I wish I had a constructive review to write here about this game, but honestly it was just... a journey. I mean that in the best way possible, but I couldn't explain it if I tried to without just retelling you the game's story. The bombs they dropped on us toward the end were what I've come to expect from this series and Yoko Taro. So, safe to say, I'm mind blown with complicated feelings and all about this game after having played it, and all I can wish is that it wasn't a mobile game so I could pour over it more.

Also, for the record, I completed it with... 11 hours and 35 minutes to spare before the severs shut down. So, I am proud of that much having booked it from the end of the Sun arc all the way to the end of the game in the course of a day and a half.

It's definitely not the original games but it was fun, honestly and a nice holistic retelling of the story in a truncated fashion so that they could do more with it in the future. Furthermore giving people who haven't played the original series the chance to get the tent poles of the story so that they could get into the series without having to scour the internet for very old games at this point on derelict consoles. That said, as a person who played the Ratchet & Clank series when it originally came out as a child, I can say this remains fairly true to crux of the original story and feeling of the games. It brought me back and kept with the spirit I enjoyed, so I'm definitely satisfied and even impressed with how they updated the look of the game.

Now, I will say that there was some jank in the game, primarily with the camera, but it functioned well and kept me engaged enough to shotgun it over the course of about 16 hours. So, aside from that, I feel the this remake was a decent one and those that down rate it are kinda just being elitist at the end of the day. I played the old games too - exhaustively - and it isn't as boring or poorly structured as others might lead you to believe. It's that they have an expectation, it wasn't met, so they're mad that they aren't being gratified - plain and simple.

This is an absolute garbage game that misappropriates queer culture, has no grasp on what the Cyberpunk genre actually is and, frankly, has poor voice acting and design sensibilities. In fact, so much so, that I simply couldn't bring myself to even feel engaged with the story because the voice acting was so phoned in and forced and the scenery was so stereotypically futuristic. So, all said, it's not worth the money, time investment or the headache you'll get trying to parse out the lump of refuse CDPR is trying to pawn off as cyberpunk. Want real Cyberpunk? Go read Burning Chrome or other like-novels or watch Ghost in the Shell (not the live action movie), Mardock Scramble, Serial Experiments Lain, etc. and don't waste your efforts on this feeble attempt at it.

Also, junk sliders? Really? Come on. Grow the hell up. You don't even see your junk through most of the freakin' game. Ugh!