The newest game in the Ratchet and Clank series, Ratchet and Clank: Rift Apart, is the most ambitious one however. Information technology really is pushing the boundaries of what the PS5 is capable of. It's not but the technical scope either — Insomniac really tried to practice something fresh with the story this time, and information technology shows.

Whether they failed or achieved this new story beat out is up for fans to determine. One thing worth pointing out, though, is that there are some things that don't make sense concerning the plot. At that place are also gameplay elements worth pointing singling out forth the aforementioned lines. This breakdown is not meant to exist malicious but is instead aimed at poking a fiddling fun at this great game.

Warning: This deep dive will accept some spoilers.

8 Glitch's Missions

Accessing a Glitch terminal in Ratchet and Clank: Rift Apart

Glitch is an AI digital spider-bot that lives inside a retentivity stick Ratchet acquires from Phantom. This leads to a unique mini-game wherein players must break viruses within computer terminals.

The odd thing with this is that the virus has a physical manifestation outside of the corrupted node. How is it that a digital AI tin destroy it from the inside, then go on to impact the concrete world? Something doesn't add up here.

seven The Save State of affairs

Rivet and Clank from Ratchet and Clank: Rift Apart

This game does not characteristic transmission saves and instead relies on autosaving. To the game'south credit, it does checkpoint often, but Insomniac should still add together in the option with a patch.

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The part where this makes the to the lowest degree amount of sense is that game doesn't just have i autosave file only several of them at random. If the game is saving so often in unlike slots on its own, then why was in that location no manual option in the outset place? Information technology is very disorganized.

six Clank's Missing Arm

Multiple characters in-game from Ratchet and Clank: Rift Apart

At the beginning of the game, the Dimensionator explodes, which causes Ratchet, Clank, and Dr. Nefarious to exist separated. Every bit a result of this explosion, Clank lost his right arm.

At no signal in the game does Rivet try to supplant it nor does Clank really seem to intendance that much. It gets fixed in the end credits but information technology's just hard to believe that, in a universe dominated by robots, Rivet couldn't have fixed Clank sooner.

5 Mission Structure

Multiple characters in-game from Ratchet and Clank: Rift Apart

When players punch in the coordinates for a planet, they either zoom in that location as that grapheme or the other character becomes playable. For example, if players get in the ship equally Rivet, she might say, "I wonder what Ratchet is doing right now." Players would then change perspectives and take control of Ratchet.

In this example, what is Rivet doing? If she punches in the coordinates for the same planet as Ratchet, so why doesn't she get at that place too? It'southward a nice mechanic in order to permit players to play as different characters but the way it works is a flake disruptive if one is following the story.

4 The Logroller'south Powers

The Fixer from Ratchet and Clank: Rift Apart

Rivet and Clank head off to Torren IV and so that they can meet The Logroller. They are supposed to be able to set up their crystal they need to power the Dimensionator after information technology breaks.

The Fixer indeed is able to fix it, only in the about deus ex machina sort of way, via a axle. In a globe of science, this ability to repair the crystal is zip short of magic, obviously and simple. It's a petty too easy and user-friendly, which is the problem.

3 Raritanium Placement

Raritanium from Ratchet and Clank: Rift Apart

Raritanium's proper name can be deduced to be considering it is a rare mineral. If that'southward the case then why is it scattered all over the place in boxes on every planet the gang lands on? It too doesn't make sense for this game to take its chief currency, bolts, lying effectually in boxes.

Furthermore, how are Ratchet and Rivet carrying this currency around? Shouldn't a universe this avant-garde utilise digital credit? This has never made sense in the series.

2 User-friendly Screws

Ratchet turning a crank in Ratchet and Clank: Rift Apart

The placement of passageways that Ratchet and Rivet have to solve is very convenient. For example, some doors are locked and the only way to open them is to twist in a giant screw that Ratchet conveniently has a behemothic wrench for, and big gaps can exist crossed conveniently with well-placed nodes to grapple onto.

This is something that has persisted throughout the whole serial that pokes fun at the game's design from a lore perspective. Does anyone else in the serial uses giant wrenches and or wrench-like hammers or does this universe truly revolve around the Lombax species?

one Juice's Bulletproof Body

Fighting enemies in Ratchet and Clank: Rift Apart

Ratchet and Rivet are armed to the teeth in this game. The weapon multifariousness is ane of the key trademarks of this series. Players are able to take down villains brusque, tall, and massive alike. However, not ane weapon tin can penetrate the creature known as Juice which is a seemingly very silly name for a monster this powerful.

Information technology's a very user-friendly style to ensure players don't damage what volition become a friendly creature in the hereafter, simply it'southward difficult to believe that this one animate being in the game is literally invincible. Where did it fifty-fifty come from?

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