Ratchet and Clank: All 4 one!
It's shit. The level design is shit, the enemies are shit, the story is shit and the dialogue between characters is shit. The environments look amazing and make you want to explore them, which is a pity because the game so far has been so fucking linear. And I mean extremely linear. The camera won't let you backtrack once you hit certain points, which is a feature I haven't seen in a game since Super Mario Bros.
The enemies are all dull as fuck. The challenge either comes from their numbers or the sheer volume of bullets they take before dropping. They're uninspired and mind-numbingly repetitive.
The levels are really simple. There are points that make you use a gadget to move platforms by holding circle. You have no control over the platform, there is no challenge and there is no fucking point, yet time and time again these machines appear. There are other puzzles like this that just serve no purpose beyond invoking a pathetic "neat".
The story is silly. I don't expect much from a Ratchet and Clank game, but I expect better than this. The character dialogue mid-level often feels awkward and out of place. It could do with being less random and more fixed to certain events.
This is definitely a kids game, and a fairly poor one at that. I can't recommend it to anyone. I'm especially disappointed in it given how amazing the Future Trilogy was. It's good that after 9 games they're trying to change the formula, but they should have done better. People that liked the older RaC games should keep an eye on Overstrike, Insomniacs new IP.
Oh, and you can't control the camera, either. This means that the game auto-locks targets, which is infuriating because I often disagree with what it tells me I should be shooting.
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