Full Review + Trophy Review and Tips Below
If Insomniac does one thing well (and they do almost everything extremely well), is make fun video games. Rift Apart is fun from beginning to end as you seamlessly transition between worlds and dimensions, fighting your way through Nefarious army with creative weapons and abilities. You’ll be turning enemies into plants so you can pixelize them and then blow them into smithereens while dodging, jumping, grinding, rifting and ratcheting your way through levels.
The animation is beautiful, and the game truly feels like a next gen experience. If I had to nitpick, which I am about to do, I would have liked for Rivet and Kit to have their own set of abilities to differentiate themselves from Ratchet and Clank. Also, as fun as the weapons are, I miss some of the more comedic weapons like the disco gun or the sheepinator. Nitpicking aside, this is absolutely a game I recommend for gamers of all ages.
Trophies
Difficulty: 3/10
Time: 10 hours
Trophy Guide: Not needed
Trophy List Score: 9.5/10
Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart continues the Sony First Party trend of having well thought out and engaging Trophy Lists. Highlights include no missable trophies, no difficulty related trophies and almost all the collectibles are easily tracked within the in-game menus. Late in the game you also discover a map that will help you mop up any last collectible you need.
Ratchet & Clank games are all about their insane weapons and you will easily be able to purchase them all. The game does a good job of incentivizing you to use different weapons to achieve some miscellaneous trophies.
As far as collectibles, you only need 5 Gold Bolts, one full armor set, all 12 Spy Bots (to earn a gun needed for the purchasing all weapons trophy) and in each of the 9 levels there is one CraiggerBear that you need to find that is unfortunately not trackable in any way. Most are easy to find but for a few I did have to look up a guide to see where I missed it, this is the one area, in my opinion, that kept this Trophy List from achieving the top score.
The trophy list was designed for you to play the game at your pace, dabble in collecting and having a lot of fun with all the weapons at your disposal. No need for guides or videos as you will earn most of the trophies just by playing the game through the end. For some tips on things to keep an eye out for, check out below:
Tips:
- You will find more than enough resources to full upgrade most of your weapons on the first run however you only need to fully upgrade ONE weapon and only reach level 5 with ONE weapon. Both will be easily attainable early in the game.
- “Return Policy” requires you to kill 10 enemies by returning shots with the Void Reactor. This is a weapon you get late in the game and requires you to get it to level 5 so you can return shots. Buy this weapon as soon as it is available and level it up as soon as you can. To earn this trophy, hold the shield up as enemies are firing at you and you will see the shield go from blue to purple with little purple shots floating. You must be a good distance away so that it is the returning shot that kill the enemy and not the blast from the weapon. If you have the gold bolt for it, you can also turn on infinite ammo to make this easier.
- Grunthors are big dinosaur like enemies, you must kill 5 of them for a trophy and if you want to avoid a new game + run, kill all of them as soon as you see them. There aren’t many in the game so don’t miss it.
Happy Trophy Hunting!
If Insomniac does one thing well (and they do almost everything extremely well), is make fun video games. Rift Apart is fun from beginning to end as you seamlessly transition between worlds and dimensions, fighting your way through Nefarious army with creative weapons and abilities. You’ll be turning enemies into plants so you can pixelize them and then blow them into smithereens while dodging, jumping, grinding, rifting and ratcheting your way through levels.
The animation is beautiful, and the game truly feels like a next gen experience. If I had to nitpick, which I am about to do, I would have liked for Rivet and Kit to have their own set of abilities to differentiate themselves from Ratchet and Clank. Also, as fun as the weapons are, I miss some of the more comedic weapons like the disco gun or the sheepinator. Nitpicking aside, this is absolutely a game I recommend for gamers of all ages.
Trophies
Difficulty: 3/10
Time: 10 hours
Trophy Guide: Not needed
Trophy List Score: 9.5/10
Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart continues the Sony First Party trend of having well thought out and engaging Trophy Lists. Highlights include no missable trophies, no difficulty related trophies and almost all the collectibles are easily tracked within the in-game menus. Late in the game you also discover a map that will help you mop up any last collectible you need.
Ratchet & Clank games are all about their insane weapons and you will easily be able to purchase them all. The game does a good job of incentivizing you to use different weapons to achieve some miscellaneous trophies.
As far as collectibles, you only need 5 Gold Bolts, one full armor set, all 12 Spy Bots (to earn a gun needed for the purchasing all weapons trophy) and in each of the 9 levels there is one CraiggerBear that you need to find that is unfortunately not trackable in any way. Most are easy to find but for a few I did have to look up a guide to see where I missed it, this is the one area, in my opinion, that kept this Trophy List from achieving the top score.
The trophy list was designed for you to play the game at your pace, dabble in collecting and having a lot of fun with all the weapons at your disposal. No need for guides or videos as you will earn most of the trophies just by playing the game through the end. For some tips on things to keep an eye out for, check out below:
Tips:
- You will find more than enough resources to full upgrade most of your weapons on the first run however you only need to fully upgrade ONE weapon and only reach level 5 with ONE weapon. Both will be easily attainable early in the game.
- “Return Policy” requires you to kill 10 enemies by returning shots with the Void Reactor. This is a weapon you get late in the game and requires you to get it to level 5 so you can return shots. Buy this weapon as soon as it is available and level it up as soon as you can. To earn this trophy, hold the shield up as enemies are firing at you and you will see the shield go from blue to purple with little purple shots floating. You must be a good distance away so that it is the returning shot that kill the enemy and not the blast from the weapon. If you have the gold bolt for it, you can also turn on infinite ammo to make this easier.
- Grunthors are big dinosaur like enemies, you must kill 5 of them for a trophy and if you want to avoid a new game + run, kill all of them as soon as you see them. There aren’t many in the game so don’t miss it.
Happy Trophy Hunting!