History VideoGame / RaymanLegends

* NintendoHard: The Invasion levels. Having to go through the difficult courses is enough, but having to blaze through in under 40 seconds to get a gold cup becomes very difficult later on. Then, upon beating all the worlds, the Dark Rayman Invasions are unlocked. Have fun not only doing the above, but you're also chased by a shadow that copies your movements and kills you upon contact. Sometimes, the Dark Rayman Invasions require you to kill enemies in order to proceed, in addition to the strict time limit.

The game was originally set to be released as a Wii U exclusive in February 2013, but a couple weeks before its release date Creator/{{Ubisoft}} announced that it would be delayed until September in order to have a simultaneous multiplatform launch on UsefulNotes/XBox360, UsefulNotes/PlayStation3, UsefulNotes/PlaystationVita and PC as well. These were followed by ports to the UsefulNotes/XboxOne and UsefulNotes/PlayStation4 five months later. As an apology, the Wii U got the game's Challenge Mode as a free download in April. Plus, the production team used the extra time to add a lot of additional content to the game, including dozens of new levels.

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''Rayman Legends'' is the 2013 sequel to ''VideoGame/RaymanOrigins''. After defeating the Magician and saving the Glade of Dreams in ''Origins'', Rayman, Globox, and the Teensies [[TimeSkip take a century-long nap]], during which the nightmares grew in numbers and strength, becoming monsters of legend, like dragons and giant frogs, and the Magician returned, only with more of himself this time to cause more trouble than before. Rayman and his friends are awakened and, with the help of Murfy and new friend Barbara, must save the Glade again.

* HardModeFiller: Living Dead Party. Save for Grannies World Tour, this extra world is only composed of all the previous Musical Levels, only remixed into chiptune and racked up in difficulty by removing all the markers and checkpoints while adding in gratuitous amounts of CameraScrew. It even ends with an 8-bit version of Grannies World Tour, meaning the world contains its own Hard Mode Filler!

*** In "Mansion of the Deep", the last part has similar music to the ''[[Film/OceansEleven Ocean's Twelve]]'' scene where François Toulour dances through security lasers.

* BareYourMidriff: The default outfit for new character Barbara.

** The nine princess characters with wings on their helmets use them to glide. The two that don't have wings on their hats (spy princesses Ursula and Emma) instead have propellers built into them.

* AnAxeToGrind: Barbara, unlike Rayman and pals' fisticuffs, wields an axe.

* BalefulPolymorph: In some of the Fiesta de los Muertos world levels, [[spoiler:The Magician]] appears and turns Rayman and friends into ducks. They still retain all of their attacks, though.

* UpToEleven: This is the ultimate level of Awesomeness, gained through winning several trophies in-game and in the regular Daily/Weekly Challenges.

* MusicalGameplay: Each world has a level based completely around this, most of which use licensed music, Castle Rock uses Ram Jam's cover of "Black Betty", Mariachi Madness uses "Eye of the Tiger" by Music/{{Survivor}}, Gloo Gloo uses The 5.6.7.8's cover of The Rock-A-Teens' "Woo-Hoo" (as heard in ''Film/KillBill Vol. 1''), and Dragon Slayer uses "Antisocial" by the French rock band Trust. The exceptions are Orchestral Chaos, which uses a classical-music piece (some say it's Vivaldi's ''Four Seasons'', but it's hard to tell), and Grannies World Tour, which is a guitar-heavy version of "Land of the Livid Dead" from ''Origins''.

* ProngsOfPoseidon: Emma and Ursula swap out their axes for a trident that works in a similar fashion.