Rayman Origins on Vita, Ubisoft's magnificent 2D platformer with its painted visuals. Creative levels and enchanting music. Slightly below Legends but excellent nonetheless.
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Platformer1 player7+
Description
Rayman and friends explore the Elysiums to free captured electoons in this Ubisoft artistic platformer. Published by Ubisoft, released in the United States in February 2012. 2D platformer with hand-painted visuals, colourful organic levels, two-player co-operation. US edition.
Rayman Origins review
MAX
Art direction
★★★★★
"Iconic"
MAX
Music
★★★★★
"Legendary"
3/5
Story
★★★★★
"Solid"
A radiant rebirth of the series, this return to 2D shows hand-painted settings of contagious vitality. Organic colours, expressive creatures and bounding animation turn every level into a living tableau. This graphic freshness, inaugural and inspired, restored the genre's nobility.
Playful and inventive, the music piles up rousing melodies and zany finds, right up to levels entirely choreographed to music. Each world overflows with a joyful, colourful whimsy. This sonic generosity, creative and sunny, makes the game a pure pleasure for the ears from start to finish.
Gameplay
"Excellent"
Fun
"From the very first seconds"
Reconnecting with the platformer in its purest form: pixel-perfect jumps, a cartoon brought to life and a pace that races without ever losing clarity. Co-op play adds a dose of joyful chaos to every stage. Sublime, funny and superbly paced, a return to the roots that reminds you why you love the genre.
Addictiveness
"Obsessive"
Platforming finds a joyful rigor here: every jump counts, every stage sparkles with ideas, and flushing out the hidden Electoons revives the urge to clear it all. The pace races on through the worlds without ever losing its readability. Some chase sequences frustrate, but the artistic flair and the finely tuned handling keep an immediate grip.
Complete: box, manual and disc/cart very clean. Lightly handled.
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Collector interest
Ubisoft's 2D rebirth, Rayman Origins relaunches the series in hand-drawn platforming of praised fluidity, carefully brought to Vita. Fairly common in the United States, its interest lies mainly in this artistic resurrection in portable form rather than scarcity. A piece valued by fans of classic platforming with refined style.
Is Rayman Origins still worth playing in 2026?
A Vita adaptation of the famous Ubisoft platformer, Rayman Origins offers a sublime 2D adventure with cooperative mode for up to four players and vibrant cartoon art direction. The precise handling, polished animation and content generosity make it an absolute platformer reference on Vita. For anyone fond of Rayman or seeking an unmissable modern portable 2D platformer, an absolutely essential recommendation today still without any hesitation on the Sony portable machine for all 2D genre fans truly here indeed.
