The sphere puzzle was ok but it was slightly annoying that you had to guess the path since you couldn't see the whole thing and just to hope you beat the timer. I remember having some issues with rotating pipes but I'm pretty sure I just had trash reflexes. Still haven't touched the Future Trilogy but the ball puzzle doesn't sound too bad
You COULD "brute force" it by rapidly switching directions. Maybe you'll remember where you failed. Speaking of Going Commando, I liked the Clank sections there. I think one of those bots was even a bridge.
You mean the Hacker with the green and red blobs? Or the disguise where Ratchet has to do a quick time event to talk to those aliens (I forgot the name, it starts with T.)
Man I actually liked those parts... and the ship combat and the hoverbike races. I miss the gameplay variety that used to be standard in those generations of games.
I think you have Tools of Destruction. Assuming you played the original trilogy, umm, maybe A Crack in Time. Quest for Booty is you can find it for cheap.
Is there a point where the sequels become noticeably shitty? My interest just fell off after Tools of Destruction. I think I didn't like the story but it was 18 years ago, I don't remember but I really just miss that type of videogame now. I'll probably be able to look passed any grievances with the story playing them today, if the games are still fun like the original 3.
They really suffered from that short dev cycle and trying to cash in on the multiplayer shooters that were becoming the rage at the time, hence the levels that were just battle arenas clearly meant for the multiplayer mode. Former Devs talk about process on uselesspodcasts channel and it's honestly impressive that we got a good game at all considering how pressed for time they were
Ratchet & Clank is actually a pretty solid franchise all things considered. The PS2 games and the Future Saga on the PS3 are all reviewed quite favorably. You did say you fell off after Tools of Destruction, so mileage may vary on the sequels especially if you didn't care for the story. The spinoff are more of a mixed bag though. I didn't care for Size Matters very boring and all the enemies felt like damage sponges and everyone shits on Secret Agent Clank. All 4 One also isn't that great, but it's heavily focused on multiplayer so it might go up a couple of points for you if you grab a buddy or 2.
Hacker, would have been better if they spaced them out more or if there was another puzzle type like in GC, tho I guess the tyhrranoid one could kinda be considered that.
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It's worse than that, it's a game adaptation of the movie, hence why loads of parts just block the recording function entirely and feels diluted.
On PS5 at least I believe it got a 60FPS patch.
I replayed SM recently and it was very noticeable how fucked the balancing is. Enemy damage output is totally retarded and it feels like you're shooting cotton balls at them.
to be fair its a tie in to the movie and it was easier for them to reuse clips from the movie straight up than reanimate them just for the game
It's funny because most movie games did it that way in the PS2 era, it felt kind of like a callback, but to do so with an IP that was originally a videogame, then a movie, now a movie-game is wild. It could have been a much better game if there was no movie.