Ubisoft details Rayman Legends Challenges App
Ubisoft is scheduled to launch the free Rayman Legends Challenges App on the Wii U eShop later this month. The exclusive download is Ubisoft’s way of showing their thanks to fans for their patience in waiting for the full game’s arrival.
The Challenges App will offer Wii U owners the following, according to lead game designer Emile Morel:
- a crazy run in Land of the Livid Dead.
- a journey in the vertiginous Neverending Pit.
- a climb of the Infinite Tower as fast as possible.
- Murfy’s Dungeon, a challenge dedicated to the Wii U GamePad where you play as Murfy on the touch screen.
Players will be able to partake in daily and weekly challenges “to compete with your friends and players from all around the world” through the online Challenge Mode. New and exclusive levels will be generated each day and every week, and the app will be supported up through the launch of the full game.
Morel told Nintendo Life that “The Rayman dev team will provide some exclusive tips and tricks for Wii U owners on Miiverse and on Facebook” and there are plans to “organize contests between our fans and the Rayman dev team.”
Emil was asked if there will be an advantage to taking on challenges in local multiplayer with others helping on the GamePad screen, or whether there be separate leaderboards for single and multiplayer. Emil responded:
The challenge called Murfy’s Dungeon is really fun in local multiplayer with one player controlling Murfy on the Wii U GamePad screen and the other one controlling a classic character on the TV. If the two players correctly synchronize their actions they can make great scores! But we made sure that if you play solo you can do the same scores, since the learderboards are the same if you play alone or with friends.
However only the normal Daily and Weekly Challenges allow local multiplayer, as you play along you will unlock the Daily and Weekly Extreme Challenges: these 2 challenges are harder and dedicated to players who love competition, they are only open to single-players to make sure all players are equal in the leaderboards.
And whether the multiplayer is local only for the Challenge Mode, or if it can be experienced with others online, Morrel said:
The whole Challenge mode is based on the fact that you’re always playing against other players online. So in a challenge you always see the ghosts of the players who are just ahead of you in the leaderboard. This pushes you to always try to beat them, and this can also help you because you can learn new tricks by watching how the other competitors are playing. At the end of the challenge the game shows you who you managed to beat and who is still in front of you. Your ultimate goal is to climb all you way up in the leaderboads to be one of the few players who will win a Diamond Cup at the end of a challenge!
