Rayman Adventures

The majority of the tap and swipe interface remains unchanged, but it places more control of movement – both horizontal and vertical – in your hands, which can feel a little cumbersome at first.

You will also receive tickets and eggs from which new types of your assistants will hatch. You like management, because for the movement of the hero, it will be enough to pull it in the right direction.

Rayman's latest outing on mobile, Rayman Adventures, is a blending of the more complex console experience and the previous phone-based endless runners. 

How to play games:

Initially, the differences are not obvious. A single swipe sets the titular hero, Barbara the Barbarian, or any other selected character, off in the appropriate direction. 

The mobile series of Rayman endless-runners have always offered a joyous diversion. Rayman Adventures is a natural evolution of this, keeping the same controls but with more freedom.

The fast paced, timing centric games have you leaping, bouncing, and punching your way through their auto-scrolling levels with taps and swipes. 

Further swipes have them attack, while taps have them spring into the air or bounce off walls to satisfyingly reach far-off platforms. The only twist is that swiping back on the screen has your heroes change direction.

Is it fun:

Greater level freedom also makes attempts last longer - so less well suited to gaming on the go - while the controls needed for this are initially cumbersome.

But, though the accuracy and heart-pounding tension is gone, Rayman Adventures does add exploration. This has created extra verticality in the levels in order to tuck away more secrets. 

You can find yourself leaping upwards through the beautiful world to find a treasure, only to find another tucked away even higher.

It sounds like a small change at first but it dramatically alters the experience. It removes the speed that made the mobile titles feel unique alongside their console siblings. 

Game advantages:

This is fortunate, as the greatest parts of the game is moving through its stunning environments and tapping your foot the truly uplifting music.

Other characters different aid - including short periods of invincibility - but this also introduces the game’s in-app purchases. 

While purchases can form a bottleneck to progression, for the most part Rayman Adventures allows you to progress at a good rate. 

To help with this, new characters are on hand and will point your towards items in each level in order to nudge you in the right direction. 

Game guide:

While it may not be the most comfortable fit, the component Rayman parts are still good enough to make it a gorgeous looking and fun game.

Rayman Adventures is a different take on the series for mobile, and an odd half step between the open exploration of the console original and the twitch reactions of the endless-runners. 

You have to feed these creatures to take them with you each time, and when you are out of food you have to buy more, or grind for it.