Were Ratchet & Clank's Spinoffs Really That Bad? | All 4 One & Full Frontal Assault Retrospective 

*INTO THE NEXUS RETROSPECTIVE:* ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-CI10LwI5bO8.html framerate enjoyers rise up

There's a timeline where Sony greenlit the "Multiple Organisms" name and that timeline has already achieved world peace

One thing that I will definitely give All 4 One credit for is how I really like all the fun and unique designs for all the enemies and creatures you fight in the game, you really have to give it to Insomniac, they know how to make some really great character designs.

"Nefarious, like my dad, can turn invisible" got me good.

I have not yet used the team name “Multiple Organisms” for bar trivia, but it’s in my back pocket

Insomniac: “We wanted to get Ratchet and Clank on the screen as playable characters at the same time.” Deadlocked: Am I a joke to you?

"Don't google it" made me actually laugh, instead of the normal slight exhale of amusement.

As a huge R&C fan, I can honestly say I really enjoyed All 4 One. A lot. It's not the ideal R&C game but for what it was it's a very enjoyable co-op game. I think I finished it around 4 times already and it's always a blast to play again.

Hands down one of the most underrated youtube channels on all of RU-vid.

I loved Q-force when it came out. I played it for weeks, and had alot of fun online with it. I wouldnt mind them bringing back the tower defense style for a minigame in a future title. They almost did with that defense mission in rift apart for the chef.

Oh I forgot you were going to have to cover these games in the retrospective. These games despite their flaws are still pretty fun (especially all 4 one) but this was definitely the most inconsistent era in the series history.

I think it says a lot about Insomniac as a developer that even the "shitty games" in the R&C series still maintain a level of quality and are fun to play. It's a shame most fans never give these games a shred of credit for what they do right, all because of the stigma attached that "These aren't mainline entries, so they're trash." A4O and FFA may have been misteps, but those were still *steps* all the same. Steps towards a better workplace culture at Insomniac and reworking the Ratchet formula to save or at least briefly halt the stagnation of the series. 'Adapt or Die'. Another great video!

33:08 The Golden Bolt: "As most of us grow up, we're naturally going to start moving away from cartoony platformers for a few years if not entirely." Nintendo in the back counting all the money that millions of grown adults have given them to play their cartoony games.

Weirdly enough, this game was my introduction to the series. It was an odd place to start but I still enjoyed it for it’s set pieces and overall humor. I was also a kid when I first played it, so a game about a space cat thing with a gun naturally caught my attention.

After years of sticking to the same formula for Ratchet, I completely understand and appreciate that insomniac would experiment a bit with franchise, which i honestly wouldn’t mind seeing them attempt again, especially with how big multiplayer centric games have gotten throughout the years.

The ratchet and clank tower defense game needed more work. Wasn't terrible by any means; it was just missing a lot of stuff. No sauce just wet noodle I wanna say the succ gun in all4one was the method of throwing your friend off the cliff. If they bragged too much the next succ shot was "ooopsie I was a little short that time"

The dark era for Ratchet and Clank fans was the ps4, one reboot in seven years and no remasters.......

I feel like it's best to describe this era as sorta experimental. Like there are some really interesting ideas with these two games, I actually really like the story and character stuff in All 4 One but they also sort of lost a certain charm the previous entries had. Anyways I'm really looking forward to watching this! :D

God, I LOVE the running gag of Nathan Hale as "Artist's Rendition of..." Also, weirdly enough, I find that Zurgo's horrible cringey dialog gets BETTER as it ages. He's _supposed_ to be cringey, that's his entire character! It's honestly a treat to see some people's reactions when they see the game's plot nowadays.

Well, well, well. If it isn’t my monthly indulgence of nostalgia

Looking back at these games; it definitely felt like the wisest choice to make to strike out into something completely out of the norm for the series in terms of Gameplay, especially after all that crunch and overambition that had led to A Crack In Time's success for many fans and critics. Back in the day, it was thrilling to actually play another multiplayer game in the form of All 4 One and one where the main campaign could be played locally or online mode and the same can be said of Q-Force and it's tower defence online mode. I was all in for these ideas back then, especially as a way to celebrate the 10th anniversary of the series with new content in the forms of maps, skins, modes and such. My biggest issues with both of these titles however stem primarily from the fact that these games were more so made with multiplayer in mind, meaning that playing these games solo leads to a pretty lacklustre experience which is definitely not a problem if you do have friends to play these games with, but when looking at the other two games with fleshed out multiplayer modes in them, those being the 3rd game and Gladiators; those still ended up being fully enjoyable in the single player experiences which for me personally ranks those games higher up than these ones. Would I consider these some of the worst Ratchet games Insomniac have ever worked on? Personally I'd say yes just because of the issues brought up. Are these games bad though because of the fact that they didn't focus on the narrative of the future series, didn't flesh out the single player experience as much as the multiplayer experience and had a different visual style altogether? Not really, no? Even though I would consider these their worst work with the series, I hold the opinion that Insomniac Games have never made what some might consider "truly bad" Ratchet games, at worst, I'd probably consider these mediocre experiences but even mediocrity can still hold some enjoyment and entertainment value. But bad Ratchet games? I'd say no to that. They wanted to get experimental and explore new ground with the series and with what ideas they came up with here, I'd say it was worth it. Besides, I wouldn't even go as far as to say they're even the worst games of the series if we counted them all in, and I'm not just talking about mobile games either.

Seeing all those coffee cups makes me relate hardcore, and I hate that.

Plays with friends: *All for one* Plays alone: *One for all*

Dude, the amount of detail you continue to give in each of your videos is insane. I honestly love the work you do and enjoy listening. Much love bolt!

All 4 One is legitimately in my top 5 Ratchet and Clank games lol I adore the story, characters and especially the writing

All 4 One was actually my first game in the series (I'm a younger fan). Looking back it's definitely nowhere near as good as the series' best, but I'll give it credit for getting me interested in these characters and allowing me to enjoy it with my dad.

FFA was honestly a great game especially in the multiplayer aspect. I spent so many hours grinding multiplayer and I still even have my old username in the leaderboards. I genuinely wish we can see more multiplayer in the future.

With regards to All 4 One, I've always gotten a pseudo-Oddworld vibe from the environmental design and the more ambient soundtrack. Though I suppose hiring then-Oddworld composer Michael Bross would contribute to that. I've seen plenty of vitriol directed specifically toward these games for "setting the tone" for the narrative direction of the franchise going forward. Maybe I'm just easy to please, but I still enjoyed the in-game dialogue in the games that followed this; yes, even the 2016 game. It's like you said with regards to the overall quality of the games; I think some fans vastly oversell the quality of Ratchet narratives. I do feel a bit bad for Michael Bross, though. In interviews with outlets and fan sites like Ratchet Galaxy, you could tell he really had a lot of fun working on the Ratchet series, but nary a month goes by without some part of the fandom trashing his work from All 4 One to the 2016 game.

One of the things that I dislike about Full Frontal Assault, is that they got the galaxy that Zurgo came from wrong. He's from Bogon, not Solana.

I love Q-Force. Very underrated.

I like Q-Force, but I remember there was an issue with difficulty. Particular with the snowstorm temple level. People said it was too difficult in single-player, so the Insomniacs toned it down, whilst also allowing your weapons to level up to level 5 ( it only went to 3 before) and giving you the ability to teleport to your base at any time, making the in-level teleporters irrelevant. The snowstorm level (in particular the base assaults) is now easier than the previous plasma harvester one (co-op's a different story) and that feels off to me.

FFA is proof that you can add an original idea to a series and make a spin-off special. I hope they one day do Ratchet multiplayer again but I won’t hold my breath. Great vid

Ratchet and Clank All 4 One is actually the only Ratchet and Clank game I’ve played through! Shocking I know! My brothers and I loved the multiplayer at the time. I loved Clank as a character because I love robots so I always picked him, and when I played the Clank demo for a crack in time, I was really disappointed by his lesser abilities and never moved past All 4 One. Oh yeah, and I just remembered the day I bought the game! I went into GameStop and picked it out, and the guy at the cash register said “just so you know, this one plays really differently to the other Ratchet and Clank games” and me having never played another Ratchet and Clank game just said “yeah that’s fine” lol

I was one of those people who played All 4 One with just my brother on local co-op, and I remember we liked the game enough to want to give it another playthrough with Nefarious and Quark (which we unfortunately never had the time for). Co-op is kinda our thing, so understandably we might have had a better time with it than people who were looking for a 'Ratchet & Clank game with co-op' rather than a co-op game. As for Full Frontal Assault, that was a game I started up with my brother, realized it was co-op, realized it was MOBA-like, and wanted to play through to the end right there and then (I was hugely into Dota 2 at the time). Unfortunately, like in my previous paragraph, we never had the time to get back to it and our PS3 doesn't even work anymore so we couldn't if we wanted to. If I had the chance, this would absolutely be a game I'd want to play more of.

I played All 4 One back in college while everyone was on campus. It was great. But you didn’t need to remind me about the game pass. Man, what a terrible trend.

I'm a triplet and a long time fan of R&C (it was the first game I ever bought with my birthday money when I was 5)! These games were amazing for 3 of us that wanted to play R&C on the one PS3 that we had to share. Fans will forever be the blessing and bane of R&C unfortunately

Finally got time today to sit back and listen to this I saw the notif and had been waiting for some free time. I look forward to your retrospectives so much, man!

R&C: FFA Ratchet & Clank: Full Fuzzball Alchemist

So cool to hear Jirard at The Completionist give The Golden Bolt a shout out for these "2 hour" videos on Ratchet and Clank!

Why does that MykonosFan guy keep playing as Qwark

“IM A LITTLE TEA POT”

I actually really enjoyed the all-4-one game, it was an interesting spin on the series, being a multiplayer co-op game rather than a single player game with multiplayer pushed into it. The game also had a bit of replayability by having a different weapon for all characters, abliet, only one for each. They also had unique dialouge for all the events that occured, giving everyone somehing to say for what’s happening, and they had an interesting focusto only stay on one planet, allowing you to see the many sides of the planet than the series’ usual take to just have one city or valley per planet and then just forget it later. That’s actually something i’ve had a problem with most of the series with, that you have these planets that ratchet needs to get to, but only lands in a single area and then heads off to the next when his objective is complete. And while i’m not asking for no man’s sky ranges of exploritory depth, i just wish that they made more use out of these planets than just presumably having it’s entire population reside in one city. Even rift apart had that problem, too. Sure, it brought back some areas from past games, but while it was interesting to see the pirates cove from ToD again, i wish that planets like had more than one place to go to. A4O actually scratches that itch, if only a little. You got to explore the many different locales of the planet, even riding a ship to it’s moon, and while it’s the only planet that you’re on for the entirety of the game, after the opening level mind you, it was at least something to let you get the feel for the planet’s lore and what is occuring on it. The gameplay was fun, the story was interesting and the mysteries it held were actually pretty good. Is it my favorite ratchet and clank game? No, not really, i still love the first three, with crack in time right behind that, but this is still on the list. Is it my favorite spinoff game? No, i’d actually chalk that up to deadlocked that this. Which is also on the list btw. But, is it my favorite multiplayer RaC game? Well, yeah. Were you expecting me to say no to that, as well? Bottom line, this game is good and i’d play it again, if i could. I suppose i have to talk about FFA/Qforce now aren’t I? Ok, so, all i’m gonna say is that i don’t actually like this game. I know, shocker? But just not the whole thing, just the story. I actually thought it’s gameplay premise was pretty cool and only wish they polished up a few things. The story is my drawing line for why i never want to touch this game ever again. I do love that the game tries to showcase and reference as much in the series as possible, it was the aniversary game, after all. But what i didn’t love what the matter of the main antagonist being some overzealous fan that didn’t like where quark was going in life and decided that he’d show the world just how bad quark is at being a hero. And can i just say that doesn’t this plot feel almost like that song from eminem where he uses the letters from his then deceased stan fan to show how dangerous obsessing over your idol can get. And i know that some there are some really big differences in the two to have people even question my own sanity, but there were the similarities of the fan not getting what he wanted out of his idol that he lost it and went berzerk, that during my time watching this part in the video, i just couldn’t stop thinking on that. And that song is just good in a somber, kinda sad way. But anyways, the story was just a bit too much for me, where i just stopped playing altogether and simply looked up a playthrough to see how it ends. And yeah, that ending didn’t really feel that rewarding either, and i was just watching someone else play. The literal premise being that a fan turned villain to get back at their hero for being a fraud, and now you have to go to the planets to unbreak everything he did to them. Not to mention that our villain constantly keeps using L33T speak, which everyone knows isn’t fun at all outside of a computer, and well as messing with you with outdated memes, which is actually why i stopped playing as reaching a certain point in the game, your ship gets ransacked by the nerd and now plays a neverending loop of the troll song, which never ends, even after returning from a mission. That whole thing was just too much to bear and even though the notorious B.O.L.T. says otherwise, i really just can’t hold a candle to this game like he does, though i won’t try to argue on their preference on the matter and be civil about it. Different strokes for different bolts, you heard it before. So what’s my verdict? Well, to borrow goldie’s way of doing it, i give all-4-one a dented gold bolt. It’s not perfect, but hey, what is. As for FFA, i’m gonna give it the trashy bronze. This game could have the best gameplay and everything, but that storyline will always keep me from coming back. At the very least, they could’ve dialed back the computer lingo and definitely shuold have removed the troll song from the game. God, whoever thought that was funny should get a slap on the wrist of that, and if they still planned on doing that, the least they could’ve done was have it stop after returning from the next mission. That was just really souring the experience.

I needed this video, as someone who's not played All 4 One but actually enjoyed Full Frontal Assault while being a little less enthused with the PS3 era after Deadlocked... Aha... I'm already a niche fan, but still, for the PS2 era fan I am, enough to choke down the HD re-destruction they released just to have a nostalgia trip, FFA actually hit that sweet spot for the short campaign and multiplayer that I missed from Deadlocked and the games before. Again, never played All 4 One, but I'd pick it up now with some friends just for the experience this video has sold on me.

Every single one of these uploads I look forward to where the teapot line smacks me our of nowhere happens and it always makes me smile ♡

how did I not see this video released. you really are in depth and it's incredible to see what you do here.

Grew up on ratchet and doing pass backs with my buddy, playing all4one with our girlfriends was a great bonding game and full frontal brought us back to deadlocked co-op. I enjoyed the hell out of both these

another banger. i look forward to these videos so much!

I've never had a problem with All For One, when it first came out, me and a buddy played it and got to the final level and quit. Then 5 years later me and another bro sat down and played it in the house. I'd go so far as to say I have some of the fondest memories of the entire series in A4O. And the music, even being different, kinda rocks. I love the ambient tones it sets. For me, it didn't use too many heroic sounds, but went another direction. Which is why i think I remember it so well. Plus the theme song is soooo good

Thank you for being the voice this series has always needed

Thanks for your extensive coverage of this series! Love your dedication to cover all aspects. I happened upon your channel as I started my holy pilgrimage through R&C history and I must say that both A4O and FFA are far from the worst games in it. I'd say Quest for Booty is my least favourite closely followed by Size Matters. Always looking forward to your next video 😺

Amazing video as always - I've been loving these retrospectives! Honestly, I think the comic is probably my favourite thing to come out of the Future era; it puts the characters and their relationships at the forefront of the story, and really delves into them in a way that's much deeper than most Ratchet stories. It definitely made me a big fan of Talwyn too!

The weirdestr bit about Full Frontal Assault for me in Italy was that Ratchet's voice actor changed, so now Ratchet is voiced by the same voice actor as Sasuke Uchiha, he just sounds happier and more lighthearted.

Hilariously, All 4 One was the reason I started playing any of the R&C games and I can't be more glad for it. Still, it makes me grateful that you work on these videos so we can all get a better perspective on what goes on behind the curtain of our favorite games... I only wish more people looked into the production aspect of games as deeply so that there could be a better understanding between the developers and consumers in these days where people start hate campaigns over the way a tree looks.

I remember when All 4 One came out I went over to my best friend's place and were played through the entire game in one weekend. Watching this video reminded me of both him and I using the vacuum gun to launch each other off a cliff and just dropping instead of swinging to the next platform killing us both. Thanks for helping me remember that fun experience.

All 4 one was my first ratchet and clank game. I still remember trading in a bunch of games and my local game store and getting it really cheap. It even had the holographic front cover so I think that's what really drew my attention. I thought the game was tons of fun and while I did go back to play all the other ratchet and clank games only to realize that they were all better for the most part, I still hold a soft spot for it as it introduced me to the series. I despised full frontal assault however I couldn't even force myself to finish it

I just love how you pull out my Ratchet and Clank geekiness by diving deep into the franchise lore. If anyone wants detailed value information about this franchise, then your videos is the right place to go to.

22:32 This scene honestly has me dying XD

Always love watching your videos! Would love to see you do a retrospective on Sunset Overdrive.

I owned A4O but never got to play it more than once with friends. It was brilliant with others to play with, but alone... it just felt... hollow. And that made me sad at the time, but I still find myself remembering it every so often. It definitely didn't deserve the rep that it got.

As a creator, there is nothing worse than feeling creatively stagnant. It can really kill your enthusiasm. That is why I hate fanboys that can't allow creators create with a passion. I also hate the fanboy mentality that they were the ones that made the franchise successful. No, the creators made the franchise successful. You just gave them money.

I always thought of these games as Insomniac experimenting and having fun doing something else that just wasn't for me. But the lack of an answer to the questions the series had made me ask for the entirety of the PS3 era (where are the Lombax?) definitely annoyed me at the time. And when all my childhood game series were done or no longer what got me into them, Ratchet was the last thing I was still desperate not to "grow out of", and yet I sorta did for a sad reason: I didn't have friends to play with, and these were much less interesting on your own.

Totally disagree on it bring a blunder😂. Playing this with three friends was an absolute blast. If Mario can have games that deviate from the main series, so can R&C. 😊

We getting close to the end of this retrospective that’s amazing that your videos amusing me so much in the last year can’t wait for the nexus video. Didn’t reed the comics because I don’t like comics but I’m happy that tj fixman managed to do what he wanted to do with the stories. About the spin-off era (i think it’s called “the ps3 era” in the 15th anniversary book while ToD-ACiT are called “the future era”) I can’t say a lot because they are the least games in the franchise I’ve played i only played the demos of all 4 one back in 2011 and didn’t like it and I remember I waited for the trailer of q-force in gamescom 2012 and i was so disappointed when i see the ugly A4O ratchet & clank models didn’t even touch it until last year. Because rift apart i play the games finally last years and to be honest i think my opinions on A4O change since 2011 and i think this game is alright and fun for local couch multiplayer with friends. About q-force this is the only game in the franchise I’ve never finished because when I started playing it rift apart was 3 days away from releasing and i only managed to play it for 1 and a half hour on my ps3 and after that i drive 45 minutes to a friend store outside of my city to get rift apart early. I maybe have no right to judge q-force but I didn’t like the single player gameplay in my opinion it’s the worst insomniac ratchet game in the franchise. I didn’t tried the multiplayer because my ps3 is modded and I can’t go online (i own the physical copy but i copy the iso from the disc to the hdd) but I heard that the online is really good and it’s so disappointing that’s I can’t try. I got q-force on my ps vita as well got it from the Playstation store because there are no physical copies on vita as much that this game running bad on vita the positive is this game make ratchet the ultimate Playstation franchise along with wipeout because as much as bad the ps vita q-force port is at least it’s a brand new (at the time) ratchet game that’s release on the vita and since the ps2 days we got a brand new ratchet game on every Playstation console and handheld (not even gran turismo got a game on ps vita).

I can definitely understand why they said no to multiple organisms. I mean, nefarious is a playable character.

Good video al always- I like how you always refer to what happens behind the scenes AND how all of the behind the scenes things from previous years/games also contribute to what happens with each entry to the series. Yeah these games seem alright. I think they just released at a difficult time. Where most R&C titles are single player there probably wasn't a large audience of people looking for a co-op/ multiplayer games like this, which is a shame because the multiplayer gameplay looks decent. All For One looks like it would be a great game to release today on the Switch, and if Full Frontal Assault had more of a player base and depth I can see potential for a good competitive game there.

HELLO GB, I have a question.¿Did they give some sort of reason of why clank is using his "giant" tranformation during the campain?. This give him almost the same set moves as qwark , its weird and i think its just a stetic change to feel like we are playing a game apart from All For One.

I can appreciate what you're saying, the history is interesting and all but at the end of the day these were products they wanted money for and customers are allowed to not like the product for whatever reason they didn't.

I dont think that people were tired of the warmonger back when all for one came out since it was introduced in that game

Insomniac Games is crazy. The series has evolved so drastically from 1 to Q Force that it feels like a 20 year span, not a freaking 10th anniversary, lol.

Always a good day when a new golden bolt retrospective is out

Does deadlocked HD still come alongside FFA? And if so does that bundle work outside of the US? Don’t have enough money for an entire console so I’ve been planning on getting the HD collection + Deadlocked HD once my old PS3 gets here.

Can't wait for the into the nexus one. Was short but had some of my favorite weapons

This very reasonable look at these games makes me happy. I get that people hate changes but I still think that these games receive unreasonable amounts of hate. I played both A4O and FFA/QF co-op a lot with my sister, we had so much fun and made a lot of great memories and we've both been R&C fans since the very first game. Anyway, this was yet another great retrospective from you, I enjoy these a lot! Keep it up.

Ironically it was discovered recently that All 4 One, and Full Frontal Assault are Canon to the original video games, but if you skip them, you wouldn't miss out on the story, so they are both side games, but they also aren't side games.

Finally, I've been waiting for a new R&C video. Loving the content.

When I got PS3 from friend of friend of mine for a month in July 2020, I had time for only 4 main R&C titles. Since, I also wanted to play few different games of different franchises(Killzone 2 and 3, GoW 3 and MGS 4). Even now, when I got my own PS5, I still want to get PS3(No, in my country PSNow does not supported), to replay those listed games on the top, and even to try those experimental R&C games. Oh well... Thank you, Golden Bolt for your another Ultimate R&C Retrospective!

The fact that u guys go way deeper then the actual game and tell us what the devs went through and everything is so much more interesting

I wasn't expecting All 4 One to be as good as it was. I honestly thought it would be like Crash Twinsanity; a game where the concept looked good, but it's execution was bad. I thought it had a fun story; a group of characters who don't all get along having to work together to survive a dangerous adventure. The co op gameplay was done well, mostly, and there were plenty of funny interactions between the characters. This game is definitely in my top 5 Ratchet and Clank games.

As someone with no friends, All4One was boarder line unplayable. It’s the only Ratchet and Clank game I never completed.

Last year I set out to platinum the entire series! It’s now turned into 100%ing them (because ToD doesn’t have trophies, and Crack in Time doesn’t require skill points for platinum) and I’ve been getting getting closer and closer to the spin offs. After watching this video I’m a little excited! I’m going to recruit my two younger brothers (22 and 11) to play All 4 One with me! I played it a bit with my middle brother a few years after it came out, but only for a couple of levels. Im hoping we all have a good time with it!

Are you going to make a resistance retrospective after all the ratchet games? I never played any of them, and it would be nice to know more of insomniacs history.

All for One will always have one of the most underrated stories in the series and the interesting lore found throughout the game. Not to mention the interesting gameplay mechanics AND outstanding level design. It’s a different kind of game and I love it for that. Amazing video Golden Bolt

I discovered your channel about a week ago cause of your Sly retrospective and I have been marathoning your Ratchet & Clank videos. I love them, and I hope you keep making more. I'm 35 and I have always been a fan of the R&C series. I even like the movie that most people hate with a passion (for reasons I do not understand) and I may have skipped a few games in the series, but I never hated on any of them. I hope you keep making more big videos like this (and take your time so your not crunching) and your making me want a PS5 more then ever so I can FINALLY play the newest R&C game. Subscribed.

I love the little bits of humor added throughout the video essay

23:25 "Wallopper style boxing gloves for four man fisting action, don't google that" man this shit had me dying lmao

First time I'm commenting before I finish watching one of these retrospective videos but I'm just going to say it now, the multiplayer components in these games were actually pretty enjoyable even if they're just above average co-op games at best. I feel It's the single player experiences which hurt the perception of both games the most which is a shame since I feel there's a lot that went into the competitive and cooperative aspects.

Imagine playing games at anything less than 150 fps

I love that I'm watching this strait after release, turning on my ps5 just to watch it.

When are you going to do the PSP titles (Size Matters and Secret Agent Clank)

I played both of these recently for the first time as I am a newer fan and your channel is what made make the jump and playthrough the series and I loved full frontal assault

Will you do Size Matters?

To me, Ratchet and Clank's most enjoyable days, were those of Deadlocked and All 4 One. I didn't grow similarly to the franchise that many did, but I can safely say, it's been quite refreshing and intriguing to see how most of these titles aged with time as emulation does help there a good deal (A Crack in Time's not running on my end yet though, oh well). Still, I can see why they got some shoddy reputation (Online Pass, simplistic story, troubled development and the such). Still, I did grow with the series over time and want to explore them further. The combat and setpieces are engaging, but what I think was missing till pre-Rift Apart, was purposeful implementation. Now, I know Tools of Destruction was received well and tried new things, but over time, the cracks (pun intended), began to show both on the devs and their products. In regards to this video though, I can say this. All 4 One was dumb in a lot of parts, but equally engaging and a surprizingly good Co-Op experience, botched by it's faults, release philosophy with the online pass garbage and a lack of meaningful context to dissect in regards to the story scope of the franchise. Still, it's combat, teamwork feel, character interactions (sometimes) and setpieces of just one planet most of the runtime, made it a wonderful experience to me, in contrast to Deadlocked's lack of interesting planets mostly. However, from a replay stance, Deadlocked still is my gold standard as you entailed in its video, in regards to it's difficulty and ways to hook you further if you want to. I think Insomniac did their best at the time for their devs, which is neat no doubt. Still, it didn't have to be so lacking and chaotic with Ratchet and Clank (2016), that game's best things were easily the Pixelizer and Groovitron, if not for me being a sucker for gun porn and variety in my arsenal. Regardless, good job with the video. You've earned my subscription today :).

Funny enough, All 4 One is the ONE R+C game I have experience with during the time the series was on the PS3. Played it for about a couple hours at a friend's house back in middle school and had an ok time with it. Was it what long time fans wanted? No. Is it fine in its own right and should be commended (at least somewhat) for trying something new. Yes. I am likely never going to go back to it, not only because I do not own a PS3, but I also do not see much fun in doing so with my one friend who is still somewhat into the series. Seeing the game, at the very least, is somewhat nostalgic for me just due to when I played it. I thank you Mr. Golden Bolt for covering the franchise and this game as, for many of these titles, I likely would have never thought about them again had it not been for your videos. Thank you Mr. Golden Bolt for not only being unafraid to share your opinions on the attitudes of some of the more immature fans of the series, but also for making yet another great god damned video. As always, I am looking forward to whatever is coming next, whenever that may be. I do not mind a wait, something most of your fans seem fine with as well in regards to the many great comments I see with these videos.

I love your little jokes xD as well as your videos, it's a super interesting to watch :D

I'm glad to see that I'm not the only one who likes A4O. I thought I was crazy for a bit there.

Love your work as per

Honestly FFA is one of my favorite non-ps2 Ratchet & Clank, but thats also probably because of my love of the Tower Defence genre as a whole. The fact that I could not only get the gameplay of a ratchet game in a tower defence (and vice versa) made me fall in love with the game. Its a shame that the game was so short (and used the Warmonger as its missile weapon, im so sick of seeing it)

Honestly I wish I had 3 other people to play All 4 One, solo was okay but as you said it’s better with more. Full Frontal Assault / Q-Force I adored for the Tower Defense hybrid & the online multiplayer aspect of it. I remember getting to max rank, meeting friends that I’m still in touch with today because of it, not to mention the free updates with additional maps, & a new mode. I can see why people didn’t like it (mega sorry for people who ONLY played it on the Vita) but would love to know whom else played it.

I can always appreciate when devs try to branch out and experiment with something new instead of doing the same thing every single time. Even if those side experiements don't pay off, gotta atleast give them credit for trying something new

All 4 one is the game that taught me to stop preordering games no matter how much I love a series or trust a developing studio, and I never looked back