jun 05, 2026 5:48 pm How do you think they will fit the new music levels? There are meant to be 4 new ones in the original game; there is one per world, so do you think this implies more new worlds? Because this music level doesn't fit any world but Teensies In Trouble, but Castle Rock is confirmed to be returning, so we're gonna have multiple per world, or does this imply more worlds

Tribelle2026 wrote: Fri Jun 05, 2026 6:12 pm Is that Eat at Joe's beside Kung Foot Island?

Droolie wrote: Fri Jun 05, 2026 7:13 pm Have people talked about all the animation bugs in these bits of footage? Of course this is a "pre-beta" build, but even the earliest Origins/Legends footage we'd seen never showed such glaring errors everywhere. I've seen T-posing jacquouilles, Dark Rayman getting stuck in his running animation more often than not, a lack of animation transitions, Rayman standing (not floating) in mid-air... not to mention all the graphics pop-in on faster camera movements. And they have only 4 months to fix all this. Sure explains the internal delay (it was supposed to be released August 27th it seems). I hope that delay will help fix all those issues though, because that's not a lot of time.

RayGamer99 wrote: Fri Jun 05, 2026 12:13 pm Not sure why you'd want to, unless it was cheaper getting Retold separately. Again, I'd assume including Origins Enhanced is the devs' way of adding Back to Origins to the Legends remake, so it makes enough sense to have it bundled.