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TopicLeonhart Ranks 100 Games with Writeups!
LeonhartFour
01/29/20 1:36:45 PM
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#87. Ratchet & Clank: Going Commando

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uH2dM_LLKJg

Forgive the low-quality video, but I loved those Ratchet & Clank commercials back in the day. Those things were so good. Anyway, the first Ratchet & Clank was a pretty good game, but there was certainly room for improvement. One of the things Ive appreciated with Insomniac with this series is that theyve always found ways to add new elements to each game. Going Commando introduced weapon upgrades, which gave you more variety and diversity. They also improved the health system from the first game. While it was way too easy to die and difficult to upgrade your health in the original, Going Commando revamped it to allow your health to increase naturally as you progressed in the game and essentially leveled up. It also scaled enemy damage so that random bad guys dont hit quite as hard. They also made it easier to rotate between weapons, as well as making more of them viable so youre not just using the same one or two weapons. My personal favorites were the Bouncer, the Tesla Claw, and the Lava Gun, but theyre all pretty fun. They also had more playable Clank segments, which was nice.

Going Commando also built upon the clever writing from the first game. The humor in Ratchet & Clank is great, as they present completely absurd concepts and information in a straightforward manner as if theyre totally normal. They also made Ratchet a lot more likable. He spent a good deal of the first game treating Clank like crap, but now theyre legit good friends and have good chemistry together. Theres also a dude here named Abercrombie Fizzwidget (seriously) who predates Redd White in speaking with great pomposity and ridiculosity! Although they did introduce a female Lombax (Ratchets species) in this game and never speak of her again, when the Future games deal with him being the last of his species. Come on, Angela deserves better than that!

Anyway, Going Commando was an improvement over the original in almost every way. The new worlds were well designed and had some good challenges in them. There was a good balance between combat and platforming. As the foremost Ratchet & Clank fan on Board 8, I will conclude by saying as Ive often said in my years here: Play Ratchet & Clank.

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