ratchet and clank
Dec. 22nd, 2002 03:15 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
egypturnashI'd been thinking of getting this for a bit. I'd played the E3 demo and loved the beauty of it, but was kind of put off by the character design - Ratchet just doesn't really come together for me. I'd decided I was going to wait for it to show up for thirty bucks or so used. Friday, though, I was ultra-grumpy, and wanted to kill someone or something; I decided that a game being promoted with taglines like 'Ripping the galaxy a new one!' was what I needed.
I have already finished it. With all but one of the weapons. Okay, I can still go back and collect all the gold bolts (the obligatory hard-to-find items; there are 40 in the game and I only found 15 or so), try and get all the skill points, and whatnot, but that will probably wait for a rainy, no-mind day. It'll probably be worth replaying sometime, especially with the option of starting with all the weapons.
It's beautiful and varied - with one exception, every level takes place on a different planet. Lots of weapons to use, some simple, some silly. But it's short short short. Shorter, even, than 'Sly Cooper'. Some reviews had claimed that the first half was painfully easy, and the second half painfully hard; I didn't find this so. I did, however, do a lot of exploring without really thinking about it, so I was able to learn all the nuances of the weapons and the character's control.
It's very much a platform shoot-em-up game - while there is jumping and wall-bouncing and edge-hanging to do, the game is focused on running around like a crazy person, using your wide arsenal on hordes of enemies. This was exactly what I needed this weekend. The fact that the soundtrack is best described as theremin techno was a plus. Like 'Sly Cooper', it's really short, but in a good way - it's mostly free of the endless padding that characterizes bad platform adventures. You run around, you smash crates with your giant wrench, you blow stuff up. And there's nothing that requires long, frustrating repetition; the only parts I had to do more than, oh, three times, were the hoverboard races and the final battle. As long as you like the core gameplay of acquiring ever-sillier weapons and blowing stuff up, it's a fun game.
I killed a lot of funny-looking aliens and robots. I feel much better now.
I have already finished it. With all but one of the weapons. Okay, I can still go back and collect all the gold bolts (the obligatory hard-to-find items; there are 40 in the game and I only found 15 or so), try and get all the skill points, and whatnot, but that will probably wait for a rainy, no-mind day. It'll probably be worth replaying sometime, especially with the option of starting with all the weapons.
It's beautiful and varied - with one exception, every level takes place on a different planet. Lots of weapons to use, some simple, some silly. But it's short short short. Shorter, even, than 'Sly Cooper'. Some reviews had claimed that the first half was painfully easy, and the second half painfully hard; I didn't find this so. I did, however, do a lot of exploring without really thinking about it, so I was able to learn all the nuances of the weapons and the character's control.
It's very much a platform shoot-em-up game - while there is jumping and wall-bouncing and edge-hanging to do, the game is focused on running around like a crazy person, using your wide arsenal on hordes of enemies. This was exactly what I needed this weekend. The fact that the soundtrack is best described as theremin techno was a plus. Like 'Sly Cooper', it's really short, but in a good way - it's mostly free of the endless padding that characterizes bad platform adventures. You run around, you smash crates with your giant wrench, you blow stuff up. And there's nothing that requires long, frustrating repetition; the only parts I had to do more than, oh, three times, were the hoverboard races and the final battle. As long as you like the core gameplay of acquiring ever-sillier weapons and blowing stuff up, it's a fun game.
I killed a lot of funny-looking aliens and robots. I feel much better now.