LogFAQs > #964794946

Anyway, I love Ratchet & Clank and have been playing since the first game's release, but I wouldn't call the series iconic because it's always kinda just been...there. Never reaching the world-renowned heights of Super Mario and Sonic the Hedgehog, or even the lesser-but-still-widely recognized heights of Crash Bandicoot and Spyro the Dragon. You can tell the developers wanted so badly for the franchise to have more mainstream appeal when they basically rebooted the series to be "kid-friendly" from the movie onward, but if anything, it just seems Ratchet and Clank has lived beyond its natural lifespan. Many people still agree that A Crack In Time should have been the end, and now the series exists in a sort of "meh, competent but nothing special" vacuum.

But yeah, I love the first four games (1-Deadlocked) and thought the Future series was adequate. Personally, it's been mostly downhill since All 4 One, and as the user above said, it's just been chugging along ever since.