Post by Mona Fuller on Mar 7, 2021 23:08:30 GMT
Ratchet and Clank (2016) is a cinematic take built off a PS2 game of the same name. I hadn’t heard about it until my roommate bought it and then stayed up the entire night playing it. She fell in love, and almost every time the game is brought up, she laments that she cannot play it again for the first time (while mentioning this post to her, she’s said it at least 4 times). I offered to give her blunt force trauma (or pointy trauma, I am multi-talented) to induce a brain injury so she would lose her memory and be able to play it again, but apparently that is dangerous and not ideal. She got me to play it, and this game I think became my first to have 100% trophy completion (1 of 4 to have such honors [I’m so close in Borderlands 2, without the DLC]).
The gameplay is simple, and pretty straight forward. It switches from controlling Ratchet, to controlling Clank. Both have their own strengths and skills. There’s shooting, smashing, card collecting, upgrades, flying, shooting while flying, racing, shiny jewel collecting, underwater adventures, water sucking, and grinding.
I like the graphics – very cute style. The narrator, arguably one of the best parts, is a sarcastic Captain Qwark, who is, in all honesty, not Ratchet’s biggest fan. Not really Clanks either, but what can one expect? I enjoy seeing Ratchet and Clank grow through the series, and most of the characters actually seem really well fleshed out, and it is nice to see them interact and react like actual people would. Also the humor is horrible, and by that I mean great.
Now that game is free from the PlayStation store as part of their Play At Home initiative, which offers free games so people will be more inclined to play at home to safely socially distance. This was something that they did last year, I’ve heard.
In honor of its new beginnings (new-new beginnings?), I am restarting the game. My roommate is here in her snuggie (it’s 70F outside, what the heck, K?). She’s sipping whisky, I have a beer. We’ll see how this goes. At the least, I already have beat the game like 3(?) times, so even stupid, I should be able to do this.
(K is my roommate, M is me)
• I restarted on Normal. Then the first cutscene started. Seriously. If you don’t want to play it, watch the movie. We watched it the cutscenes were the same animations. Good times. Or if you really like the game, watching the movie is like the lazy man’s way of playing the game again.
• We, Ratchet, must do our chores and THEN we can go to our tryout…armed with a wrench.
• K: “That means you can care about eridium again. Whooo!” M: “That’s not eridium…” K: “…it is now.”
• Literally everything that can be broken and give me bolts, I need to break. I need the bolts. I must upgrade and buy new weapons even though I don’t know I can do that yet.
• There’s also card collecting, for us nerds. And leveling up weapons. And upgrading weapons.
• ‘I’m more of a vengeful scientist.’ Beautiful.
• K: “If I remember correctly, I binged this so hard I was hearing the bolts in my sleep for like a week.” M: “You were.” K: “I wasn’t collecting bolts, it was just a sound my brain was creating.”
• It’s not all about upper body strength, Captain Qwark.
• K: “Ugh, they are seriously going to make me buy a whole new gaming system. FOR $500.” (for the PS5 exclusive Ratchet and Clank game) (She doesn’t realize that it’s on PS5, and that’s me. She gets X-Box, I get PS5)
• And there’s racing. Which I forgot about. And am not the best at. But there’s also Golden Screws to get.
• M: “Sewer Time.” K: “Got it! You got this!” M: “Time to get my s**t together.”
• I broke the game and ended up outside the sewer. But still beat it. And got to see the outside of all the stuff that is underwater here on Rilgar. It was interesting to see, but I had to drown myself to be able to continue. Which I did. Because there are no consequences to death.
• Hey, Creepy Guy! Psst me up.
• Creepy Guy is creepy, but he can get you the R.Y.N.O. (‘Rip You a New One’). Which is a gun. The best gun I’ve ever used. The gun has its own theme song, that is how powerful it is. But to get the gun, you need all the cards. You want the cards. Honestly, the last fight is basically nothing with that gun. Get it. Learn it. Love it. Level it up, and watch your enemies drop like flies.
• Big Al! I am so torn between ‘yeah, you and the hot chick totally have a thing’ and ‘I’m so tired of the nerdy-nerd-boy gets the hot chick cliché,’ but Big Al seems nice. Maybe. I think I’ve decided I ship it. K does as well.
• The smart guys are not listened to, but Qwark did end with waffles, which is a strong place to end.
• Qwark may be redeemable. His motivations are completely believable and understandable, even if we would not react the same way.
• Honestly, once you get the RYNO, fights are almost nothing. It is such a powerful gun – collect your cards and get it.
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The gameplay is simple, and pretty straight forward. It switches from controlling Ratchet, to controlling Clank. Both have their own strengths and skills. There’s shooting, smashing, card collecting, upgrades, flying, shooting while flying, racing, shiny jewel collecting, underwater adventures, water sucking, and grinding.
I like the graphics – very cute style. The narrator, arguably one of the best parts, is a sarcastic Captain Qwark, who is, in all honesty, not Ratchet’s biggest fan. Not really Clanks either, but what can one expect? I enjoy seeing Ratchet and Clank grow through the series, and most of the characters actually seem really well fleshed out, and it is nice to see them interact and react like actual people would. Also the humor is horrible, and by that I mean great.
Now that game is free from the PlayStation store as part of their Play At Home initiative, which offers free games so people will be more inclined to play at home to safely socially distance. This was something that they did last year, I’ve heard.
In honor of its new beginnings (new-new beginnings?), I am restarting the game. My roommate is here in her snuggie (it’s 70F outside, what the heck, K?). She’s sipping whisky, I have a beer. We’ll see how this goes. At the least, I already have beat the game like 3(?) times, so even stupid, I should be able to do this.
(K is my roommate, M is me)
• I restarted on Normal. Then the first cutscene started. Seriously. If you don’t want to play it, watch the movie. We watched it the cutscenes were the same animations. Good times. Or if you really like the game, watching the movie is like the lazy man’s way of playing the game again.
• We, Ratchet, must do our chores and THEN we can go to our tryout…armed with a wrench.
• K: “That means you can care about eridium again. Whooo!” M: “That’s not eridium…” K: “…it is now.”
• Literally everything that can be broken and give me bolts, I need to break. I need the bolts. I must upgrade and buy new weapons even though I don’t know I can do that yet.
• There’s also card collecting, for us nerds. And leveling up weapons. And upgrading weapons.
• ‘I’m more of a vengeful scientist.’ Beautiful.
• K: “If I remember correctly, I binged this so hard I was hearing the bolts in my sleep for like a week.” M: “You were.” K: “I wasn’t collecting bolts, it was just a sound my brain was creating.”
• It’s not all about upper body strength, Captain Qwark.
• K: “Ugh, they are seriously going to make me buy a whole new gaming system. FOR $500.” (for the PS5 exclusive Ratchet and Clank game) (She doesn’t realize that it’s on PS5, and that’s me. She gets X-Box, I get PS5)
• And there’s racing. Which I forgot about. And am not the best at. But there’s also Golden Screws to get.
• M: “Sewer Time.” K: “Got it! You got this!” M: “Time to get my s**t together.”
• I broke the game and ended up outside the sewer. But still beat it. And got to see the outside of all the stuff that is underwater here on Rilgar. It was interesting to see, but I had to drown myself to be able to continue. Which I did. Because there are no consequences to death.
• Hey, Creepy Guy! Psst me up.
• Creepy Guy is creepy, but he can get you the R.Y.N.O. (‘Rip You a New One’). Which is a gun. The best gun I’ve ever used. The gun has its own theme song, that is how powerful it is. But to get the gun, you need all the cards. You want the cards. Honestly, the last fight is basically nothing with that gun. Get it. Learn it. Love it. Level it up, and watch your enemies drop like flies.
• Big Al! I am so torn between ‘yeah, you and the hot chick totally have a thing’ and ‘I’m so tired of the nerdy-nerd-boy gets the hot chick cliché,’ but Big Al seems nice. Maybe. I think I’ve decided I ship it. K does as well.
• The smart guys are not listened to, but Qwark did end with waffles, which is a strong place to end.
• Qwark may be redeemable. His motivations are completely believable and understandable, even if we would not react the same way.
• Honestly, once you get the RYNO, fights are almost nothing. It is such a powerful gun – collect your cards and get it.
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I'm DecepticGluticus on PS4 - come look me up!