Ratchet & Clank's PSP Games - The Golden Bolt 

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 😂

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

BUCK NAKED AND HOLDIN A BANANNER

@@edwardelric98 Or maybe it wasn't a bananner... it could've been-ONE OF NATURE'S MYSTERIES

​@@killerbouquet3220😂

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Annihilation Nation: LETS TURN UP THE HEAT DOWN THERE!

No crunching means people work on the games for less hours so it kinda makes sense, also I would suppose the studio was much smaller than insomniac But also usually I try to understand devs but I think in this case there really was some clear incompetence, like how do you release a game that's 70% boring ass minigame sections knowing damn well those are the least liked sections in most R&C games? That's just plain reta**ed, not much else to add

Talk about a self-fulfilling prophecy

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

Same here. Secret Agent Clank will always be a fun guilty pleasure game of mine to play 😊

I love the game as well, I find it very novel compared to the other games

Same! I was 6 when it came out, and I first played it around 8-9 years old when I got my first PSP (I am now 22), and I really enjoyed SAC, despite its numerous lengthy segments, the gameplay was just diverse enough to keep a child interested and curious about what was next. And the Clank segments felt like challenges to take down as many enemies as possible in "stealth" mode, getting better at solving the short QTEs every time I tried

Thanks, but SAC and JDLF were not easy dev cycles for us, glad to see some people liked it.

@@azagwen I think SAC was my first Ratchet game and also my first PSP game. I had so much troubles with the final boss fight but I loved the game. I don't know if it'll suck if I replay it now or not but it was just perfect for me. After that, my next R&C game was probably All 4 One and I loved it too so maybe I just have terrible taste (I don't care though)

Honestly it was probably because RATCHET AND CLANK PORTABLE AHHHHH That’s why I got it when I was like 11

A lot of those sales probably came from the PSP 3000 bundle

between Insomniac's PS2 era games ended with Ratchet: Deadlocked (2005) and the PS3 era games which begun with Tools of Destruction (2007) started, for me, The quality of the Franchise and Ratchet and clank being themself how the original trilogy teached us, it felt like a complete swap out. It all kinda ended when the Future games Saga (PS3 titles of the series) started I always felt like Ratchet & Clank Size Matters was the real 5th game because Ratchet and clank was way more like they used to be in the Original games, also their home was always at the Solana-Galaxy throughout anyway so It immediately connects to these games with that Even though the Concept for Secret Agent Clank was something quite different, I felt it was the perfect 6th game of the series, where it then should ended for the sake of the franchise. Afterwards, the PS3 saga games felt so different from what Ratchet & Clank originally was in terms of their behavior, the Crazy, out of touch new lore, the visual of the characters and the overall storytelling. I think another important thing to point out is, that of course the PSP was a weaker System other then the PS2, so of course the "PSP games" looked like trash graphically other then that, they made everything right with these two games and the Series should ended there. Sorry, but all this crazy lore about the "last of his race guy" meeting "the time keeper robot" by complete coincidence wasn't really doing it for me!

The two most hated games in the series is the series best sellers, I can’t say I’ve seen that anywhere else (unless you count Skylanders as a part of the Spyro franchise)

​@@skibot9974Iirc DMC 2 and dMc were the 2 best selling Devil May Cries at least until 5 came out.

Agreed

Real

FOGAAAA

I mean, the dream section onwards gets pretty weird. The jank looking Ratchet clones you fight feel like uncanny valley

That short was actually made shortly after the movie, it just happened to get released in a streaming service in Canada (seemingly on accident)!

@@TheGoldenBolt oh. I thought it was made for Rift Apart since I only heard about it and heard people talk about it around the release of the game. Even then, It would still be cool to see to do a review of both in a single video.

​@@LooneyTuneLegendYTfor whatever reason, it released in 2021 but wasn't actually a promotion for RA.

The yellow keycard was ridiculous.

Yo, you worked on SM?

@@DolanDuking yes

@@goodrichgames1308 Do you know who put the Giant Enemy Crab easter eggs in? And if they needed to be snuck under the radar in case Sony would catch them?

Size Matters is pretty cool whoever came up with the armour system did a great job, love all the wrench effects , reminds me of KH in a small way.

I appreciate the kind words, friend! I do have good news, I did do the Sly series a couple years back, which I combined into one big vid in 2022. It's not as in depth as the R&C stuff since they were in an older style I did, but I did add a bunch of development texture in between each game!

It has better level design and music that uya so thats fair

can assure you that it isnt just nostalgia, I started with the PS3 games in my late 20s and eventually ended up going back, completing earlier titles. 1 & 2 are my favorites, but size matters is pretty good, especially for a handheld experience. The PSP controls kinda suck, but the level design is just straight up better than UYA and it has catchier tunes.

Well you're playing Size Matters, so you are indeed gonna die everywhere, not just on that hill

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.

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!

"Full frontal assault", "A crack in time"

I saw that too. Man, now I wish I knew who wrote it

Lol mine was All 4 One. I mean I wasn't that young anymore but that was the game that made me stop preordering games forever lmao

@@mastergee7075 i just wish I had that reversible cover version. It looks funny

@@TheRealBlazingDiamond oh yeah I remember that, miss the times they used to do stuff like that. Even the game manuals, I miss them a lot. When I was a kid I would read them over and over again, they were so cool and usually added bits to the story or the game's lore that you wouldn't get otherwise

@@mastergee7075 ahhh, the good old days of physical manuals...