I feel like it moreso matches "Ripped Apart", which is a mild sex term, and the Ratchet & Clank games are quite known for their jokes, or at least the PS2 titles.
Dr. Robotico dude, literally all of these are common sense no need to ping @The Golden Bolt every time. If you couldn’t figure those out then I don’t know what to do with you
Bross's later work was fine enough for me, it never hit classic Ratchet levels but Nexus and even parts of PS4 landed very well in my book! If he's still composing for the series, I'm hopeful, he continues to improve his Ratchet flair.
Glad to catch one more video of yours, as I'm going "Amish" for a while so I don't let reviews/impressions ruin my experience of upcoming games. Stay Golden.
I can respect that, hopefully you have fun going dark for a bit! We'll still be here talking about old games (and maybe a couple new ones of course) when you come back!
In our discord call, literally on the first frame with the little alien creators I said "shut up, it's Ratchet, hold on." I'm still a bit fuzzy on the rest of the PS5 reveal because I immediately jumped out to watch the Ratchet trailer like five more times!
I just think that the reason the white Lombax has a tail is either one of these two reasons... 1) She is a Lombax hybrid. Or 2) She is a sub-species of Lombax.
I'm most fond of 4) It's a retcon! We only had a joke line in optional radio dialogue that explained Angela's lack of a tail, and it came close to 20 years after Lombaxes left the dimension. We've seen how twisted information can get in our world, there's reason to believe some random radio host could get stuff wrong too!
adding you to an insanely fast growing list of ratchet based youtube channels I'm subscribed to XD looking forward to joining you on the journey to launch. great video!
There's a whole crew that's popped up recently, it's awesome to see! My goal is to try and look at Ratchet every month until Rift Apart hits, and finally get through the series in video form like I've been putting off for years!
@@TheGoldenBolt im looking forward to it! seeing the old games played through would be great! i don't know if it would be your style but little lore videos would be great too, it could give newcomers to the series an easier ride when it comes to learning the universe! also, do you have a discord or anything? would be nice to have a group of people that don't hate on me for loving the franchise XD
I'll open with discord, I do! It's mainly locked to Patrons for the sake of preventing spam/brigading, but here's a 24-hour link to it! discord.gg/FT2wUR if that expires before you get the chance to catch it, just shoot me a Tweet and I'll send another or something! That said, lore topics are a bit out there for my usual style, and I know there are a handful of creators that have already cornered that market, per se. I'll leave it to them, I love the lore but for as much as I've always known/remembered/forgotten, there are fans that can take it one step further than I can with everything else I research now, and more power to 'em! I am thinking about something closer to Rift Apart's release that can be a primer into the series, but that's gonna depend a bit on how they're taking the story. I don't need to break down the Future games for example if they have a loading cutscene to explain the lore like Crack in Time/A4O had. Either way, there's enough along with my other videos to take us up to launch, so I'm excited to finally sit back down and marathon these games again!
Rift Apart actually is an innunendo for ripped apart. Also, Insomniac has never introduced alternate realities or parallell universes before. Their concept of a dimension is a seperate universe, so I don’t think we’ll see a new version of an old location or multiples of one character. They’ve been liberal on the terms in the past, but in how things actually fit together, it’s seperate locations. Lombax dimension, Nether dimension, Tachyon asteroid dimension, they’re all basically different locations, not alternate versions of Ratchet’s universe.
There are definitely five or six different interpretations of the name popping up already, right as soon as I posted the video a buddy suggested Ripped Apart, and I've gotten half a dozen "Ripped a Fart" comments showing that the innuendo still is there!
The Golden Bolt titles tend to be specifically mature or sexual innuendos tho, not fart jokes. Size Matters, Quest for Booty, Full Frontal Assault. Ripped a fart is not on that level
@@EchotheLombax I agree. Tore apart, and ripped apart are common sexual innuendos for good sex. "He ripped me apart." Not unlike Tools of Destruction where the tool is obvious and it's alluding to "He destroyed me." It's the same euphemism for performing well in bed. Honestly they probably also chose it because the universe is literally ripping apart due to the rifts. Ripped apart has an actual double meaning, just like all the other subtitles. Which keep in line with the theme of sex and nudity. Ripped a fart seems like an added layer, but I don't see how that would be the starting area. They really mull these things over, and would be aware of the more obvious primary innuendo.
I really hope that Rift Apart is a sequel to Into the Nexus. I don't want it to render the entire Future saga storyline as null and void, especially that it might have the most suspenseful plot in the whole series, and considering everything that happened before, it may all come down to this.
Hoo boy, Zogg is a deep cut! I could see some small visual callbacks but I'd be surprised if we see proper major villains showing up in any significant way, it'd end up undermining Nefarious a bit and muddying the waters to new players. Right now I'm honestly not anticipating any returning characters besides Qwark, hopefully Talwyn, and obviously the Plumber!
This game needs the n60 storm as the first weapon, and the gravity bomb and the plasma strom towards the end. It would be cool to find the plans for the alpha disruptor instead of the R.Y.N.O!
Great video. There were a few things I didn't notice in the stream today, like that megacorp sign, so I'm really glad you were able to cover them! I'm so excited for this game and I think it will be the reason I pick up a PS5.
At 4:10 you mentioned that desert planet looks like Veldin, but I think it actually looks like the one that you find Azimuth in during A Crack in Time.
I think Angela could just be retconned by saying she isn't a lombax, like her species just looks like them or something. They haven't dropped her completely so-- it's weird. This can go in so many ways with this new lombax. Alt dimensions, etc. I'm so excited
Would really like to see some deadlocked content! Possibly skins or a gun from that game. A really cool concept would be like one popular gun from each of the old trilogy games
That desert platue isn't veldin. If you look closely you can see the vullard mining ships and the small clusters of buildings from krell canyon. I'm pretty sure that krell canyon planet lumose
Lumose would make sense! I didn't think it _was_ Veldin, I just feel that it was deliberately laid out in this scene to immediately draw the mental parallel, very much a "this is the Ratchet you want" to the "R&C PS4 sucks" crowd. I've noticed that more and more callbacks pop up the more you look in these scenes!
It'll be interesting seeing who's responsible for the script this time around - if it's TJ Fixman returning, we can probably expect that he'll continue bringing back old plot points. I mean, he even brought Sasha back for the comics!
I wouldn't mind them dropping hints as to what happened to past characters like Merc and Green from Ratchet: Deadlocked/Gladiator. Also can we have the Lombax talking ship from the Future series back again, I miss being able to customise a ship. As for the title I got more of a ripped apart feeling instead of drift apart, as if what were to happen to the two of them if they were ripped apart from one another.
Actually I think it DOES have a crude double entendre Rift Apart = Rift a Fart They are very similar when you say it rapidly, JUST the way the staff from Insomniac at the presentation was pronouncing the title. I may be stretching it, but that's how my brain caught it as
This ended up a lot longer than I expected it to. Sorry for the length. Perhaps that Dark City is actually the lower levels of Megapolis, it's dark because there's a few miles of skyscrapers above you blocking all the sunlight. Think like the lower levels of Coruscant in Star Wars. I remember reading somewhere that this is a sequel to the PS4 game. I think it was someone "kinda" official saying it? Then again it could have just been a game journalist saying they believed it was a sequel to the PS4 game but worded it kind of weird and confusing. But I cannot find that again. That Spider-Man: Miles Moralas thing is not a full game, it's an expansion to the PS4 Spider-Man game. That side dash/dodge move Ratchet shows off during the gameplay is quite interesting. I hope they actually have enemy AI and patterns take that into account and it's not a feature that's just slapped onto the combat system. And that's not a bomb glove, that's a turret that's also a sprinkler, hence the growing grass when its active. It's also covering enemies it targets with grass immobilizing them which is interesting. Usually enemies aren't stunned by turrets that much, if at all, allowing them to close the distance and damage them or Ratchet. As for the new Lombax having a tail. I think they weren't thinking "Female Lombaxes don't have Tails" or "She's not really a Lombax she just looks like one" when they were making Angela and made the choice to not give her a tail. I believe they were thinking "Hey, this is one less thing we'll have to model and animate during her boss battle, in cutscenes, and we won't have to cover it up for the scenes before the reveal". I also greatly doubt they ever expected the fans to go as crazy as they did in that debate. Going Commando only had a year or so of development time and a lot of corners were cut, wouldn't be surprised if they didn't even think anyone would notice her lack of tail. Plus I don't think they care or ever cared about the canon that much anyway. So I fully expect this new Lombax having a tail and Angela not having one to go completely unmentioned, let alone explained.
It's a minor thing, but I hope they keep Talwyn as Ratchet's love interest too - even if it's just in a mention. The comic did a really good job of cementing their relationship (even addressing a sort of 'past girlfriend' with Sasha Phyronix), and I'd love that to actually be explored further in a game somewhere along the line =)
Immediately I was debating whether or not this female cat was a Lombax because even though I’ve only fully played Into the Nexus and Crack in Time I am fully aware that the women aren’t supposed to have tails, but if she is, which, yeah, probably, then that kinda You know what, probably just an alternate universe thing
I know it's not viable since it's a totally different style of game, but I would _love_ to see that crazy in-depth weapon modding system from _Ratchet: Deadlocked_ come back.
While I agree that Nefarious was kind of a weak villain in a Crack in Time, I think that is mainly because he really didn't fit into the narrative. If they build the story around Nefarious being the villain this time, I think it will work.
Absolutely, especially if they do reference a little bit of All 4 One and show that Nefarious was starting to soften just a bit after working with the heroes!
I think they really will deliver some fanservice on this title: Going Commando callbacks on Bogon galaxy, maybe one level from R&C 3, the pirate ship and Sargasso on the trailer is from Tools, and the Canyon lever I think is from ACIT, also I'm sure they will come with something to talk about the whole "female lombaxes" thing. Like a love letter to the whole series maybe. So glad they will continue the story and not going backwards on remaking the second title.
Angela thing could become anything. When you write, you can make up ANYTHING. As long as you do a good job, make up away. Maybe she lost her optional spine extension. Maybe she is NOT a lombax. Radio people calling her a lombax rebel? WHAT DO THEY KNOW??
That throwaway "female Lombaxes don't have tails" line from CiT can easily also be thrown out as a sort of "well Lombaxes have been gone a while, people started getting facts wrong about them" thing. It was never really meant to be a seriously woven plot until ToD so anything involving Cross I'm pretty fine with just explaining away for the sake of continuity. At the end of the day, who cares if they have tails?
I can see it picking up right from the end of Into the Nexus, but I don't know, nothing really major confirmed that. It still can be a continuation from the Ps4 game
Now I'm really hyped. And I'm so glad that theyre continuing the original story. The graphics are amazing and the gameplay was already very solid since Crack in Time. The only thing I don't like that much is the music. I grew up with the PS2 games so I might be biased but I just not a fan of that Avengers superhero type music.
I didn't like Talwyn as a love interest. In fact, I was surprised to find out she was supposed to be one! They just seemed like very good friends to me; was their romance established in Into the Nexus? I don't remember. I prefer Captain Sasha. Her personality seemed like a good fit with Ratchet's.
Talwyn's established as a love interest in the comic actually! There's even some fun new-girl/old-girl stuff with Sasha there, I recommend giving it a read if you can find it!
@@TheGoldenBolt Yeah, I read it; it was pretty good. Though I was disappointed that Talwyn was being pushed as Ratchet's girlfriend, as opposed to Sasha. There was even a moment when Talwyn is hugging Ratchet and talking about how she cares about him while Sasha is just awkwardly standing off to the side... Angela is my favorite female character, but I've always felt that Sasha and Ratchet make the best pair. I was wondering if Talwyn being Ratchet's girlfriend was acknowledged in any of the games.
It would've been Nexus specifically then, yeah, unless I'm forgetting some flavor lines in A4O! Really, the way the games handle her is probably the best example of the back and forth state of the series at the time, and the games' development hurdles more than anything.
I don't have anything touching on Future just yet, but hopefully I'll get to it soon! I'm hoping that I can tackle one Insomniac project a month leading up to both Spider-Man Miles and Rift Apart, mostly Ratchet of course. Once I break through and get what I want to say about UYA written down, the rest should fall into place soon after!
One of my thoughts Is that if it's really a different dimension with the new lombax character it's a possibility that the clank of her dimension could teleport to ratchets dimension. Just a thought tho. Since new lombax wasn't phased by clank existence just who he was talking about.
I hadn't thought about another "Clank" of sorts, partly because that sort of multiverse counterpart characters stuff starts to get really messy the deeper into it we go!
I had the exact same theory about the ratchet and clank into the nexus game ending with this new ratchet and clank game but I just couldn’t make a video of it. But I really want the know what’s that female Lombax name or is Angela cross going to be in the game man I can’t wait.
I was genuinely worried that they were going to go with the reboot/movie series, and despite how much I did like the expanded take on the original story (despite not really being a fan of Nefarious being yet again the main villain when Drek and his mocking of late-stage capitalism and 90s yuppie ponytail was already a perfectly good villain) and more fleshed out versions of the original game's locations, I really wanted the story of Into the Nexus to go forward.
There'll almost certainly be an arena and armor upgrades, races might be a different story. Then again, the very first scene we see is sort of an on-rails racing section so you never know!
What I think is that dimension jumping is something that could happen because of post into the nexus, but couldn’t this still happen in the new timeline, dimensions doesn’t HAVE to be related to into the nexus, it can just be it’s own separate thing with the new timeline with nefarious coming up with some evil plan relating to dimensions and stuff and seeing how Nefarious is back I assume it’s the new timeline cause I highly doubt that nefarious would be back to his evils ways after the scene in all 4 one, plus this new game could have a time skip after the 2016 game. Also this new female lombax, I’m kinda thinking it’s going to be a possible love interest with ratchet if we’re going with the new timeline of course, but these are my thoughts
Small irritations of mine. Ratchet looks even younger than ever before which is weird considering we believe this if after nexus. He also looks more animal like than ever in the face which is also weird. Clanks lower jaw seems to bend like a lip where the lips would be when he's talking which is entirely annoying. When going through a rift, the lighting abruptly changes, no smooth transition, looks unpolished, hopefully will be fixed by time it comes out. Looks rather hectic, and maybe they're just trying to show off the rift travel, but the game doesn't look very focused. I'm sure it is, but the trailer makes it out to be very chaotic. Would have preferred a story focused trailer
I think this is a sequel to the reboot and a sequel to nexus. The key is that they're two different timelines. I think what will happen though is that they wont reference the events of the future saga.
I see the new Lombax character as interesting. We all know the species can come in other colors than Ratchet so her being blue isnt that concerning. What I'm questioning is her tail. It's known that female lombaxes don't have tails (I believe), but she does. And even it it's just a guy with a high voice then why is her tail so poofy like a fox and not slender like Ratchet or other lombaxes?
it's hard to say right now, because there IS an outside chance that this could be in the movie/Reimagining universe, but for my money Into the Nexus is a wonderfully-paced little game, probably with the best weapon balance in the series! You can definitely find it for like $10-15 nowadays and it's more than worth that.
I was thinking imagine if the female lombax is just Ratchet in another dimension the tail made me think this when I first saw the trailer (guess we will see haha)
I am hoping that that was haven city for some sort of cameo by Jak and Daxter it would be cool plus dimensional rifts it could explain the cameo if it happens. As for the other Lobox it might be a young boy as some games and animation use female voice actors to play young male characters, take for instance Bart Simpson is voiced by a female voice actress. although looking at them i have things that say young boy and some that say girl.
another possibility is its Ratchet from a parallel dimension like the multiverse and in that timeline Dr Nefarious won maybe because clank was never made and if that character is a female Lombax Ratchet was born a girl instead, crazy i know but anything is posible in the R&C universe or multiverse. hay you never now maybe the PS4 R&C make an appearance from there universe lol
@@silvershock2353 Or the big twist. The Nefarious is from the PS4 Reboot Universe and Ratchet and Clank from the classic Universe only think it is the Nefarious they know.
I'd love to see it, and if the plot very much relies on points from Future, I could see it happening on PS5 before Rift Apart launches. I wouldn't be super hopeful though, Tools still doesn't have a digital release or PS Now version IIRC, it feels like if we were to get one it would've happened by now.
Hi guys, I'm interested in this game but I stopped playing with consoles since ps1 so I missed a lot of esclusives.. And R&C is one of them. So.. Do i need to play the previous chapters to understand the story or are they somehow "complete"? Are all the previous games ps esclusives? Since I don't have a console.. And from what I understood, eventually I can play them all with an emulator? Thnx in advance ✨
Ratchet is a PS franchise so outside of emulation you're mostly out of luck when it comes to playing them. If my hunch is correct, you'd only _really_ need to play Tools of Destruction, Crack in Time, and Into the Nexus, but really there's a good chance it only vaguely addresses those games. Odds are we'll see a little movie cutscene while the game installs that catches you up!
@@TheGoldenBolt Thnx a lot for the response! At least now I know what games target 'cause I was looking at the list.. And there is a lot of them. Ty again, very helpful 👍🏻✨
I honestly don’t think this fits as a ratchet game because one game before it it felt like you were playing a r & c game. this fits as a rick and Morty game. then again it is a sequel to into the nexus, but that’s from the future timeline this does not say future
The Golden Bolt oh, my bad but I still think that this does not really fit as a ratchet game. I think what they wanted to do was take a new turn in the ratchet & clank franchise to turn in some new players but if the OG’s play this game this would not really feel like their playing a ratchet game. But maybe their trying to re do the Franchise in a new dimension with new characters. Then again I don’t know to much about this game because I’ve only seen the two trailers.
That stuttering on gameplay tho´ I would like to see smooth 60fps non-stuttering action in a way that it stays 60fps even when explosions and a lot stuff happen on the screen. So far all previous games have failed this aspect.
I'm not anticipating this game will hit 60, considering Insomniac's engines are optimized for 30 still. I will say the stuttering was definitely either my end or the stream I was capturing, because I recorded/edited this before the VOD trailer went live!
@@TheGoldenBolt thanks for the reply. The stutter, although more noticeable in this video, is still present in the official gameplay video during rift openings and even during normal gameplay occasions. Has anyone else noticed that or have you noticed that? It has been the case from the beginning. By this I mean that intense action always drops the smoothness dramatically, but I feel like this is a topic that has not been brought up at all. Perhaps this is not an issue that raises attention. 30 fps would be okay if it was locked for sure, not dropping at all. Because when you go under 25, things start to look really... Not smooth. These small drops catastrophically affect gameplay in 30 fps case, but at 60 fps a small frame drop, even 10 fps drop (=50fps) is still visually acceptable and casually playable. Just an interesting topic to think about, I still do like the whole franchise overall.
I have a question. In Ratchet and Clank Rift Apart we can see Ratchet and Clank travelling through dimensions and planets.... Well, does it means that there are only one and real Ratchet and Clank who are travelling trought dimensions in every game because we saw planets from crack in time and many other. I hope you under stand me 😆👍. Sorry for my English. I really hope, Ratchet and Clank Rift Apart have similar story like this in crack in time. 👍👍👍
I love the R&C games but I didn't like Into The Nexis it was way too short I upgraded all weapons to max health at max and all gold bolts and every unlockable costume in about 5 days and beat the game in about 6-8 hours with that being said I want to see this be a much longer game with no reused guns and if you get to play as the female lombax then I hope she gets her own set of new guns with upgrades and I want to know if Ratchet will ever find his people in this or just give us an idea on which galaxy or dimensional area that are and have ratchet meet then in the next game.....either way I'm just happy for a new R&C game and I'm hoping all of the other games come to PS5 idc if they are all digital or physical copies I want every one of them on PS5
If it's any help at all, I recommend some of the older Ratchet reviews/retrospectives I did if you haven't played the games before. It might get you interested, but if not that's totally fine too!
Based on the way they designed the Lombax's facial features and the female voice, it's incredibly likely that they're just retconning the tail joke from CiT and that she's female (or presents as female, which is also possible!). It could be like a Tails situation where it's a woman voicing a younger guy character, but I'm guessing the robotic arm is meant to show that she's been around the Nefarious-controlled block a few times.
I hope this Will be a complete 60 bucks game Instead of the reboot, just because since a crack in time the other games were a little shorter.. also if won't be a nexus sequel I'll be disappointed. And for the release date I don't care, more the game Will be developed more beautiful it Will be, so for me they can launch it even in 2025 or further!
When I say that I mean _very_ soft in the same way that Future tried to set its own contained storyline for those that hadn't played 1-4, or even God of War 2018 in that same sort of way! It'll still be the same world we love I'd think, just the references to older games will be smaller rather than major plot points.
I don't believe Sony has the guts to go through with it, but if the new Lombax having a tail is a hint that she'll be trans, thatd be pretty cool. But yeah, I hope there is absolutely no romantic tension between her and Ratchet at all. Personally I'm just tired of love plots like that, and it would really detract from this new character's role in the story, whatever that may be. I do like her big hammer. Big hammers are fun. Amy Rose energy a bit.
It's even more important in my book that Talwyn is still relevant in the series, not just because of Cronk/Zephyr, but because the comic did a great job fleshing out their relationship. It'd be a shame to lose that.
I already know the gameplay is going to be good, so instead I focused on the dialogue, and unfortunately it sounds like the same uncharming, drab trash interactions we got in the whole Future series. So I dont think Ill be playing this on release, but might curb my expectations, who knows
In case you want to check out that Ratchet Crossovers video, here it is! ua-cam.com/video/TXNfhx2bDiU/v-deo.html
“Ratchet & Clank: ripped a fart”... all jokes aside this trailer had me flash back into my childhood again so excited
I feel like it moreso matches "Ripped Apart", which is a mild sex term, and the Ratchet & Clank games are quite known for their jokes, or at least the PS2 titles.
9:20 there is a gold bolt on the top left
Amazing catch!
Thanks
@@dylzz_0015 Yeah, good eye!
hold on let me write that down...
what about bottom right?
When Bolt feeds me that Ratchet & Clank content for supper 👌
I started screaming in the voice chat I was as soon as I realized what this was
...I also started tearing up when they showed the new littleBIGPlanet
Literally in the first second I said "that's Ratchet, shut up" and then left the call after it was over to make this!
@@TheGoldenBolt At 5:38, that looks like a "Wanted" poster and maybe this female Lombax is a outlaw to Dr. Nefarious!
@@TheGoldenBolt And at 5:55, The Female Lombax has a mechanical arm if you look closely!
@@TheGoldenBolt At 7:47
Topiary Sprinkler is a new weapon that let's "nature" fight for you!
Dr. Robotico dude, literally all of these are common sense no need to ping @The Golden Bolt every time. If you couldn’t figure those out then I don’t know what to do with you
Actually, Angela is implied to have cut off her tail to hide from Emperor Tachyon, hence her lack of balance and clumsiness.
When was that implied? I like it as a theory, but I've never heard that.
They better not call the female lombax ratchette
Given the time we're in, the tail signals it was a male transgender lombax. ;)
Lol at first I thought she was a female version of Ratchet
@@TRU_Lunchy Dear lord please don't let that be true
@@gamesthatshouldbeframed3760 nah, I highly doubt it.
@@TRU_Lunchy thanks bro
I hope we get a memorable OST this time.
While I'm excite sadly I doubt it. The score in the trailer sounded like standard post Future saga flare
without David Bergeaud, don’t count on it
Bross's later work was fine enough for me, it never hit classic Ratchet levels but Nexus and even parts of PS4 landed very well in my book! If he's still composing for the series, I'm hopeful, he continues to improve his Ratchet flair.
"Kind of a dick move Ratchet" (meanwhile in the original games)"Abandons each love interest every game."
Glad to catch one more video of yours, as I'm going "Amish" for a while so I don't let reviews/impressions ruin my experience of upcoming games. Stay Golden.
I can respect that, hopefully you have fun going dark for a bit! We'll still be here talking about old games (and maybe a couple new ones of course) when you come back!
Hands down my favorite out of the All Stars......but even then it’s sad Jak and Sly sadly couldn’t have the same fate as Ratchet
I've still got hope for Sly, until we get confirmation that the show is 100% dead at least.
I felt like crying when this was showN-
In our discord call, literally on the first frame with the little alien creators I said "shut up, it's Ratchet, hold on." I'm still a bit fuzzy on the rest of the PS5 reveal because I immediately jumped out to watch the Ratchet trailer like five more times!
I just think that the reason the white Lombax has a tail is either one of these two reasons...
1) She is a Lombax hybrid.
Or
2) She is a sub-species of Lombax.
3) she's ratchet from another dimension which means anything we know about lombaxes doesn't entirely apply to her charadesign
I'm most fond of 4) It's a retcon! We only had a joke line in optional radio dialogue that explained Angela's lack of a tail, and it came close to 20 years after Lombaxes left the dimension. We've seen how twisted information can get in our world, there's reason to believe some random radio host could get stuff wrong too!
Also interesting her tail is different. Hers' is all fluffy why ratchet's is skinny with a bit of fluff on the end. Going to call its another retcon.
adding you to an insanely fast growing list of ratchet based youtube channels I'm subscribed to XD looking forward to joining you on the journey to launch. great video!
There's a whole crew that's popped up recently, it's awesome to see! My goal is to try and look at Ratchet every month until Rift Apart hits, and finally get through the series in video form like I've been putting off for years!
@@TheGoldenBolt im looking forward to it! seeing the old games played through would be great! i don't know if it would be your style but little lore videos would be great too, it could give newcomers to the series an easier ride when it comes to learning the universe! also, do you have a discord or anything? would be nice to have a group of people that don't hate on me for loving the franchise XD
I'll open with discord, I do! It's mainly locked to Patrons for the sake of preventing spam/brigading, but here's a 24-hour link to it! discord.gg/FT2wUR if that expires before you get the chance to catch it, just shoot me a Tweet and I'll send another or something!
That said, lore topics are a bit out there for my usual style, and I know there are a handful of creators that have already cornered that market, per se. I'll leave it to them, I love the lore but for as much as I've always known/remembered/forgotten, there are fans that can take it one step further than I can with everything else I research now, and more power to 'em! I am thinking about something closer to Rift Apart's release that can be a primer into the series, but that's gonna depend a bit on how they're taking the story. I don't need to break down the Future games for example if they have a loading cutscene to explain the lore like Crack in Time/A4O had. Either way, there's enough along with my other videos to take us up to launch, so I'm excited to finally sit back down and marathon these games again!
Rift Apart actually is an innunendo for ripped apart. Also, Insomniac has never introduced alternate realities or parallell universes before. Their concept of a dimension is a seperate universe, so I don’t think we’ll see a new version of an old location or multiples of one character. They’ve been liberal on the terms in the past, but in how things actually fit together, it’s seperate locations. Lombax dimension, Nether dimension, Tachyon asteroid dimension, they’re all basically different locations, not alternate versions of Ratchet’s universe.
There are definitely five or six different interpretations of the name popping up already, right as soon as I posted the video a buddy suggested Ripped Apart, and I've gotten half a dozen "Ripped a Fart" comments showing that the innuendo still is there!
The Golden Bolt titles tend to be specifically mature or sexual innuendos tho, not fart jokes. Size Matters, Quest for Booty, Full Frontal Assault. Ripped a fart is not on that level
@@EchotheLombax I agree. Tore apart, and ripped apart are common sexual innuendos for good sex. "He ripped me apart." Not unlike Tools of Destruction where the tool is obvious and it's alluding to "He destroyed me." It's the same euphemism for performing well in bed. Honestly they probably also chose it because the universe is literally ripping apart due to the rifts. Ripped apart has an actual double meaning, just like all the other subtitles. Which keep in line with the theme of sex and nudity. Ripped a fart seems like an added layer, but I don't see how that would be the starting area. They really mull these things over, and would be aware of the more obvious primary innuendo.
I’m fairly sure that the ‘Veldin looking planet’ is either Torren IV or Krell Canyon from A Crack in Time
I really hope that Rift Apart is a sequel to Into the Nexus. I don't want it to render the entire Future saga storyline as null and void, especially that it might have the most suspenseful plot in the whole series, and considering everything that happened before, it may all come down to this.
Since this has a ton of inter-dimensional travels, I wonder if it is possible for the return of Percival Tachyon and Artemis Zogg (from the comics).
Hoo boy, Zogg is a deep cut! I could see some small visual callbacks but I'd be surprised if we see proper major villains showing up in any significant way, it'd end up undermining Nefarious a bit and muddying the waters to new players. Right now I'm honestly not anticipating any returning characters besides Qwark, hopefully Talwyn, and obviously the Plumber!
that blaster is called the Burst Pistol, and seems to have a mechanic that causes it to shoot much faster after Ratchet focuses fire on an enemy.
This game needs the n60 storm as the first weapon, and the gravity bomb and the plasma strom towards the end. It would be cool to find the plans for the alpha disruptor instead of the R.Y.N.O!
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Insomniac confirmed that the new lombax is playable!
Great video. There were a few things I didn't notice in the stream today, like that megacorp sign, so I'm really glad you were able to cover them! I'm so excited for this game and I think it will be the reason I pick up a PS5.
Clock Blockers is still my favorite:D
At 4:10 you mentioned that desert planet looks like Veldin, but I think it actually looks like the one that you find Azimuth in during A Crack in Time.
I think Angela could just be retconned by saying she isn't a lombax, like her species just looks like them or something. They haven't dropped her completely so-- it's weird. This can go in so many ways with this new lombax. Alt dimensions, etc. I'm so excited
Would really like to see some deadlocked content! Possibly skins or a gun from that game. A really cool concept would be like one popular gun from each of the old trilogy games
That would be so good man!
plasma storm FTW
That desert platue isn't veldin.
If you look closely you can see the vullard mining ships and the small clusters of buildings from krell canyon.
I'm pretty sure that krell canyon planet lumose
Lumose would make sense! I didn't think it _was_ Veldin, I just feel that it was deliberately laid out in this scene to immediately draw the mental parallel, very much a "this is the Ratchet you want" to the "R&C PS4 sucks" crowd. I've noticed that more and more callbacks pop up the more you look in these scenes!
Considering what happened to Sasha Phyronix, I won't be surprised if Insomniac just "forgets" about Talwyn.
It'll be interesting seeing who's responsible for the script this time around - if it's TJ Fixman returning, we can probably expect that he'll continue bringing back old plot points. I mean, he even brought Sasha back for the comics!
I wouldn't mind them dropping hints as to what happened to past characters like Merc and Green from Ratchet: Deadlocked/Gladiator. Also can we have the Lombax talking ship from the Future series back again, I miss being able to customise a ship. As for the title I got more of a ripped apart feeling instead of drift apart, as if what were to happen to the two of them if they were ripped apart from one another.
Actually I think it DOES have a crude double entendre
Rift Apart = Rift a Fart
They are very similar when you say it rapidly, JUST the way the staff from Insomniac at the presentation was pronouncing the title. I may be stretching it, but that's how my brain caught it as
Somebody else had said that to me and it immediately clicked with "rip a fart," so I'll take it! Better than Into the Nether Regions
Ripped a fart!
I still don’t see how Ripped A Fart is a double entendre btw
@@superlombax1561 are you serious? 😑
@@superlombax1561 you like how fast I replied? 😏
the start of the trailer is definitely planet sargasso
I also thought that was Haven City in that one scene
I'm not alone!
So glad Ratchet & Clank is back. It'll still be quite awhile before I get a PS5 though. But the game's probably awhile away anyway. But looks great!
This ended up a lot longer than I expected it to. Sorry for the length.
Perhaps that Dark City is actually the lower levels of Megapolis, it's dark because there's a few miles of skyscrapers above you blocking all the sunlight. Think like the lower levels of Coruscant in Star Wars.
I remember reading somewhere that this is a sequel to the PS4 game. I think it was someone "kinda" official saying it? Then again it could have just been a game journalist saying they believed it was a sequel to the PS4 game but worded it kind of weird and confusing. But I cannot find that again.
That Spider-Man: Miles Moralas thing is not a full game, it's an expansion to the PS4 Spider-Man game.
That side dash/dodge move Ratchet shows off during the gameplay is quite interesting. I hope they actually have enemy AI and patterns take that into account and it's not a feature that's just slapped onto the combat system. And that's not a bomb glove, that's a turret that's also a sprinkler, hence the growing grass when its active. It's also covering enemies it targets with grass immobilizing them which is interesting. Usually enemies aren't stunned by turrets that much, if at all, allowing them to close the distance and damage them or Ratchet.
As for the new Lombax having a tail. I think they weren't thinking "Female Lombaxes don't have Tails" or "She's not really a Lombax she just looks like one" when they were making Angela and made the choice to not give her a tail. I believe they were thinking "Hey, this is one less thing we'll have to model and animate during her boss battle, in cutscenes, and we won't have to cover it up for the scenes before the reveal". I also greatly doubt they ever expected the fans to go as crazy as they did in that debate. Going Commando only had a year or so of development time and a lot of corners were cut, wouldn't be surprised if they didn't even think anyone would notice her lack of tail. Plus I don't think they care or ever cared about the canon that much anyway. So I fully expect this new Lombax having a tail and Angela not having one to go completely unmentioned, let alone explained.
It's a minor thing, but I hope they keep Talwyn as Ratchet's love interest too - even if it's just in a mention. The comic did a really good job of cementing their relationship (even addressing a sort of 'past girlfriend' with Sasha Phyronix), and I'd love that to actually be explored further in a game somewhere along the line =)
Immediately I was debating whether or not this female cat was a Lombax because even though I’ve only fully played Into the Nexus and Crack in Time I am fully aware that the women aren’t supposed to have tails, but if she is, which, yeah, probably, then that kinda
You know what, probably just an alternate universe thing
I know it's not viable since it's a totally different style of game, but I would _love_ to see that crazy in-depth weapon modding system from _Ratchet: Deadlocked_ come back.
While I agree that Nefarious was kind of a weak villain in a Crack in Time, I think that is mainly because he really didn't fit into the narrative. If they build the story around Nefarious being the villain this time, I think it will work.
Absolutely, especially if they do reference a little bit of All 4 One and show that Nefarious was starting to soften just a bit after working with the heroes!
I think they really will deliver some fanservice on this title: Going Commando callbacks on Bogon galaxy, maybe one level from R&C 3, the pirate ship and Sargasso on the trailer is from Tools, and the Canyon lever I think is from ACIT, also I'm sure they will come with something to talk about the whole "female lombaxes" thing. Like a love letter to the whole series maybe.
So glad they will continue the story and not going backwards on remaking the second title.
Dude I'm so excited for this game!
Same
Angela thing could become anything. When you write, you can make up ANYTHING. As long as you do a good job, make up away. Maybe she lost her optional spine extension. Maybe she is NOT a lombax. Radio people calling her a lombax rebel? WHAT DO THEY KNOW??
That throwaway "female Lombaxes don't have tails" line from CiT can easily also be thrown out as a sort of "well Lombaxes have been gone a while, people started getting facts wrong about them" thing. It was never really meant to be a seriously woven plot until ToD so anything involving Cross I'm pretty fine with just explaining away for the sake of continuity. At the end of the day, who cares if they have tails?
@@TheGoldenBolt EXACTLY. I still maintain Angela got hers stuck in a door.
I can see it picking up right from the end of Into the Nexus, but I don't know, nothing really major confirmed that. It still can be a continuation from the Ps4 game
brate great video👏🏻
Can’t wait!
Now I'm really hyped. And I'm so glad that theyre continuing the original story. The graphics are amazing and the gameplay was already very solid since Crack in Time.
The only thing I don't like that much is the music. I grew up with the PS2 games so I might be biased but I just not a fan of that Avengers superhero type music.
I didn't like Talwyn as a love interest. In fact, I was surprised to find out she was supposed to be one! They just seemed like very good friends to me; was their romance established in Into the Nexus? I don't remember.
I prefer Captain Sasha. Her personality seemed like a good fit with Ratchet's.
Talwyn's established as a love interest in the comic actually! There's even some fun new-girl/old-girl stuff with Sasha there, I recommend giving it a read if you can find it!
@@TheGoldenBolt Yeah, I read it; it was pretty good. Though I was disappointed that Talwyn was being pushed as Ratchet's girlfriend, as opposed to Sasha. There was even a moment when Talwyn is hugging Ratchet and talking about how she cares about him while Sasha is just awkwardly standing off to the side... Angela is my favorite female character, but I've always felt that Sasha and Ratchet make the best pair.
I was wondering if Talwyn being Ratchet's girlfriend was acknowledged in any of the games.
It would've been Nexus specifically then, yeah, unless I'm forgetting some flavor lines in A4O! Really, the way the games handle her is probably the best example of the back and forth state of the series at the time, and the games' development hurdles more than anything.
@@TheGoldenBolt Interesting. Do you have a video on the Future games' development hurdles? I'm just now getting into your channel.
I don't have anything touching on Future just yet, but hopefully I'll get to it soon! I'm hoping that I can tackle one Insomniac project a month leading up to both Spider-Man Miles and Rift Apart, mostly Ratchet of course. Once I break through and get what I want to say about UYA written down, the rest should fall into place soon after!
One of my thoughts Is that if it's really a different dimension with the new lombax character it's a possibility that the clank of her dimension could teleport to ratchets dimension. Just a thought tho. Since new lombax wasn't phased by clank existence just who he was talking about.
I hadn't thought about another "Clank" of sorts, partly because that sort of multiverse counterpart characters stuff starts to get really messy the deeper into it we go!
Gold bolt collectible at 1:16 top left on the cliffs
you did a better job at the video voiceover then us
There i also a Protopet sign at the top right at the begginning of the dark city. So i'd assume megacorp.
If he met OG ratchet, you know, mean ratchet that'd be cool.
Ratchet and Clank
Rip a Fart
Sole game in the reveal to show gameplay possibilities in the latest hardware - ssd load time.
Never played the series and i see a sweet start.
I had the exact same theory about the ratchet and clank into the nexus game ending with this new ratchet and clank game but I just couldn’t make a video of it. But I really want the know what’s that female Lombax name or is Angela cross going to be in the game man I can’t wait.
Welp , that's my motive to buy a ps5
I was genuinely worried that they were going to go with the reboot/movie series, and despite how much I did like the expanded take on the original story (despite not really being a fan of Nefarious being yet again the main villain when Drek and his mocking of late-stage capitalism and 90s yuppie ponytail was already a perfectly good villain) and more fleshed out versions of the original game's locations, I really wanted the story of Into the Nexus to go forward.
May them take as long as they need!!
Mr Zercon any time I was playing by myself I always going to need to have more firepower.
9:42 i´d hope to get some old ratchet and clank mechanics in the new ps 5 game
I thought that Angela Cross had cut off her tail? But I am probably mistaken.
I want an arena planet/ship, armour upgrade s and bike races.
There'll almost certainly be an arena and armor upgrades, races might be a different story. Then again, the very first scene we see is sort of an on-rails racing section so you never know!
What I think is that dimension jumping is something that could happen because of post into the nexus, but couldn’t this still happen in the new timeline, dimensions doesn’t HAVE to be related to into the nexus, it can just be it’s own separate thing with the new timeline with nefarious coming up with some evil plan relating to dimensions and stuff and seeing how Nefarious is back I assume it’s the new timeline cause I highly doubt that nefarious would be back to his evils ways after the scene in all 4 one, plus this new game could have a time skip after the 2016 game. Also this new female lombax, I’m kinda thinking it’s going to be a possible love interest with ratchet if we’re going with the new timeline of course, but these are my thoughts
Small irritations of mine. Ratchet looks even younger than ever before which is weird considering we believe this if after nexus. He also looks more animal like than ever in the face which is also weird. Clanks lower jaw seems to bend like a lip where the lips would be when he's talking which is entirely annoying. When going through a rift, the lighting abruptly changes, no smooth transition, looks unpolished, hopefully will be fixed by time it comes out. Looks rather hectic, and maybe they're just trying to show off the rift travel, but the game doesn't look very focused. I'm sure it is, but the trailer makes it out to be very chaotic. Would have preferred a story focused trailer
I think this is a sequel to the reboot and a sequel to nexus. The key is that they're two different timelines. I think what will happen though is that they wont reference the events of the future saga.
Rift Apart also sounds like Ripped a Fart. You're welcome
Thugs for less , bogon galaxy locations, protopet poster Easter egg. Oh dear is it too much to hope for the return of best girl.
I see the new Lombax character as interesting. We all know the species can come in other colors than Ratchet so her being blue isnt that concerning. What I'm questioning is her tail. It's known that female lombaxes don't have tails (I believe), but she does. And even it it's just a guy with a high voice then why is her tail so poofy like a fox and not slender like Ratchet or other lombaxes?
There's a Tweet from her designer that specifically uses female pronouns, so odds are they're just retconning the radio line from CiT!
Should I buy Into the Nexus before I play Rift Apart?
it's hard to say right now, because there IS an outside chance that this could be in the movie/Reimagining universe, but for my money Into the Nexus is a wonderfully-paced little game, probably with the best weapon balance in the series! You can definitely find it for like $10-15 nowadays and it's more than worth that.
I Hope the address Max Apogee and Angela Cross in this game.
I was thinking imagine if the female lombax is just Ratchet in another dimension the tail made me think this when I first saw the trailer (guess we will see haha)
I am hoping that that was haven city for some sort of cameo by Jak and Daxter it would be cool plus dimensional rifts it could explain the cameo if it happens.
As for the other Lobox it might be a young boy as some games and animation use female voice actors to play young male characters, take for instance Bart Simpson is voiced by a female voice actress. although looking at them i have things that say young boy and some that say girl.
another possibility is its Ratchet from a parallel dimension like the multiverse and in that timeline Dr Nefarious won maybe because clank was never made and if that character is a female Lombax Ratchet was born a girl instead, crazy i know but anything is posible in the R&C universe or multiverse. hay you never now maybe the PS4 R&C make an appearance from there universe lol
@@silvershock2353 Or the big twist.
The Nefarious is from the PS4 Reboot Universe and Ratchet and Clank from the classic Universe only think it is the Nefarious they know.
@@Wolfstarzan the multiverse is limitless and seriously i am exited for this game.
According to you what are the odds of seeing a R&C Future Trilogy Remastered either on PS4 or PS5?
I'd love to see it, and if the plot very much relies on points from Future, I could see it happening on PS5 before Rift Apart launches. I wouldn't be super hopeful though, Tools still doesn't have a digital release or PS Now version IIRC, it feels like if we were to get one it would've happened by now.
This looks so great. Really looking forward to this and hope it lives up to the hype. Tbh I would almost buy the PS5 for this game alone!
I'm getting Abby vibes from that white female Lombax
What if that new Lombax is Ratchet's sister or cousin or something
To be honest, bc Clank is in the future I think the other lombax could be his daughter? 🤔
Maybe Azimuth's daughter?
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That’s LITERALLY a dick move.
Hi guys, I'm interested in this game but I stopped playing with consoles since ps1 so I missed a lot of esclusives.. And R&C is one of them.
So.. Do i need to play the previous chapters to understand the story or are they somehow "complete"?
Are all the previous games ps esclusives?
Since I don't have a console.. And from what I understood, eventually I can play them all with an emulator?
Thnx in advance ✨
Ratchet is a PS franchise so outside of emulation you're mostly out of luck when it comes to playing them. If my hunch is correct, you'd only _really_ need to play Tools of Destruction, Crack in Time, and Into the Nexus, but really there's a good chance it only vaguely addresses those games. Odds are we'll see a little movie cutscene while the game installs that catches you up!
@@TheGoldenBolt Thnx a lot for the response! At least now I know what games target 'cause I was looking at the list.. And there is a lot of them. Ty again, very helpful 👍🏻✨
I honestly don’t think this fits as a ratchet game because one game before it it felt like you were playing a r & c game. this fits as a rick and Morty game. then again it is a sequel to into the nexus, but that’s from the future timeline this does not say future
Into the Nexus also wasn't labeled a "Future" game, don't forget!
The Golden Bolt oh, my bad but I still think that this does not really fit as a ratchet game. I think what they wanted to do was take a new turn in the ratchet & clank franchise to turn in some new players but if the OG’s play this game this would not really feel like their playing a ratchet game. But maybe their trying to re do the Franchise in a new dimension with new characters. Then again I don’t know to much about this game because I’ve only seen the two trailers.
That stuttering on gameplay tho´
I would like to see smooth 60fps non-stuttering action in a way that it stays 60fps even when explosions and a lot stuff happen on the screen.
So far all previous games have failed this aspect.
I'm not anticipating this game will hit 60, considering Insomniac's engines are optimized for 30 still. I will say the stuttering was definitely either my end or the stream I was capturing, because I recorded/edited this before the VOD trailer went live!
@@TheGoldenBolt thanks for the reply.
The stutter, although more noticeable in this video, is still present in the official gameplay video during rift openings and even during normal gameplay occasions.
Has anyone else noticed that or have you noticed that?
It has been the case from the beginning. By this I mean that intense action always drops the smoothness dramatically, but I feel like this is a topic that has not been brought up at all. Perhaps this is not an issue that raises attention.
30 fps would be okay if it was locked for sure, not dropping at all.
Because when you go under 25, things start to look really... Not smooth.
These small drops catastrophically affect gameplay in 30 fps case, but at 60 fps a small frame drop, even 10 fps drop (=50fps) is still visually acceptable and casually playable.
Just an interesting topic to think about, I still do like the whole franchise overall.
I have a question. In Ratchet and Clank Rift Apart we can see Ratchet and Clank travelling through dimensions and planets.... Well, does it means that there are only one and real Ratchet and Clank who are travelling trought dimensions in every game because we saw planets from crack in time and many other. I hope you under stand me 😆👍. Sorry for my English.
I really hope, Ratchet and Clank Rift Apart have similar story like this in crack in time. 👍👍👍
Ratchet and clank Ripped a Fart?
- VTN Vivi
Ripped apart!
I love the R&C games but I didn't like Into The Nexis it was way too short I upgraded all weapons to max health at max and all gold bolts and every unlockable costume in about 5 days and beat the game in about 6-8 hours with that being said I want to see this be a much longer game with no reused guns and if you get to play as the female lombax then I hope she gets her own set of new guns with upgrades and I want to know if Ratchet will ever find his people in this or just give us an idea on which galaxy or dimensional area that are and have ratchet meet then in the next game.....either way I'm just happy for a new R&C game and I'm hoping all of the other games come to PS5 idc if they are all digital or physical copies I want every one of them on PS5
Not super interested in the game, but always good to hear you talk about something you're excited about!
If it's any help at all, I recommend some of the older Ratchet reviews/retrospectives I did if you haven't played the games before. It might get you interested, but if not that's totally fine too!
maybe in that omniverse girl lombax have tails
Game look insanely fun, hopefully it's a soft reboot & sequel to the real saga.
Also, need... NEEEEDS to be 60fps.
The Rule 34 is going to be INSANE!!!
i want to see new superweapon that is not RYNO!!
I think that new lombax has a robo arm, neat!
That was something I'd completely missed when looking at the hammer, I caught it on like...my seventh or eighth watch!
Rift Apart Sounds Like Rip A Fart…
Uh, are you sure that the new Lombax isn't just a very young male
Based on the way they designed the Lombax's facial features and the female voice, it's incredibly likely that they're just retconning the tail joke from CiT and that she's female (or presents as female, which is also possible!). It could be like a Tails situation where it's a woman voicing a younger guy character, but I'm guessing the robotic arm is meant to show that she's been around the Nefarious-controlled block a few times.
Actually, Insomniac confirmed it's a female on a tweet.
I hope this Will be a complete 60 bucks game Instead of the reboot, just because since a crack in time the other games were a little shorter.. also if won't be a nexus sequel I'll be disappointed. And for the release date I don't care, more the game Will be developed more beautiful it Will be, so for me they can launch it even in 2025 or further!
Also I hope it's not a soft reboot.
When I say that I mean _very_ soft in the same way that Future tried to set its own contained storyline for those that hadn't played 1-4, or even God of War 2018 in that same sort of way! It'll still be the same world we love I'd think, just the references to older games will be smaller rather than major plot points.
If Ratchet is better than halo I’m going with PS five
I don't believe Sony has the guts to go through with it, but if the new Lombax having a tail is a hint that she'll be trans, thatd be pretty cool.
But yeah, I hope there is absolutely no romantic tension between her and Ratchet at all. Personally I'm just tired of love plots like that, and it would really detract from this new character's role in the story, whatever that may be.
I do like her big hammer. Big hammers are fun. Amy Rose energy a bit.
It's even more important in my book that Talwyn is still relevant in the series, not just because of Cronk/Zephyr, but because the comic did a great job fleshing out their relationship. It'd be a shame to lose that.
I already know the gameplay is going to be good, so instead I focused on the dialogue, and unfortunately it sounds like the same uncharming, drab trash interactions we got in the whole Future series. So I dont think Ill be playing this on release, but might curb my expectations, who knows
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