Reviewing The Best Ratchet & Clank Game

[@Particle_Ghost]

This dude just comes and goes as he pleases, and you never know what his next video will be. I like the crazy rant videos the most.

[@Andrew-qo5qc]

I like these videos too though and I can understand that he wants to review games he likes for a change. Playing shitty modern games all the time must really take it out of him. Looking forward to the car crash that will be saints row though 🙂

[@ZiRxRageALoT]

@@Andrew-qo5qc oh, that Saint's Row review will be spicy for sure😂

[@Ecliptor.]

Yeah he's one entertaining schizo

[@Sgt.ArchDornan]

@@ZiRxRageALoT It is very spicty

[@HrvojeGrahovac]

I wonder if he will review the Future trilogy games

[@stupid90able]

Up your arsenal is still my favorite but Going Commando is a very close second. It was such a huge improvement over the first game.

[@lucascoval828]

Huge improvement indeed. One of the best. 😍

[@Doctor00X]

Not really, the first game was better in every category besides core mobility. The original had more identity as a platformer with shooter mechanics, all the sequels were third-person shooters with bare minimum platforming. 2 is like a dlc to the first one, even its story is a side-story to their characters' development. The third one is even worse.

[@ryno4ever433]

Then it just depends which parts of RaC you like. I prefer less platforming elements and more gunfights, so I disagree that the first game is the best. This is a subjective matter.

[@lucascoval828]

@@Doctor00X No.

[@Doctor00X]

@@ryno4ever433 You prefer a more generic style game that can be found everywhere, shooting with strafing takes no skill. I prefer a more original video game. Fact, not an opinion.

[@Her_Imperious_Condescension]

I always liked the contrast in world design between the first game in the second. In the first, it was mostly just peaceful worlds under attack by the Blarg. Gadgetron might be a multi trillion bolt corporation, but they weren't evil. When you go to their HQ on Kalebo III, it's basically a paradise. But when you get to Bogon, it's a completely different story. Orxon was the "worst" planet in Solana (lore wise, it's actually my favourite world game wise), but that was caused by Drek, not Gadgetron. But Megacorp's hyper capitalism and exploitation has left many worlds like Orxon behind, especially my favourite RaC2 world, Tabora. And when you finally get to _their_ HQ, Yeedil, it's a dark and foreboding fortress built on an umbral planet.

[@LAZZAMCPE]

Best game let you grind to 100 million bolts , no replay value in new ones ...

[@colossaloverlord2678]

Couldn't agree more. This game was simple and fun so no matter how many times I beat it, I had no issues playing more. Only reason I even bothered with NG+ in 2016 and Rift Apart was for the Platinum.

[@KaimArgonarEyyyy]

Going Commando is truly peak, but my personal favorite is Deadlocked, since the atmosphere of that game is just something really special. The weapons are the best as well, no misses.

[@shawklan27]

I share the same opinion as you bro but the music man....THE MUSIC FUCKING SLAPS!!!

[@antoniosadorra4961]

love the commentators too, “if ratchet were a cookie… what kinda cookie would he be”

[@EresirThe1st]

Those two are my favourites too. Rac2 has this amazing open, bleak aesthetic but Deadlocked/Gladiator has that more tense skin of your teeth feel. Amazing that they both slap while being so different

[@Her_Imperious_Condescension]

The weapons in Deadlocked (or Gladiator in my region) really are the most streamlined of the whole series. There may only be 10 of them, but they're so customisable with with the Omega mods. Rather than give you some weak dedicated acid gun or freeze bombs, they just let you put acid or freezing on a gun you actually like. The closest the series has come since is the underwhelming 3 constructo weapons in ACiT.

[@FatalShotGG]

Dude Ratchet: Deadlocked was AWESOME

[@ChiefCrewin]

Man Going Commando might be my favorite game of all time. I am heavily biased, as GC was the first game I ever bought as a kid from Walmart. Recently started playing through them again after 20 or so years using an emulator, still fun!

[@hellworld3000]

the level design and environments are what I remember most about this game, pure soul

[@maxdishaw]

I personally really enjoyed the crystal collecting in the desert and snow. Going Commando was such a well balanced game with so much variety. Awesome video

[@yojoehojo4291]

In Tubora yes, forget Grelbin though. I hated Grelbin with a passion.

[@cobain2261]

Hello, Synthetic Man. When will we see the analysis video of the film Drive (2011) starring Ryan Gosling?

[@vadariousb]

Wassup Cobain

[@cobain2261]

@@vadariousb whats good man

[@SyntheticMan]

Maybe later this year. It's a great movie, but it will be hard to talk about it while remaining "youtube-friendly". It would make for a good video when I don't feel like talking about games.

[@cobain2261]

@@SyntheticMan awesome 👌

[@theoldman5896]

He's literally me

[@Hytheter]

Ohhhh you're right, the camera is way closer to Ratchet nowadays. No wonder I always feel like I'm getting blindsided in the arena.

[@hassanghanim3966]

The Insomniac devs documentary explains that they removed the flying section from the second game in Up your Arsenal because they got feedback from players not liking the flying section, also later games did add some new things that sadly not fully used in the games(like the hover boots), and and improved some things like the Clank sections(which made it really hard to play the him in the ps2 game), and the collectathon levels which they made a full explorable levels instead of empty desert and ice area or the annoying Sewer area.

[@canontheory]

One thing you missed was that the NG+ cycle is just like dark souls where every time you beat NG+ it goes to NG+2 etc with the enemies having more hp and dealing more damage. Really cool feature that adds even more replay value.

[@nosferatu9561]

My favorite ps2 era game was Jak 2. To this day there isn't a game like that.

[@EresirThe1st]

For good reason lmao, a huge empty city with nothing to do, totally broken difficulty and turning a previously normal character into a cringelord isn’t to be emulated.

[@nosferatu9561]

@@EresirThe1st it is a ps2 era game, i rather have a unique city where every corner is well designed, than a world full of meanigless things to do. The gameplay is fantastic and jak have now a better dinamic with daxter. Makes no sense call jak2 cringworthy since he don't even talk in the first game. And i dont use this argument, but jak 2 is better aclaimed as well. And we have a jetboard.

[@EresirThe1st]

@@nosferatu9561 He didn't talk in the first game but he still had character. Jak in the second game is peak 2000s edge without the style of a game like Prince of Persia: Warrior Within, which just makes it silly. Much like Shadow the Hedgehog. You say you want a well designed city with meaningful things to do. Jak 2 has a large city with nothing to do, meaningful or otherwise. It's just going through the streets to get to the next mission. Fair enough if you like the jetboard movement but it barely shows up in normal play.

[@Atty1997]

6:40 wait a sec. The upgrade feels worse than the original *ONLY IF* there's no Lock On modifier on it. Once you buy the Lock On upgrade for plat bolts, yeah it still feels like another weapon, but it's *insanely* powerful. You can pretty much solo the entire Tabora desert with it. UYA definitely got the error there and brought the Liquid nitrogen, a beautiful upgrade which preserved the original Lava Gun concept. just brilliant

[@Saltyoven]

It's basically the reverse HK22 gun, which is way worse with the lock on mod.

[@Alex-ng6hc]

To this day, Locked and Loaded, as it's known in my region, is still my favourite game in the original trilogy. I love the improved gameplay with strafing, upgrading, and gladiator arenas. I love the bouncer, plasma coil, and minirocket tube. I love the improved characterisations and the game's story. My only complaint is the ending twist, where it's revealed that Qwark was the villain all along, which was really unnecessary. Even so, this was the perfect sequel, one that I still play to this day

[@samwilson2250]

I may have said this on the rachet and clank review you did last year, but my first game was rachet in clank back when my mom bought a PS2 for me and my siblings that came boxed in with up your arsenal and Jak 3. Outside of a couple other games my siblings and I would play up your arsenal to death. Despite not playing really any other R&C game besides the four player one that was on the PS3, we all loved it. The humor, story, weapons was just so much fun. Again one of the few games we actually ran to death to where when in single player we would get to a certain planet and would have a infinite "load screen" where rachet would just be flying forever without getting to the next location. Really need to get to playing the rest.

[@glngallinera4344]

top 3 childhood games thanks for the review you hit every note beautifully

[@Famsysthing]

I remember Platinuming all the original Ratchet games back in 2020. I had previously played the games so I platted on NG+. I remember Going Commando taking a long ass time because I thought you had to upgrade every gun, so I wastwd a ton of time doing that when you actually didn't need to

[@GrizzaldBear]

36:30 Rift Apart's dodge isn't even remotely similar to dodging in Dark Souls, what?

[@onichan2878]

Nah it's similar cause...it has I frames. Its pretty much a 1 to 1 I'll even explain: where in dk it was a tool strictly for dodging,and that was literally it. RC:RA uses it as a ground and air dodge JUST like the classic dk roll, I remember air rolling all over the place. area traversal(just like in dk) and puzzle solving (just like dk) it's pretty obvious right? All jokes aside that isn't the only bizzar completely uninformed take or comparison this guy has.

[@abyss1669]

YO I ACTUALLY DOWNLOADED THIS ON MY PC A COUPLE MONTHS AGO!!! I love this game so much growing up and I would never change it for the world. Everyday now I ask friends or anybody in general if they remember the game majority say they don't and I want to cry.

[@DoktorPaj]

The lack of default strafing and automatic aiming is one of the biggest charms of the first game. Enemies are simple and sparse enough mostly that fighting them is easy anyway since they will just patrol a small area unless disturbed, and the few times you get swarmed it tests your skills to keep them off making those incidents memorable, like riding the hovercraft on Pokitaru with the spikey fishes jumping on board. The first game was a platformer with some shooting elements, sequels were, to an increasing degree shooters with platforming elements. They even went from including arena modes in the sequels to the last ps2 game (the last one I played) being entirely a series of arena battles.

[@OperatorMax1993]

Ratchet and Clank has got to be pretty much my most favourite franchise out of the Playstation, even Doom 2 has a RnC mod (both games are fun, have that weapon synergy thing where you gotta switch to different weapons), and A Crack In Time does include the old lock-on feature which was great anyways, glad to see a channel that has Ratchet and Clank content, keep up the good work

[@steamroller231]

Please roast the 2016 remake please. Im hyped for that

[@AGTInfinity]

This has got me truly excited to play going commando. In an era where sequels are about appeasing the masses it will be nice to play one where its a true evolution of what the games roots were. After playing sly and 2 ratchets (and mafia 3) I was genuinely happy with playing some simple classic games that I missed out on, but I was a bit drained after doing it in a week. IMO here is a random list of clean sequels(or series) Dawn Of War 2, Burnout Paradise, Total War (up to Napoleon), Battlefield(up to 1), Men Of War AS2, Anno 1800, State Of Decay 2, Project Cars 2, Mafia 2. In case you were looking for some good sequels to play from random genres.

[@AGTInfinity]

​@Zoomer Stasi dawn of war. I agree in part, but your description more accurately defines DOW3. DOW2 was more of a change to what the devs had learned from Company Of Heroes. Its more of a disagreement in direction. state of decay. Sales has almost nothing to due with quality. Nor were any of my recommendations driven by sales. They purely comparative to its predecessors. Battlefield. That's just silly. Mafia 3 was actually okay, but i will agree that its not a good sequel so i'll edit that. What are some sequels that you would recommend on the basis of evolution?

[@m488thunderbird3]

also I only found out from From Joshy that the crotchitiser is a self _____________________________ device and a lot of Ratchet 2's jokes went over our heads if you were young when you played Ratchet 2.

[@Randomvideos-pd2eh]

still my favourite game but also ratchet and clank franchise in general is something i love from young.I hate opening my ps3 tho every time just to play the trilogy i hope they will add them at the ps5 store some day all of ratchet games

[@Mayobb833]

I've been jamming all three games on the ps vita and once you get a hang for the controls its actually pretty solid

[@LeCreator]

Tbh Nexus also had a really good arena in my oppinion, it had fantastic variety in challenges

[@wolfiecascade9589]

if the story of GC was more like Deadlocked which had the return of cocky/smug/edgy Ratchet (which in that story Ratchet at first didn't seem like he cared much for his or his friend's safety or what really was going on, and behaved more hardass-like)... he would've had a much smoother transition of the hero he's trying to act during 2&3 / Future-saga with his goodytwoshoes yes man attitude

[@requiem6465]

Going Commando is the perfect middle ground between the exploration of the first game and the combat of the later games. Such a shame its basically a filler arc since none of the events and characters are never really bought up again in a meaningful way and the ones they do are only brought up to retcon them. (You know who i'm talking about)

[@MassHystarix]

Hey Synthetic man, could you review the sonic adventure games?

[@chispenzcree242]

I've been keeping up with Ratchet & Clank for about 15 to 20 years and in all that time I've just been patiently waiting for one other game to scratch the same itch as one of the first three but it has not happened yet.

[@whowhat8748]

Still to this day absolutely no one talks about deadlocked. It was the only ratchet and clank to get your weapons to lvl 99. The mods that you could put on the weapons were fantastic. The whole death arena were my favorite parts about ratchet and clank because I got to use the weapons for that purpose.

[@metalfaceduude]

The first 4 R&C games are a huge part of my childhood, love the review

[@lanceelopezz223]

5:10 ballZ bonanZa. 😂

[@roberthelm87]

If im recalling correctly. All the money you had collected from playing the first game (If your a fan likely max bolts)transfers from one game to the other if both games are on the same memory card. Cant remember been a long time. But im a real fan of this Franchise. (I platinumed the remake it was alright) my Favorite weapon of all is the Plasma Whip the different looks between the levels looks amazing.

[@lucignolo8333]

I feel sorry for the kids that will never know the feeling of playing ratchet and clank 1, 2 and 3 when they came out, I remember every kid going crazy in my school and we were talking constantly about how a weapon would upgrade and what we would find in late game planets. During the summer we played pokemon ruby and sapphire to death constantly battling eachother with the cable. Golden era of both series if you ask me

[@baldr5324]

hey i dont know if you already knew (Probably you do), but in newer ratchet and clank (atleast future ones i think) you can toggle the strafe from going commando in the camera settings if im not mistaken

[@Treetops27]

In what way is A crack in time generic? It shook up the formula the most since GC.

[@Manifibell]

The plasma coil is my personal favourite. It is so insanely good to do aoe damage with in a hallway once upgraded

[@huckmart2017]

One of the things i like the most about going commando is that the weapon balance is really good. Uya had this problem where weapons were either way too good or so bad you would never use them. The infector? Holosheild? N60 storm? Absolute dogshit weapons. In going commando all the weapons are good. Even the lancer stays viable late game as a way to deal with swarms of fodder enemies. And the gimmick weapons like the spider bots are really strong in the right situations. I always struggle to decide which weapons i want in my rotation because they are all fun to use.

[@CuT7yFlaM]

I miss those games. It's mostly nostalgia I suppose since I played this as a kid, but it's also the technical limitations that give them some wanky aspect. Like, take the audio, it's compressed as hell but it makes weapons' noises extremely recognizable and unique even though it's your typical "metal slide 2.mp3" track. The shooting was fun and frenetic giving you opportunities to do all kinds of stunts and combinations with all the gadgets and upgrades. That was fun.

[@SourRobo8364]

Been looking forward to this video. So excited.

[@bryanscoffield2167]

Are you ever gonna make a Jack and dexter video?

[@leerockatansky]

I should really start playing the ratchet and clank series

[@possiblydaniel]

Ratchet and Clank works very good on PCSX2 (the emulator). It used to run bad and had glitches but now it's completely fine. It's just a very demanding game because it used the PS2 Hardware so extremely well. You'll just need a decent GPU and a good CPU to play R&C on PCSX2.

[@YChik]

37:01 Sony should print and hang this sentence in all their studios. I'm slowly moving on other platforms/games for this reason

[@spaceandlasers]

My friends also weren't fans of the Hoverbike races but I really enjoyed them for some reason. Especially compared to the slower Hoverboard races in No. 1

[@risenalexander8853]

Maan this video brought back so much nostalgia. I used to play this game when I was 3-4 years old on my sister's ps2, It's been 12 years already and god I so wish games still felt the same. This trilogy was the start of my gaming life and will forever have a spot in the back of my heart. It kinda sucks how the new ratchet and clank games don't have the same vibe...

[@chispenzcree242]

100% i agree SO hard. For me its half of what I liked about them and later games feel hollow without it.

[@MarieCrossbow]

One of my favorite games. Also beat it around 10 times. Great music too

[@pardontheopinion8679]

only shitty part about commando was the lava gun evolving into a not lava gun. Literally my only complaint

[@tigerash2061]

The fun and addicting gameplay is the very reason why Going Commando is one of the favorite games of all time. I still go back to replay the game every once in a while. It's one of the first games I got at GameStop (before GameStop went to shit).

[@pwnomega4562]

I fucking loved going commando

[@jells31]

Dude i liked the desert and ice planet grinding for items :P

[@jankjason]

The ice planet was hell with the yeti things lol, even when rushing it to get the crystals faster at least when 100%ing it.

[@sbp___9865]

The speedrun is fucking sick too

[@kyleisreal_tv]

I just streamed this 100% like 3 days ago lol. Great review and yeah it aged like fine wine cheers!!!

[@mjkoolaid1511]

Crack in time probably my all time fav r&c game

[@sapple7509]

as for 37:27 its also on PS vita

[@TheThe-1326]

For me 1, 2 and 3 are the best in the series. Also meteor gun is a crazy dps machine, especially with lock on, you shread with it through everything. This game made the fans agreeable on one thing: Clank Zapper is the worst weapon in all of Ratchet games. Many people see Going Commando as the best Ratchet speed game and it's really fun to watch or enjoy yourself with many categories good for everyone.

[@kurszakbozy]

hey Synth, have you played Hugo Magic Mirror?

[@GirthConfirmed]

Going Commando still the best one in the whole series

[@chaselofundist8727]

My favorite was Deadlocked some of the most fun coop

[@Zippy_Zolton]

SILVER CITY IS MY FAVOURITE LEVEL TOOOOO

[@HrvojeGrahovac]

I’d love to see a review of the Future trilogy (Tools of Destruction)

[@Robertward111]

bet this was a nice pallet cleanser after the shit show that was Paramount's Halo series.

[@ozzymandias7649]

Now that I have made one comment, I wanted to add, I found your point about tutorials interesting, and it put me in mind of a game I know you've played, Monster Rancher 2. That game is almost entirely menu based and the player is mostly just selecting different training options week to week. But rather than worry about whether the player even understands the basics, it just throws you into the deep water with the ludo-narrative rationale that you're a new rancher. Many new game devs talk about player exploration in terms of open world and land marks, but there is something to be said about giving value to player exploration of the game mechanics themselves. Monster Rancher 2 just by the very nature of being a menu based simulation game shouldn't move faster than Horizon Forbidden West, and yet because MR2 trusts the players intelligence and patience for failure it results in a much more enjoyable first experience and replay experience.

[@thrustybagladeur8984]

the emulation runs fairly well, and you can even upscale the resolution! Rac 3 emulating is a bit more annoying tho, planet aquatos tends to break the game unless u do some settings fixing lol

[@shabibmahab]

Honestly don’t care to hear about the newer titles unless you feel like talking about them. It’s just nice and refreshing to go back to what made games a staple in the first place.

[@steveplayzytreal]

Rift apart is actually really good, I'll be platinuming it after the 2016 game! I have one trophy left lmao

[@ultimategohan1551]

Possibly my favorite game of all time, up there with fallout 3, gta iv, and dead space 2. My favorite of the og trilogy for sure, currently replaying UYA so that may change but probably not.

[@juanjo667]

More than a review it's just your opinion, but i liked hearing it and made me go back a little. I have been playing the series since forever and every game have something that makes it unique, tough the two has pretty great upgrades that make the base for the future ones as you say. Thanks!

[@justasimplemanworkinghiswa1569]

Also the only good weapon from the first game is the bomb glove. It's actually OP

[@zarlei6048]

The early games were great, I feel like they are very underrated.

[@lmoss5478]

I still say ratchet deadlock was the best one in the franchise and prolly the whole ps2 library

[@pechua30]

The best is the firts, history and all.

[@Spitfire_94]

Going Commando and Deadlocked are the best games in the series to me.

[@lanceelopezz223]

35:10 If Rivet were a human, then it’d be for the right reason. 😈

[@elharvey5032]

Lmao what the? But yeah the R34 artist did not hesitate on that one

[@AgosLive]

My top 5 r atchet and clank games 1 rift aparts 2 in to the nexus 3 a crack in time 4 tools of destruction 5 ratchet 2

[@discipleofthelorentz]

The yetis still give me ptsd

[@stefanstenroos6344]

I skipped every cutscene in Rift Apart. At least all the ones you could skip. Needless to say there was no point in caring about the wet noodle of a story they threw together. The game was okay though, looks great technically and it was a fun few hours of entertainment.

[@cynicalbastard8855]

For me it's up your arsenal still remember playing it for 1000 hours when I was a kid

[@wolfliege]

Complaining about "woke" stuff and being a ratchet and clank fan is EXTREMELY tone deaf

[@cor.tenebrarum]

I wish OG trilogy was on Steam. I don't care for Rift Apart...

[@qigebo]

Thanks for giving me the excuse to go ahead and buy this.

[@quatreraberbawinner2628]

Did you ever review the movie?

[@lanceelopezz223]

20:00 EpiK voice crack. 😂

[@yxrackman2397]

Disagree with the bosses tho near the end the difficulty curve spikes when you visit the TFL bosses home world and him in giant mech. Now compare this to the final boss of the game(the original pet) which was easy asf and a let down

[@withertempestprime8718]

Have you try transformers raise and fall of cybertron?

[@__J23__]

Playing it rn I rebought a ps2 just for these games

[@progste]

2 is definitely my favorite, good to see someone else who agrees =)

[@oliverpony]

I thought this game did a few things that were better than a your arsenal

[@LordSkullkid]

The gameplay is miles above the original, but the original has a way better story and level progression. Of course the weapons are also waaay better here

[@titanenzubber3778]

But I loved crack in time and tod.... Just kidding awesome video man

[@DeadlyPants1404]

2 is best but all are amazing

[@callumager537]

Ratchet Gladiator/Deadlocked is top tier. Fight me on the fight rock coward!

[@lv1543]

Well done

[@litt420]

They did absolutely nothing right in the cashgrab commando

[@xem2476]

L

[@fissefiesta8162]

Deadlocked is my absolute fav. Up your Arsenal at 2

[@hattoripool1533]

I would have love to see a remaster of Ratchet and Clank Up Your Arsenal that has the cut content

[@RezaQin]

My dream would be that every game gets the Rift Apart treatment and stuck in one game like what they did with Mass Effect.

[@WaffleCake]

Probably not entirely possible due to the cut content being unfinished.

[@canontheory]

I mean at least the insomniac museum exists which gives you a lil bit of extra content like the 2 secret qwark vid comics and the cut florana racing area

[@seamus7d]

i love the junky-future aesthetic these games had man, best soundtrack too really a product of its time though, video games are far too mainstream for this anime/comic inspired aesthetic nowadays everything has to be clean and cinematic (C a p e s h i t ruined everything)

[@kurt2552]

another dude ruined by conservative identity politics lmfao

[@insertsomememereferenceher8483]

@kurt >someone doesn't like capeshit >REEEEEEEE /POL!!!!11!!!/

[@willmckean8424]

The ice planet in Ratchet And Clank 2 was actually developed from scratch by 1 guy who was only given 3 days to finish it. That’s why the yeti’s are so overpowered. They were hastily made and coded and weren’t properly tested, leading them to be much stronger and faster then they were meant to be and why so many spawn in the groups. This reason is why it’s probably my favourite planet in the game. It’s such a fun challenge 😈

[@hadinasrallah8928]

Also they made an inside joke trophy out of it in the office like similar to the razzies which is fucking hilarious

[@sangheilicommander1056]

you also cant damage the dragons with the wrench. they flash red but take no damage. I did a wrench only run and seen they flashed red. so i hit one for like an hour till i gave up and assumed its a glitch.