Masterpiece, peak fiction, "bath time" is the greatest melody in existence and mozart would be fucking livid with jealously if he could hear it, gameplay so effortless in it's mastery it's safe to say interactive media will peak here for all eternity, a paragon in narrative writing that perfectly deconstructs the hero's journey so ingenuously.

Play this game if you haven't it's incredible, I haven't played the sequel nintendogs + cats but if it's anything like this good god.

The last paper mario game nintendo let intelligent systems do interesting things with and not mandate the stupidest creative restrictions ever conceived in all of media.

Battle system? Has little to no depth or strategy and is insultingly easy, way more than the other games in the series.

Incentive for battling? literally the only thing you get for battling is coins (and the occasional sticker), you spend them on single use stickers which you need to do anything in battle so any non-required battle is a literal waste of time.

Story and characters? Non-existent for the former and very, very scarce for the latter, charm? Also very, very scarce.

worlds and creativity? new super mario bros.

positives? music and visual presentation is pleasant, mostly unremarkable but pleasant + the snifit or whiffit bit and the boo's mansion levels were pretty alright, little diamonds in the septic tank but it's something,

hotel? trivago.

We need more well made anime man fanservice / hentai like this, very hot

How has no one bothered to log this cult classic in their libraries yet

2012

Made lonely days in the high school library more bearable

Honestly my favourite in the series despite all the later game's gunplay refining, there's a just a charm to this game that i don't think the sequels quite capture the same way.

I love the bond between ratchet & clank in this first game: they start off neutral then have a big argument for most of the game only around each other for the sake of their goals and then become very believable best buds by the very end super satisfying and while again the later games did refine the gunplay to be honest I don't mind much at all since this is the only game in the series where it feels like a platformer with weapons as apposed to every other one which feels like a third person shooter with platforming here and there, I also just think the worlds are the most memorable and varied here with levels where only ratchet can explore cause clank will get struck by lighting or a level where only clank can explore at first cause the poisonous gas would kill ratchet but later u get a mask that protects ratchet from the gas and explore the same level but from ratchets bigger perspective compared to clank none of the sequels really have as unique things that make planets stand out as this game does, I really like the challenge.

I just really like this game alot and I am probably an abomination for preferring this to the others but i don't care lmao.

"It's BeeN GeNerAtionS SiNce I've SeEn YOu" eat my dick

"Showdown at the tower" is definitely one of the hypest 8 bit songs

WHERE THE FUCK IS THE CATBOY FANSERVICE

HERO TIME - The first time I experienced anxiety