From the perspective of a 100% completion playthrough and from a guy who sucks at 2D platformers.

This game will throw you a platforming section that makes rhythm games look like they don't even involve music. The timing of jumps and attacks will flow so nicely and give those tasty dopamine hits when executed correctly. On the other hand, there are sections, especially in the 2nd half of the game where it completely disregards the reactive nature of most levels and forces you to take a trial and error approach. It destroys a lot of the fast-paced rhythmic feel of the earlier levels and slows it down to an aggravatingly slow pace where you are stuck just hoping to reach the next checkpoint. It breaks the levels up into chunks rather than a smooth connected path that allows for more freedom of choice of how you pace yourself. The best levels can be completed in less than a minute since they allow you to stay at full momentum and have several different paths that all have unique timings or feels to them. However, skillful play is simultaneously rewarded and not. Yes completing a level quickly and skillfully will just inherently feel rewarding, but you will miss out on the collection of lums that are required to a certain extent for progression and fully required for a 100% completion of the game. I feel the time trials that are available for most levels after their first completion are a fairly effective way to combat this problem, but it still feels wrong to play well and be somewhat punished. "Suffering from Success" -DJ Khaled

1st half is great, 2nd half/last quarter leaves much to be desired. I found that last quarter to be so ungodly difficult at points and sometimes straight up unfair. I am an epic gamer and have beaten Dark Souls 1, 3, and Elden Ring deathless, and yet 100%ing this game was a far more difficult adventure. I'd put it right next to my experience beating Shovel Knight in terms of difficulty (a mentally draining experience that sucked the life essence out of me, took every last breath of energy it could harness out of my soul, and then threw it all back into my body to supply me with a dopamine hit so large that it makes crack feel like bouncing a ball). I'm playing the Elden Ring DLC over the next week, and I would be truly appalled if anything comes close in difficulty to the hardest parts of Rayman Origins.

Also if you go for 100%, just collect all the red tooth gems and don't play the secret level, it isn't worth it. It is genuinely the worst level in the game and I can't find a way to defend it.

It sounds like I hate this game but nah it's pretty good you should go play it.