A vast improvement over the first game in so many ways, it's so much more fun and enjoyable. Hit points constantly upgrade with the XP system, no longer limited to only 8 hits, you get armor that can decrease damage, and many minigames that award large amounts of bolts are included so it's no longer a necessity to grind via glitches.

Though things like the RYNO 2 and final armor are still massively expensive. I also found the end game to be weaker than Ratchet 1 with a surprisingly abrupt ending after such a huge twist. Space shooting segments were meh too with controls that were just way too twitchy.