Ratchet and Clank Size Matters Is TERRIBLE

[@RETRObutionofficial]

Thank you so much for watching - I went back to Ratchet 1 in 2024 and it's AMAZING kzbin.info/www/bejne/mInIopyam5uqoMU

[@Lord-Miraak1337]

I completed this game a few days ago on PS5. I wanted to go for 100% it started good for me, I didn't expect console quality. Then eventually I stopped having fun. With the weak weapons and gigantic health pools of the enemies and bosses I thought I was doing something wrong. So I Googled it that is where I found this video and you describe the issues I had with this game perfectly. You've got a new subscriber.

[@RETRObutionofficial]

Thanks for the sub :) I'll be covering more R&C soon. I think SAC will be on PS Premium soon and I'm not looking forward to it lol

[@leegallagher4133]

I've heard on multiple occasions that size doesn't matter....

[@RETRObutionofficial]

she's just being nice to you

[@flufflenuggit6499]

She likes you, dude. Don't worry.

[@MrKreisKlinge]

It's a competent game considering the limitations of the hardware. People are too harsh on it nowadays.

[@jazzratoon]

The things that I find to be the most valid criticism are bullet-spongy enemies, weirdly expensive ammo, and just bad characterization and story. Everything else is pretty average.

[@MrKreisKlinge]

@@jazzratoon For sure, but it's in no way a terrible game. It's become popular to hate on it recently which I find odd. When Size Matters came out, people really liked it as far as I remember.

[@jazzratoon]

@@MrKreisKlinge I played it and liked it as a kid, but now, compared to the OG nowadays, it's mediocre.

[@dapperfan44]

​@@jazzratoon This is literally like comparing Donkey Kong Land to Donkey Kong Country.

[@jazzratoon]

@@dapperfan44 🤷

[@RedReject]

Most of these complaints fall under skill issues. Most of the weapons are uninspired, but there were some fun ones. Mootator and bee mine glove were some standout additions.

[@RETRObutionofficial]

Ah yes, the skill issue argument lol

[@lanceylad98]

The strength of small 'goon' enemies was ridiculous. I only played a small amount of this on PSP as a kid (literally just Pokitaru) so i got it as soon as the ps5 version released. I enjoyed it at first but the amount of bullets you had to put into 1 enemy was ridiculous. My favourite part of wrapping up an R&C game is going back to the final boss to annihilate them with the RYNO but with this game, a whole round of RYNO bullets took the tiniest bit of health from him

[@RETRObutionofficial]

I won't even both trying to get the RYNO in this one lol - I deleted it straight away

[@YouMissedAgainTimes32024]

The PS5 "version" is just the original PSP version on an emulator 💀

[@cooper2211]

I remember playing size matters when i was a kid qjr i got stone walled at the dani moon that luna fight was so unbalanced if you didnt get the shock rocket. Then i got stuck on otto cause he took no damage. Came back years later somehow got to ng+3 to get the final armor set never looked back. As for secret agent clank played it beat it once and never wanted to play again.

[@RETRObutionofficial]

I'm not looking forward to Secret Agent Clank lol. Hopefully it comes to PS plus soon because the PS2 version is nearly €100 over here

[@pikitis]

Size matters is probably one of the most frustrating games I've ever played but I still love it, I still remember the feeling whenever I got to the mandatory clank bits - painful nostagia

[@RETRObutionofficial]

Nostalgia is usually painful lol. Have you tried to platinum it on PS5? Apparently it's sooooo frustrating

[@marcoscabezolajr.8408]

You can skip the temple if you know the secrets 👀

[@pikitis]

@@marcoscabezolajr.8408 I imagine you can but its not much use telling me now, I woudn't have known about this for the dozen or so times I played SM as a mere child

[@leonardomatheus1888]

I agree that the game isn't as good as the ps2 originals, but saying it isn't fun is just your personal opinion. The game has some issues, and while i don't find the difficulty a problem, the balancing is pretty bad sometimes, but otherwise it's a well made game, specially for a handheld. Objectively i can't rate it lower than 6.5/10.

[@RETRObutionofficial]

Yeah I would probably give it a 5.5/6/10, its nowhere near the rest of the series

[@iangpark]

I've got every single R&C game to 100% and am replaying Size Matters for the PS5 right now. Played it on the PS2 initially and never really enjoyed it despite R&C being my favourite series. God knows how I managed to do it when I was 17. I'm 28 now and can still barely do it, and that's with the replay feature and bolt farming. Can't wait for your Secret Agent Clank review, if you think SM is bad, SAC is a whole other level of torture. Perfecting that game was the up there with the one of the single most challenging things I have ever done, full stop.

[@RETRObutionofficial]

See thats the problem, I LOVE Ratchet and Clank, even the crappier PS3 games but Size Matters is a whole other kettle of fish. The new PS Premium games are being announced soon and SAC will probably be on that so I'll have to give it a go lol. Thanks for watching :)

[@nergalshagrath6667]

At least the skill points to achieve are normal. On agent clank you need rewind to get all of this and most are dumb to get cause of broken controls and messed up camera and lags as well

[@RETRObutionofficial]

I can only imagine how frustrating SAC is to 100% lol. I have a video on it and I couldn't even finish the game it was that annoying

[@nergalshagrath6667]

​@@RETRObutionofficialforgot to mention I actually completed all the skill points all thanks to my patience and using the rewind i couldn't believe that actually works when you can't get the hardest ones on SAC

[@imafreakinninja12]

Another thing I forgot to mention is that they brought back the exact same weapons Up Your Arsenal brought back. At least Secret Agent Clank brought back weapons that were unique like the walloper.

[@RETRObutionofficial]

I'll probably find out how bad Secret Agent Clank is very soon lol

[@imafreakinninja12]

@@RETRObutionofficial Ya it's another game that if they just made a few simple changes, it would have been a lot better. It seriously takes like a half hour to defeat the final boss in challenge mode.

[@RETRObutionofficial]

@@imafreakinninja12 Yeah the rewind feature is much needed, glad the PS5 version has it

[@marcoscabezolajr.8408]

Two weapons came back it's not a big point to bring up.

[@imafreakinninja12]

@@marcoscabezolajr.8408 Ya, when there's only 13 weapons, those two weapons make up a huge percentage of the weapons roster. And the point isn't that they brought weapons back; the obvious point that you missed was that they brought back weapons that were already brought back.

[@imafreakinninja12]

I didn't really have a problem with limitations since the enemies didn't require advanced techniques to destroy. If they had flying enemies what required you to aim upwards while running, then we would have had a problem. I feel like this game could have been really cool, but the story was pretty lame and there were too many maxi-games, which left us with little Ratchet gameplay. And the maxi-games were basically useless in challenge mode considering the best way to get bolts was to just play as Ratchet. I just wish I could have been in the studio during Size Matters and Secret Agent Clank's production to nudge them in the right direction and point out some easily fixable flaws. Basically every Ratchet and Clank after Deadlocked missed the mark.

[@RETRObutionofficial]

That's interesting, I enjoyed the Future series and Rift Apart is top notch from a gameplay perspective

[@imafreakinninja12]

@@RETRObutionofficial I stopped playing after A Crack In Time. The future series was okay, but could have been better. I didn't like how they were trying to give Ratchet and Clank a "deep and meaningful" background story. If I wanted one of those, I wouldn't play a game where you could turn your enemies into penguins or monkey.

[@RETRObutionofficial]

Yeah see I'm usually on the side of I don't need a deep narrative but for whatever reason I like it when Ratchet does it

[@imafreakinninja12]

@@RETRObutionofficial Well, Tools of Destruction wasn't that bad. The story in A Crack In Time was just awful. Like, come on, we all know Azimuth is going to be a bad guy in the end. The story was very predictable and nothing special. The final spit in the face was making the cutscenes unskippable. That is a major reason why I don't replay that game.

[@JAYDOG1337A]

The best way to deal with the balancing issues is to not use weapons you already upgraded, and this applies to all Ratchet & Clank games, because you are just wasting valuable XP.

[@RETRObutionofficial]

It was the weapons being too weak throughout the whole game that was the issue. I had nearly every weapon maxed out near the end and they dealt so little damage

[@marcoscabezolajr.8408]

​@RETRObutionofficial did you have the right weapons maxed though.

[@JappoeGG]

Damn apparently everybody hates my childhood favorite

[@RETRObutionofficial]

Man I loved it too when I was a kid

[@Ospyro3em]

I respctfully disagree that Daxter is a bad game. Even now it holds up as a really decent platformer

[@RETRObutionofficial]

I didn't have a good time with it on PS Plus

[@Echo_0776]

not that it really helps, but almost every review ive seen when talking about the weapon balance, specifically the concussion cannon (shotgun) im yet to see one charge it up, i dont rememeber if there is an animation for it so maybe they are and i cant tell but still, maybe helps a tinnnnnny bit

[@RETRObutionofficial]

It's been a couple of weeks so I totally forget if I did or not, I assume I did but I could be wrong. Thanks for watching :)

[@Echo_0776]

@@RETRObutionofficialno worries! Just found your channel recently as I’m having a mini regression into the classic RnC games and psp things (what I grew up on mostly) and I’m loving your content! Keep up the good work, well deserving of more subs 😉

[@FEAST4]

Size matters is good cope

[@RETRObutionofficial]

I don't know what this means

[@YouMissedAgainTimes32024]

​@@RETRObutionofficialThere is a PS2 port that's better fyi

[@RETRObutionofficial]

Its pretty expensive so I don't think I want to waste money on it

[@Eclipses915]

This was actually my very first ratchet and clank game i played then i started playing others when i was a kid

[@RETRObutionofficial]

Have you played it recently?

[@Eclipses915]

@@RETRObutionofficial yes a couple of days ago on the PlayStation

[@lucasmedina9839]

I'm just waiting for ratchet and clank 2002 release. But what got me upset is streaming. I hate every streaming of all classic games. So I have to wait for the playstation to remove streaming so I can buy the best ratchet and clank again.

[@RETRObutionofficial]

You can get a PS2 or PS3 with the games pretty cheap nowadays

[@travismartin6722]

Is really not that bad

[@RETRObutionofficial]

It feels like a massive step back

[@zyklan2197]

i loved it when i was 6 haha, i remember there was some chainsaw scene that scared tf out of me or smth

[@RETRObutionofficial]

Have you played it since?

[@guts7925]

From what i've seen and played of PSP games. It seems they tried to add artificial forms of longevity into each of them. For this game its the difficulty combined with the high bolt prices. For others its collectibles that you use for a multiplayer mode. Not saying these aspects are exclusive to the PSP library but its a pattern I have noticed.

[@RETRObutionofficial]

Oh really? What other games do you think have padding in them?

[@guts7925]

​@@RETRObutionofficialWell a game like crisis core has an excess of side missions and Daxter which you mentioned has collectibles which fuel a multiplayer mode. I've heard Peace walker has an excess of missions but I have not played that one. For those examples though they involve side content or separate modes rather than impact the main game which it seems to have done with Size matters.

[@hfxghfxgjxfjl]

I recently played all parts in release order, also this one. I partly can understand your points, but for the most part I enjoyed "size matters" on the psp. Sure, sometimes the balancing was frustrating, but nothing manageable. Overall I enjoyed it :)

[@RETRObutionofficial]

Glad you enjoyed it :) have you played Secret Agent Clank?

[@TheArtDisciple]

It is arguably kind of a bad game. The story is pretty uninspiring except for a few moments. The gameplay is clunky and as you said it's an unbalanced and a total downgrade from the other games which would be weird considering it's canonically after Deadlocked. Despite that I do appreciate the game's existence as a huge fan of R&C. It's nostalgic and has a certain charm and atmosphere about it. The unbalanced nature of the game is what I kind of like and also weirdly despite perhaps being the worst game in the franchise you can have a lot of fun playing it even though admittedly it will make you want to break something at times.

[@Kingdom_Key]

It's for sure a bottom tier Ratchet game, but personally i think it did a decent job keeping what Ratchet is at its core but for handheld. Lots of series came to DS and PSP snd had to completely switch genre due to hardware limitations. I enjoy Size Matters enough, its for sure janky and frustrating at times though. I found the platinum trophy pretty fun and quick, not bad for $15. It's poor balancing is indefensible however and 100% a valid enough reason for anyone to dislike it.

[@RETRObutionofficial]

Oh man I'd say the platinum was frustrating. What's your favourite Ratchet game?

[@Kingdom_Key]

@RETRObutionofficial Going Commando is my personal favourite. I believe the PAL title is Locked and Loaded? It's amazing how well they built on RAC 1 with only a year between releases.

[@marcoscabezolajr.8408]

​@@Kingdom_Keygc I'd my favorite too, and then Size Matters just behind it

[@TTV_GALT]

36 hours. Ive just this second as I type this out have got the platinum, had it not been for the rewind thing id have deleted this monstrosity and abandoned the platinum. Literally felt like ive been in a live ammunition active war zone fighting tanks and super soldiers using water bombs and nerf guns. Almost 3 full play throughs as the first one the skill points wouldnt register on some of them despite getting the goal required etc, started the 2nd game then the trophies glitched, the third ive just finished i had to do the tree house time adjust glitch thing or the platinum would have been out of my reach. 36 hours. Ive spent longer on games sure but for reference it only took me 9 hours to platinum daxter, ratchet and clank rift apart took me 20 hours to platinum. I cant explain how accurate your review of this terrible game is and im so glad to see it deleted off my console..😂

[@RETRObutionofficial]

God damn, do you enjoy torturing yourself? lol. I've only ever platinumed Ratchet 1 and I found it sooooo annoying. Thanks for watching :)

[@ProfetaInculto]

Some skill issue problems here tbh

[@RETRObutionofficial]

Definitely - all valid criticism of games comes down to a skill issue

[@Strelitzia98]

Size matters ain’t bad just other games are better but I like size matters

[@wozthescott2804]

Just recently beat this game and it sucked soooo bad. Shame because I really wanted to like this game.

[@RETRObutionofficial]

I know, our childhood is ruined 😭

[@MetalWeebChaos]

It's not the worst one but it's one of them, at least top five. I personally hate FFA more.

[@RETRObutionofficial]

I've never played Q Force or Secret Agent Clank so they might take the cake

[@marcoscabezolajr.8408]

I have it at top 5 best not worst

[@robinrademacher7984]

I think calling wheapons weak is plain wrong u upgrade it and its easy

[@RETRObutionofficial]

I maxed out the majority of the weapons and they were all extremely weak

[@marcoscabezolajr.8408]

​@RETRObutionofficial on Challenge Mode, but that's beside the point, the Acid Bomb is fantastic for follow up attacks and epoxy mod sticks anything to the ground unless it's a boss

[@SlyJordie]

5:15 patience issue, you didn’t jump at the right time for the flower hence why you didn’t make the jump, that’s on you. the camera isn’t weird, it’s just closer & i have no idea what you’re on about in terms of glitches lmao. the weapons again are a patience issue, sure there is padding for the game to force you to revisit older planets to level up guns but like; Going Commando & Tools of Destruction do the EXACT same thing. the weapons are fine when you’ve maxed them out with the exception of the Concussion Gun which is only for smaller enemies for some reason & it’s not a shotgun it’s just similar to one lol…the rest do a serviceable job as you expect. 6:46 seriously? 😂 use the shield bro c’mon that’s what it’s there for & if you’ve played the previous Ratchet games you should barely be getting hit anyways…7:42 Dropship just takes patience, focus on the ship with the Duel Lacerators & the odd Acid Bomb, Agents of Doom will take care of the other enemies & use the PDA if you run out of ammo, there is not a bad bolt economy in this game, people who say that aren’t playing R&C properly as smashing everything (not just crates) is STANDARD Ratchet gameplay at this point. 8:24 that’s what the PDA is for… 8:50 this is very fair for Luna tbh, the checkpoints for her boss fight aren’t very good i’ll give you that. 9:10 it’s a more difficult Ratchet game; the worst at the time but absolutely not a bad game at all Ratchet games are unique & there isn’t anything like them, Size Matters is still a great game when judged on its own & when judged within the series; it’s still serviceable. 9:34 this literally doesn’t matter at all lmao 9:45 it’s a bit odd yeah but it’s a PSP game, it’s just performed a little differently, crouch for a split-second & THEN do it, works every time. Also the final boss is easy as well, does he one shot you? yeah but if you have the shield for everytime he hits you, you’ll be fine. Using the Shock Rocket (should be near maxed out at this point) to take down his shield & then the Laser Tracer (at least Lvl. 3) you will literally beat Otto within 2 minutes. It’s only difficult for people who are rushing through it; a lot of PSP games suffer from padding but calling them bad games because of it, especially Size Matters, is ludicrous.

[@RETRObutionofficial]

So just because a lot of PSP games suffer from padding then you can excuse this? I mean if they're all bloated then they're all bloated and its a valid criticism. As for the PDA, I think its a stupid decision, why not balance the ammo counts, enemy health and crate drops so you don't need a PDA to make the bosses tolerable

[@CelestialDub]

Really enjoyed this one as a kid but you see all the flaws and how shitty it really is when you go back and play it as an adult. Same with Secret Agent Clank.

[@dapperfan44]

I don't believe games should be judged by how you feel about them in the present. If it was fun at the time, then it was fun when it was supposed to be fun.

[@RETRObutionofficial]

I like the sentiment and it's why I like to keep my nostalgia intact for bad games I enjoyed when I was young but unfortunately sometimes we will play the older nostalgic games and see the flaws. The PS2 ratchet games are still amazing today but Size Matters isn't

[@dapperfan44]

@RETRObutionofficial To be fair, Size Matters was a PSP game. Imo, it's like if you were to say in the 2010s "well, actually, Donkey Kong Land/Super Mario Land are actually bad games." Maybe it is a quality issue, as I never here this complaint for Daxter (which is my favorite PSP game). But, all I'm saying is that SM is the equivalent. It's the console experience, shrunk down.

[@DominoUB]

There's so many games I had as a kid that I absolutely loved to bits, and riding on pure nostalgia go back to them only to find out how terrible they are/were.

[@RETRObutionofficial]

Any examples? I have a few, I just played Daxter and that's another game that didn't hold up lol

[@DominoUB]

@@RETRObutionofficial I grew up on Sega master system, so one recently was Alex Kidd in Miracle World. They did a remake and the level design is so bad.

[@jazzratoon]

@@RETRObutionofficial Really? I heard Daxter was actually pretty good according to a lot of sources. It wasn't made by High Impact Games and it sold over 4 million copies with a couple of nominations.

[@RETRObutionofficial]

I tried that Alex Kidd remaster and jesus christ is it hard lol

[@RETRObutionofficial]

Yeah It was well regarded back in the day, I have a video about it on the cchannel if you're interested. I just think it doesn't hold up nowadays

[@castlevaniacrazy5]

Yikes, the camera’s really tight in that footage, is it actually like that for the full game?!

[@RETRObutionofficial]

Yep, I can take the camera being close but it glitches out quite a bit too

[@ConsolsenpaiSk]

I like the game 🎮

[@RETRObutionofficial]

Glad you liked it, have you played it recently?

[@ConsolsenpaiSk]

@@RETRObutionofficial I played the ps5 Version. I have also on my PS Vita 🎮

[@marcoscabezolajr.8408]

​@@ConsolsenpaiSkI love the game 🧡🩶🔥