Hey there, author here! Seeing as I wrote this story several years ago I was surprised to see it show up in my UKposts recommendations! I'm so glad you enjoyed my story, as I know I had quite a bit of fun making it! The screenshots were especially fun to make, and were indeed inspired by NES Godzilla ;)

It's so satisfying to read a gaming creepypasta that ends with what is essentially "well that was weird, anyway that didn't diminish my love for the series or anything"

The ending image being simple and fairly easy on the eyes is a welcome change over "oh no, tails and eggman is strung up naked and dead and bleeding and dead and SAD AND DEAD!" In addition, the Mr. Dark/Magician duel definitely seems like it could be something that was actually scrapped from the game instead of the old "they scrapped mr bloodbones because TOO SPOOKY" shtick.

"Thank ya so much for-a playing Rayman!" - A totally legit deleted quote from Mario

The reason why I kinda like this, is that this seems real. compared to others I wouldn't be shocked if rayman did have a darker tone before the final version changed some stuff. hell, rayman 2 is a pretty dark game all things considered.

One theory I have is some of the imagery made me wonder if there are supposed to be allusions to drugs and addiction, as syringes are something that comes up a few times (an item not present in Rayman), Rayman's appearance after being "healed" makes me think of a drug addict after they've gotten a fix, Rayman's demise at the end is due to one stab from a syringe, maybe indicating an overdose, and his weakened state before Betilla came in was him suffering withdrawal. That's just my personal theory for some of the stuff in the story, I'm not sure how I'd be able to connect it to other things like the behavior of the NPCs and bosses.

I'm actually surprised that this pasta didn't get a lot of attention. While garbage like Sonic.Exe is to this day remembered.

I like this Creepypasta simply because it's realistic, I remember playing Betas or Glitched versions of games I'm familiar with, and they're unsettling, not gory, not violent, but just uncommon to what I normally remember...

Welcome back Dennis 😃 what a pleasant surprise to see your new vid in my subscription feed 👍 hope you're in good spirits my friend

HE HAS CAME BACK THE KING IS HERE

A creepypasta that is, at most, creepy. A wonderful change of pace.

I love seeing creepypastas on more lesser known or not as popular games. it sheds light on games that don't get the attention they deserve and I can't help but appreciate something like that

This story is actually super good. I think you hit the nail on the head with the tone-- Rayman 2 (and 3 to some extent) was tonally a darker game then the first one, but who's to say Ancel and his team didn't want to incorporate some of those ideas earlier?

Very nice to hear creepypasta that is actually unnerving and ambiguous instead of being yet another .exe where a character goes insane for absolutely no reason.

Hey so this may be a bit late, but, I have a theory on what's going on in the game here! There's two different versions to this theory though, one involving pollution and another involving the world dying out due to the protoon being stolen. The first one, being the pollution theory, is that the world as the player goes on gets more and more polluted, possibly by the glade's inhabitants, maybe by Mr Dark, who knows- in the end Rayman gets sick from the exposure to all the toxic chemicals he's endured. Second is the protoon one, and how the world's balance means the protoon being safe- and since it isn't, the world started to slowly crumble to bits, and since limbless hero here is directly connected to the world, he sorta went down with it My theories

This story was really well made. Not making anything extremely scary with blood and death (Eeek!). It's really just enough to make the reader feel uneasy. This really is giving me motivation to try making creepypastas myself.

Recently realized everyone in rayman speaks pig latin

0:03 Yeah, he is finally back

The story was pretty good. I loved the screenshots and general atmosphere. With miniscule alterations, it could have been an underrated gem

I really liked this story especially the custom screenshots. It helped me to visualize what was going on in the story easier. I also really liked how the main character wasn’t super creeped out but was still unnerved. I like how at one point he said it wouldn’t surprise him if a monster did jump out. Overall I liked how the story didn’t use a lot of gaming creepypasta cliches like hyper realistic blood and ray man deciding to kill the main character. I am kinda curious what would’ve happened if the main character rejected the fairy’s offer to heal ray man. Anyway I have never played a ray man game before and I never felt lost when I read it. I feel like the author did a good job describing the differences instead of assuming everyone reading has played ray man but also didn’t get too descriptive on certain parts. This is definitely one of the better gaming creepypastas so good job 😊

Tbh, this is probably the only .exe styled spoopy story that I kind of appreciated. Most of these felt painfuly samey with almost no effort put into them, always involving the characters walking with sad expressions, killing others or ending up being killed themselves, involving blood, eventually ending with a jumpscare. The most likely reason that I'm giving this one an exception is that it reminded me of this quite big fan comic which I totally reccomend you and anyone else to check out. Funny enough, it's called Rayman Origins which might confuse some people until they realize that it was actually created years before the GAME was even announced. The comic is technically supposed to tell the entire plot of the first game, but with a much darker tone. Not just involving stuff like blood and swearing, but the way the author put that tone into the story, made it feel way deeper than the one we know in the original R1. The ending of it... Almost made me cry. I did read it a long time ago however, so my views may have changed, but I still see alot of good things in it. He even made a few extra pages for R2, but unfortunately he never finished that one.

"well that was nice i guess i'll keep playing rayman lol"

I like these kinda pastas, nothing too out of the ordinary and yet still remains interesting and unsettling

I could love to see a game adaptation of this story

you know, imagine if this pasta was recreated in Redemption

This is one of the best "haunted video game" creepypastas, and it's actually my favorite of the genre. Edit: And I haven't even played any of the Rayman games. That's how much I enjoyed it.

The Virgin Hyper-Realistic Photos Vs. The Chad Fan-Made Creative Photos Edit: I wonder if the protagonist of Thank You For Playing Rayman would react to the other creepypasta characters, either him being overdramatic that their real or just weirded out by them and point out their flaws.

did anyone else notice the file name was the exact same as the final level changing from unfin to end?

THE KING HAS RETURNED LETS GOOOOO

I just realized, that idea of a boss just being some weird amalgamation of a bunch of the previous bosses was actually used in the fan remake of Rayman 1: Rayman Redemption

It’s nice to see you again man! It’s felt like a year before I’ve watched one of your nostalgic videos man!

I know I'm fairly late and I wish I'd found this video sooner, but I'm glad I found it when I did. I've been going through a tough time right now. My mind hasn't been able to keep away from something sad that happened recently in my life, and other things had been going wrong left and right. But when I saw this pop up in my recommended, I had a huge smile on my face. I've always loved your content and I'm so glad you're back, I hope you're doing well, physically and mentally. Keep being awesome, Dennis. Love ya ❤

I'm glad you're back. I've rewatched a ton of your videos, but it's nice to see you making new content again.

What I really loved about this creepypasta was the fact that there were no reliance on blood and creepy faces.

Welcome back! Hope to see more from you! Especially the videos on horrible Creepypastas, they always get a good chuckle out of me.

Hey so glad to see you uploading again! You're seriously one of my favorite UKpostsrs

That really is a pretty good story. Rayman creepypastas don't seem to be too common so it's nice to hear about some more. And it's also nice to see another upload from you.

I remember reading this on Deviantart, liked it a lot especially the custom stuff, thanks for giving it some attention

Great video as always man! Also, I like that you show more respect and produce more content for Rayman than Ubisoft have done in the last 8 years :(

Glad to see you're back! Couldn't love another month without your peppy voice.

I really have to say, this is one of my most favorite creepypastas, the fanmade sprites and screens make it feel more real!

Glad to have you back. Brilliant as always hoodo

Youre back! Welcome dude, we missed you

bruh I haven't heard this guy in a while, brings me back ya know? keep up the good work, dude👑👍🙏

YES YOU UPLOADED I LOVE UR CONTENT DUDE

Now let’s watch some good creepypastas before the worst ones come.

*Cue Rayman 1 Level Clear Theme*

*Finally, a good creepypasta without the “evil force killing main characters” or “black eyes and red pupils” tropes.*

This is my favorite creepypasta and I read it on a wiki somewhere like two years ago and kept revisiting it! I never thought I'd see the day someone actually covered it, cool beans man!

YOUR FINALLY BACK

THANK GOD DUDE I LOVE UR STUFF

So nice to see you back! Sorry, but a bit of a personal questions: are there any plans for more short movies? I really liked those!

Took a gander at what the events of the story might mean so here is my Game Theory or whatever. The events (and .exe) play out the way they do because the author did not complete the game first time around. He gave up due to the difficulty, an understandable 90s Rayman PC fan experience... and since the midgame status quo is "No Great Protoon, no harmony, no balance" time marches on rapid-pace as soon as the game booted up. Rayman has to see it through to the dot exe END because that's the problem here: no progress and no ending. He's in a weird status quo limbo where things are incomplete and Mr. Dark won. This is why the file name goes from UNFIN to .END. So we have this author reply in the comments(to Poison, not me): "I really like this interpretation! I wasn't too clear with my intentions but I recall that the reason Rayman ends up so sickly-looking is because the world (Filled with trash, nuclear waste, polluted water, etc) is slowly poisoning him throughout the story. The syringe in the final boss fight is filled with a mystery substance, but whatever it is, it's not good!" "Nature and people live together in peace~" up until they didn't I suppose. Rayman's world wasn't meant for industrialization, the place is a wreck, there's no Great Protoon to provide balance in the world hence Tarayzan's spiel about the flood. Nothing is safe anymore. Rayman's state could owe to stress as well. He doesn't want to proceed, he doesn't want to see what became of his hopeless world and friends. Three die outright. I read through the story and 'Zaroff was here' caught my eye so I headed over to the wiki. The protagonist expresses confusion because that ain't Razoff. It is, however, a footnote ancestor of his who hunted down a rare catch to prove himself... which was Space Mama. This is of course a Rayman 3 reference but Zaroff in of himself references Rayman 1 enough for 'the bad guys won' to be at play. If sequel villains are also winning the pollution and decimated worlds could be the fault of the pirates, Betilla does mention Polokus. Could just be the lack of Great Protoon though. Rayman has weird and vague continuity, it's possible the protagonist didn't emulate the game until after Rayman3 was released. With the ending you would think 'the bad guys won again' but it backfires on Mr. Dark - it is no longer a case of a story being left in limbo stasis with an inactive hero. It is 'an ending' because Rayman saw it through to the final encounter instead of declining to heal. Being struck down in the final battle by the villain (In some versions Mr. Dark is the chimera transforming to fight Rayman) *is* an ending... and so the timeline resets. Rayman, or the game, gives thanks and shows him at a facsimilie of his beach house from the opening - it is janky because the .exe timeline is janky but he is okay. With this timeline reset the author can proceed to play the game as normal and Rayman's world is saved.

its now or its never and ive got to make my decision

I mean, the original Rayman wants you to die so hard it’s scary enough to be a creepypasta

Welcome back my guy.

Hoodo is back :D we missed you bud

hell yeah dude! I havent seen your vids pop up in forever! How''ve you been dude? hope quarantine has been treating you well!

The return of the king

THE RETURN OF THE KING!!!

I'm currently playing my first Rayman game, and I already love it. Its cool to watch these videos

Eyyyyyy welcome back!

Wow yeee hoodo is back the top 5 rayman creepypasta is really nostalgic idk why

i see just ONE of your videos in my recommendeds and oops here I am binging them now I guess

To be honest I am very happy that your channel exists

Can you do a part 2 of the best Pokémon Creepypastas? Also it’s great to have you back

The boys are back in town

Duuude Dennis, I've been watching you since like. Late Elementary. I'm in Highschool Now. How crazy is that? Thank's for the years of Gorillaz and Creepypasta insights!

My fav youtuber is back, this weekend got much better lol

I already did one but here a already existing one but better to understand Sally Fingerstick..... Sally Fingerstick was a little girl 6 years old to be exact. She had nightmares of her dad and mom dying in a car crash. She knew that that made no sense...or was it? At the age of 7 her dad and mom went to buy some groceries, they said they'll be back in a hour or so. They thought she was old enough to take care of herself. An hour later the police knocked on Sally's door. The police said "your parents died in a car crash". She knew that her nightmares were real! The police suggested to go with them and they will find her new parents. She was horrified. She started to cry nonstop. When they were walking to the police station Sally thought about the accident, then she fell and hit her head against a brick. It killed her instantly. They had a funeral for Sally. Then after the funeral they all left and some of her closest friends cried. Then after 4 years she came back as a spirit, killing left and right. She still remembers the car crash of her parents. So that's why about 23 people died of car crashes due to Sally. That's why they say to watch out for Sally Fingerstick.....

Welcome back! Edit: 4:52 Does anyone else see the rock that looks like Sans the Skeleton from behind? The leftmost tall rock in front of Rayman?

Did you know that there was a Rayman animation series in the early 2000s? No? Well you didn't miss anything either. The series only had 4 episodes before it was canceled. I think you can see them on UKposts if you want.

It’s been a while since I checked you out man-

Welcome back

This is honestly one of my favorite creepypastas.

Welcome back, king

Great review for a good creepypasta from a great youtuber! Also unrelated but i just read a bad creepypasta that has so many cliches im wondering if its a trollpasta.

Where are you from? You sound exactly like Sylo Star Wars. That accent is a perfect match. GREAT VIDEO AGAIN!

My gawd! I read this on DeviantArt years ago! I fricking loved this creepypasta and I’ve yet to find another scary Rayman story to top this!

The deleted ending where Michael Ancel, never want you to the disturbing ending.

Interesting and your a massive rayman fan I would love to see you review rayman redemption fan game have a play of that it’s free to download and was really well done with making it better in a few ways

This may seem silly, but I am nonbinary and the fact that he always says "ladies, gentlemen, and all else" has always made me feel welcome and included. I love your content Dennis, I hope to see you keep doing what you love for many years to come!

I love Rayman and his rabbits and all the above!! Go. Rayman--you're the goat and that's a fact

I'm a little late to this vid but I'm very curious. Especially seeing this is on "SomeOrdinaryGamer Wiki" we're in for something interesting. Funny as Godzilla NES has a sequel (not finished but-) who who knows perhaps they'll mite make a sequel. This is a really well done pasta and a terrific summary.

I gotta say, this one was really neat! Though the end did feel a tad anticlimactic!

Ah yes, the true king of creepypastas has returned.

welcome back, man!! I’ve got a question though: I’m working on a joke creepypasta and want to send it over to you when I’m finished, but I’m not sure where I should send it to you. where’s the best place to send it over to you when it’s done?

Tack att du kom tillbaka

Oh hes back

It's good on a technical level but it isn't that creepy in my opinion but still 7/10

Finaly some rayman content Because those guys at ubisoft kinda just forgot about it

Return of the king

"As the screen fades to black it says-" "TrY oUr NeW cHiPs"

holy shit?? I just read through the creepypasta itself and it generally does come off as unsettling. also the "pictures" that came along with it seemed very well done. I like how the Thank You For Playing one had some glitches here and there.

Welcome Back 🤠

Man it’s been awhile since I watched you

When we needed him the most, he came back.

Welcome back little brother

Dude istg I was was watching your rayman creepypasta video today how

He’s back :)