I've never owned a video game console, and I've been eagerly awaiting Rayman Origins' release for PC. Well the time has come, I've spent the 30$ and installed the game.

Let me tell you I am not disappointed. Actually that's a ridiculous understatement. Rayman Origins is pure bliss. For the opening cinematic until I had to put down the controller, I literally had chills like when I'm listening to Stravinsky's The Rite of Spring, which is the most important piece of music composed in the XXth century (IMO). Actually, I'm having slight hair-located chills just thinking about how awesome this game is right now.

Rayman Origins is just pure fun. It doesn't aim to be anything more than that. It is unadulterated creativity, it's immensely visually and aurally gratifying, colorful, animated, energic, positive, alive. And this is coming from someone who doesn't like platformers in general. To me these games always felt like learning levels by heart and work. Even the original Rayman : The Great Escape. This is different, maybe because it's not punitively difficult like the original was, maybe because it manages to take itself even less seriously, maybe because of the awesome musical-rhythmical integration of the whole experience... Ah, I've talked too much already. I urge any video game fan to vote with their wallet and buy this game if only to encourage creativity and fun in video games.