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Yeah they watered it down and made it really generic. Hate how Ratchet and Clank have no conflict or development.

In fairness, the game was pretty much like so as well. Though it did have the sort-of excuse of being told from Captain Quark's perspective. Though of course, the events are still fairly different regardless, and retelling or not, it feels too different and as such, I take it more as a reboot.

Yeah, and I found that to be big problem in the game too.

Here's a well constructed video analysis, which underlines the problems with the recent Ratchet reboot. It's over an hour long, but an interesting watch if you're a fan of the series.

A bit late for me to watch a one-hour video now, but I'll definitely give that a watch later today.

It's a good video to have on while you're playing a game or something

Ah, I did eventually give it a full viewing. Gamingbrit, I think I watched his videos on 3D Metroid a while back.

He makes some fair points, particularly in regards to the shift in humour, tone and plot that the series has made. And I think I appreciate a little more why there are folks who aren't so keen on the PS3 titles, despite Crack in Time being my favourite.

While I prefer the more cynical + irreverent tone, humour and presentation of the PS2 titles, I think the more light-hearted PS3 titles are great. A Crack In Time and Nexus are examples where the Future format worked especially well, imo.

I agree with GamingBrit's general opinion and criticism of the reboot's story and characterizations, although I still found the gameplay and visuals to be great. For the reboot, I wish they had taken the best elements from the PS2 and future sagas and combined them, instead of just watering down the Future saga style and adding a bunch of pedestrian fluff.

I thought from a gameplay standpoint the ps4 game is the best one hands down; and although I might be the odd man out here, I don't care much about any of the R&C games's plot and character development because (at least to me) the characters are either really annoying or cliché archetypes.

Bump.

Ooh so there is a thread for this! I have been curious about playing these games ever since a conversation about them. I haven’t played any of them yet so I’m really eager to try them out soon before i give my thoughts on the series!

Well yeah I have to finish them all before I have an opinion on them bur I've played the PS4 version and got to the last boss on PS3. I decided though I'd prefer to play them on PS2 so there's no graphical glitches etc.

ratchet and clank cut content here's some stuff found on the tcrf unused cutscenes
unused animations