I remembered loving this game and it being my favourite from the ratchet and clank series but after finishing it last month I've sat on writing the review on it just because I don't know exactly what to say about it, fun game but its definitely not as good as I remembered, the game takes a much heavier focus on its combat and a reduced focus on platforming and the game is much worse for it

nefarious is a great villain though and I couldnt help but enjoy every cutscene with him and its no wonder he continued (and continues) to come back in these games frequently

still fun and worth a play through and I'm unsure if me playing this trilogy back to back caused me to be much more cynical towards this game on revisiting it but regardless its heavy focus on combat makes it a bit more of a pain to get through and a lot less of a chill out fun game like the first 2

I did it in co-op and only enjoyed bits of the gameplay because of that

any time a character opened their mouth both me and my friend would laugh at how bad not only the writing was but the voice acting as well, the gameplay was shallow the side activities were boring, there was fuck all traffic density or pedestrians, every single song on the radio sucked, all the cars handled like shit and any cars that had something resembling speed like the hoverbikes would rubberband and suddenly lose all speed on the tiniest of imperfections in the road.

the only slightly redeeming thing was the map cause it had a fair bit of variety in the areas and was very large but it was also strangely flat but I found it more interesting than steelport, there one was a side quest where you participate in a LARP game and it was the only part where the tone the game seems to be going for worked the best but besides that none of the side content left any impressions on me

I'd try talk about the story but honestly nothing of note happens and none of the characters are interesting enough to even mention and the game just seems to give up in the last 3 missions.

I went into this with an incredibly open-mind having been a Saints Row fan since Saints Row 2 but this game is so much worse than I imagined and its no wonder this game is basically responsible for the death of a company

I did it in co-op and only enjoyed bits of the gameplay because of that

any time a character opened their mouth both me and my friend would laugh at how bad not only the writing was but the voice acting as well, the gameplay was shallow the side activities were boring, there was fuck all traffic density or pedestrians, every single song on the radio sucked, all the cars handled like shit and any cars that had something resembling speed like the hoverbikes would rubberband and suddenly lose all speed on the tiniest of imperfections in the road.

the only slightly redeeming thing was the map cause it had a fair bit of variety in the areas and was very large but it was also strangely flat but I found it more interesting than steelport, there one was a side quest where you participate in a LARP game and it was the only part where the tone the game seems to be going for worked the best but besides that none of the side content left any impressions on me

I'd try talk about the story but honestly nothing of note happens and none of the characters are interesting enough to even mention and the game just seems to give up in the last 3 missions.

I went into this with an incredibly open-mind having been a Saints Row fan since Saints Row 2 but this game is so much worse than I imagined and its no wonder this game is basically responsible for the death of a company