That ticket you scratch off might award some food. For example, tickets (and more) can be bought with gems. However, there’s a flood of different consumables that make them difficult to keep track of: gems, golden tickets, food, and elixirs can all be earned/purchased, and they all feed right back into one another. There isn’t any sort of mechanic that forces you to either pay or keep waiting, and resources seem to come at a constant enough clip that there exists the possibility it won’t ever become an impediment (unlikely as that may be). To its credit, Rayman Adventures never gets heavy-handed with the microtransactions. The game dishes out a fair amount of food, but you can always buy some with real money if the need arises. Incrediballs grow tired and need to be fed in order to be used again. Predictably, this all loops back to the fact that Rayman Adventures is a free-to-play title.
In collection scenarios, dedicated Incrediballs act as a magnet for the Lums there’s no performing well without their assistance. That’s an example of Incrediballs acting as a crutch, but sometimes they’re flat-out necessary. For combat levels, each Incrediball acts as a shield for Rayman, a second (and third and fourth) chance for when the player inevitably runs into the tightly-placed enemies. The game’s broken down into three main level types: exploration-based, combat-based, and collection-based. The player can call on a number of them to assist them through a level. Incrediballs feel very much like a direct response to Adventures‘ lacking controls. Incrediballs occasionally appear fully grown, but they’ll often take the form of eggs that need to be incubated (either by waiting or by using resources to speed up the process). These quirky creatures help Rayman grow a tree higher and higher into the sky for whatever reason. The big picture going-on in Rayman Adventures involves saving Incrediballs. More damning, the rest of Rayman Adventures feels built around those moments when the controls falter. Chaining together swipes and taps works sometimes, but it’s a bummer each and every time they don’t. Keeping things from speeding out of control is a smart design decision, but not one that’s quite consolation enough for inaccurate inputs. And while many runners press ever-onward left to right, Rayman Adventures tries to avoid that trap, usually allowing the player to dictate the flow. Swiping on the screen gets the titular character moving, tapping implores him to jump, and swiping again changes direction. Rayman Adventures is an auto-runner that often moves at a restrained pace. Mobile has no problem accommodating for the former it’s the latter that causes issues. The two defining features of Rayman games in the recent past have been vibrant, feel-good aesthetics and rock-solid controls. Now Ubisoft is testing the franchise’s viability in the mobile waters with Rayman Adventures, and while it works, it doesn’t as well as you’d hope, given how high the bar has been set. The last two console games - Origins and Legends - were fantastic platformers worthy of the highest praise.
Rayman has had a good run of it as of late.
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