I tried so hard and got so far
Genre: Action
Platform: PS5
Release Date: 2021
Ok, don't get me wrong. This is a great game by Insomniac games but I don't know why it took me forever to try to beat it. Probably this game is not for me. Let's dive in and see what was missing in my book. So this game is after the last Ratchet and Clank game which I thoroughly enjoyed (review
here) where you start the game off as our dynamic duo. Halfway throughout the story, some bad guys came around and then the you are off to another adventure.
The game plays like a standard Ratchet and Clank. You get weapons, you shoot bad guys, you navigate terrains. Rinse and repeat. During the game there are some puzzle sections involving Clank and a spider robot. What makes this game apart from the previous iterations is that the power of the PS5 SSD drive. This time you are dealing with dimensional travel where you can be transported into another different dimension in a split second when you jump inside a portal. The different dimension means that the story is trying a different take on the bad guys, even heroes. You have another Lombax (apparently Ratchet is Lombax, and here I thought he was a cartoon fox type creature) named Rivet. Both of them control the same only with different story beats.
From what I heard that this game is short at 6 hours in. But after 3 hours in, I think I saw enough to make an honest opinion on the game. It is the same thing repeated over and over again. Head to an area, fight the bad guys, rinse and repeat. After a while I find that game play a bit tedious and boring. The game however is a masterpiece to look at. It basically a visual vomit of particle effects and colors flying around. You can actually lose your bearing since there are so many things happening on screen that you forget that there are actually people are trying to short at you
In the end, this game is for the hardcore fans of the series. I am sadly am not one of them. Good thing this game was free from the PS plus extra catalogue. So no gripes there. So after all in all, I give this game a B-Rank. Good enough I guess. Now let's play a different game
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