An obscure Platform Game by UbiSoft. It has a visual style similar to Rayman (Most noticably, all characters have Raymanian Limbs) and in fact plays more like a 3D version of the original Rayman than Rayman 2 ever did. UbiSoft had the unfortunate timing to release it after Rayman 2, of which standard it falls short. Still a fun game, though.The story involves an alien named Ed accidentally dropping a can of tonic on Earth, where it is found by a viking named Grogh. He takes a sip of the tonic and transforms into a tyrant who proceeds to Take Over the World (or in his words: "This time, drinks are on me! And Everyone's gonna get a taste! Hahahaaa!"). A tiny droplet falls into a river and the whole world goes mad: the rivers turn into sangria, mountains rise up and vegetables turn into dangerous monsters. Now it's up to Ed to defeat Grogh and retrieve the tonic.
Fan Disservice: The Huge Barman/woman at the beginning of the Glacier Cocktail.
Gag Boobs: during the Opening sequence, while Ed storms Grogg's Tower a huge Valkyrie-like woman with Huge Boobs can be seen singing for him. It's also a One-Scene Wonder.
Newspaperthin Disguise: Agent XYZ uses one all the time - we never get to see what he looks like.
Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: The reason why the plot even exists. So, Ed attempts to ingest a tonic of unknown properties to get the courage to ask a girl out, but it apparently had a funky flavor. Turned out the Tonic had more funkiness than just the flavor: The residue spit from the tonic also caused the screws to come to life and become crazy. He then attempts to eject the tonic from the ship... which lands on earth, specifically right on the recently evicted-from-the-bar drunkard Grogh, he drinks it, starts to mutate it, spills it in the conveniently nearby brook, causing the mutagenetic effects of the tonic to mutate the planet causing a LOT of oddities such as flying sheep and psychadelic skies and an overall background that looks like something taken from an acid trip, and then Grogh declaring that all drinks are on him. Shortly thereafter, Ed, busted for that action, is sentenced to clean up the mess he caused.
Noodle Implements: Sort of. How does Doc construct a catapult out of six copies of the following items: springs, propellors, jumping stones, domino stones and piggy banks?
Noodle Incident: In the Special Edition, Doc mentions '[his] poor wife' while on the subject of how ed's second power-up, the blowpipe, had a few failed prototypes.
Super Not Drowning Skills: You can stay underwater indefinetly, but you're limited to shallow depths. Once you earn the flask, you can dive as deep as you want, as long as you want
Took A Level In Bad Ass: Ed, you have to admit. He started as a goofy, incompetent Janitor bullied by others and ended up kicking asses with his stick, saving planets and getting a hot, human-like girlfriend.
Video Game Flight: You can eventually use your bow tie as a delta aviator.
Vocal Dissonance: In the beta/special edition, Grogh sounds like a young prankster despite his big, viking-like look. (as well as his more fitting voice in the pre-rendered intro cutscene.)
Mind you, this was only in the beta/SE version. The Retail PC version had the same voice actor as in the intro.
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