The brand producer for Rayman Legends Retold, Loic Gounon, shares at the Future Games Show's sister-show FGS Live From Los Angeles that the core team at Ubisoft Montpellier is still working on Beyond Good & Evil 2.
The beleaguered sequel has had a rough time in development hell since its initial reveal in 2008 (18 years ago at this point!), and re-reveal at Ubisoft's 2017 E3 conference – remember when Inception actor Joseph Gordon-Levitt showed up? Since then, the game hasn't appeared in any of Ubisoft's gaming presentations over the years, but Gounon mentioned it while discussing the development challenges of the upcoming Rayman Legends Retold.
"The early conversation we had was, 'what's the best way to bring back the [Rayman] franchise with the best possible team?' because we did not have a team anymore", he says. "Many of the people either left the company or went on another project. Some of them are still part of the core team on Beyond Good & Evil 2 at the moment."
Frankly, it's a miracle that Beyond Good and Evil 2 is still being worked on by the core team at Ubisoft Montpellier. Over the years, it has dodged all sorts of guillotines in the form of the series' creator leaving in 2020 and recent mass-restructuring at Ubisoft, to name a couple.
Otherwise, Gounon discussed the latest game from the studio, Rayman Legends Retold, in a deep-dive video. It's a remake of the 2013 cult-classic Rayman Legends, expanded with new gameplay, levels, and story. He reckons that it will be "a starting point to discover Rayman for the very first time" for new players, but, for fans, it serves as a canon version of the world that can be rediscovered and will "server as the basis for the future".
There's a whole new world to explore and platform your way across, the World of the Dead, which also comes with a new light power that's required to bring down the game's new villain. Gameplay footage also showed that dragons will feature as rideable mounts, channelling Star Fox and Panzer Dragoon gameplay. "[The dragons] were playing a big part in Legends but always kicking your ass, so we thought, 'okay, now let's reverse that', and we will use the dragon to kick people's ass", Gounon says.
Rayman Legends Retold is launching on all platforms on October 1, 2026.
If you're looking for more excellent games from today's Future Games Show, have a look at our official Steam page.
