Rayman Quick Notes

Okay, I haven't played this all the way through yet, so here are some quick impressions:

I'm left handed. In Wii sports, this wasn't an issue, as you were able to define your handedness on your Mii, and everything worked fine. In Rayman, there is no definition available. So far, this has only caused me problems with one of the mini-games, but it's one that runs during every "day" of game time: the dancing. The bunnies come at you from the left side and the right side, and you have to shake the controller on the correct side. So, for this game, you MUST hold the remote in your right hand, which, for me, requires switching hands. It's a minor issue, but one that should have been easily worked around.

The kids aren't quite up to this yet. They'll have fun with it once I unlock multiplayer (another gripe), but in a lot of cases (the dancing), even the older kids don't have the hand-eye coordination set. I'm positive they'll get much better with practice, but even after 3 tries my daughter was not able to finish the first dancing game, got frustrated, and quit.

Multiplayer? You have to play through the single player first. WEAK! I'm the only one that can pass the single player relatively quickly (especially considering the kids aren't allowed to play during the week), so, before they can play this game on their own (and just play the mini-games they want to play, not the whole story mode), I have to finish the whole single player game. I've run through about 27% so far, with a total of about 1 hour of game play. 3 more hours to go, and my kids can finally have fun with it. *sigh*

I still think it's a *very* fun game, and I'm having a blast when I play.