Insomniac doesn't miss. The Ratchet and Clank series is one of the best made and most fun video game series ever. Highly recommend you play this and HIGHLY recommend Insomniac give us a massive Ratchet and Clank collection optimized for PC at some point.

Best Christmas gift I've ever bought on Steam. A lot of times while playing through the story, It reminded me of the Disney movie Phineas and Ferb: Across the Second Dimension, if any of you know what that movie is. I'm so glad that Playstation ported this to the PC and I'm looking forward to playing the original games after this.

Buy this game if:

✅ You've missed playing this franchise;
✅ You were looking for a linear story and for a more linear gameplay compared to the earlier titles;
✅ It's fine for you spending 25€ for a title that is just a "middle-child" between future games of the R&C series;
✅ You wanted to be amazed by remarkable, impressive, good graphics and effects;

Don't buy this game if:

❌ you were expecting some character and dialogue development between the 4 protagonists;
❌ you were looking to strategize a bit more around and with your own weapons and builds/upgrades;
❌ you were expecting map variety and various and well hidden secrets and collectables;
❌ when playing a well established franchise...you were expecting some narrative novelty and experimentation...these will be absent.


Verdict: 6,5

Time required to finish the main game: 10 hours
Time required to complete it at 100%: 15 hours (you'll need to play 30 minutes in NG+ in order to grab your last achievement)




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NOTE: R&C's game content is generally acceptable in every aspect, sadly it's just mediocre in every other aspect, aside from it's graphics and sounds which were top notch:


1- Complete lack of good and meaningful dialogue:

Even though the main plot theme of this game are parallel realities... there are very, very few instances were dialogue between known and lesser known characters takes actually place, which is a shame as this could have been the change to improve and experiment a bit.
One clear example: Ratchet and Clank won't actually talk much between them and the two new introduced characters, which is a shame as they could have been developed better despite the game length wasn't suited to do so with ease (10 hours at best are needed to complete the main game)


2- The main "villain" is a bad joke, the more you hear it, the worse and "cringier" it gets:

The whole point of the story and the main villain's arise stems from a moronic mistake that could have been easily avoided. Despite this...WEIRD escamotage the game plot completely fails to soar higher from the ground, by keeping the game plot on being highly predictable and extremely trivial.

3- Lack of novelty and missed opportunities:

a) The game gets sold as "Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart"...that's not entirely true, as you'll play in the same "rift/reality" 95% of the time, so the idea of being able to play and switch often between different worlds...does not actually take place that much, except for few instances;

b) The main villain isn't remotely capable of holding their place rightfully, both from the dialogue perpective and for its own flaws and stupidity (yes, actual stupidity);

c) Arena's challenges are trivial and don't offer anything remarkable;

d) Lombaxes' stories and lore elements were curious to be heard, sadly they'll be delivered to you only via audio. Up to you if this suits your taste.




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