Piper2381: Ratchet & Clank

Friday, November 4, 2022

Ratchet & Clank

The first time I played Ratchet & Clank was when I didn’t consider myself a gamer. I would buy a console off the buy and sell ads for cheap, play the games it came with, and then sell the console right after. During this period I must have played Ratchet & Clank because I always remembered how good it was. But like I said, I wasn’t a gamer so I never beat the game and just sold the console right after. Thankfully years later I came back to video games and I knew I had to have Ratchet & Clank in my collection.

As we’re currently celebrating the 20^th anniversary of this game (released on November 4, 2002), I decided to play it again. This game feels like a N64 game such as Banjo-Kazooie and Conker's Bad Fur Day with their action platforming, comedy and puzzles. It also has spaceship battles like the one’s found in Star Fox. In fact some areas thoroughly impressed with what they were capable of doing back in 2002, such as walking up walls and upside down (similar to Super Mario Galaxy). This game is near perfect, but my only complaint is that it requires some grinding to buy or upgrade certain weapons (thankfully you can remedy this with a lengthy cheat). Other than that, this is a beautiful and fun game that every video game collector must own.