Chapter 15: The Precipice
This was one of those levels that keeps a player on their feet, Rayman decided. As soon as he appeared, a warship kept throwing bombs at him, right to the very end. It was very annoying. And noisy.
Alongside having to dodge those bombs, he also had to deal with rickety bridges, dodging red, explosive shells the pirates dropped his way, climb nettings on the walls of the cliff (and horizontally, too!) and get to the top of a pirate structure before the water levels rise too high and drown him. Rayman fell into the water countless, countless, countless times but his lengthened life bar helped him to get to the end without feeling too weak or drained (he thanked the pirates for putting those cages up in the first place. Ironically, they helped to save his life!).
Also, he broke three cages and defeated another pirate when he almost reached the top, but that's yesterday's news, no?
Rayman was never stationery for too long and had to have quick reflexes and be equally quick on his feet. At one point of the level, he even had to helicopter slowly down a rocky cliff with a dark, dark abyss below him that extends who knows how far. He didn't know if he was going the right direction and how far down he had to go. He only had the light of the lums to guide him so he just followed the lums. And the warship hidden somewhere shot up bombs at him and he shot at them before they could hit him from below. He eventually landed on a wooden bridge and continued his way from there.
Finally, he emerged in the open air. Another more interesting and challenging robo-pirate came up and attacked him. It shot at him from afar and swung its weapon at him when it managed to get closer to him. Rayman dodged all its attacks and took advantage of the warship's very bad bomb aim to destroy the pirate. It crashed into a million pieces and the hero was rewarded with more red lums, mm-mmm!
Rayman then broke Cage 58 in a very small hole and went up above the hole, onto the pirate ship, to collect two, big, smiley yellow lums. He then went back into the hole, danced a cute Happy Dance with the Teensie, and buh-bye, crazy, dangerous and often frustrating level!
He had broken six cages in this level. Two more and he'll gain another energy level extension. Wow. By his 80th cage, it would take a LOT of deaths before the pirates could actually kill him, Rayman figured.
