Rayman 2 - PS1 vs. PS2 | Side by Side 

Too Bad Both These Versions aren't on Ps Plus Premium

Because PS2 is remastered version. It was a thing before modern gaming industries made into fast cash grab. Like Ubi with AC3 and Rockstar with LA Noire.

It’s being played on an emulator. Play this on original hardware and it doesn’t look nearly as good. I own it on PS1.

@@xXSilentAgent47XxIt’s not really a remaster, it’s more of an expanded port. The Dreamcast and PC versions actually run better

​@@AB_883 The PS2 one is also being played on an emulator.

Indeed, I remember downloading the game on both my psvita and ps3, and never once did I feel like it looked bad.

For real, someone stole all the geometry on the ps1 version

@@a.liguria2698 you played it on the vita? how did you assign your buttons? i kept accidentally touching the back touchpad and that ruined it for me

@@Kontekst Oh the control scheme was a pain indeed. I remember assigning the R2 / L2 buttons on the touchscreen and it still felt bad... I only downloaded it on the psvita because of the portability...

@@a.liguria2698 same for me. i wanted to replay it and thought it would be perfect on the go. after some struggle getting it to run on my computer, i discovered the 3DS version. it is pretty low resolution but it's pretty much how i remember the PC version and 3D effect adds a lot of immersion

Actor i read at start XD

Wow I never knew it was made in France now I know why it had amazing 50hz conversations :D

@@HollowRick It was created by Michel Ancel under Ubisoft. Monsieur Ancel received la legión d'honneur for hid contribution to the video game Industry (not only through Rayman but also other works like Beyond Good'n'Evil ; he was probably Ubisoft's most precious creator). The same day, Frédérick Raynal also received La legión d'honneur for creating Alone in the Dark (1992), the first modern Survival-horror game ever made and a major influence for Resident Evil (1996). Fun fact: Mr Raynal used to live near my hometown.

Ubisoft were once a great company (unfortunately they're now hot garbage) what other notable games did France make? I'm sure there's a few

FURI

Finally someone thinks just like me :D

Same for meeeee!

The PC version's visuals are comparable to the Dreamcast version (though there were a few cuts to the effects such as lighting, particles etc). The PS2 version's visuals are significantly different and more advanced than any of the others. Polygon counts are much higher, and environments are far less blocky and have greater detail as a result. Lighting was also heavily enhanced, with new shadow effects.

Raymanian

Yes, me too, I've never heard them speak English and just a bunch of lines that I can't understand at all, just the subtitles that make it clear.

PS2 version is actually a remake not a port. Has a open world hub instead of a world map, has better graphics and mostly better voice acting

@@dragoon2334 (better voice acting in the sense that it has voice acting)

@@MyScorpion42 The PS1 version also has actual voice acting as well, so i'm assuming that's the point being made. The PS2's VA was rerecorded however and is better than the PS1 VA. PS2 also has the option to set the voices back too the old gibberish as well too. Despite the new hub world, bosses and enhanced visuals though, the PS2 version is still sort of closer to the "other" versions of Rayman 2 than the PS1 version. PS1 has a ton of missing levels, some levels heavily edited or abbreviated or even combined together. So a lot of the time, it's almost its own version of the game in that sense. The PS2 version does mostly adapt the same level design as N64/DC/PC on the other hand. Even though again there are a lot of visual enhancements and even a few minor changes here and there.

Lol

I'm dying over here lmao

40 is just from cut contents from PS1 on PS2 version.

Hehe. Though in all seriousness, they probably did that because the narrator reads the slave count aloud. So they used a solid number to match the VA. The other versions have a count that continually ticks upward by comparison.

@@EclesysGalaxy lol That's what the slaves said

Hell yeah!

Both versions have the same voice actor, David Gasman, just a different take. Although, I do agree that the direction was *way* better in the PlayStation dub, although I did grow up with it, so it could be bias... nah, doubt it, the PlayStation 2 dub has little emotion.

In rayman 2 gameq

Has

But it's by far the worst version of the game. Half of it is missing.

@@guillemmoreno5522 It has a different final boss fight from all the others though.

@@virgogaming6488 Still the worst lol

​@@sephistar1074u is the worst

@@thecubixkingshawn Why are you so offended by a random youtube comment about a video game? lol Chill, dude.

No shlt, sherlock

mind = blown

Dumb4ss

3:35 Also the humor just works the best in the PS1 version. The voice acting, audio mixing, and different animation style of PS1 just fits Rayman far better.

Yeah, I don't know what happened with the Revolution dub. Rayman has the same voice actor in both versions, but the Revolution dub just seems to lack the emotion of the PS1 dub. And the voice of the Teensies in Revolution is so... off... Though, Jano's Revolution voice definitely fits him better than the PS1 version, even if I have a soft spot for PS1 Jano.

Na

yeah I remember them speaking "Banjonese" in the original plus the warp icon was the dreamcast symbol all across the systems lol!

Yes

@Nutzer XYZ the dreamcast version runs at 60fps.

Do you swear? So are the songs on the PC version the same as on the Playstation 2? If so, even better! 😃

Rayman 2 Revolution is better it's open world plus FPS drops are overblown especially on PS2

​​@@RobertK1993I mean, comparing DC and PS2 is a tough one. DC is a port, while Revolution is a remake. Revolution is fine as a remake on its own, but feels bloated when compared to the other versions, while DC is the definitive edition in Michel Ancel's opinion, making it a sort of retroactive director's cut.

Classic 🐸

I still think PS1 is better than Revolution. Revolution just feels bloated, while PS1 may be missing some content. It's nice though that they let you switch between human and Raymanian languages in Revolution, even if its English dub is lacking the emotion of the PS1 dub.

The PS1 version was actually the "original" one, it's the one that started development first at least and the unlockable 2D demo you can get is the earliest form of what would become Rayman 2. However, the original core Rayman 2 team moved onto the N64/PC version, while the PS1 version was handed off to a different team, Ubisoft Shanghai. They weren't kept entirely up to date with the latest code from the other versions however, so PS1 is based on an older variant of the code and a lot of quick and dirty adaptations had to be made to get it into a completed state. While it would obviously have been a visually lesser version of the game regardless, it's likely that it could have been made to be closer to the other versions with some extra time and effort. Instead, a lot of levels were cut, made shorter with areas missing or even some of them were combined together (like Whale Bay and the Water/Ice Sanctuary).