Dark Magician's Challenge

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Dark Magician's Challenge is one of the Magician's Challenges in Rayman Redemption. It is a regular level, which must be completed in a single attempt. It is set in the Flint Jail world from Rayman: The Dark Magician's Reign of Terror and requires 34 Magician tokens to unlock. It is an hommage to Rayman: The Dark Magician's Reign of Terror, acting as a best-of of Flint Jail's level design and bringing back some enemies and objects such as Magic Minions or breakable walls. It also features a new content: the jail platforms.

This challenge contains 10 cages, some of which are hidden off the main path. Breaking all of them is not mandatory for completion and they're not tracked into the game's total, however, doing so removes the Magic wall blocking the secret area near the end of the level, where Rayman can meet the Dark Magician and receive the Dark Magician skin. These cages also reappear whenever reattempting this stage.

Completing the challenge in under 150 seconds (2:30 minutes) grants the Reign of Terror achievement.

The environment, music and entities of this challenge are all available in Rayman ReDesigner's level editor, including the Dark Magician and the ability to set a required amount of cages to break a Magic wall since version 1.4.0.

Trivia

• The icon for Dark Magician's Challenge is one of the few Magician's Challenges' to have its preview icon found in the internal files of Rayman Redemption's Gameplay Demo, despite not being featured at all in the demo.
• The music featured in Dark Magician's Challenge is the stereo version of the Grim Chains theme from Rayman: The Dark Magician's Reign of Terror, making it the first stereo piece of this game's soundtrack to ever be shared, three years before the complete release in 2023. This is also the only music in Rayman Redemption to be taken from another fan game.