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hi this is joey davidson senior gaming editor technobuffalo calm and i'm here with a look at the Rayman legends demo for Wii U let's check it out alright so this demo is available for free right now in the Nintendo eShop for Wii U owners and it comes with 30 plays I think that's pretty standard for the wii u demos i believe they all come with 30 plays but i might be completely making that up I just wanted to start it off by going into this unlock area and grabbing the new hero she's brand into the game unlike anything and the other ones and before you ask what's on the gamepad and what's on the TV what you're seeing on the TV is exactly what's on the gamepad in this level especially all you're seeing on the gamepad is exactly what's on the screen so before you ask why I'm not showing the gamepad for the wii u just know that nothing's happening there the gamepad gameplay in this demo is simply tap you just tap and slide on the screen just like you would on any other gamepad or tab order an antenna 3es this demo is the same one that i actually had the good fortune of playing at e3 and then again at a press demo that Nintendo held in New York City before that we use launch so I am familiar with it for the first bit I've never played it solo before and I've kind of wondered how that would work out because when you're playing this game with multiple players on the wii u the characters running on screen are actually using the Nintendo Wii remotes that are compatible with the system and kind of platforming exactly as they would have been with Rayman Origins the game from last year that really blew my mind ah but the gamepad user is actually just tapping so we'll get to his section later you'll know it's pretty apparent in and start that but for now i am using the gamepad to run and jump and everything else so if you do own the gamepad this is not game that will make you use the Wii Remote moment to play traditionally you can use the gamepad there I don't know if it features that nice off-screen play where I can turn off my TV and take this game upstairs and continue to play on my gamepad ok so here it's going to ask me to switch to my gamepad there you go so now on the pad I'm seeing exactly what you see on the TV and it's just showing me touch icons just touch this eyeball watch this and that's all you do when you're playing with multiple players it's really fun here the computers just kind of taking care of everything for me while I kind of tickle bad guys like a 2 here and make my way through the level as Murphy the exploding omnipresent fairy when you're playing this game with friends though what's interesting is that when you're playing is Murphy you can either help or hinder them here it doesn't make much sense to enter the computer because I'm not really giving anyone a hard time but when i played this set press demos with fellow writers and guys that I've known for a while it was fun to just you know grab a platform and slide it out from under them as they walked over it that was hilarious here solo it's an interesting gameplay mechanic but it's not one that I think would make the game two entirely fun so it's nice to know that Ubisoft doesn't make it so that that's all you can do with the gamepad hopefully with New Super Mario Brothers you the only way that you can play with multiple players is if you all use the Wii Remote and you can play with the gamepad but you're not allowed to play as Mario Luigi or one of the toads instead you're kind of forced to only lay blocks it's really boring and I love Mario but I'm going to be the first to say that planting blocks for players to play on is not very fun here it is actually enjoyable to play with the gamepad it's not something I'd want to do all the time but if someone asked me to I wouldn't roll my eyes inside so this demo has changed up a little bit these rooms were a little bit more difficult in the press demos that I played and I guess they might have just made them easier for the sake of this demo hopefully they return to the original difficult to win the game only comes out rayman legends was supposed to be a wii u launch title now it's been pushed to a launch window title the release date is sometime this spring i might be march again i could be making that up I don't know so I will say that I was a big fan of Rayman Origins I played it once on the 360 and then again on the PS Vita when it launched with that handheld I loved it both times on the 360 I played the game almost exclusively as a multiplayer title I might have romped through it once or twice just for fun but it was something that I always busted out what my friends came over and then for the PS Vita I wound up completing it again and earning all the trophies it's one of those games it's just a lot of fun there's so much charm here and the art style is gorgeous we're recording this video in 720p but I believe that it outputs in 1080 the only reason we're recording in 720 is because the capture equipment that i have is limited to 720 so sorry about that but again with with Rayman Origins the art style on the gameplay was so smooth and simple and gorgeous that the game really saw it looks like they're repeating that for the women you like I said this is currently a wii u exclusive for a little tidbit i did actually ask ubisoft e3 if they would be releasing this on other platforms before the wii u exclusivity was announced specifically and they just said we're not talking about anything else right now that hasn't changed but maybe there's hope that it'll come out for other platforms so the game is that don't own the way you can try this title out i'm already looking forward to it i'm going to let the demo play out from here soon because this is a music level if you listen to the instruments in the background notes that gives you my cues for jumping Rayman Origins had these perpetual running levels where you were challenged with getting from point A to point B without stopping that's what this is here it's a very early level it is not challenging at all this is the first time i played it since i had the demo installed on my wii u but check it out and follow us at TechnoBuffalo com for more gaming news thanks for watching guys well I mean I when I me happy one