A similar enemy here, a strangely familiar tableau there. The references begin oblique, almost clumsy. In his review, WIRED's own Daniel Starkey points out that this third outing in the series-fifth if you count the mechanically similar Demon's Souls and Bloodborne-"takes place in many of the same areas as the first Dark Souls, but they've been ground down, worn away by centuries of war and ruin." But like Ratchet and Clank, it's a game obsessed with its own past. I can't help but compare it to the other game I've spent most of this month playing: Dark Souls III. A game that so directly recreates a relic of gaming's past needs to justify its own existence-to use the past in an interesting way, to imbue it with creative vitality. But as a utilization of its own past, it's dull and safe. It's replete with care and vitality, and it feels like an honest return to a world the creators love. That's not to say that Ratchet and Clank is a lifeless cash-in. When it comes down to it, Captain Qwark's retelling of that old story is a lot more faithful than the opening wink suggests. But, all in all, it's somewhere players of the 2002 original have been before. Ratchet's a lot nicer to Clank than he was in the original, reflecting the camaraderie the two share in later games.
The plot has been shifted around here or there, accommodating story beats and characters from the upcoming animated film adaptation of the same story. If you've played the original games, none of this is fresh or surprising. As Ratchet, you go on an adventure from his humble beginnings as a wrench-toting mechanic to a galactic hero, killing scores of robots and aliens in creative, cartoonish ways in the process. Who else lets you turn your enemies into pixelated sheep and then break them with a wrench to arcade-style victory sounds?īut the game is also dreadfully familiar. It ticks all the boxes: satisfying platforming, witty writing, and goofy guns that remain satisfying to use. The PlayStation 4's technology makes for incredibly sharp and detailed cartoon art alongside dense, large-scale combat encounters. This Ratchet hits all the same beats as that first game, only bigger and shinier. It's a full-scale reimagining of the 2002 PlayStation 2 original, and comes from Insomniac Games, the franchise's primary developer.
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It's a canny way to explain away any narrative differences between the original Ratchet and Clank and this one-but also a winking move toward self-awareness. Now, in the 2016 installment, that twist becomes a framing device as Qwark, from a prison cell, narrates the story to his fellow inmates. Fourteen years ago, the climax of the first Ratchet and Clank hinged on a betrayal: superhero blowhard Captain Qwark (think The Tick in space) turning on Ratchet.
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