User:Haruka

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Howdy, stranger!

One of my favourite artworks that Ubisoft has ever made of the series: a render based in the famous French Romantist painting from Théodore Géricault, completely "Raymanized".

Bio

An unexpected discovery I did in a visit to Marseille. A retro gaming shop was exposing this board containing many Rayman 2 art parodies, some of them unknown by the fans until the date!

Name: Haruka (Haruka Tavares in some places)

Gender:

Planet Earth residence: The once called the Occidental Lusitanian strand

Maternal language: The same language as Luís de Camões spoke!

Foreigner languages: English (My main foreign language), Spanish (Mostly by speaking than writing), French (Words. Can't keep up with a conversatation.).

Hobbies and Interests: Gaming, Arts and Technology

How this interest for the Rayman franchise started?

I was in the house of an ex-neighbour which had a slim PlayStation 1 with a couple of games. When I went to the living room, I saw him playing a game with a very cartoony, colourful, happy and animated jungle landscape. I was marvelled to the amount of detail of everything in the screen. When I look to the left I see a character with a unique attribute, something that I've never seen before: no arms, no legs and no neck. I asked if I could play, and despite of his hesitation he let me. I found the character's attack quite fun and how the enemies died. I managed to beat a giant purple mosquito and to reach the first musical level. I took no time to notice that I was hooked! I tried out the sequel's DEMO in the same day that came in a PlayStation Magazine disk that the ex-neighbour used to have too. I became a Rayman fan from that day on. And that's my story!

Raymanish Data

Rayman fan since...: Summer of 1999/Early 2000 (?)

Player status: Veteran

First game to have played and when: Rayman (PlayStation version) : Summer of 2000

First game to have acquired/bought and when: Rayman M (PC version) : Around December of 2001 and the first months of 2002

Latest (up to date) game to have acquired/bought and when: Rayman Legends: Definitive Edition (Switch version) ; July 2018.

Favourite Rayman game: Rayman 2: The Great Escape

Least favourite Rayman game: Rayman Raving Rabbids (Symbian version - Rayman has got an identity crisis)

Rayman Pirate Community member since...: Summer of 2008

Current status in RPC: Ex-English Moderator. Dormant member. Currently fallen in a long nap without date and hour to awake.

RayWiki user since: August of 2009

Current status in RayWiki: Casual contributor

Trivia (Nothing interesting to read here)

The best screensaver in the entire franchise. Bring these kind of goodies back!

I presented a school work about Rayman's game series in an English class of 11th grade and I got a mark of 18/20 values (90%).

As of February 2019, I am the national champion in Rayman 3: Hoodlum Havoc''s Hall of Fame.

As of February 2014, I am in the top 40 of the best Rayman 3: Hoodlum Havoc players in the world, and in the top 30 of the best players of the same game in the PC version.

I was one of the 55 winners in Portugal of the Iberian Kelloggs drawing contest, in which offered a copy of Rayman Raving Rabbids Activity Centre to the winners.

I was one of the 6 winners in Europe (Outside of United Kingdom and France) of the official Ubisoft's Rayman Origins Art Contest, in which offered to the runner-ups a Gift Basket, containing a Collector's Edition and Normal copies of Rayman Origins, stickers, posters, t-shirts and a canvas.

For a long period of time since the game launched, I was in top 10 of the best Rayman 3 HD players in the world in the leaderboards of PlayStation 3.

At the release date of the Rayman Legends Challenges App for the Wii U, I was ranked in the 78th place.

My YouTube channel is the one with the most Rayman walkthroughs and video content available on the whole network.

I was one of the 10 winners in the worldwide contest of "UPlay Fan Art Contest" of 2014. I got in the 9th place, and I got a 10€ digital coupon to spend in the online shop of UPlay as a prize.