RESTORED MAPS in Rayman 4's Prototype | Raving Rabbids

[@Yally2077]

The most ambitious Rayman game we never got, fully.

[@RingLeaderCircusSins]

7:33 FrameRater: I’m really sad we didn’t get this game Me: LITERALLY EVERYONE FEELS THE EXACT D*MN WAY DX

[@ramadhanadriano7650]

Im baffled that we instead got a party game instead of this.

[@ethejumper6568]

@@ramadhanadriano7650 Even if it gets finished by random People, I still won´t accept this as a Rayman 4.

[@ramadhanadriano7650]

​@@ethejumper6568 fair, because even it finished by someone else doesn't mean it's the same as it was intended originally from the developers. Or because the gameplay a bit differs from other rayman games. Rayman always been slept on, the only modern medias about rayman is cameo in captain laser hawk and mario rabbid dlc.

[@laguet93]

This prototype was ahead of its time, really. All that stuff was made in less than a year. So much ambition, such an AWESOME vibe ! You Can tell Ancel and his team were going all out on this one. Ancel must have been (and probably still is) so frustrated to see what The final product ended up being... It really gives a whole other feeling to that piece of interview he gave to french newspaper Liberation after his retirement : "Are you leaving with regrets ?" "No. The only regret I have is to not have finished the two games (bge2 and Wild) faster. I really wanted to make Rayman 4. Maybe one day, I'll regain my motivation."

[@joeyparkhill8751]

I'd LOVE to see The Rayman community do something with Rayman 4's prototype like what The Duke Nukem community is doing with DNF's 2001 prototype, wouldn't you Frame?

[@Victini7472]

wait, what are they doing? i'm curious now

[@TeraunceFoaloke]

@@Victini7472 The DNF community has been restoring the 2001 build. I think Act 1 is finished.

[@Victini7472]

@@TeraunceFoaloke oh sick, thanks! imma check that out

[@seasidehhill]

that would be neat.

[@MajoraWaffle]

rayman community has some pretty talented fan developers up it's sleeves. i'm sure some will be up for that task!

[@Gabri_Lovecraft]

I really, really want to be optimistic about this, and I think something can be salvaged, but people are comparing this to the Duke Nukem Forever 2001 leak and I think this is a different beast. Based on all the info we have about the game, we can actually pretty easily patch together a plan for recreating the game. We can't do that as easily for this. I'm absolutely on board for any fan restorations, but let's be real, whatever is gonna be there is gonna be WAY different from the developers intentions.

[@koigoi]

Yeah. There's way too much that's not finished in this build. It's got the skeleton and nerves of a great game, but no muscle.

[@The_Moodi]

@@koigoi nerves yeah, but brain kinda is dead

[@FriendlyNeighborhoodNoob]

Honestly, a thing that might help restore this game would be looking back at the GBA/DS version of RRR for reference (and even the official PS2 RRR game) Hell, if they want to go even further, they could ask some of the lead developers that worked on the prototype for what they originally intended (I doubt it would do much, but still worth a try)

[@UndertakerU2ber]

8:51 To be clear, the bat creature here and the triceratops shortly after originate from the King Kong game that Ubisoft developed. Many seem to be unaware of their origin and believe they were intended to be in the final game.

[@Ukysseus]

Thanks I didn't know! It's because their design is similar to the bird that was in the game promo, so I just assumed they were also made for this game. What about the spider and shark?

[@UndertakerU2ber]

@@Ukysseus I’m pretty sure the spider was intended to be in the final product. I personally find it’s “fire breath” attack to be strange and possibly a placeholder, but I’m only speculating. There is, however, a creature from King Kong called the “Moonspider” that appeared in the Ubisoft game, but I’m not sure if this spider shares the same model as the one seen in the Rayman 4 builds. For the shark, I haven’t found any shark-like creatures from King Kong. The King Kong animals usually have a unique name, such as the triceratops being called “Ferrucutus cerastes”, the bay creature called “Terapusmordax obscenus”, and the centipede creature called “Megapede”. I’d check to see if that particular shark model shows up anywhere in Ubisoft’s King Kong game, as they seem to have exclusively reused assets from that project when prototyping Rayman 4. If the shark seems to be a purely original creation found only in the Rayman 4 prototype, there’s a good chance the shark was intended to be in the final product.

[@MousesMistake]

One of my teachers at university actually worked on the king kong game back then, and was acquainted with Michel Ancel. I wonder if they ever mentioned Rayman 4 back then

[@luigiisgreen]

Makes sense, since there is are files for king Kong in the source, in the GetRayman Folder, the files inside is called GetKong

[@alex_-yz9to]

i wonder how much of this ended up being used as reference for the ds version

[@stick8323]

And the GBA version

[@Ukysseus]

I just finished RRR DS so: The beach levels, The forest levels, The Lava Level, the kinda open-world nature of the game (in DS you often got back in old stages), the rabbids robots, Big rabbids, the minigames between stages...

[@zamsasu2004]

Don't forget the gba version

[@Jack-ev1up]

I 100% believe the Rahman Raving Rabbids prototype can be redeemed and turned into an amazing experience!

[@Soviet00000]

Also, it could mean more income, rather than the rabbids...

[@DaveLife25]

this is more like an early alpha than a prototype. A prototype is usually like a very very small concept slice while in this build they were starting to make multiple parts of the game

[@chainswordcs]

prototype is generally used as a wider umbrella term, where "alpha" or "beta" may be incorrect or misleading

[@saffronnie3969]

Nah, it's a prototype. WAY too primitive to be an alpha. A Hat In Times Prototype was very functional, but it was still called a prototype. I mean there were a LOT of conceps that weren't yet in the game or finished and it was very buggy, but it had quite a lot of functionality.

[@DMurcielago]

Why would you say things you have NO clue about 😂

[@ItsAubreeyy]

@@saffronnie3969yea and also that proto was very weird imo

[@lukemorgan6166]

Uhm AHKTUALLY 🤓

[@AlanElChato]

I hope this gets more attention and maybe, just maybe (with donations) we can be available to play this version of Rayman as a full release!

[@ruthchavez9281]

Hey I agree, I would love to donate for such project.

[@drifter402]

You can't. It's all test levels

[@magolord2820]

Even tho World 1 may be lost, I imagine it would've been kinda the same as the arena in RRR if the concept art are to be believed so I like to imagine the other worlds are what happens after you escape the arena x)

[@dynamon911nz]

yeah that might be possible

[@Ukysseus]

I think that W1 was supposed to be the beach level. It's the case in the DS version of the game and Rayman is seen there in the Teaser trailer. I'm not sure we found anything about the arena in the proto but it wouldn't surprise me if it was supposed to be a final zone/boss.

[@magolord2820]

@@Ukysseus Yeah, that's also a good assumption. I know that the beach level was found, I don't know how it's called internally tho. And yeah, I didn't see anything about the arena either so it might be a final zone as well 🤷‍♂

[@lumenights96]

11:29 this level seems to show us a glimpse of what the game could look like with a complete lighting engine

[@littleguystar]

I can’t wait to sit down and watch, this entire game’s prototype is so huge of a discovery and I haven’t seen enough about it

[@JomasterTheSecond]

Seeing so much of Rayman 4 being found and preserved makes me incredibly happy.

[@XradicalD]

As much as I would love to see Rayman 4 being done in some shape or form, there's only so much that can be done by stitching in-development assets. Pretty sure the game would've gotten many passes on story, art and gameplay during that time. So if the team were to "finish" Rayman 4, it would require a full dev team to fill the gaps; a director, designer, programmer, etc. And passion projects always run on the free time from the people involved, and even with that, it's most likely be something else other than whatever the original team envisioned. What I'm saying is, there's only so much content that can be savaged before reaching a dead end. At that point, finishing R4 would just be a "what if" scenario and not the real thing as it pains me to say, so lets temper expectations. What I would love to happen is Ubisoft seeing the huge interest people have in Rayman 4 and getting the team back to finish it up. I don't think they could just take it where they left off or make a game without unnecessary "modern gaming" implementations, but even though the Rabbids are more of a established franchise nowadays, I'm sure they could still go for the gritty aim the game had. Maybe they could excuse it as an origin story and then the rabbids become the wacky cast we know them now. Whatever happens I hope to see more of this, be more assets, concept stuff, filling in the blanks, etc. I'll keep saying that we were ROBBED from Rayman 4, as I truly think it would've set the standards for mascot platformers going forward.

[@FrameRater]

The origin story idea is really good!

[@tivvy2vs21]

They could try to restore it like they would have made it if they had to use what had to rush to get a game out of what they had (basically a Sonic 06 scenario, but hopefully not broken)

[@XradicalD]

@@FrameRater I think it could be a nice compromise keeping both sides of the rabbids, gritty start and once the invasion is dealt with, only the good ones or harmless wacky ones stay around. Some travel to invade other areas/worlds/universes only be a shadow of what their original military might was and then settle for wacky adventures (tv show rabbids invasion, Tv party game and Mario & Rabbids).

[@XradicalD]

@@tivvy2vs21 I mean, on the least Sonic 06 actually got published so there's more to work with for something like Project 06. Still, hopefully they get to a point of "all the original assets compiled" before branching out into "what if" scenarios. I'm sure there will be plenty of people with different takes on what R4 could've been. All exciting nonetheless.

[@tivvy2vs21]

@@XradicalD i mean less sonic 06, i dont know an example, but like a game where they had to release it very soon and had to staple together what they had in a way that could pass for a game you could sell

[@BrickmanZero]

Not even a Rayman fan but being one of your videos is a must watch (and ngl i got hooked to Rayman 4 videos, might try the series)

[@blondbassist]

I'm going through a similar thing, I didn't really care for Rayman until I saw Frame's R4 prototype video, now i'm checking out the earlier gmes in the series. This game even to a non-rayman fan looked amazing.

[@Mike-hr5nn]

2:35 Noooo... I can't escape that melody. It's in my head again XD

[@shadokwastaken]

i really appreciate how fun the video is with all the goofs here and there while showing all this!

[@YannickJur]

Seeing this is magical to me! The size of the worlds and ESPECIALLY of the Bots is just as incredible as I imagined for years.

[@VelvetMagician]

1:53 Rayman Frontiers

[@joeyparkhill8751]

8:09 [insert theme tune from the movie "JAWS" here]

[@HoodoHoodlumsRevenge]

This is eye-opening to see all these years later. So cool!!😊

[@no1raymanfan]

12:40 Reminds me of Tick Tock Clock

[@Crit-Chance]

Honestly man after watching this video, the feeling is the same as every other one. I really wish we could just have this! Thanks for sharing all these findings though, I really appreciate it.

[@jetstreamgaming1558]

I've only played the minigame version while never knowing what it could have been. It's so cool seeing a community working together on such a project.

[@STANNco]

there's good reasons why this wasn't finished, i imagine if it was completed it would probably not be well recieved compared to the others. But who knows, still just makes me wish for a real rayman 4

[@RaxoFilms]

imagine a world if this game was finished 😔✊️

[@DocDieg0]

12:57 That windmill island might be a Gorillaz reference, there's a similar windmill island feature in Feel Good Inc. and El Mañana videoclips

[@maximus4765]

Crazy to think how things might have turned out if not for those deadlines. We might not have had any rabbids anything beyond this hypothetical rayman game.

[@josejaviermarmol8712]

10:13 I like the prototype of pink.👍

[@josejaviermarmol8712]

10:42 - I really like the prototype pictures of pink.👏👍

[@Murderouslord_Aqua_simp]

18:05 reburrowed team: hard, yes... BUT NOT IMPOSSIBLE!

[@McNabbot]

I remember owning a game informer magazine with this version of this game on the cover with a whole story about it. While I don't remember most of the article, I vividly remember one of the devs saying they wanted to have more adult humor in the game and even wanted to try and get a Rayman show on adult swim. "Not because of sex or anything, but because [we wanted a more crude sense of humor you can't show on kid's tv]".

[@nicks4802]

1:38 THE WILD THORNBERRY’S!!!!

[@mangleman25]

My big question is, does Ubisoft not know about the leak of this build of Rayman 4 or do they just not care? Because the complete restoration of it might depend on that fact

[@anthonymarziano9984]

The is excellent that you were able to restore this maps! This is the closest will get to the "actual game, I hope some restores this game. I have being watching the restoration of the Project! It looks nice.

[@Crit-Chance]

2:38 The "stole my enemy's girlfriend" strut

[@---pp7tq]

Excellent video. No more than a decade, average fan of Rayman would literally kill to see this stuff.

[@juvenoiachild7675]

7:00 the bipod really reminds me of the Halo 3 scarab fights. maybe thats what they were going for. wouldve been really interesting

[@angemyste2094]

The fact that the movement of Rayman's head fixes his target in a natural way is so clean

[@superfnafdude2freddyland397]

2:37 Rayman doing the livesey walk

[@wartos6547]

16:18 looks like the mini game from Hoodlum Headquarters level in Rayman 3, where u hit wooden targets of rayman and globox

[@spyroG3]

I want to thank you for the compilations that you make about the discoveries that the community makes about this prototype, it makes it easier to see among so much that they discover.

[@kylesatwon1134]

The Rabbit beating up the Lum in a cage before running away from Rayman is an idea they reused in Rayman Legends, actually, when the Dark Teensy kidnaps a normal Teensy and you need to chase them in a similar fashion. It also kinda looks similar, too, with the Dark Teensy controlling a device while doing it just like the Rabbit does

[@RemnantCult]

I wish we got this game. It would have been one hell of a good time.

[@dailydelphox]

Sad what we have is full of gaps, but I hope fans can fill in those gaps, take some liberties, and make something good out of all of this. It wouldn't be easy but hopefully access to assets from the leaked build and final game and the Jade engine help make this more feasible. Rayman 4 Revolution would be a cool fangame, and might be the closest we'll get to another proper Rayman game.

[@skootergirl22]

The GBA game has the original plot that the wii game was supposed to have

[@JeepusChrystler]

...rhinos? My brother in Christ, those are clearly some sort of ceratopsian dinosaur

[@KonradGM]

It is funny to look back at that e3 trailer and once you pay attention you realise rabbids in that trailer were png too in the backgtround lol

[@Victini7472]

HELL YEAH RAYMAN 4 RESTORATION PROJECT? i thought we had already squeezed everything out of this build, but i guess not! let's gooooooo

[@coca-clown]

absolutely amazing discoveries aside, your sense of humour is sublime. thanks for the small gags throughout the video

[@snailthelostcow63]

11:28 Good god, I legit thought this was something from a teaser not in-game prototype Scary looking at how good it is

[@Luseu]

While I haven't been active with R4 stuff as of late, I've still been surprised and excited over the stuff still being discovered and done by everyone!

[@YannickJur]

Man, I wish we did get Rayman 4. This could've been the best Rayman imo! There's truly no need to add gameplay elements, there's already such a big variety. Of course it was TOO much to make a full game with in the deadline back then, but would be perfect to make a full game out of it without a deadline today. Focus would need to be on filling the empty maps with gameplay elements and connect them all with a story and objectives. And lots and lots of polish.

[@AlUser3460]

you could check a fan game I made about rayman 4 in my youtube channel

[@electronstudios1411]

i remember when the first trailer came out i really wanted to play that game shown in that Trailor! now my dream has been fulfilled!

[@luigiymario2xd]

5:55 maaaan, I can see how they reworked all that prototype stuff into Rayman Raving Rabbids minigame collection that we got instead! lol

[@Chihiro_Fujisaki]

Absolutely beautiful c: my childhood and dreams in a single unfinished but super intriguing and exciting package c:

[@ScorpioCesarcade]

So amazing to see so much of the game that could've been. Really wish it came out, it looks like it would've been tons of fun!

[@raymanfan9265]

Every new little piece of info from rayman 4 makes me so happy!

[@Borti_Ovi]

11:12 😂 Took a moment for me to get that joke! That was pretty good!

[@Maxxieuguu]

I think that with enough work, we may be able to restore at least a full start of the prototype. But on an unrelated note. It’s fascinating seeing how rushed the final game clearly was. Considering just how many of it’s minigames are repurposes from the prototype.

[@eggsonlegs6848]

Like many I was also displeased to find out there was no traditional gameplay at the end. Keep up the Rayman vids though, hopefully we can get a remaster someday. He deserves one 🕐

[@paddystarr]

I really hope we can come together to finish this game one day

[@yousef8788]

14:52 The Rabbid was definitely scared from Rayman

[@nftscreenshotter6436]

what could have been. it's so painful.

[@sanctherion4468]

I’m curious to know more about the rabbid riding mechanic.I feel like there must have been more to it than we know.I remember the early promo mentioning each rabbid having their own unique traits and that you could take advantage of enemies. Perhaps Hairy, Blue, Fat, Thin and Muscular/protoSerguei had abilities, that could be used (when mounted) to access new areas or solve puzzles. I’d imagine Thin was able to jump higher to reach places and Muscular could break boulders blocking ways of entrances. Something like that. Too bad it seems the mechanic wasn’t fully programmed and we can only guess how it would have worked in a finished state. How did you mounted the rabbid in 14:59? Did you have hypnotize it with dancing (which would make sense) or did it only take some regular beating?

[@FrameRater]

After a rabbid gets knocked out, stars appear around its head. At this point you can just jump on top and ride it. Not sure if that's an intended function though, this was part of a patch I think.

[@snailthelostcow63]

Huh... You know what this reminds me of? Crash of the titans

[@maxresdefault_]

5:36 This is just like the Witch Chases in Rayman Legends!

[@BlazeHeartPanther]

10:01 I'm fawking dead XD

[@Aserl]

Does this count as a new Rayman game? Never have I been intrigued by a games history more than RRR1.

[@zamsasu2004]

At least we kinda got it on gba, and you never know, the fan community is strong, some fans managed to bring back a mmorpg game when the servers shut down

[@bromeliad9683]

Glad you are talking about this more.

[@drawmusicandanimate689]

I like to think we are going to get this game eitherway hopefully... (let's hope sparks of hope DLC brings more people for rayman) Considering today's technology and engines it will probably be better than ever too...

[@jean-lucchessher7065]

Hitting us with that job center beat lol

[@MaeDaGoof]

This is an amazing video, though like i said in the comments of the last one, there is still more left to be uncovered and restored... Did you know you can 'tag' certain places in World 2 in first person mode and Monik would tell you what they are all about? Yeah, same if you get to a really important objective, where Monik might even come out without you going into first person to describe what you just found.

[@Bigthecatisgod]

This looks so cool, if the game released I’m sure it would have been awesome

[@saffronnie3969]

It will literally NEVER happen but.. With this leak absolutely blowing up, and the fans going crazy over it! I am hoping Ubisoft goes back to it and makes a newer prototype that eventually becomes a full game. Cuz, this is CLEARLY very popular and let's be completely honest here, if Ubisoft picked this up again, or made a Rayman game with refused mechanics from this protoype, we'd all buy it the SECOND it's available for pre-order or on release day. They need to FINALLY give us Rayman 4! "See you in Rayman 4!" is still one of the most traumatic and painful voiced lines in ALL of gaming! . . . Well for us Rayman fans it is XD I can literally recite the whole thing, down to the "And we all know that Globox is allergic to plum juice! See you in Rayman 4!"

[@whiskey-4208]

I will never forgive ubi for how they shafted Rayman after all he had done for the company

[@voidpinktriangle]

i hope the community makes it their own and creates their own version of this sadly cancelled version of Rayman

[@cesurtheguy3807]

7:34 I feel you man

[@karlhnedkovsky5214]

I'm holding out hope, that this game will see the light of day someday!

[@Kippykip]

2:37 just cracked me up lmao

[@theloudsiblingsfan389]

2:28 Monique the fairy looks like Marceline from adventure time stakes

[@NonsensicalSpudz]

Surprised we haven’t had a rayman remaster or collection yet

[@hunteraxton450]

I remember the “drop a deuce in the sky” joke

[@pieofchart]

2:28 Did they really HAVE to make Monique such a baddie though, damn

[@defaultuser2206]

Level 3 GYATT

[@Level1Sword]

Maybe with Ubisoft's current struggles, they'll give Rayman another go.

[@arnoldfranklin]

If that shark actually worked like that in "the final game" if it was made, then that would have been epic. Also, if it could eat the seagull too, maybe.

[@FriendlyNeighborhoodNoob]

I don't even think this game COULD officially come out in the future since Rayman likes the Rabbids now in M+R SoH; unless they made it a prequel tie-in game to the events of M+R SoH

[@afroscal]

I’ve been waiting. 👁👁

[@afroscal]

Also, in terms of gameplay, I don’t think the prototype is really at a ‘fun’ state. Imo, if there is gonna be a fan continuation, I think it’d be best to start from scratch and use the proto as a reference.

[@Twillek1019_]

We just HAD to live in the universe where we don’t get this game!… I bet the universe where the game was made is having a lovely time!

[@Ukysseus]

2:00 In Rayman RR for DS the first world is beach themed and the second one forest themed, so maybe the beach level found in the proto was also supposed to be world 1? (And on the teaser trailer Rayman is on beach but it's likely just a coincidence kzbin.info/www/bejne/f5naYmiuatdorrM.) Anyways, thanks for your amazing videos!

[@NoOne_Rayman]

It would also be interesting a video about the scrapped lore of this game. Can I wonder how you got the script of the dialogues of the characters?

[@randomchannel6528]

No way you found fan made vision I thought you didn't care

[@Danyq94CrashZone]

Proud to be part of this Rayman 4 team! Great video as always, Frame!

[@theicepickthatkilledtrotsk658]

In before Rayman 4 the restoration project start development

[@eunaoseibrother467]

it's so sad to see this and think about what it could have been....

[@Soshiplayz]

I wonder how ubisoft reacts to this leak and the restoration of it.

[@smartypants8957]

I heard the Benjamin map was once for the cancel King Kong 2 game before putting it in Rayman 4.

[@The_Blissful_Idiot]

Still crying to this day because Murfy is in there waiting for me.

[@Travis_Scorsese]

found my new favorite channel

[@lukasanimations8932]

we need to see more rayman games

[@SrLipetorrada]

15:40 my favorite part