The Giant Enemy Crab Easter Eggs of Ratchet and Clank: Size Matters

Original Title: Easter Egg discovered after 15 years in Ratchet and Clank: Size Matters
EDIT: Since people seem to need clarification; the "undiscovered" reference part is the helpdesk message and NOT the method of collecting the titanium bolt which is commonly known. Also yes, there has been an instance of someone documenting it beforehand but since they typo'd their documenting didn't appear when searching for if anyone else had found it.
With how old Ratchet and Clank Size Matters is, it would be assumed that everything about the game would have been uncovered years ago, however even after 15 years it seems possible that the game still has more to hide.
This video was created and uploaded before FunWithGuru and Oddheader made segments on this exact easter egg with similar formatting.
Message initially discovered by cank2#0322 on Discord, method of triggering it discovered by me.
#ratchetandclank #sizematters #ratchetandclanksizematters

[@babbisp1]

1:33 This is false. This hint was mentioned online as early as August 19, 2009 (at the latest). It was in the written GameFAQs guide for the Titanium Bolts by user "Ratchet12345", who, in turn, was sharing a tip given to him by another user, "Differus", in section "8.5: Dreamtime". The tip by Differus reads: "In Dreamtime, the last Bolt you find, you tell the reader to "Shoot at it with your Lacerators until you see a flash". However, upon seeing my targeting reticle turn red while a giant blue crab floated in front of the bolt, the game told me to *"Shoot its weak point for massive damage"* (lol), so, I shot at the crab with one shot, and the pathway appeared. So basically, all you have to do is to shoot the giant blue crab that will appear in front of the bolt every few seconds." He got the first word wrong but the point is the same. This is the earliest example I could find of the hint being mentioned online, and the accompanying "lol" implies that it was even understood as an easter egg, though it wasn't explicitly specified as such. Regardless, I think that, in the context of this video, this Differus lad (or lass) deserves some acknowledgment.

[@Kimarnic]

🤓🤓 "acksually"

[@meleeludens]

@@Kimarnic ?? kinda very relevant contribution on babbisp1's part mate

[@Hjea]

@@meleeludens 🤓🤓

[@josephjennings3146]

gameFAQs i suppose has all of ancient history

[@babbisp1]

@@meleeludens thank you

[@ElliotFW]

I could swear I saw the giant enemy crab on the Pokitaru revisit as a kid but I assumed it was just a glitch.

[@babbabiamesser]

Me too, the only time it happened to me I was looking towards the vendor on the left and when I flipped the camera the giant crab made me jumpscare

[@mrlombax850]

I thought the same way back then oh my I was soo wrong 😅😅😅😅

[@Ratchetti]

Same xD

[@JAYDOG1337A]

same here

[@ShemarLawson953]

Same

[@buraksarikaya9798]

Imagine finding an easter egg as small as this after 15 years. Crazy

[@dark_nightwing_xl2797]

Lol

[@RiftRipper]

This is actually insane, I would always notice that giant crab popup when revisiting Pokitaru for the Mootator skill point and always thought it was a bug that caused it to spawn. Now this makes too much sense. Awesome work!

[@dark_nightwing_xl2797]

Yeees I was scared

[@baumloserwald]

Wow, I never thought I would learn anything new about this game

[@FlickTheBrick]

Wow. I’ve beaten this game dozens of times and never realized this. You can shoot the other floating characters in Dreamtime and they’ll simply vanish. The thought that anything but the portal would be the trigger never crossed my mind. Excellent video. Subscribed!

[@Plain--Jane]

That thumbnail is fucking incredible

[@SticksBontop]

Reminds me of the album cover of The Prodigy's 1997 album "The Fat of the Land" with the motion-blurred crab swinging its pincers on a beach. Intentional?

[@ErdrickHero]

I saw the "attack it's weak point for massive damage" text on my second playthrough (first on PS2) but I didn't know the crab wasn't just scenery and I didn't know about the bolt. I remember being confused because there were no enemies nearby. Side note: having played both versions, I don't understand why people have a problem with the PS2 version. It feels exactly the same to play to me, except the controls match the home console games and the graphics are marginally improved. Though I did play in progressive widescreen, perhaps if you didn't play in progressive mode it might feel a bit sluggish thanks to the halved framerate.

[@Darkknight765Uya22]

To this day I had no idea it was shooting the giant crab and not the portal which did it. What a find

[@ekojar3047]

I've been replaying this game with my niece and nephew recently to share some of my gaming memories with them. And I forgot how good this game is for a psp. I love the armor parts along with the secret armor combinations that unlock special wrench powers. Like the fire bomb combo. That and the weopon mods are a nice touch but my all time favorite weapon mod system is hands down Ratchet Deadlocked. Like napalm and ice mods. But I also love the raritanium upgrade trees for mini mods. Something I wish they would do, is take all of those best parts, but add one major mod, a RYNO mod for every single weapon in the game along with omega versions on the 2nd playthrough and levels of course. Levels are tje bread and butter. Then we could really unleash an arsenal of pure mayhem!

[@Majon36]

That message was also used in Secret Agent Clank

[@requiem-fractos]

I revisited the Dream and any other level a lot as a kid, I literally discovered all of that without knowing it was that hidden or something lol

[@daniel36476]

Like the prodigy thumbnail reff

[@kevin_pepino]

Of all the things I was expecting, a reference to E3 2006 certainly wasn't one. Regardless, pretty cool

[@SaoryEmanoelle]

Oh my God no fucking way????? I got into this hidden area last month when I was playing the game but couldn't get there again, so I assumed it was a glitch and I had been teleported to a sort of "test area" of sorts. My God, I'm freaking out, this is so cool and I'm in disbelief that I found it by mistake omfg

[@popsjr]

The treehouse? You need to be at the teleporter on... Clanks level? At 3am. Or set your device to 3am, then you can teleport there, and see some cut content and whatnot.

[@sgoc9499]

Very cool stuff. I remember finding the giant crab when i first played it a gew months ago, but i wasn't sure exactly what made it appear

[@chiefblox4000]

This is incredible, nice easter egg high impact games

[@siriusunknowncicerone6549]

The thumbnail looks familiar: when I was listening one of The Prodigy musics, there's an image of a crab with opened claws as if it's going to attack whenever approaches. This is a reference from The Prodigy. Anyway, I heard the word "Giant Enemy Crab" in the *Bunnymustard's longest YTP ever,* since I'm a teen...

[@ethosaur]

That is so good, well done on the find

[@bloodedge1528]

How Ratchet somehow has the power to make certain images in his Lalaland manifest into the real world is beyond me.

[@SticksBontop]

The fact his weapons upgrade during the dream, lol (and they've been confiscated IRL)

[@jadecoffee]

It’s 2022 and there’s a video explaining never heard of easter eggs in a 14 year old game. This is amazing, and even moreso that it’s Size Matters. No doubt my favorite Ratchet that I play till this very day because of it’s gorgeous soundtrack and portability. Thank you for this video!

[@stefandiacenco]

This has been known for a while, I used to always do it as a kid

[@nahuelmunoz2431]

Wtf

[@smoreblox3485]

what?@@nahuelmunoz2431

[@SCFick318]

Discovery is the first time someone documented it, pretty cool though

[@zeydalabsi8393]

I replayed this game so many times, even now, I’ve always seen that giant crab when I revisited Pokitaru but never thought anything of it 🤣

[@jolo8224]

I remember being so fascinated with that giant crab on pokitaru that i made a comic book about it as a child, haha. Ratchet tried to fight the giant crab but his weapons werent strong enough so he used the suck cannon to suck it up like you can in the game. But when he shot it away the force threw him back and he landed on his "morph o ray" gadget which turned him into an evil robot (i hadnt yet played the original, so this was an original gadget i just made up that would transform his body into different creatures. Like the hologuise but permanent.) Then clank had to push robo ratchet into the water to short circuit him then change him back into a lombax.

[@DaniSlot]

Thoughts after watching this video: I miss this game. Thoughts after reflecting on what you showed: good job finding it.!

[@SticksBontop]

Nice thoughts 😃 I agree (well, I'm playing the game on PS2 currently)

[@TheBLBShow]

Very interessting! Nice find!

[@bobd3749]

Thats so cool, I never knew that text existed. Great job! I know a lot of people hate on this game, and its certainly not the best in the series, but I think it's still a fun time :)

[@jessaye2403]

Bruh this shit funny I would of never thought I'd seen this video if it wasn't for the soundtracks that made scrollon through 🤣💀

[@PellpaPaintinator]

So goddamm awesome, my bro!

[@abrahammunoz9258]

1:44 lo sabía, LO SABIA!!!! Sabía que no estaba loco siempre recordé que había un cangrejo gigante por esa zona. Cuando yo tenía mí disco original me apareció, pero cuando volví a jugar años más tarde solo habían cangrejitos pequeños. Pero siempre supe que había uno gigante jajajajjajaja sabía que no estaba loco. :.)

[@ElBrickLD2007]

Igualmente. Yo jugue este juego en la psp por 2012-2013, y recuerdo que despues de eliminar a los pequeños cangrejos luego salia el grande. En el 2022 Lo volvi a jugar en emulador para recordar momentos, pero me di de cuenta que ya no salia el cangrejo grande..

[@pg_sans9936]

if you equip the shield level max it will trigger the bolt too, and actually you could just shoot the bolt with any weapon, doesn't need to be the portal

[@zeze1991]

This game was my favorite, but never unlock all the ability points

[@nchldmn]

Wow that is very cool!

[@silvurrrboi230]

As a kid I loved fighting the Giant Crab on Pokitaru with nothing but a wrench whenever I started another NG+ (after 3 or more cycles even the One-Shot enemies can tank tons of hits from the wrench) Great vid doe, I always though it was nothing more than a cool bug

[@starchip08]

pretty sure that hint did help me, since our house had no internet in the psp days

[@jessemcmurtrey4738]

I knew about this when playing the game when I was 10, I didn’t realize it was a secret egg lmao 😂 There’s also another secret in Dreamtime at the beginning of the level

[@sbp___9865]

That is fucking cool, I am going to scan the LBA of the disc for this text now, how could I have missed that.

[@pajis1551]

Weird i always got the bolt by hitting the portal sideways while walking towards it and it teleported me to it. I thought this method was normal so i used it every time, also the giant crab on pokitaru spawned sometimes for me but i newer knew on what circumstances.

[@PtkBurst]

I swore this was a delusion in my head, I don't remember doing this at the time for this giant crab to appear, I thought it was a bug, I remember being scared like many here.

[@josephjennings3146]

...no wonder DYKG didn't even knew about it. I heard also about this from an article.

[@alstorp1008]

1:40 Did they really give Ratchet high heel sound effects for this game, jesus

[@Tonyzwarrior]

Ahh This game brings back memories. Somehow I knew about this as a kid and got the bolt, although I have no clue how I did it but glad I got it. 😂 Didn’t know about the crab Easter egg, although great video! 👍

[@firebeard7]

This kind of video makes me wonder how many easter eggs are still unknown in old games.

[@TheCarloalberto95]

Wow nice found!!

[@ok_listen]

Im still trying to understand why there are so many empty slots on Secret Agent Clank. On this game it was about secret armor combo, but on that game? Never found the answer.

[@dark_nightwing_xl2797]

What do you mean?

[@ok_listen]

@@dark_nightwing_xl2797 empty equipment* slots, as if there were secret gadgets obtainable somehow, but there was no guide around the internet showing you that, as far as I know

[@PSG51]

That scared the shit outta me back in the day

[@dark_nightwing_xl2797]

Me tooo😂😭

[@Sifakis346]

Oh yes, remember this part, i have to play the game over 7 years

[@slim5816]

omg I actually found out about this back then but i did NOT realize you have to shoot the crab lol. I was sooo confused. I just shot around until i got teleported. Never got the bolt and also didnt know you have to restart the level. So i was really clueless. Im so happy rn that i finally got an answer to that lmao. I also remember that giant grab on the beach. Thought it just spawns randomly with a super low chance. On top of that iirl the dream level is only playable once right? You cant go back after finishing it meaning you have to restart the ENTIRE game....man

[@kieranboulton3953]

You can actually replay Dreamtime whenever you want. Just return to the medical station wreckage and walk over to the operating table, you will then get a prompt to play the level.

[@Arthas972]

Based on history? Don’t remember there being giant crabs used in battle lol

[@s-zs7nn]

So how did people get the bolt otherwise?

[@5persondude]

I’m sure this would’ve been more widely-known if it wasn’t Size Matters 💀 Okay I don’t mean to dunk on the game too hard lol, but this is such a cryptic hint for a pretty average R&C game that I’m not surprised that very few people bothered to share it

[@SticksBontop]

The lack of discussion about this game is unfortunate

[@SticksBontop]

For example I want to know more about it and whether the difficulty increases again in the 2nd challenge mode (3rd playthrough overall) since there's new armor unlike most R&C games

[@stefandiacenco]

You guys didn't know this? I've been doing this for years, forgot how I found it to be honest

[@Sanker1]

Oh damn, that's pretty cool

[@Dirvinator]

*BIG CRAB*

[@srex819]

Long time ago omg… Maybe there more secrets!

[@deathdragonmaster74]

what song is this from the soundtrack?

[@thegroupofreptiles6823]

"Find A Way Out"

[@s-zs7nn]

It didnt take 15 years to be found. There is a 16 yo vid on yt called "Ratchet and Clank Size Matters:Titanium Bolt Locations Pt. 1" by Zellhazard who shows this method of getting to the bolt. He aims at the bolt and not the crab but people in the comments have mentioned that its the crab that needs to be shot. 16 years ago means as early as 2008 or 2007 it was already known.

[@NotVeryJolley]

Almost like the video is about an easter egg related to the titanium bolt and not how to get the titanium bolt itself.

[@NotOrdinaryInGames]

I DID NOT KNOW AT ALL

[@Matt_19-89]

Oh high impact games, you scoundrels

[@babbisp1]

0:55

[@skyflyer20002]

I came across this yeeeeeears ago lol

[@Ayo090]

Holyshit dude thats fucking insane lmao

[@HorstMeddel]

lol i discovered this easter egg more than 8 years ago

[@jedep]

🗿

[@hamper36]

Yo empecé a jugar este juego hace una semana, y lo he pasado completamente y en busca de esos guitones este en especial lo conseguí de pura casualidad le disparé y aparecí ahí ._. pero bueno

[@knuclear200x]

I never cared to look for easter eggs in this game...this awful game. and I expected being ported to a console with TWO analog sticks wouldve helped

[@Iunadancer]

As everyone else has pointed out, this isn’t new. Funny to see actual children in the comments making fun of people saying so though.

[@Ratchetti]

Omg lol xd

[@Ratchetti]

I wonder who sneaked it in

[@jojogape]

As if Dreamtime couldn't get any crazier, amazing. I should've figured this was the thing that triggered the giant crab spawn in Pokitaru. Oddly enough, I think I remember seeing the message but not thinking much of it?

[@imafreakinninja12]

I feel like Size Matters and Secret Agent Clank could have been almost as good as the first four games with a few simple, but effective changes.

[@BoboDeTurno]

Maybe I remember incorrectly, many years have passed since I played this game, but something baffled me for ages while playing this level. The mirrors in this level displayed all the weapons in a different way, something like a more upgraded version than the NG+ even. I remember seeing the Lazerators not with two barrels but with four each. And other guns further improved. I always thought that there might be a way to further upgrade the weapons. Can anyone confirm that my 10 yo self wasn't tripping?

[@ricking0035]

wait ,yall didn't knew that ?😂

[@Ymir1]

Lmao

[@ricking0035]

@@Ymir1 lmafaooo

[@gelato101]

Finding an easter egg 15 years later isn’t as shocking as the fact the people are still playing this trash

[@butterflydreamer9649]

Nah this game isn’t that bad, compared to secret agent clank atleast

[@eroalduin7305]

Come ooon its not that bad Tho psp nostalgia and general love for r&c carries it its still fun

[@nickspencerfishingrodd2383]

@@eroalduin7305 agreed

[@nickspencerfishingrodd2383]

@@butterflydreamer9649 i don't think it's a bad game Beaides the final battle on the second playthrough. That's probably the worst boss battle i have ever experienced

[@sebastianaliandkulche]

Is ok to be wrong.

[@corym.m.3084]

I didn’t spend a long time playing this game. This is the worst ratchet and clank game in the entire series. Worse than All for one.

[@yusefelawi125]

If only it was made by insomniac, they wouldve made it 3x better, but its my childhood game and i cant complain, its perfect the way it is

[@sebastianaliandkulche]

People seems to forget that it was released originally on a portable device. Having Ratchet on the car for example is something incredible if you ask me.

[@dark_nightwing_xl2797]

Cry harder kid, real gamers beat this game

[@dark_nightwing_xl2797]

@@sebastianaliandkulche car?

[@sebastianaliandkulche]

@@dark_nightwing_xl2797 Or on the street, idk.

[@DolanDuking]

Loving the people bragging about knowing how to get the titanium bolt without even watching what the video is even about…