I don’t have a huge connection to this series but I played one of them on PS2 when I was quite young. It might’ve been the original but I don’t remember now. Playing this now some 15~ years later, eh it’s okay. It feels like a PS2 game, fun for a time but really becomes a slog. Getting to the last area and having to do another planet just to come back was so annoying. The combat wasn’t challenging enough by the end and took so long. I just don’t think I’m much a Ratchet fan.
This was written back in 2016 for a GOTY list...
After a host of gimmicky spin-offs and budget titles revolving around co-op and RTS elements, this return to a more traditional style R&C game is a welcome one, and sees the intergalactic duo back on form, if not exactly troubling high-water mark of the series A Crack in Time for the top spot. The focus is back on third-person shooting, and using a wide array of outlandish weapons to fend off numerous baddies in amusingly inventive ways is a constant form of entertainment. Throw in some dazzling graphics for good measure and I look forward to a sequel that next time around doesn't have its story tethered to an awful movie tie-in.
After a host of gimmicky spin-offs and budget titles revolving around co-op and RTS elements, this return to a more traditional style R&C game is a welcome one, and sees the intergalactic duo back on form, if not exactly troubling high-water mark of the series A Crack in Time for the top spot. The focus is back on third-person shooting, and using a wide array of outlandish weapons to fend off numerous baddies in amusingly inventive ways is a constant form of entertainment. Throw in some dazzling graphics for good measure and I look forward to a sequel that next time around doesn't have its story tethered to an awful movie tie-in.
I have adored the Ratchet and Clank franchise and Insomniac Games ever since the their ps2 days and it broke my heart to see how incredibly wrong this remake gets everything they ever stood for.
Ratchet and Clank 2016 is not a bad game despite the score I give. Moreover I'd say it plays amazing, it looks amazing most of the time and it can act as a gateway for fans to discover the older, even more amazing games.
The problem with Ratchet and Clank 2016 is that it remakes probably the most intelligent and nuanced game of the series, the 2002 original with non of the wit but 2000 times the cringe.
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In the original game the titular characters had ... well characters and they had to learn to work together while navigating an aggressively capitalistic and satirical galaxy, where everyone is looking for an angle to make some money out of even a ship crash.
While the remake's gameplay has been polished to near perfection, unfortunately the story edges that made the franchise so unique have been sanded down as well. In it's place one can discover only a 4th rate Disney movie that never delivers on the dynamic duo's relationship, nor does it challenges them in any meaningful way.
Ratchet and Clank 2016 is not a bad game despite the score I give. Moreover I'd say it plays amazing, it looks amazing most of the time and it can act as a gateway for fans to discover the older, even more amazing games.
The problem with Ratchet and Clank 2016 is that it remakes probably the most intelligent and nuanced game of the series, the 2002 original with non of the wit but 2000 times the cringe.
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In the original game the titular characters had ... well characters and they had to learn to work together while navigating an aggressively capitalistic and satirical galaxy, where everyone is looking for an angle to make some money out of even a ship crash.
While the remake's gameplay has been polished to near perfection, unfortunately the story edges that made the franchise so unique have been sanded down as well. In it's place one can discover only a 4th rate Disney movie that never delivers on the dynamic duo's relationship, nor does it challenges them in any meaningful way.
• Minha porta de entrada para a franquia Ratchet & Clank. É um jogo muito lindo e muito divertido.
↳ A gameplay é muito fluída e a variedade de armas acrescenta bastante o fator replay, especialmente se você quiser upar todas no New Game + (ou modo desafio).
• Meio aleatório mas eu me diverti muito com as corridas de Hoverboard. O jogo te dá muita liberdade nas pistas, então é muito legal ficar tentando descobrir rotas novas e otimizadas para vencer os desafios.
↳ A gameplay é muito fluída e a variedade de armas acrescenta bastante o fator replay, especialmente se você quiser upar todas no New Game + (ou modo desafio).
• Meio aleatório mas eu me diverti muito com as corridas de Hoverboard. O jogo te dá muita liberdade nas pistas, então é muito legal ficar tentando descobrir rotas novas e otimizadas para vencer os desafios.