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hey guys this is joey davidson the senior gaming editor at technobuffalo calm and I'm here with a look at the Rayman legends challenge app for the wii u all right I've personally been calling this thing the Rayman legends apology app it's this is what ubisoft released in the wake of their delay and decision to make this no longer wii u exclusive so so rayman legends let's back up just a little bit Rayman legends was initially announced as a wii u exclusive this game was going to release in i believe februari of this year so that's still in that weird launch window that nintendo declared for the wii u and it was going to be exclusively available to wii u owners and after Rayman Origins that wonderful game that if you can find it it's it's pretty cheap i think it's sitting anywhere from fifteen to twenty dollars and it released on every platform under the sum a couple years ago it's a great platformer and this was the follow up and news of it being wii u exclusive was huge for nintendo honestly the wii u is devoid of games right now and that's Nintendo's biggest problem i mean dismiss every other complain about the system i know that those complaints are legitimate but the biggest problem for the wii u is its complete lack of first party and third-party software Rayman legends was going to be another addition to the library so what's your what you're seeing here is the Rayman legends challenge app they decided to release this as an apology to fans to kind of hold them over for the new release date now that this is no longer wii u exclusive and coming and i think august of this year to the xbox 360 playstation 3 and of course the wii u the challenge app is as you see me goof here basically this is free which is amazing news every single day it's going to give you a brand new challenge this is today's challenge the day of recording and and that challenge can be brief it can be a little bit long the previous challenge made use of the gamepad where you touched enemies and stuff and you'll see me do something like that a little down the line I think I'm actually going to do that right now but the whole deal here is that you're competing with other players in order to get the best runs the best times the fastest completion rates the fastest collection rates and you unlock stuff like additional heroes which is what you're seeing right now and of course you've got Globox one of my favorites from the original game I decided to switch back to Glavine he's so goofy I decided to switch back to Globox and retake the the daily challenge and all the stuff works towards unlocking more levels more free playable content and it's all randomly generated all the challenges and it's going to be fresh every single day then there's going to be a weekly challenge so you compete in order to unlock new trophies and register on the world scale so right now you're seeing me run this I'm trying to do it as fast as I can it I don't think I break 24 seconds in this in this recording for this quick run and I'm looking at the leaderboard and people are getting it done in like seventeen seconds I'm not going to suggest that I'm amazing at Rayman legends but i'm okay how people are doing it in 17 seconds I have no idea you just saw pretty a pretty flawless run there and I don't break 26 seconds ah ridiculous so if you want to feel bad about yourself while playing this game that's the ticket honestly I think this is a great move by Ubisoft I don't think that it's going to say she ate all the frustration that came from fans but it is nice that the content is completely free but speaking as a Rayman Origins fan as I mentioned before it is really great to be able to have access to these levels but I can't help but feel that I would so much rather just have the full game it's nice that this is free i'm not looking a gift horse in the mouth but i just wish you be soft to decided to release it on the wii u in February like they promised but and here's some some side news that kind of comes aside from this video the developers Ubisoft Montreal have announced that they've already added 30 additional levels and brand new boss fights to the game in the wake of the delay so all that extra time wasn't for naught we are going to get more content to the game that's fantastic I just why we use collecting dust from day to day when I'm not when I'm not able to play games and Rayman legends would have been something that pushed it over the edge this is the weekly challenge it is a Wii U gamepad controlled level I'm not actually going to show the gamepad because what you see on the screen is the same thing that I see on the gamepad so it's it's nothing different at all basically I'm controlling Murphy he's the ferry that you're going to see popping in and out of the screen there and my job is to highlight the these think they're called in order for them to be worth double and I want to get to 150 as fast as possible on this weekly challenge I actually played it a bit yesterday it's really hard and again people are able to do it so much better than I am just feel terrible about this the touchscreen stuff is fun I definitely prefer the more traditional controller-based platforming that's what made Rayman Origins so special but playing this on a multiplayer basis like local couch co-op well one of us is rocking the gamepad and someone else has the regular wii remote that'd be nice but as it is now I'm not complaining it's fun so like I said this is completely free if you are a wii u owner you can actually download this from the eShop right now it will cost you nothing it's going to be available up until the game releases so between now and and that date in late August I think it's the 27th for north america and the 30th for European regions this app will be available and new levels and challenges will be released every single day every single day between now and then that's awesome so thank you guys for watching this is joey davidson for TechnoBuffalo calm and we'll be back with more game content down the line