A very charming and inventive adventure game. I'm surprised more games haven't taken inspiration from the dialogue system here. You have a dictionary of "Hamchat" words which you fill in as you discover them while talking to other hamsters. And after you find these words they can then possibly pop up as dialogue options. And if there's a hamchat word you haven't found yet but could potentially be used as a response to a specific hamster, it will let you know by placing question marks in place of the dialogue options where those hamchat words would be. It's just a very smartly designed and easy to understand take on adventure games and I wish there was more like it.

Also Hamtaro has an unique and very cute animation for each separate hamchat word it's great.

After going back to the PS3 games was somewhat disappointing, was really pleased with this. Works well both as a finale to the PS3 games and as a stand-alone game. The bad 2000s video game humor of the previous games is gone and instead the writing feels more like what you'd see in a really good CG animated movie. It's also the first PS5 game to really feel like it showcases what the new hardware can do. It's an incredible looking game with some amazing setpieces.

It's just a very good one of these. I'd be alright with it if this is the final Ratchet game, though not gonna lie I'd love to see another one now that it feels like they've really nailed the tone the writing of these games needed to have.