Dear Ubisoft,

[stof]

First of all, I'd like to thank you for Beyond Good and Evil. While sales may not have been to your expectations, the game was an examplary outing. It shows your commitment to making high quality games that can be enjoyed on many levels.

But the purpose of my letter is to ask you to build on this practice of making thoroughly enjoyable games and release another installement in the Rayman platformer series. It's an idea that I know you aren't opposed to, as this very same game was once on the drawingboard. But that game ended up a very different entity. Thanks to the Wiimote, Rayman became Rayman Raving Rabbids. And I'm thankful that it did, as the game is a fantastically enjoyable time and I am looking forward to purchasing it's sequel. However, that game, while great, is not rayman.

Infact, so few games are Rayman now a days. Once a major genre, the Platformer has been done a disservice of late. Be it the strive towards realism or the preference towards gore, the once crowded feild has been reduced to only a shadow of it's former self. But that said, what a shadow it is. Each platform this generation is set to see it's own master platformer game. Ratchet and Clank is poised to be the PS3's best selling game, as is Mario Galaxy on the Wii. And despite so little known about it, Banjoe-Kazooie is already much talked about by gamers.

So with only three games of the genre set to ignite the minds of so many gamers, wouldn't now be the time to revive one of the greatest platforming icons of all time? The game would be instantely recognizable to millions of gamers and most likely, given the talent and skill at Ubisoft Studios, will appeal to many more. On what platform? That's not my call. My hopes would be multiplat so that all gamers could partake in brilliant and humorously designed adventure. But ultimately, the console it finds itself on is irrelevant. It's the game's existence that is of tantamount importance.

In conclusion, I would like to thank you for taking this time to read this letter (just pretend I actually sent this to Ubisoft, ok?) and I urge you to consider working a game that will probably be as much fun to make as it is to play. 

Yours truly,

Stof