Ratchet & Clank: The Ultimate Retrospective & Development Deep Dive

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  @TheGoldenBolt · 5 years ago (edited) · pinned

  <b>Ratchet &amp; Clank: Going Commando Retrospective:</b> <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AVQwM8Fr3YI">https://youtu.be/AVQwM8Fr3YI</a><br><br>Thank you so much for watching and sharing your time with me today, and a HUGE special thanks to those of you that made it the whole way through, commented, shared the video out with the world, etc.! &nbsp;If you enjoyed this Ratchet deep dive, make sure you&apos;re subscribed so you can catch future R&amp;C retrospectives right as they come out!

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  @iluvcakes19 · 5 years ago

  &quot;You can love something and still want it to be better.&quot; <br><br>That hit different.

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  @randomcommentor · 5 years ago

  <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BNSbXZgrDcY&amp;t=4683">1:18:03</a><br>This is literally THE perfect ending.<br>By &quot;you&apos;ll be alright&quot;, Ratchet meant &quot;I&apos;ll fix you&quot; and walks toward his garage, expecting Clank to follow him. Clank, being the guy he is, misunderstands and is disappointed that Ratchet seemed to revert back to his old ways (I:E abandoning Clank now that he doesn&apos;t &quot;need&quot; him anymore), but finds out that Ratchet actually values him as a person and would hate to part ways. It really nails how they have grown as characters, I feel. It&apos;s not Ratchet being inconsiderate, it&apos;s Clank misjudging him as so and Ratchet pulling through in the end.

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  @iambarrytoo · 5 years ago

  Bro really 100% this game 3 times, wrote an hour and a half long script, voice recorded it, and then edited together all of it and I can only give it ONE youtube like? This video deserves waay more and I&apos;m sorry I&apos;m too poor to help you out financially. You made a new fan out of me and I cannot wait for the next video!

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  @tristantinethegreat · 3 years ago

  I never thought it was a problem that Ratchet &amp; Clank were best friends in Going Commando, as the ending of the first game perfectly sets up their budding friendship with Clank&apos;s arm getting fixed. We didn&apos;t need to see what was next, as it was implied. I think Ratchet&apos;s arc was done really well and never had an issue with his personality.

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  @ballman55555 · 5 years ago

  Not even 5 seconds in &amp; this guy understands me more than my entire family.....

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  @advisingassable · 5 years ago

  Ratchet:&quot;Did you see all the cool gadgets they&apos;re making?<br>Lets go get some!&quot;<br>Clank: &quot;ＮＯ &quot;<br><b>roll credits</b><br><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BNSbXZgrDcY&amp;t=1631">27:11</a> perfection

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  @RACROX · 5 years ago

  &quot;Ratchet is just an asshole in this game&quot;<br>well now I disagree with everything you said or could ever say<br><br>&quot;Dana Carvey looks like Mark Cerny so much you didn&apos;t notice I used Dana Carvey&quot;<br>We need to hear this man out.

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  @relaxa79 · 4 years ago

  As someone sarcastic, cynical and jaded I absolutely loved ratchet in this game, he absolutely cracked me up and felt like such a &quot;real&quot; character

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  @adognamedsally · 5 years ago (edited)

  While I agree that Ratchet was a bit whiny in 1, it made the character more believable to me, and it made me care a whole lot more about the characters in the game. I was emotionally invested in making Ratchet see that Clank was a good robot trying to help people and also a potential friend, something that Ratchet seemed to lack. And at the end, when he finally gives up his tsundere exterior and admits that they&apos;re basically best friends, that warmed my heart and made me like him more. <br><br>It would have made no sense to repeat that motif in the 2nd and 3rd games, so I get that, but I do think that it added a lot to the emotional/story side of the first game and is a big part of why the series grew on people. <br><br>Also, it occurs to me that the whole game is essentially a coming of age story. Ratchet is initially very immature, only interested in hoverboarding and going to the beach on Pokitaru, and Clank is his foil, someone who is putting everything aside and seeking to help the greater good. Once Ratchet admits that he is being selfish, it marks him starting to mature, and it&apos;s at that moment that Clank gets taken out of the action for a level, and all of the sudden, Ratchet (and you as the player) is forced to realize how much he has come to rely on Clank (though I guess this happens earlier as well when they are separated so maybe my theory has some holes). I think that, once you beat that level, it feels like the heroes are finally united in vision and on the same team.<br><br>While the following games in the series were fun to play, I don&apos;t feel that any of them came close to delivering that level of character development or making me care about the characters as much. They started to feel more like sitcoms where you had predictable plots and safe characters and nothing really happened by the end of the game. I&apos;m sure it was a wise choice from a marketing standpoint, but I sure didn&apos;t care much about Angela or the crew in 3 (aside from Scrunch), and I&apos;m not actually sure if Ratchet was even in the future games or the ps4 remake with how bland they made his character.

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  @CompleteAnimation · 5 years ago

  I hope you guys all understand how big of an undertaking it is when a channel with less than 25K subscribers puts out a high quality hour-and-a-half video essay. It&apos;s a lot of work.

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  @REDRatchet · 5 years ago (edited)

  An hour and a half analysis on the best video game ever??? YeS

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