FRIST_008 Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart Review

Ratchet & Clank The time has come. I've beaten Ratchet & Clank 2. What can I say. The second part is insanely beautiful. Collecting items is done better. A lot has been done for player convenience. But gameplay-wise they didn't come up with any interesting new weapons. Yes, the really cool ones from the first part are still there. But the new ones are all kind of uninteresting. The story stayed at the level of a Pixar cartoon, without sliding completely into childishness, but without reaching the wow bar either. So in the end the game is better than the first part. But it's still 8 points, same as the first part. Purely for what it does on an OLED and how juicy the graphics and animations are, I'd give it a 10. The gameplay would be a 9, but because of the repetition and how few new things there are, I give it a 7. The story, well, it's just good, everything feels fresh, that's an 8. So 10+8+7, average = 8.3 points. If you play this part as if it were your first, it's a 9. The first part has nice graphics worth a 9, unique gameplay worth a 9, a good story worth an 8, but a very convoluted backtracking system for collecting hidden items and way too much unnecessary Metroid-style stuff, so that's a 7. Total for the first part: 8.25. So the second part is better by 0.08 points overall for someone playing the sequel, and would be 0.75 better if you're playing for the first time. I haven't seen anything else on the market made with this level of quality, like a cartoon, that's also a shooter with lots of interesting mechanics. The product is one of a kind.