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Summary

Rayman DS drops the iconic limbless hero onto the Nintendo DS for the first time, tasking him with freeing his world from a band of marauding pirates. The game sends you hopping through enchanted locales—cascading waterfalls, echoing sea caves, and cramped pirate hideouts—while you string together Rayman’s signature moves to clear each obstacle. The bottom screen doubles as a handy dashboard, flashing your lum count, health meter, and level progress without pulling you away from the action. Launched as a European debut title on March 11 2005 and arriving stateside a few weeks later, the handheld version is a direct port of the N64 classic. Critics were split: while the concept shone, reviewers flagged clunky touch‑pad controls, camera quirks, and visual glitches that sometimes hampered play, landing the title in the high‑50s on aggregate scores and earning modest 6/10 marks from major outlets.

Storyline

The Glade of Dreams is overrun by robotic pirates led by Admiral Razorbeard, prompting Rayman and his friend Globox to join the resistance. After a fierce clash in which Rayman wields energy spheres and Globox summons rain to rust the machines, Ly the Fairy warns that the pirates have shattered the Primordial Core and captured most warriors, stripping Rayman of his powers. Imprisoned aboard the pirate ship Buccaneer, Rayman regains his abilities when Globox delivers a Silver Lum from Ly, and he escapes only to be separated in the Woods of Light.

Ly, now captured, tells Rayman that the world spirit Polokus can restore his full strength if he gathers four magical masks. Rayman’s journey takes him to the Sanctuary of Water and Ice, the Menhir Hills, the Canopy, and the Iron Mountains, where he defeats guardians Axel, Umber, and Foutch, rescues Globox’s children, and secures each mask while curing the warrior Clark with the Elixir of Life.

With all masks united, Polokus awakens and destroys the pirates’ land forts, leaving the Buccaneer as the final battleground. Admiral Razorbeard pilots the massive Grolgoth mecha, but Rayman knocks the machine into a lava furnace, causing it to self‑destruct and the ship to explode.

Although his foot is the only part found initially, Rayman emerges on a crutch, alive and victorious, to the relief of his friends. This is the storyline of Rayman DS, the handheld adventure for the Nintendo DS.