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Ratchet: I don't need friends! I have decoys! Ratchet: *Speaking as a decoy* Oh Ratchet, you're so cool and awesome! I bet you could even fly if you wanted to! Ratchet: Thanks, inflatable me! You're the best friend ever! Clank: *Watching from a distance* What a sad, lonely little Lombax.
@@kenpanderz672 that's what happens when every romantic interest you hook up with mysteriously vanishes into oblivion, never to be seen or mentioned again. Happened with Angela, happened with Sasha, happened with Talwyn. Can't vouch for Rivet, haven't played A Rift Apart.
Ratchet gracefully willing himself through the air is one of the most beautiful things I have ever seen in my entire life. My jaw literally fell and stayed that way for the entire duration of that clip. No words could describe my purely indescribable amount of awe I felt in that moment. Excelsior.
18:24 if you look closely you can see the sheepified version of the boss gets destroyed by the main version, it’s likely the game then goes “oh the boss just died, better play it’s death animation” and bam, the boss defeated itself.
The Clank lookalike is known as Clonk. He's a good boi. And, very specifically, not Clank. Kudos on another success and I'd say this counts as Without Clank, since you never met him. That was just Clonk, after all
Would be funny if Clank wasn't in the cutscenes at all but all the characters acted like he was "Clank, what do we do?" *harrowing silence due to severe lack of Clank* "Right, right..."
"Ratchet, oh thank goodness you're here! You need to get me out so we can learn who's behind thi-" "Oh, already did all that. Turns out the thief was this cute lombax girl named Angela, and she was actually stealing the experiment because it was dangerous and Fizzwidget was planning to sell it as a pet. Also, Fizzwidget was Quark in disguise, but I took him down!" "...wait, you did all that without-" "Anyway, you look comfy there, so I'll just leave you to it, I just wanted to swing by and say hello. Buh-bye!" *noclips out of the room*
So I remember seeing an alternative way to sort of prevent reuniting on Aranos: If after they reunite you fly back to Endako, the game remembers that you haven't rescued Clank yet, so he goes back to being kidnapped. You won't have USED clank in any ratchet segments, but he will have been on your back, so it really depends on the judgement of the individual.
I myself found an even different way. To quote my comment: I played everything casually until the very end where the door leads back to the hangar. I then decoy clipped into the right wall of the open door, walked a bit and clipped back into the hangar (to the right of the door). This way I just skipped the cutscene trigger where they reunite.
Honestly, I think it says something kind of amazing about how well these games were put together that it functioned as well as it did without getting a key component the game expects you to have. Especially the fact that if you deliberately avoid getting Clank in that second section, that it doesn't just assume you have him when Ratchet gets through since it's supposed to be impossible to not.
As a (not games) developer myself, exploits like these are why I never assume something is impossible. Gaming in the 00s made me a super careful coder lol
Underrated UA-cam channel. You’re the ultimate testament to quality over cuantity, its such a shame the algorithm likely doesn’t treat that speed of work very well.
@@blastortoise I want to say that I have any kind of excuse but I do not. When I wrote that I legit retyped it knowing something was off, but didnt notice exactly what.
@@blastortoise I didn't even notice until I read your comment and went and reread the main comment...TWICE. My brain just slipped RIGHT over that typo. The human brain is a beautiful thing lol
I had never DREAMED of the kind of sequence breaks you did here, and the way the game just went along with it at so many points was hilariously amazing!
2:57 hm, in rift apart there's a similar part were rivet says "i will never be able to cross that by jumping" which i knew was bs and i crossed it more or less like this. seems this is a series staple
You make really interesting challenge runs and I can't wait for more. Your humor is also really fun especially "Ratchet Wills Himself off the ground" A fun time all around.
levitating ratchet do not exist, he cant hurt you levitating ratchet : flies by sheer power of his mind, cominh after you jokes aside i love the favt that levitatir actually does not show clank here, i expected the game to ignore that...
I wish the ratchet and clank series got more credit of its amazing work. I mean Insomniac Games casually dropped the first 10/10 story in ps5 history and literally no one noticed. The Ratchet & Clank franchise needs more people like you.
7:15 It's also interesting to note that you can charge-boot from your ship over to that second bolt, but that also would mean waiting for said charge boots. That and the decoy clipping works just fine.
Another way of getting to the Snivelak boss if you already triggered him, you can actually use charge boots twice on the sort of giant circle arches to the right of the entrance, and with the right angles it'll bring you to the far end of the arena and not start the fight again. Pretty sure I did it packless from that as well
I remember attempting a clank-less run when I was young. I surprisingly got up to the reuniting at the end of planet Aranos revisit. although I don't remember the Tabora lava gap being that much of a problem. I swear the lava wasn't insta kill but a 2 bounce then sink lava maybe because it was the ps3 version? I remember using the clank-less levitator over and over because I found it so hilarious.
Another fabulous vid. You are really carving out a niche for yourself in the community and becoming one of my favorite youtubers. Keep up the great work!
little things i noticed/did in my run of this: during the factory level with the rising water you can actually decoy glove through a wall near the pipes at the start of that segment, jump across into some out of bounds rising water and be raised straight up to the ending cutscene. for extra height, 4-5 decoys in a diamond shape can somehow give you and extra jump when you fall on them for a bit. this is more me venting but that god damn lava swingshot was aggravating because i didnt have savestates on the ps3 version, so i had to respawn, and fight the enemies...every..single ... time. when ratchet and clank were seperated on the prison i beat the second clank segment, got to the very end of ratchets segment and just clipped through the wall on the right as the re-uniting trigger is only at the doorway, it is a very small trigger.
Now I've seen thousands of weird glitches and exploits and have been playing this game for about 20 years. I can safely say I have never seen that levitator glitch, but it made my day.
After playing probably thousands of hours as a kid, this was a flashbang of a video to see ratchet without clank in the later part of the game. Bravo. I'm twitching.
Super interesting run, well done! Always interesting to see how certain things work out, like just having the Levitator is enough to make it work, who needs Clank lol
Dude your run is amazing... I'm still doing a challenge mode game so i got past tabora with the charge boots and I did the first person mode wrench jump on most walls to skip missions without clank... And levitating with willpower was a true cherry on top Keep it up dude
At 15:20, I'm pretty sure you can wall jump between the walls of the elevator and reach the top this way. The Clank transition cutscene only triggers if you touch the base of the elevator, so as long as you do the wall jumping without touching it, you are good to go!
Love the niche you've found on UA-cam! Not the first person to have a "is it possible" style gaming channel, but you honestly do it the best, and I love that you play ps2 titles mainly too, r&c is my favorite game and it'd be sweet to see more content of it. I'm sure you could make a really enjoyable video concept with sly Cooper too. Keep up the great content!
Great video as usual. You deserve massive props for beating the entire game Clankless and on NG, but especially getting through the cave in Tabora and the end of the flying lab in Aranos. I've done this challenge on NG+ since you can use the first person mode to basically climb walls (making it WAY easier), and those parts are so brutal even with that.
I've never had all that much trouble on Tabora since on Challenge Mode you keep the charge boots, which makes it a lot easier. But I admit I've never found a way through Aranos on my own.
I’ve had the Immortal Squirrel Glitch happen and as far as I can tell it happens if a Squirrel is killed right as it’s spawned in (the game spawns in a couple as a “Got Ya” moment to make getting the skill point for ensuring all ten tourists survive the tour more of a challenge). I can’t get it to happen with any consistency but as far as I’ve been able to see in the three hours of testing I did I think thats what triggers it. On a side note you can return to the path on Planet Smolg from the up high Platinum Bolt platform with the Charge Boots you’ll “Charge Glide” back down but you’ll have to aim it right.
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Clank: "He'll come back. Eventually. "
Ratchet: "Who's that robot? Don't know him."
The levitator working through sheer willpower was amazing
I was laughing like crazy when he just started floating lol
ratchet goes to heaven
@Parasy [H e a v e n]
@@MegaSpamziken1996 NOW'S HIS CHANCE TO BE A BIG SHOT
He flew because he A-Posed so hard
Ratchet is such a good friend that--even though he can fly by himself--he doesn't show Clank, so Clank can feel like he's helping 😭
The ending where you finish the mission to get Clank without actually getting Clank was glorious.
Ratchet: I don't need friends! I have decoys!
Ratchet: *Speaking as a decoy* Oh Ratchet, you're so cool and awesome! I bet you could even fly if you wanted to!
Ratchet: Thanks, inflatable me! You're the best friend ever!
Clank: *Watching from a distance* What a sad, lonely little Lombax.
So this run just turns Ratchet into Qwark.
@@Her_Imperious_Condescension or apex mirage
after Angela stopped existing, he had to find a way to feel like he's not alone in the universe
@@kenpanderz672 that's what happens when every romantic interest you hook up with mysteriously vanishes into oblivion, never to be seen or mentioned again.
Happened with Angela, happened with Sasha, happened with Talwyn. Can't vouch for Rivet, haven't played A Rift Apart.
@@JeanMarceauxTalwyn is in the end credits of Rift Apart. They’re still together.
Ratchet gracefully willing himself through the air is one of the most beautiful things I have ever seen in my entire life. My jaw literally fell and stayed that way for the entire duration of that clip. No words could describe my purely indescribable amount of awe I felt in that moment. Excelsior.
Turns out the levitator was just a placebo. The will to fly was inside Ratchet all along.
Ratchet ascending by pure force of will is fantastic.
18:24 if you look closely you can see the sheepified version of the boss gets destroyed by the main version, it’s likely the game then goes “oh the boss just died, better play it’s death animation” and bam, the boss defeated itself.
"Can you beat Ratchet 2?"
Can you beat Ratchet?
Can you beat secret agent Clank without Ratchet?
Can you beat Secret Agent Clank without Clank????
Can you beat rachtet dea-
Wait you can finish rachtet deadlocked without clank without using glitchs???
Can you beat off Ratchet?
The Clank lookalike is known as Clonk. He's a good boi. And, very specifically, not Clank.
Kudos on another success and I'd say this counts as Without Clank, since you never met him. That was just Clonk, after all
Clonk comes through once again! Thank for watching 😁
Well, at least it’s not Clunk. He doesn’t show up until the next game.
HIS NAME IS CLINK
HIS NAME IS CLARK
@@saborsora4938 HIS NAME IS CORK
Would be funny if Clank wasn't in the cutscenes at all but all the characters acted like he was
"Clank, what do we do?"
*harrowing silence due to severe lack of Clank*
"Right, right..."
I can't believe Ratchet develops the ability to levitate on his own by sheer force of will
Okay, I admit that the Levitator caught me completely off guard. I was _not_ expecting it to work.
"Ratchet, oh thank goodness you're here! You need to get me out so we can learn who's behind thi-"
"Oh, already did all that. Turns out the thief was this cute lombax girl named Angela, and she was actually stealing the experiment because it was dangerous and Fizzwidget was planning to sell it as a pet. Also, Fizzwidget was Quark in disguise, but I took him down!"
"...wait, you did all that without-"
"Anyway, you look comfy there, so I'll just leave you to it, I just wanted to swing by and say hello. Buh-bye!" *noclips out of the room*
Clank: "But she just pushed you down here ... didn't she ... ?"
So I remember seeing an alternative way to sort of prevent reuniting on Aranos: If after they reunite you fly back to Endako, the game remembers that you haven't rescued Clank yet, so he goes back to being kidnapped. You won't have USED clank in any ratchet segments, but he will have been on your back, so it really depends on the judgement of the individual.
I myself found an even different way. To quote my comment:
I played everything casually until the very end where the door leads back to the hangar. I then decoy clipped into the right wall of the open door, walked a bit and clipped back into the hangar (to the right of the door). This way I just skipped the cutscene trigger where they reunite.
Honestly, I think it says something kind of amazing about how well these games were put together that it functioned as well as it did without getting a key component the game expects you to have. Especially the fact that if you deliberately avoid getting Clank in that second section, that it doesn't just assume you have him when Ratchet gets through since it's supposed to be impossible to not.
As a (not games) developer myself, exploits like these are why I never assume something is impossible. Gaming in the 00s made me a super careful coder lol
the alternate reality where Ratchet never forgave Clank for trusting Quark that one time
Ratchet and Clank: Going Commando? Nah, Ratchet and Blank: Going Solo
The fact, that theres even a Speedrun Category called "Clankless" makes this Video so funny :3
The alternate timeline where Ratchet made good on his promise to sell Clank for scrap.
Underrated comment
That jump across the lava slope was insane!
The fact that the Levitator just...works...that's amazing.
I can't get over how much Ratchet flying without Clank just looks like any of the Saiyans from Dragonball with that posture
Seriously love how much game the community can squeeze outta Ratchet 2 all these years later. Really love these challenge style videos.
I never knew about the ship shack exploit- I'll have to remember that!
I laughed so hard at Ratchet levitating through sheer willpower! 🤣
Underrated UA-cam channel. You’re the ultimate testament to quality over cuantity, its such a shame the algorithm likely doesn’t treat that speed of work very well.
cuantity... indeed, the algorithm hates cuantity, but loves quantity.
@@blastortoise I want to say that I have any kind of excuse but I do not. When I wrote that I legit retyped it knowing something was off, but didnt notice exactly what.
@@blastortoise I didn't even notice until I read your comment and went and reread the main comment...TWICE. My brain just slipped RIGHT over that typo. The human brain is a beautiful thing lol
10:54
It's an early cameo appearance of Clunk.
Clank: i can help you get through the levels
NGPlus: Im gonna end this robots whole career
I had never DREAMED of the kind of sequence breaks you did here, and the way the game just went along with it at so many points was hilariously amazing!
It always amazing how the game has just enough glitches/mechanics to make them possible, just ungodly difficult.
Remember folks, if you want to get the attention of your crush but can't reach her...
A sideflip hyper strike is just enough to reach her.
12:39 The immortal squirrel tends to be tripped by them eating tour members.
2:57 hm, in rift apart there's a similar part were rivet says "i will never be able to cross that by jumping" which i knew was bs and i crossed it more or less like this. seems this is a series staple
You make really interesting challenge runs and I can't wait for more. Your humor is also really fun especially "Ratchet Wills Himself off the ground" A fun time all around.
Just the "he simply wills himself to fly" fuckin just broke me 🤣
My favourite quote this episode has been at 4:04 "With only a 'Laser Door' separating them" just because of how you emphasize it
levitating ratchet do not exist, he cant hurt you
levitating ratchet : flies by sheer power of his mind, cominh after you
jokes aside i love the favt that levitatir actually does not show clank here, i expected the game to ignore that...
As a massive Ratchet & Clank fan, this video was incredibly entertaining and fascinating!
I wish the ratchet and clank series got more credit of its amazing work. I mean Insomniac Games casually dropped the first 10/10 story in ps5 history and literally no one noticed. The Ratchet & Clank franchise needs more people like you.
Ratchet flying without levitator looks like flying in a dream.
Somehow "Ratchet 2" just doesn't have the same clank to it.
7:15
It's also interesting to note that you can charge-boot from your ship over to that second bolt, but that also would mean waiting for said charge boots. That and the decoy clipping works just fine.
This is the What If... Universe where they didn't change Ratchet's personality from the first game, and he didn't go back for Clank at the end.
Ratchet went to the store to get milk and cigarettes and never came back
Oh yes, I loved the first Ratchet and Clank video - this is a worthy sequel.
Absolutely love the challenge runs on this channel, I just wish you could make them more frequently!!
Thanks a lot, I do too, but I am balancing them with full time work and a family. Maybe it can become a job one day :)
The Thug Leader part was hilarious. Literally steps on a sheep and dies 🤣
‘Can You Beat Ratchet Deadlocked Without Cla- hold on…’
Seriously though, love your vids. :]
Optional: rescue Clank.
You can fly ratchet! You just have to Believe! xD 100% success should be proud of this one!
11:53 I believe i can fly!
I love how you don't lose your shit when things get tough, good job
Oh I do. You should see me on Twitch when I'm recording these 😅
So glad I saw this in my recommendations I been wanting this since the first game video
I'm glad I am reaching people's recommended sections! Thanks for watching 😀
Another way of getting to the Snivelak boss if you already triggered him, you can actually use charge boots twice on the sort of giant circle arches to the right of the entrance, and with the right angles it'll bring you to the far end of the arena and not start the fight again. Pretty sure I did it packless from that as well
Great video, I didn’t think you would make it past the lava sling shot jump, but you did. Well done for beating ratchet 2.
I said the same! ;p
It turns out that the Blargian instructions were just an incantation for a Levitation spell
so much disrespect on clank by doing his section without him loll
Why is ratchet levitating without Clank so hilarious
I've loved all of your Ratchet and Clank videos. Hoping to see many, many more!
Definitely wouldn't mind seeing some Jak and Daxter or Sly Cooper on your channel at some point! Love the content and can't wait to see more!
Man, I love Ratchet & Clank. It's been many, many years since last playing the games on PS2. Really cool to see this
I remember attempting a clank-less run when I was young. I surprisingly got up to the reuniting at the end of planet Aranos revisit. although I don't remember the Tabora lava gap being that much of a problem. I swear the lava wasn't insta kill but a 2 bounce then sink lava maybe because it was the ps3 version?
I remember using the clank-less levitator over and over because I found it so hilarious.
Another fabulous vid. You are really carving out a niche for yourself in the community and becoming one of my favorite youtubers. Keep up the great work!
Fantastic blast from the past seeing some Ratchet and Clank 2 with a twist that I didn't realise I needed in my life! Great video :)
little things i noticed/did in my run of this:
during the factory level with the rising water you can actually decoy glove through a wall near the pipes at the start of that segment, jump across into some out of bounds rising water and be raised straight up to the ending cutscene.
for extra height, 4-5 decoys in a diamond shape can somehow give you and extra jump when you fall on them for a bit.
this is more me venting but that god damn lava swingshot was aggravating because i didnt have savestates on the ps3 version, so i had to respawn, and fight the enemies...every..single ... time.
when ratchet and clank were seperated on the prison i beat the second clank segment, got to the very end of ratchets segment and just clipped through the wall on the right as the re-uniting trigger is only at the doorway, it is a very small trigger.
Ratchet don't need no damn robot, he can defy logic and physics by sheer willpower.
Excellent "Ratchet and 2" gameplay
wonderfully done, i'll definitely give this a shot if i ever get a chance to replay the game for the 156th time
Angela is my favorite character. Wish she would come back
Man I love seeing all the interesting stuff you can pull off in these games!
trying to complete this challenge has given ratchet so much determination he learned how to fly
Now I've seen thousands of weird glitches and exploits and have been playing this game for about 20 years. I can safely say I have never seen that levitator glitch, but it made my day.
I don’t think I’ve ever seen this Beta build of Ratchet: Deadlocked
Your videos are always a treat to watch. I like the simple, consistent editing methods and I appreciate the channel diversity. Great work, as always!
After playing probably thousands of hours as a kid, this was a flashbang of a video to see ratchet without clank in the later part of the game.
Bravo. I'm twitching.
Love this channel! Really looking forward to the future content, it always makes my day to watch the next challenge run.
the levitator chris angel levitating is absolutely hilarious
Super interesting run, well done! Always interesting to see how certain things work out, like just having the Levitator is enough to make it work, who needs Clank lol
R&C: Going Commando is one of my favorite games ever. Awesome video!!
I love how I don’t even know or have ever played this series of games but love these videos of it
Dude your run is amazing... I'm still doing a challenge mode game so i got past tabora with the charge boots and I did the first person mode wrench jump on most walls to skip missions without clank...
And levitating with willpower was a true cherry on top
Keep it up dude
It Would Be Simply Called Ratchet: Going Commando
Willpower ratchet is entirely worth it
I absolutely love these kind of runs, love this channel too
Ratchet: you still obey gravity? LOL
YEAH baby. Love these every time they come out. Bless you for making these videos.
I genuinely thought it impossible. You absolute madman. You really did it. Incredible, bravo!
This was a really cool idea. And a fun video.
Last week I actually replaying all the PS2/3 games still as much fun as I remember
At 15:20, I'm pretty sure you can wall jump between the walls of the elevator and reach the top this way. The Clank transition cutscene only triggers if you touch the base of the elevator, so as long as you do the wall jumping without touching it, you are good to go!
You can't
Love the niche you've found on UA-cam! Not the first person to have a "is it possible" style gaming channel, but you honestly do it the best, and I love that you play ps2 titles mainly too, r&c is my favorite game and it'd be sweet to see more content of it. I'm sure you could make a really enjoyable video concept with sly Cooper too. Keep up the great content!
I bloody love these types of videos - great work and keep it up mate!
Great video as usual. You deserve massive props for beating the entire game Clankless and on NG, but especially getting through the cave in Tabora and the end of the flying lab in Aranos. I've done this challenge on NG+ since you can use the first person mode to basically climb walls (making it WAY easier), and those parts are so brutal even with that.
I've never had all that much trouble on Tabora since on Challenge Mode you keep the charge boots, which makes it a lot easier.
But I admit I've never found a way through Aranos on my own.
Absolutely epic video very well done! Seriously one of the best videos I’ve seen in a long time
Awesome work Nathan and Gina, glad to see the hard work pay off.
Ah yes, Ratchet and no one else 2
My favorite
Is this vengeance for that running gag where Ratchet keeps getting made fun of in R&C3 because Clank is the famous one?
I’ve had the Immortal Squirrel Glitch happen and as far as I can tell it happens if a Squirrel is killed right as it’s spawned in (the game spawns in a couple as a “Got Ya” moment to make getting the skill point for ensuring all ten tourists survive the tour more of a challenge). I can’t get it to happen with any consistency but as far as I’ve been able to see in the three hours of testing I did I think thats what triggers it. On a side note you can return to the path on Planet Smolg from the up high Platinum Bolt platform with the Charge Boots you’ll “Charge Glide” back down but you’ll have to aim it right.
My favourite game of all time, what a time to be alive
This is amazing. Great job beating the challenge! I hope we could see a can you beat ratchet and clank 3 without clank someday as well