Somehow this is the only Ratchet and Clank game I have played. It wasn't a bad experience, but I felt like I missed a bit on story and characters.

The art style and graphics are well done. Sharp, bright colors, and silly character designs. The music and voice acting is another plus. The environments and levels were all unique. Fun to explore with the many different tools and weapons. The only slight negative here was sometimes everything was brightly lit neon. It looked cool but sometimes difficult to figure out where to go or what to hit. It was more confusing in the Glitch challenges. Not a big deal once you got your bearings.

Hands down, the combat was the most fun part for me. With a wide selection of goofy weapons, it was a riot to blast apart enemies. Plus the evade ability was fun and useful. After certain story missions force you to fight, you were stuck doing a back-and-forth puzzle. It completely killed the high momentum during the combat, like I ran into a brick wall. I generally enjoy puzzles to the point that I'll buy games solely focused on puzzle gameplay. But it killed the pacing here. I wished it was more of a side objective, rather than right behind combat.

The story was easy to follow for a player that's not familiar with the Ratchet & Clank world; but it would have more impact on someone that knows the characters better. I enjoyed spending more time as Rivet and Kit since they were new and more fleshed out. Certainly not a bad game and it was fairly quick to platinum.