It’s been a while since the last of the Ratchetrospective reviews, but then it’s been a while since the last Ratchet and Clank game too, The movie tie-in game came out in 2016 and this game in 2021, a full 5 years and a full console generation later. It’s not as if Insomniac Games was idle during that period, in 2018 they released fantastic Spider-man game: Marvel’s Spider-man, and in 2020, as the PS5 launched they launched a Spider-man Spinoff title featuring Miles Morales as the titular character. But the PS5 and its solid-state drive and the some of the features of its new controller opened opportunities for Ratchet and Clank to shine. Also, they set the seeds the multiverse years before Spider-man made it cool, This is Ratchet and Clank: Rift Apart.
