The way the warmth drains from Day - Lewis» face when he's surprised by Alma one night is as painful as any of Daniel Plainview's pronouncements that his son is a «bastard from a basket,» to say
nothing of his exaggerated, contemptuous movements and petulant expression when he
deigns to eat something that Alma prepares differently than he's used to.
Though he achieved some relative success later on in Rayman's Raving Rabids, it's pretty clear to anyone who
deigned to play these games that they were mere spin - offs which had
nothing to do with the classic platformers of yesteryear.