Ratchet & Clank is a game that was released in 2016 by Sony interactive, so it was playstation 4 exclusive and it was made by insomniac games just like all the other Ratchet & Clank games. I don't know what kind of reception it had at the time but my personal feelings about it are very mixed. It wasn't a very good game all in all but I still enjoyed it a lot and played through it 2 times in 2 days.
"Remake"
I have to get this out of the way first. This game isn't really a remake but rather a video game made based on a movie that is based on a video game. The video game that it is originally based on is the original Ratchet & Clank so there are many similarities. Mainly most of the worlds are the same same as the weapons and gadgets. Even when the game was a little bit different for some parts, it did give me a huge rush of nostalgia.
I would love to see other Ratchet & Clank games, mainly the first 3, to be made in this type of remake, basically the same as the original but modernized. Doubt that it will happen any time soon but it would be lovely. Or just a HD remaster for newer consoles so that the older Ratchet & Clank games are actually playable because I don't have a working PS2 anymore.
Gameplay
The gameplay is very much your usual Ratchet & Clank. You have weapons and gadgets and you use those to kill enemies and solve puzzles. Some gadgets are not in this game however so not all the same puzzles are in the game as in the "original" but the most important one is, which is the hoverboard and the races associated with it. Some of the same Easter eggs are in the game and again some are not. The gameplay is exactly what you would get from a Ratchet & Clank game.
Story/world
This is where the biggest problems of this game are. The problems affect the whole game but is most noticeable in the story/world department. The biggest problem that this game faces is that it was rushed and/or unfinished for some other reasons. As I said the game is very much like the first Ratchet & Clank game, but this one is missing a lot of the worlds that are in the "original", and like I said it also doesn't have some of the gadgets, I'm not sure about the weapons tho. Maybe some of those gadgets would be found on the worlds that were cut or they would only have a function on those worlds. I can't say for sure.
So the game is missing some worlds but what does this mean for the story? Well for the story it means that it seems to have holes in it. This isn't such a big problem in the early game. I think only one of the early worlds does not appear in this version of the game where you would figure out what chairman Drek is doing. This might have been the plan all along since that part is explained well later. The real holes in the story appear later on in the game. Some characters seem to appear out of nowhere and act as if we've met them before and a lot of things are not explained. This get's worse and worse as the game progresses all the way to the final boss fight which leads me to believe that the game was very rushed, maybe so that they could release it along the movie.
Even after completing the game and gaining access to insomnia museum you can notice how rushed the game was. In other Ratchet & Clank games the insomnia museum has been a cool place that showed of concept art, cut content, told stories about the development and might even had some surprises. The insomnia museum in this one was literally just the cutscenes of the game but I guess it's hard to show off cut content since you couldn't even finish all that was originally planned.
TL;DR
All in all I liked this type of remake of a game and the nostalgia hit it gave me, so it is kind of hard to give it a bad score but the game was just so awfully unfinished that it does not deserve a very good score no matter how well they made the core game. If you don't mind the rushed game with missing content you might really enjoy this one as did I, but I can not justify giving it any higher than 5/10
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