Cancelled ‘The Story of Rayman’ game from 2021 has surfaced

There was once a time when Rayman was easily Ubisoft’s most recognisable character, with the platforming mascot sitting alongside Crash Bandicoot, Spyro and the like during the 1990s and 2000s. That said, we’ve not seen a new mainline entry in over a decade. While Ubisoft has announced that they are working on a new Rayman game, this won’t be their first attempt at a revival – with an ill-fated reboot recently revealed to have been in the works back in 2021.

As shared by the Twitter fanpage ‘RaymanTogether’ a former Ubisoft employee recently took to their LinkedIn to reveal concepts for a new entry in the dormant series.

According to the developer “In 2021, I had the opportunity to challenge myself at Ubisoft on a trial project for Rayman, but unfortunately, the project did not proceed.”

Alongside this, the ex-employee published a number of concept logos for the cancelled project, indicating that it either would have been called ‘Rayman Forever' or ‘The Story of Rayman' – likely the latter.

Though little else was shared regarding this project, it appears as though Ubisoft was putting a great deal of thought into this title, with the dev explaining “As part of the redesign of their flagship game, Rayman, Ubisoft asked us to do some research on the game's new logo and home screen. Rayman was THE game that launched the studio, so they wanted to do everything they could to make this new edition a success, hence the long research and meticulous progress.”

As mentioned, this project unfortunately never came to be, and so as of right now the latest Rayman game is in fact the NFT-filled Captain Laserhawk: The G.A.M.E. A new, proper entry can’t come soon enough.

KitGuru says: Are you waiting for a new mainline entry in the franchise? What do you think of the scrapped game names? Will the series ever rise again? Let us know down below.

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