This video has been absolutely cursed to make, more than any I think I've ever experienced - so thanks for your patience. Hopefully it's been worth the wait!
I'm glad I am not the only one. I used to only get like 1 game a year, so replaying it infinitely on new game plus was always a blast. I'd track wraps on a paper. Most I got was Deadlocked at 60 complete runs
@@ryanharris9210 tbf. I played all R&C i had as a kid alot. R&C the least since it was the hardest for me as a child. Black water city swimming part locked me out for a long time
@@ryanharris9210when I started playing for a few years the only game we had that I was able to play (or enjoyed playing) was Medievil so I played through that game at least 100 times, I can bet my balls on it. It got to the point where I would run through the whole game in a single 3-4 hour sitting lmso
Fun Fact, on the ps2 edition of secret agent clank, your only loading screen is the typical ratchet & clank "flying through space in your ship to your destination" animation. But it goes through 10 extremely slow and painful cycles each time IF your copy is pristine with no issues, instead of this fabled "Captain Quark Thinking" loading screen that I have never even heard of until this video. Which is a bit perplexing when you consider this means that when clank is stranded in space and the gameplay cuts to a quark section, you STILL SEE clank's ship flying through space, even though he's, well, stranded.
I absolutely love how much you consider the artist and not just the art. People forget that just cus its a team that put a game together that it wasn't still a personal journey for each of those members. I absolutely cannot wait for anything you have to say, no pressure, just keep pursuing your interests! I'll keep watching and commenting.
Just as I finished binging your Ratchet retrospectives once again, this drops! I can’t wait to hear the history of these games. Keep up the incredible work!!
I absolutely adored size matters, I grew up with the game and still can vividly picture some of the level layouts. I loved the armor system and the weapons looked amazing, to be fair I was rough with disks so I broke my rac 2 and 3 so I had to play this one. But for some reason I extremely love this game.
This might be my nostalgia talking, but I remember loving this and didn't think it was that bad at all. Even the racing mini-game. I loved the armour system and how you could create special sets that had unique abilities when you mixed and matched pieces. I even got all the skill points and unlocked the dev room which was super cool.
As a kid I got my tonsils removed and only had Size Matters to play so I got to the point in a two week period where I could beat the whole game in a sitting. Forgot it existed until now
I was a part of the alien code and treehouse treasure hunters when this game was first released. Let me tell you, those days and hunts was a hoot and a half.
the bee mine glove is fucking wild because it seems like it'd be intended as a "set and forget" weapon but it lasts so short at level 1 that by the time you've switched to another weapon you'll just have to switch back to deploy a new hive anyways
Fun fact: using the Mootator on the cow enemies actually gives you the Skill Point. So in this one instance the weapon placement is actually pretty thoughtful.
Hey, I know this may seem random but...I thought it may be something that would make you smile after such a rough game: Your videos actually inspired me to try out the R&C series for the first time myself. When I first got a PS5 I got Rift Apart with it, deciding to try that as my first game. I was nervous that ONLY having seen your videos and not having PLAYED the last few games would make it hard to be a starting point, but a mix of the game's writing, and your own videos, was plenty for me to still love it. It blew me away so heavily in so many ways and I am now eagerly looking forward to future releases
It seems like a forced meme, honestly. Size Matters was mindblowing on release, and Secret Agent Clank was a fun little spinoff. I noticed a lot of Nostalgia Critic-esque "angry reviewers" have been tearing into these handheld games for not being up to par with the ps3 titles, and people are taking those reviews completely at face value. Maybe it's newer fans who only played the series after it started taking itself way too seriously. They're flawed, sure, but none of the flaws are pervasive enough to destroy the games on fundamental levels. Secret Agent Clank probably has it worst with overly long gadgebot sections, but that's not what people complain about there. They only complain about the absurdity of Clank playing a secret agent character. I guess they don't realize that Secret Agent Clank was actually a thing from UYA? With Size Matters most of the complaints are about the ps2 port not looking as good as the other ps2 games, which is... yeah, an astute observation. The 2007 handheld game does, in fact, look inferior to the console games.
@@garfieif8187 Totally agree. I recently beat it on PS5 and is an awesome Ratchet and a good game for itself. This is just very "ratchet comunnity thing". About Secret Agent I havent played.
These games were so cursed, appreciate you suffering through them to document them. I still remember as a kid where my stubbornness led me to managing to eventually (very eventually) beat Klunk on NG+, and once I finished the credits sequence I accidentally warped back. SAC was pure suffering. Also remember more recently playing Size Matters a few years ago for a stream during a Ratchet marathon and trying to 100% that game on emu. Tried to make it through Inside Clank to do the wrench only skill point, only to actually do it and... not get it long into the playthrough in one stream. Never again lmao. I will say the one thing I'll say about the armor system is that I got around Otto's absolute garbage fight using the firebomb set (the Mega bomb set with wildfire gloves) to deal damage to his shield to save ammo, and it did decent enough damage? Still a miserable experience though.
I should clarify that there have been Japanese-only skins in other games as well, and those games featured alternate skins in other regions - that's what I'm referring to!
The bit about there being inexplicably little Clank for a bizarrely large portion of SAC is hilarious, because it just makes me think "Is this revenge for the Clank getting all the credit running gag in the main series?"
I started watching your R&C and the rest of your content back in late 2021, and I gotta say you are one of the most entertaining, funny, yet well researched, clearly passionate video essayists I have ever had the pleasure to watch. I can't believe we are finally at the end of this whole retrospective. You bet your golden ass imma rewatch the whole damn thing again. Thanks for all you do. Stay Golden.
I find it ironic that only a few months after this video, the first Ratchet and Clank game from the past that has been ported to modern consoles is Size Matters.
Size matters was my first R&C game and it was good enough to bring me into the series and I even go back and play it every year or so. That being said I’ve been dying for this video to come out LFG
Despite what the marketing says, I think insomniac's sassy tweet is still correct. I mean, clank says word for word in 3 "Secret Agent Clank is merely a fictional character I play on the holovid." Personally, my favourite theory is it being an in-universe reboot of that fictional series, which bombed so badly we never hear about clank's movie career again.
I like size matters but it has a strange vibe, a creepy scary vibe OR the whole dream sequence thing scarred me enough to associate the entire game with it
Bro, I’ve been excited for this since I binged your R&C retrospective last year. Hell, it’s the series that made me pick up Rift Apart when I bought my PS5 back in August
Aaaw yesss, I have been waiting this for a long time, thank you so much for doing these and putting so much effort into these, R&C is one of my favorite series of all time and I have learned so much more of it from your videos :)
"It's a portable game so we need to give it slack!" Daxter, Peace Walker, Birth by Sleep, Crisis Core, Ghost of Sparta and Vice City Stories were better than most of their franchises main games.
The one funny detail about this game that always stuck out to me thats exclusive to a non english version is the fact that in the qwark opera house they had the italian voice of DOCTOR NEFARIOUS dub over the singing part of Qwark because i guess the voice actor didn't feel like he had the chops to make it work... and to contextualize this, the thugs4less leader was voiced by that same voice actor in italy but here he's instead voiced by somebody else doing an impression of the english voice actor... and no he didn't do other voices he was just there for that one opera bit then dipped
I think the funniest detail of the plot summary Bolt gives during this maddening secret agent game is that one of the stages has clank ALSO being framed and that is not acknowledged even slightly right after the framing cutscene happens!
You know, I think your videos are really valuable. This is gaming history you are documenting. Very important especially in this age where everything we make is digital and very fragile.
no way i just finished watching all the other parts like a week ago i had no clue you'd make one for the PSP games i thought id have to wait till the next ratchet and clank game which is apparently in like 2029 or something so thanks for making this!!!
I do understand Size Matters has many flaws but it seems like most try their best to hate it instead of just having fun like the devs surely intended. I do appreciate how deeply you thought about its issues though, and the implications they have on other elements of the game/series. You've done that much better here than other videos I've seen regarding this subject. Size Matters needed a lot of polish and fine tuning, no disputes about that. However, and especially regarding the "no really this game is bad go play it again" comment... I can't agree. I'm still able to enjoy a playthrough. The vivid settings, great music and creative designs do a lot to sell the experience for me. Yes I could piece apart everything and point at what's bad, but I'd prefer to just... enjoy the game and not take it this seriously. Great video all the same, I learned a lot!
Honestly speaking, I really enjoyed playing through Size Matters when I had it on PSP. It was a fun game for my childhood self; definitely not as good as the originals, but still good enough to make me play through it multiple times and 100% it.
Glad to see you post more Ratchet & Clank retrospectives. I've been itching to get the Platinum Trophy for Up Your Arsenal and you've inspired me to go get it. Massive props to you and your work and have an absolutely Golden day!💛
For Size Matters, there was an online in game chat group attatched to the mutliplayer that i used to be a part of. For nearly a year, I would chat with a dedicated group of people nightly before bed. And yes, it was a very cringy chat group of a bunch of middle and high schoolers chatting. I still remember several of their usernames.
I mentioned in my PlayStation All-Stars documentary that this same sort of scenario indirectly (arguably directly) led to this channel and thus several more very close friendships, so I don't think that's cringe at all. Especially now that online friendships are just as valid as that neighbor kid you just happened to grow up near!
@@TheGoldenBolt I meant cringe in the sense of like, juvenile crushes/bf/gf through text that even I admittedly was a part of. I legit miss those nights of just shooting the shit with the group. A player that went by TERMINATOR was a popular guy in the chat.
I've been playing through all the R&C games again (apart from these monstrosities) and I finish each game I come to watch the retrospective video on it, as its been years since I originally played them. There always seems to be a lot of extra things you point out that I missed.
For nostalgic reasons, I love so much this game, so many memories, love it's chill vibe, perfect for PSP. Also loved the online features, there was a bug back then if you play with 2 people a deathmatch and press some button (circle I guess) at the last second you can change your team, so with my best friend we put deathmatches free for all and at the last second we changed it 2 vs 1 it was hilarious.
deadass i love the psp games, they have so many issues but i really like what they do right...well actually sorry, i love size matters, and i love THE CLANK SEGMENTS of secret agent clank
I have such fun memories of playing ratchet and clank size matters from back in the day on my PSP being the only ratchet and clank game I owned because I never had a PlayStation two at the time and I know if I go back and play it now I’ll have questions for my younger self
I always wondered what the Secret Agent Clank was like. Never played it, never owned a PSP. But I am now glad I didn't. Thanks for these videos! I love them!
I do too, it looks bootleg, but *_man_* does it have personality! He's like "Holy shit, I found one! Yeah!" And he's jumping to grab it and shit, it's great
What a journey. Tahnks for the years of work you put into this. It was really entertaining even when you watch them again and again. And it is very informative.
This was a ride - you struggled for a lot longer, but I still felt your pain in these 1.5h. Nevertheless, you managed to make these 1.5 hours enjoyable. I've played these games quite a bit as a child, though I had never beaten Secret Agent Clank - and watching this brought back a lot of memories and it was very interesting to hear your perspective on them. Anyways, thanks for all the R&C retrospectives ! Looking forward to your future content :D
Even if the games didn't pan out like they hoped and were slogs to het through, I appreciate that High Impact Games tried to not fall into that crunch mentality many studios suffered/are still suffering from.
I have like NG+4 on Size Matters and the only plot points I remember is the nightmare, going inside Clank, and the monkey going to Law School. I guess I managed to concuss the game out of my skull.
The only Ratchet and Clank game I own is Size Matters, and I absolutely hate that I have one of the early copies where you couldn't even unlock the final reward for completing the game. Basically you're supposed to unlock the concept art treehouse for beating the game within a given time limit, but on early versions of the European version of the game it's broken and you can't unlock it at all even with cheats.
Size Matters for PS2 was my first R&C game cause it was the only one in stock at toy r us... I'll say this it made the original games look 1000X better
yeeeaaaaahh boiii I recently bought a psp again to enjoy the Ratchet and Clank games on psp, as Size Matters was my first game. I started with the worst games to progress on to 1,2, 3, and so on so I never experienced all the bad things that people hate the PSP games for. For me it was a beautiful journey only getting better.
I have started off here, for some reason (unless I forgot watching prior ones), and I clicked in to see about these ones anyway, but was immediately engaged by diving into the developers' conditions.
I've never completed more than the first few levels of Size Matters, but the first time I played it, it was immediately obvious to me that the little girl was a robot. Was that actually supposed to be a surprise? I always interpreted the thing on her head to be an antenna.
I'll always appreciate Size Matters. It did the impossible by making Ratchet and Clank on the go. It doesnt feel 1 for 1, but its close enough. And even more impressive, the graphics makes it not look bad at all from characters to the environment.
i remember playing through all the classic R&C games in order on PS2, and when i got to Size Matters it was the only one i never finished. that port, probably because of the camera and low resolution, made me physically ill whenever i tried to play it. i think it's the only game i've ever felt motion sick playing.
Great video as always. Do you plan to cover Sunset Overdrive in the futur ? I love that, it's like the perfect bridge between Ratchet and Spider-man. I wonder what happened to the multiplayer side that was teased in the first teaser.
I remember watching all those R&C videos in highschool and thinking crunch was somethng insane And now I am working as a web developer and experiencingit every week
Size matters will always be special because it was the game that got me into R&C. As a kid i rewatched the cutscenes endlessly because it was such a cool feature for games. I agree that the difficulty is not fair at all. I had to abandon the game at the dalimoon boss because yeah, it sucked
Sobbing at the commentary on Size Matters psp. I loved that game as a kid. Still like it except the dream sequence that part can go to hell where it belongs.
I still remember how much of a damge sponge the Otto boss fight was. I had all of the weapons (except maybe the RYNO, i don't think i ever got it on my first playthrough back then) at maxed out (may not have had the mods though) and i still ran out of ammo multiple times.
I wouldn't read it because I've heard it, but I would buy your ratchet and clank book if you ever published. I've listened to your R&C videos multiple times a piece and will multiple more times. It's my go to UA-cam Playlist
I am glad that this video came out finally to wrap things up outside of the phone games and whatever insomniac is brewing up right now. This game feels like another form of Blind Nostalgia from the past where we thought it was good, but ended up being so bad it was mostly unplayable for either of the two, even though I enjoyed Secret Agent Clank more than Size Matters. I do have a question, would you considered doing these form of videos on any of the yugioh games from the past?
I'll admit I only recently played Size Matters, and I emulated the PS2 version. I agree with most of the problems you highlighted, but I would still rank it over Tools of Destruction, Quest for Booty, and a Crack in Time.
This video has been absolutely cursed to make, more than any I think I've ever experienced - so thanks for your patience. Hopefully it's been worth the wait!
It's always worth it
IVE BEEN WAITING SINCE THE RAC1 DOC. THANK YOU BROSKI! I'VE GOT SOMETHING TO LISTEN TO AT WORK NOW!
What was cursed about it @thegoldenbolt
Appreciate the content bro keep it up
Crazy coincidence that you dropped this video on the rare day I searched to see if you had it 😂
Nothing brings a smile to my face like seeing a GoldenBolt video appear, especially a Ratchet and Clank one.
Fun fact: ratchet & clank PSP game was originally supposed to be titled time to swallow.
Probably inspired by Shadow the Hedgehog or something
@@zacharykowalczyk9674 golden bolt had so many great things to say about this game too!!!
Oh wow, that is a title.
Wow!! Amazing fact! I'm now gonna go tell everyone I know!
😭😭nah this has got to be the peak of innuendo jokes in ratchet and clank, with the mating season joke and breast glitch coming second and third
As a child i loved Size matters. Played through it like 20 times 😅
I'm glad I am not the only one. I used to only get like 1 game a year, so replaying it infinitely on new game plus was always a blast. I'd track wraps on a paper. Most I got was Deadlocked at 60 complete runs
Same, it’s bad that I wish they was able to port it to the ps3 which would be on the the ps5 rn😂
@@ryanharris9210deadlock must've had crack in it the way I played it so much
@@ryanharris9210 tbf. I played all R&C i had as a kid alot. R&C the least since it was the hardest for me as a child. Black water city swimming part locked me out for a long time
@@ryanharris9210when I started playing for a few years the only game we had that I was able to play (or enjoyed playing) was Medievil so I played through that game at least 100 times, I can bet my balls on it. It got to the point where I would run through the whole game in a single 3-4 hour sitting lmso
Fun Fact, on the ps2 edition of secret agent clank, your only loading screen is the typical ratchet & clank "flying through space in your ship to your destination" animation. But it goes through 10 extremely slow and painful cycles each time IF your copy is pristine with no issues, instead of this fabled "Captain Quark Thinking" loading screen that I have never even heard of until this video.
Which is a bit perplexing when you consider this means that when clank is stranded in space and the gameplay cuts to a quark section, you STILL SEE clank's ship flying through space, even though he's, well, stranded.
I absolutely love how much you consider the artist and not just the art. People forget that just cus its a team that put a game together that it wasn't still a personal journey for each of those members. I absolutely cannot wait for anything you have to say, no pressure, just keep pursuing your interests! I'll keep watching and commenting.
Oh, I have been waiting for this one. I played so much Size Matters back in the day, absolutely loved it to bits.
Just as I finished binging your Ratchet retrospectives once again, this drops! I can’t wait to hear the history of these games. Keep up the incredible work!!
I absolutely adored size matters, I grew up with the game and still can vividly picture some of the level layouts. I loved the armor system and the weapons looked amazing, to be fair I was rough with disks so I broke my rac 2 and 3 so I had to play this one. But for some reason I extremely love this game.
This might be my nostalgia talking, but I remember loving this and didn't think it was that bad at all. Even the racing mini-game. I loved the armour system and how you could create special sets that had unique abilities when you mixed and matched pieces. I even got all the skill points and unlocked the dev room which was super cool.
I just finish the game on PS5 and I can confirm that the game is fine and the races are a lot of fun.
Just fanboy rachet overhate discourse
"Grab a beer and buckle up"
*me already 5 beers deep*
Size matters was my first ratchet game, so it'll always be special to me, even if it definitely has some glaring issues
Settling into bed, work in the morning, alarm set, time for an hour and a half of pure content BABY
i have never been more excited to spend 1 hour, 36 minutes and 13 seconds watching a ratchet and clank video :)
Nice to wake up to a new ratchet and clank vid .
FOGAAAA
As a kid I got my tonsils removed and only had Size Matters to play so I got to the point in a two week period where I could beat the whole game in a sitting. Forgot it existed until now
I was a part of the alien code and treehouse treasure hunters when this game was first released.
Let me tell you, those days and hunts was a hoot and a half.
The yellow keycard was ridiculous.
the bee mine glove is fucking wild because it seems like it'd be intended as a "set and forget" weapon but it lasts so short at level 1 that by the time you've switched to another weapon you'll just have to switch back to deploy a new hive anyways
Fun fact: using the Mootator on the cow enemies actually gives you the Skill Point. So in this one instance the weapon placement is actually pretty thoughtful.
Hey, I know this may seem random but...I thought it may be something that would make you smile after such a rough game:
Your videos actually inspired me to try out the R&C series for the first time myself. When I first got a PS5 I got Rift Apart with it, deciding to try that as my first game. I was nervous that ONLY having seen your videos and not having PLAYED the last few games would make it hard to be a starting point, but a mix of the game's writing, and your own videos, was plenty for me to still love it. It blew me away so heavily in so many ways and I am now eagerly looking forward to future releases
I never knew fans didn't like Size Matters until fairly recently. I always thought it was a really good game. I always loved it.
It seems like a forced meme, honestly. Size Matters was mindblowing on release, and Secret Agent Clank was a fun little spinoff. I noticed a lot of Nostalgia Critic-esque "angry reviewers" have been tearing into these handheld games for not being up to par with the ps3 titles, and people are taking those reviews completely at face value.
Maybe it's newer fans who only played the series after it started taking itself way too seriously. They're flawed, sure, but none of the flaws are pervasive enough to destroy the games on fundamental levels. Secret Agent Clank probably has it worst with overly long gadgebot sections, but that's not what people complain about there. They only complain about the absurdity of Clank playing a secret agent character. I guess they don't realize that Secret Agent Clank was actually a thing from UYA? With Size Matters most of the complaints are about the ps2 port not looking as good as the other ps2 games, which is... yeah, an astute observation. The 2007 handheld game does, in fact, look inferior to the console games.
@@garfieif8187this is interesting because absolutely none of these complaints are what are brought up in the video.
@@garfieif8187 Totally agree.
I recently beat it on PS5 and is an awesome Ratchet and a good game for itself.
This is just very "ratchet comunnity thing".
About Secret Agent I havent played.
These games were so cursed, appreciate you suffering through them to document them. I still remember as a kid where my stubbornness led me to managing to eventually (very eventually) beat Klunk on NG+, and once I finished the credits sequence I accidentally warped back. SAC was pure suffering. Also remember more recently playing Size Matters a few years ago for a stream during a Ratchet marathon and trying to 100% that game on emu. Tried to make it through Inside Clank to do the wrench only skill point, only to actually do it and... not get it long into the playthrough in one stream. Never again lmao. I will say the one thing I'll say about the armor system is that I got around Otto's absolute garbage fight using the firebomb set (the Mega bomb set with wildfire gloves) to deal damage to his shield to save ammo, and it did decent enough damage? Still a miserable experience though.
Ive always thought that ratchet and clank should have a cartoon show. Ive always imagined it being like aqua teen hunger force
The Trash skin is actually a Japanese exclusive in SM, that's why you had 4 extra titanium bolts they just forgot to inflate the prices
I should clarify that there have been Japanese-only skins in other games as well, and those games featured alternate skins in other regions - that's what I'm referring to!
The bit about there being inexplicably little Clank for a bizarrely large portion of SAC is hilarious, because it just makes me think "Is this revenge for the Clank getting all the credit running gag in the main series?"
I know nothing about these games, I just wanted to say the little "bad" in the thumbnail is really funny
I remember playing Size Matters as a kid when it came out. It was so difficult and frustrating, I never was able to beat Otto.
I started watching your R&C and the rest of your content back in late 2021, and I gotta say you are one of the most entertaining, funny, yet well researched, clearly passionate video essayists I have ever had the pleasure to watch.
I can't believe we are finally at the end of this whole retrospective. You bet your golden ass imma rewatch the whole damn thing again. Thanks for all you do.
Stay Golden.
No way Ive been rewatching your R&C retrospectives and you drop this
congratulations on finishing the ratchet and clank series and thank you for your content :)
I find it ironic that only a few months after this video, the first Ratchet and Clank game from the past that has been ported to modern consoles is Size Matters.
Size matters was my first R&C game and it was good enough to bring me into the series and I even go back and play it every year or so. That being said I’ve been dying for this video to come out LFG
Despite what the marketing says, I think insomniac's sassy tweet is still correct. I mean, clank says word for word in 3 "Secret Agent Clank is merely a fictional character I play on the holovid." Personally, my favourite theory is it being an in-universe reboot of that fictional series, which bombed so badly we never hear about clank's movie career again.
I like size matters but it has a strange vibe, a creepy scary vibe OR the whole dream sequence thing scarred me enough to associate the entire game with it
I mean, the dream section onwards gets pretty weird. The jank looking Ratchet clones you fight feel like uncanny valley
I get what you mean. The nightmare sequence from the "Prince of Egypt" movie did that to me as a kid.
Bro, I’ve been excited for this since I binged your R&C retrospective last year. Hell, it’s the series that made me pick up Rift Apart when I bought my PS5 back in August
Going to to start gaslighting my friends that "Time to Swallow" was a real R&C name at one point.
Oh shit, it's finally here. Praise the Technomites!
omg, yes a 1 hour 30 minute video of ratchet and clank psp games letsgoooo
Aaaw yesss, I have been waiting this for a long time, thank you so much for doing these and putting so much effort into these, R&C is one of my favorite series of all time and I have learned so much more of it from your videos :)
"It's a portable game so we need to give it slack!"
Daxter, Peace Walker, Birth by Sleep, Crisis Core, Ghost of Sparta and Vice City Stories were better than most of their franchises main games.
The one funny detail about this game that always stuck out to me thats exclusive to a non english version is the fact that in the qwark opera house they had the italian voice of DOCTOR NEFARIOUS dub over the singing part of Qwark because i guess the voice actor didn't feel like he had the chops to make it work... and to contextualize this, the thugs4less leader was voiced by that same voice actor in italy but here he's instead voiced by somebody else doing an impression of the english voice actor... and no he didn't do other voices he was just there for that one opera bit then dipped
I think the funniest detail of the plot summary Bolt gives during this maddening secret agent game is that one of the stages has clank ALSO being framed and that is not acknowledged even slightly right after the framing cutscene happens!
You know, I think your videos are really valuable. This is gaming history you are documenting. Very important especially in this age where everything we make is digital and very fragile.
Honey wake up, a new Golden Bolt video dropped
Ohhhhh yes more of the series that got me here
Man, it makes me so happy when you post!!! Great vid as always my guy
no way i just finished watching all the other parts like a week ago i had no clue you'd make one for the PSP games i thought id have to wait till the next ratchet and clank game which is apparently in like 2029 or something so thanks for making this!!!
I do understand Size Matters has many flaws but it seems like most try their best to hate it instead of just having fun like the devs surely intended. I do appreciate how deeply you thought about its issues though, and the implications they have on other elements of the game/series. You've done that much better here than other videos I've seen regarding this subject. Size Matters needed a lot of polish and fine tuning, no disputes about that. However, and especially regarding the "no really this game is bad go play it again" comment... I can't agree. I'm still able to enjoy a playthrough. The vivid settings, great music and creative designs do a lot to sell the experience for me. Yes I could piece apart everything and point at what's bad, but I'd prefer to just... enjoy the game and not take it this seriously. Great video all the same, I learned a lot!
Honestly speaking, I really enjoyed playing through Size Matters when I had it on PSP. It was a fun game for my childhood self; definitely not as good as the originals, but still good enough to make me play through it multiple times and 100% it.
Glad to see you post more Ratchet & Clank retrospectives. I've been itching to get the Platinum Trophy for Up Your Arsenal and you've inspired me to go get it. Massive props to you and your work and have an absolutely Golden day!💛
I absolutely love your videos dude. Never stop doing what you do.
It's MY sleepover, and it's MY turn to pick the movie!!
For Size Matters, there was an online in game chat group attatched to the mutliplayer that i used to be a part of. For nearly a year, I would chat with a dedicated group of people nightly before bed. And yes, it was a very cringy chat group of a bunch of middle and high schoolers chatting. I still remember several of their usernames.
I mentioned in my PlayStation All-Stars documentary that this same sort of scenario indirectly (arguably directly) led to this channel and thus several more very close friendships, so I don't think that's cringe at all. Especially now that online friendships are just as valid as that neighbor kid you just happened to grow up near!
@@TheGoldenBolt I meant cringe in the sense of like, juvenile crushes/bf/gf through text that even I admittedly was a part of. I legit miss those nights of just shooting the shit with the group. A player that went by TERMINATOR was a popular guy in the chat.
At work now but I can’t wait to watch this tomorrow
Gold. Dude. You have to admit the Quark Opera was a masterpiece of its time. From start to finish.
fun fact: the platinum for size matters sucks but I did it. it came out for ps5 recently.
I noticed the very subtle 'BAD' on the thumbnail
The persona reference with the concussion gadget killed me
I've been playing through all the R&C games again (apart from these monstrosities) and I finish each game I come to watch the retrospective video on it, as its been years since I originally played them. There always seems to be a lot of extra things you point out that I missed.
For nostalgic reasons, I love so much this game, so many memories, love it's chill vibe, perfect for PSP. Also loved the online features, there was a bug back then if you play with 2 people a deathmatch and press some button (circle I guess) at the last second you can change your team, so with my best friend we put deathmatches free for all and at the last second we changed it 2 vs 1 it was hilarious.
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I chuckled at the Garfield joke.
deadass i love the psp games, they have so many issues but i really like what they do right...well actually sorry, i love size matters, and i love THE CLANK SEGMENTS of secret agent clank
I think you need a hug, buddy
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I have such fun memories of playing ratchet and clank size matters from back in the day on my PSP being the only ratchet and clank game I owned because I never had a PlayStation two at the time and I know if I go back and play it now I’ll have questions for my younger self
I always wondered what the Secret Agent Clank was like. Never played it, never owned a PSP. But I am now glad I didn't. Thanks for these videos! I love them!
21:10 I love this plat bolt animation
I do too, it looks bootleg, but *_man_* does it have personality! He's like "Holy shit, I found one! Yeah!" And he's jumping to grab it and shit, it's great
What a journey. Tahnks for the years of work you put into this. It was really entertaining even when you watch them again and again. And it is very informative.
I remember ng+ ing this game 7 times and still not having enough for the Rino
thankyou golden bolt, you help me get to sleep at nights, that means more than anyone can know, keep it up legend
This was a ride - you struggled for a lot longer, but I still felt your pain in these 1.5h. Nevertheless, you managed to make these 1.5 hours enjoyable.
I've played these games quite a bit as a child, though I had never beaten Secret Agent Clank - and watching this brought back a lot of memories and it was very interesting to hear your perspective on them.
Anyways, thanks for all the R&C retrospectives !
Looking forward to your future content :D
I played Size Matters on the PS2 and all I remember is a boss fight against a combine harvester.
So it had a ps2 port?
HELL YEAH what a birthday gift! Been excited for this video for a hot minute
Finally, its been 3000 years 🙏
Even if the games didn't pan out like they hoped and were slogs to het through, I appreciate that High Impact Games tried to not fall into that crunch mentality many studios suffered/are still suffering from.
5 months later this game gets ported to PS5 how hilarious 😆
I just finished the game (I suffered) and no, it’s not an emulator thing, the boss projectiles are often invisible when standing close to her.
I've been waiting for this for a while, and I'm glad to see it's here!
I have like NG+4 on Size Matters and the only plot points I remember is the nightmare, going inside Clank, and the monkey going to Law School. I guess I managed to concuss the game out of my skull.
Another GoldenBolt has been found, great video man now i got even moee good stuff to watch repeatably.
I played the size matters ps2 port. Remember me…
The only Ratchet and Clank game I own is Size Matters, and I absolutely hate that I have one of the early copies where you couldn't even unlock the final reward for completing the game.
Basically you're supposed to unlock the concept art treehouse for beating the game within a given time limit, but on early versions of the European version of the game it's broken and you can't unlock it at all even with cheats.
Size matters was rough, but Secret Agent clank was the first R&C game I couldnt bring myself to finish. Sounds like I made the right call.
Size Matters for PS2 was my first R&C game cause it was the only one in stock at toy r us... I'll say this it made the original games look 1000X better
yeeeaaaaahh boiii I recently bought a psp again to enjoy the Ratchet and Clank games on psp, as Size Matters was my first game. I started with the worst games to progress on to 1,2, 3, and so on so I never experienced all the bad things that people hate the PSP games for. For me it was a beautiful journey only getting better.
I have started off here, for some reason (unless I forgot watching prior ones), and I clicked in to see about these ones anyway, but was immediately engaged by diving into the developers' conditions.
I've never completed more than the first few levels of Size Matters, but the first time I played it, it was immediately obvious to me that the little girl was a robot. Was that actually supposed to be a surprise? I always interpreted the thing on her head to be an antenna.
There are tons of aliens with antennas in the series
I'll always appreciate Size Matters. It did the impossible by making Ratchet and Clank on the go. It doesnt feel 1 for 1, but its close enough. And even more impressive, the graphics makes it not look bad at all from characters to the environment.
i remember playing through all the classic R&C games in order on PS2, and when i got to Size Matters it was the only one i never finished. that port, probably because of the camera and low resolution, made me physically ill whenever i tried to play it. i think it's the only game i've ever felt motion sick playing.
Great video as always.
Do you plan to cover Sunset Overdrive in the futur ?
I love that, it's like the perfect bridge between Ratchet and Spider-man. I wonder what happened to the multiplayer side that was teased in the first teaser.
I remember watching all those R&C videos in highschool and thinking crunch was somethng insane
And now I am working as a web developer and experiencingit every week
Size matters will always be special because it was the game that got me into R&C. As a kid i rewatched the cutscenes endlessly because it was such a cool feature for games.
I agree that the difficulty is not fair at all. I had to abandon the game at the dalimoon boss because yeah, it sucked
Sobbing at the commentary on Size Matters psp. I loved that game as a kid. Still like it except the dream sequence that part can go to hell where it belongs.
1:01:45 The only thing they love more than a hero is to see a hero fail, fall, die trying. In time, they'll turn on you.
Babe wake up! The Golden Bolt finally posted a PSP R&C video!
I remember when i was a kid I was playing size matters and i had half of the bolts to buy the RYNO after finishing my 7th ng+ game lol
I still remember how much of a damge sponge the Otto boss fight was. I had all of the weapons (except maybe the RYNO, i don't think i ever got it on my first playthrough back then) at maxed out (may not have had the mods though) and i still ran out of ammo multiple times.
I wouldn't read it because I've heard it, but I would buy your ratchet and clank book if you ever published. I've listened to your R&C videos multiple times a piece and will multiple more times. It's my go to UA-cam Playlist
Oh God, I didn't even remember the Qwark head loading screen in this game... Both here and in the Vid-Comics in UYA it creeped me out!
Still does ;-;
I am glad that this video came out finally to wrap things up outside of the phone games and whatever insomniac is brewing up right now. This game feels like another form of Blind Nostalgia from the past where we thought it was good, but ended up being so bad it was mostly unplayable for either of the two, even though I enjoyed Secret Agent Clank more than Size Matters.
I do have a question, would you considered doing these form of videos on any of the yugioh games from the past?
I'll admit I only recently played Size Matters, and I emulated the PS2 version. I agree with most of the problems you highlighted, but I would still rank it over Tools of Destruction, Quest for Booty, and a Crack in Time.